Alan Wake Remastered, QR Code #3

 In Alan Wake Remastered, the QR Codes were revised from the 2012 PC edition, where they had originally appeared. In the 2012 version, they sent players to memes and official links, but with the Remastered edition, the team revisited those link opportunities to connect their adventures.

In this new edition, scanning the codes sent the player to a YouTube link with a recording of Alan Wake set at a typewriter. For those who have played Control, you may recognise the style! 


Location
After meeting with the Anderson brothers, Hartman will excuse himself to prepare for the upcoming storm. When you enter the main foyer area, Desole will tell you to take Hartman's advice and to try to give the writing another shot. Go up the stairs and turn right. It's on the opposite wall to the TV that springs to life with a new Writer in the Cabin video.

Scanning the QR code will send the player to a YouTube link. You can watch Vision 03, HERE. 

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Transcript
A beginning. A primordial forest. The colours of the fall. The mist. A caldera lake. Silence echoes, loud. It's too late to hear the words. The man, naked, crawls to the shore. Like a birth? To say that would be a lie. Nothing like a birth. The opposite. He staggers to his feet. A carcass of a deer lies in the shore, rotting, amidst driftwood. The man is afraid. Beside himself. Who is he? He doesn't himself know. Dark waves have washed it away. A blank page where this horror story will be written. He remembers darkness, feels the shadow pressing down on him, coming after him. He must get away. He runs to the forest, to a fate worse than death. 

Differences to Alan Wake (2012)
In the original PC version of the game, scanning the QR code gave a gif of Sam Lake's appearance in the in-game Harry Garrett Show, as he does the "Max Payne face". The text reads, "Constipation, that looks Payneful." The link has been redirected for the code following the rework of the official site. 

Connections to Alan Wake 2
The writing style is noticeably different compared to Alan Wake and Alan Wake's American Nightmare. The sentences are shorter, and the delivery intentionally more stilted, as though delivered through exhaustion or fear.

Unlike the previous two recordings, this one is known to connect specifically to a scene in Alan Wake 2. After stepping over the Overlap, Saga Anderson meets Alan, who has seemingly been washed up on the shoreline at Cauldron Lake. The game takes place during the autumn, the scene against a sunset, dousing everything in a golden light. She asks him for his name, and he noticeably struggles to find the answer at first. 

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Alan Wake Remastered, QR Code #2

In Alan Wake Remastered, the QR Codes were revised from the 2012 PC edition, where they had originally appeared. In the 2012 version, they sent players to memes and official links, but with the Remastered edition, the team revisited those link opportunities to connect their adventures.

In this new edition, scanning the codes sent the player to a YouTube link with a recording of Alan Wake set at a typewriter. For those who have played Control, you may recognise the style! 


Location
The second episode starts with a small scene in Alan's apartment a couple of years before the writer travels to Bright Falls. You will find the second code in the study.

Scanning the QR code will send the player to a YouTube link. You can watch Vision 02, HERE. 

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Transcript
The Dark Place was an endless waking dream. I saw visions carried by the ebb and flow of different dream states; they seeped from the reality beyond, things I had a connection to but... also things I couldn't possibly know. I used them in my writing to make it real, so that the parts that weren't would be so. And there were visions I knew that weren't real. Ideas I had lost. Often of Casey. I had written about him for years. I used them as well. The lies had to feel true for them to become true. Had I always written this way? Even before? Seen things without realising I was seeing them, thinking they were mine. Was this what inspiration was for me?

Differences to Alan Wake (2012)
In the original PC version of the game, scanning the QR code gave the sentence, "Huh. Turns out this isn't too bad even if you're not sitting on a couch when you play it. Who knew!"

Connections to Alan Wake 2
In the piece, Wake describes his experiences in the Dark Place, following the end of the original game. He dreams back to the life he had left before travelling to Bright Falls, as the successful author of the bestselling Alex Casey book series. He draws on those memories, bringing Alex Casey to life to leading him to Bright Falls. 

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Alan Wake Remastered, QR Code #1

In Alan Wake Remastered, the QR Codes were revised from the 2012 PC edition, where they had originally appeared. In the 2012 version, they sent players to memes and official links, but with the Remastered edition, the team revisited those link opportunities to connect their adventures.

In this new edition, scanning the codes sent the player to a YouTube link with a recording of Alan Wake set at a typewriter. For those who have played Control, you may recognise the style! 


Location
After meeting the hitchhiker for the first time, you will have to walk down two sets of wooden staircases to escape from him. At the bottom of the two staircases is a notice board which is placed in front as you walk down. On the board is the first code.

Scanning the QR code will send the player to a YouTube link. You can watch Vision 01, HERE. 

Transcript
"I was trapped here. Had been for what felt like years. Outside reality, what we count as real. I wrote to find a way out. I wrote to master this place, to learn its secrets, use that knowledge to rewrite my reality. Once upon a time, I had written hard-boiled crime books set in New York City, 'til I was sick of it. The Alex Casey books, a detective solving cases of murder, corruption and madness in the dark city. This place tapped into my unconscious mind, drew from there, twisting what it stole into a nightmare that took shape around me. A mystery. A detective story... I needed a detective to guide me. Echos of Casey haunted me.

Differences to Alan Wake (2012)
In the original PC version of the game, scanning the QR code sent the player to the Alan Wake Facebook page.

Connections to Alan Wake 2
In the piece, Wake describes his experiences in the Dark Place, following the end of the original game. He dreams back to the life he had left before travelling to Bright Falls, as the successful author of the bestselling Alex Casey book series. He draws on those memories, bringing Alex Casey to life and leading him to Bright Falls. 

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