Alan wake can somone explain wth was going on

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heh can someone like explain what was going on in the game please in like laymans terms, i sort of got he main idea but the ending was a bit wierd does that mean he never really existed or did he die as it just showed his wife coming out the water ?
 
An evil spirit, known as the Dark Presence inhabits Cauldren Lake. This presence kidnaps Alice, forcing Alan to write a story which the Dark Presence can use to escape the confines of the lake. Alan realises this and writes himself an escape, which he manages, and wakes up in his crashed car. Through the manuscript pages he finds from the story he previously wrote, he pieces the whole thing together. He realises that there has to a balance, and that for Alice to live, he has to sacrifice himself. He does this, which is why Alice swims out of the Lake. Alan doesn't die however, he stays at the typewriter. His last spoken sentence, still sat at the typewriter, is "It's not a lake, it's an ocean", which suggests that he may well have written the escape the Dark Presence wanted. There will almost certainly be sequels which will see the story go further.

Is that all clear?
 
Davey_Pitch said:
An evil spirit, known as the Dark Presence inhabits Cauldren Lake. This presence kidnaps Alice, forcing Alan to write a story which the Dark Presence can use to escape the confines of the lake. Alan realises this and writes himself an escape, which he manages, and wakes up in his crashed car. Through the manuscript pages he finds from the story he previously wrote, he pieces the whole thing together. He realises that there has to a balance, and that for Alice to live, he has to sacrifice himself. He does this, which is why Alice swims out of the Lake. Alan doesn't die however, he stays at the typewriter. His last spoken sentence, still sat at the typewriter, is "It's not a lake, it's an ocean", which suggests that he may well have written the escape the Dark Presence wanted. There will almost certainly be sequels which will see the story go further.

Is that all clear?
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To add on to this is the fact that Alan being there at all is all down to Tom the Poet (Thomas Zane), who lived on the island in Cauldron Lake many years before the game is set.

Tom's girlfriend/fiancée Barbara drowned in the Lake. Hartman convinced Tom into writing her back into existence, however it wasn't her that came back, it was The Dark Presence in her form. Tom realised this and tried kill The Dark Presence by cutting out its heart, it didn't work. So Tom tried to undo what he had done by writing everything he'd ever done out of the world, but nothing worked. So instead he wrote himself into the story and forced the The Dark Presence back into the Lake (by using his diving suit to take the evil Barbara's body to the bottom of the lake). However Tom knew he wouldn't be able to keep The Dark Presence there forever, so as a safeguard he made a proviso that only the things left in his shoebox would remain in the world.

In that shoebox was one of Tom's original pages, part of the story that he wrote would effect Alan's childhood and in turn bring Alan to the lake in the future, and along with the Clicker that Tom put in the box, he could use it to defeat the Darkness and imprison it once again.
 
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I'm doing this the wrong way since I've not played the game yet but after reading this it really makes me want to play it. Not often now days a game seems to have a proper story, will have to give this a go for sure!
 
thanks allot much clearer now, i only played pc games for past 5years and this is the sort of game if i knew how good it was would have gone straight out and bought a console just to play it on, pity the ingame graphics are nots upto that origasmi killer one on the ps3, but overall its the best game i played in a long long time.
 
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