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* [[Development Hell]]: The game was in production for over six years. Some wondered if it was going to be entirely [[Vaporware]] until its release. Much of the information that leaked about earlier builds and scripts has resulted in a decent amount of wondering [[What Could Have Been]].
* [[Dueling Games]]: Many people compared this game with ''[[Heavy Rain]]'', although the only similar thing between them is that they're story-driven exclusives. The comparisons didn't stop Remedy from [https://web.archive.org/web/20100725135939/http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/100751-Remedy-Recommends-You-Get-Heavy-Rain recommending their supposed rival game].
* [[Hey It's That Voice]]: For Spanish players! Alan Wake is voiced by [[The X-Files|Fox Mulder]]. This might also count as [[Bilingual Bonus]] due to the paranormal nature of the entire game.▼
** If anything it's [[Dueling Games]] with ''[[Deadly Premonition]]''. Both are third-person shooters that came out in 2010, which star an anti-social guy who knows way too much pop-culture. Both main characters travel to a ''[[Twin Peaks]]'' [[Expy]] and battle [[Eldritch Abomination]] while fighting off things that appear human, but are not.
▲* [[Hey, It's That Voice!]]: For Spanish players! Alan Wake is voiced by [[The X-Files|Fox Mulder]]. This might also count as [[Bilingual Bonus]] due to the paranormal nature of the entire game.
** Alan Wake is [[The New Adventures of Robin Hood|Robin Hood]].
** Thomas Zane is [[Max Payne (
*** In the same vein, Barry is [[Max Payne (
** Some Finnish fans might just be wondering why Alan Wake is [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTE4IEizYzM singing auto-tuned about an operator company and ice hockey.]
* [[Screwed by the Lawyers]]/[[Keep Circulating the Tapes]]: The expiring music rights to the game meant that it was delisted from Steam and Xbox Live Arcade Marketplace on May 15, 2017.
** Thankfully, people that already owned it on Steam didn't lose access and Remedy even had a big finale 90% off sale on the game and all it's DLC before pulling sales to give everyone interested a chance to pick it up.
* [[Torch the Franchise and Run]]: Alan is planning to end his popular Alex Casey series by killing off the titular character.
* [[What Could Have Been]]:
** The very first trailer was released a long time before the game was released. Small details and even the premise changed during development. Later trailers would then reiterate the plot, but still got some other details wrong. What you can't see from the trailers is that it was originally going to be an open-world game. It was replaced with a more linear approach and unsurprisingly, some people were outraged. The developers have since then been much more careful about releasing information that might still change.
** There were plans for more Taken animals to be used, such as Taken dogs and ''bears'', but the developers didn't like the animations they got for them and so cut them. There's even a little misleading foreshadowing, such as a dog that goes missing (and another dog you hear about going missing over the radio). It's also very likely that at one point, they intended the wooly mammoth skeleton to come to life, since in the same building, you see a giant hole in the wall, and Alan remarks that it's "mammoth-sized
*** This also added to the creep factor since,
** [[Nathan Fillion]] was reportedly interested in taking up the role of Alan Wake.
** Originally, a PC version was planned when the game was first announced. It was to require nothing short of a beefy octa-core CPU and a motherload of RAM because they were eschewing the then-popular PPU cards (Physics Processing Unit cards, then very new technology) in favor of CPU-based particle physics. The plans for a PC version was scrapped once Microsoft paid Remedy to make the game an [[
*** Of course, the PC port is now out. It is, according to the critics, at least, the [[Porting Distillation|very]] [[Averted Trope|opposite]] of a [[Porting Disaster]]. And just in time, too- the first Octa-core
* [[The Wiki Rule]]: [https://alanwake.fandom.com/wiki/Alan_Wake_Wiki The Alan Wake Wiki]
* [[Word of God]]: According to [[Word of God]], the "Night Springs" episodes were actually written by Alan earlier in his career. Which might explain some things about his current predicament.
** Barry actually mentions this in-game if you watch the episode that's on a TV when he travels with you, but states this particular episode isn't one of Alan's.
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