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Hi all, here's the Alan Wake 2 Critique, ad and sponsor-free. Thanks for your patience with this. I'm off to sleep!

A public version of the video will go live at 2pm tomorrow.

https://youtu.be/8SB3BK_tTnc

You'll see that there's no patron read at the end of the video, but you're all credited still. This is not going to be a common thing on these longer videos, but in this case I had a custom song commissioned to play over credits and didn't want to play the song in full and then do a read-out, I thought it killed the ending a little bit. I'm really sorry about that - but hopefully when you watch the video you'll see why it happened this way!

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(Patreon) Alan Wake 2 Critique - Beyond the Lake

I don't know how to talk about Alan Wake 2. Twitter: https://x.com/MontyZander Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/montyzander Lore Dump: https://www.youtube.com/ @LoreDump ALAN WAKE CRITIQUE - BEYOND INSPIRATION https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7WasN_BNfU&t=157s Thumbnail by @hotcyder Usually references and research are cited in the description, but in this case I ran out of words. Here's the google doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/160SBVwbJjXhq2-1y2pnphWTSrJkM_kpoG3XOmqQZYN8/edit?usp=sharing ARTISTS COMMISSIONED Sarah – Iana Grace: https://linktr.ee/fawnchild Still – Donavan Ralph & Jayden Wark: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBYiXcLzdQU Cult of Casey Artwork – Checkpoints Show: https://x.com/SaundSamantha Your Friends Will Meet Him When You’re Gone – Marina Ryan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsPZvOyaLII The Naaki – Siddhant Pandey: https://x.com/SidPhoenix2211 The Story of the Journey of Alan Wake: The Musical – The Art – GentleBoyHell: https://www.instagram.com/p/Cq6QjJQPF8q/?hl=en Give Alan A Boss – Jayden Wark & Donavan Ralph: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ve-3jU-Wfi0 Turbulent Sea – Lazzo: https://www.instagram.com/lazzomusic/?hl=en Third Person (Spoken Word Dance) – Alex O’Neill: https://www.instagram.com/_aj_o_neill_/?next=%2F Torch Time – Marina Ryan: https://www.youtube.com/@marinaryan Torch Time Animation – McMetalface: https://www.youtube.com/@McMetalfaceYT Fibonacci’s Riddle: A Bedtime Story – Naima Sawyer-Dymski: https://linktr.ee/ff3399 Drown – Jayden Wark & Donavan Ralph: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfz0pAUN-i0 All music commissioned is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TacN-kFCSU&list=PL-xqWDrbpVmQTUgjQzDvCJLHIeyKU2oij TIMESTAMPS 00:00:00 – Introduction PART 00:05:30– Chapter 1 – The Memory 00:30:58 – Chapter 2 – The Forest 00:56:05 – Chapter 3 – The Weird 01:13:51 – Chapter 4 – The Detective 01:27:55 – Chapter 5 – The City PART 2 01:47:10 – Chapter 6 – The Drowned 02:03:34 – Chapter 7 – The Fear 02:12:01 – Chapter 8 – The Sound 02:23:23 – Chapter 9 – The Champion 02:36:15 – Chapter 10 – The Photographer PART 3 02:54:15 – Chapter 11 – The Echoes 03:06:57 – Chapter 12 – The Seer 03:21:39 – Chapter 13 – The Monster 03:38:26 – Chapter 14 – The Filmmaker 04:00:44 – Chapter 15 – The Show 04:32:58 – Chapter 16 – The Feeling 04:52:24 – Chapter 17 – The Ending MUSIC INTRODUCTION Aviad Cinemanas - ORC Gal Lev – Jasmin CHAPTER 1 Prophecy Playground – Twist Frown Garrett Bevins – Telluride Low Light – Undertow – Instrumental Version Livingrooms – I Want To – Instrumental Version Ben Winwood - Elation CHAPTER 2 Cunningham Manor – Tell it to Jeremiah (Instrumental Version) Ben Winwood – Riviere Straight White Teeth – Better Without You (Instrumental Version) CHAPTER 3 Donavan Ralph & Jayden Wark - Still We Dream of Eden – Worlds Within Petri Alanko – The Clicker CHAPTER 4 Kärtsy Hatakka - Max Payne 1 Theme Kimmo Kajasto - Max Payne 2 Theme Pedro Bromfman - Max Payne 3 Theme Yoton Yo – Petri Alanko We Dream of Eden – Standing on the Shore of a Memory CHAPTER 5 Nadav Cohen – A Dark Place Jon Gegelman – Floating Voices – Piano Version Yehezkel Raz – Reminiscing Yehezkel Raz – Here There CHAPTER 6 Flint – Through Mountains Roniit – Solace (Instrumental Version) CHAPTER 7 Marco Martini – One Day in the Life Petri Alanko – FBC Arrives CHAPTER 8 Michael Ellery – Ideas Paleface – Dark, Twisted and Cruel RAKEL – Follow You Into The Dark Roos + Berg - No One Left to Love JAiMES – Wide Awake Poe – This Road CHAPTER 9 Jameson Nathan Jones – In Measure Lord Donavan and Jayden Wark – Give Alan A Boss CHAPTER 10 Roni Bar Hadas – I Ran All the Way Here EVOE – Two Roads Lazzo – Turbulent Sea CHAPTER 11 Yotam Agam – 6 Sol Petri Alanko - Yoton Yo Yehezkel Raz – Close from Above Tzabutan – El Cognito Nsee – Forsaken CHAPTER 12 Cristof Walters – Polaris Max H. – Serenity CHAPTER 13 Marina Ryan – Your Friends Will Meet Him When You’re Gone (Instrumental) Dan Howell – Long Ride Oakfield – Long Road CHAPTER 14 Marina Ryan – House of Zane Or Chausa – Identify Tristan Barton – The Racer – Piano Version Nick Poss – Blues Bruiser Petri Alanko – Alan Wake 2 (Jukebox Theme) Runar Blesvik – Unsolved DaniHaDani – Secret No 3 Post Scarcity – Saw You at the Corner CHAPTER 15 – NIGHT SPRINGS Randy Sharp – Funky Monkeys Ziv Moran – Monkey Island Eden Barel – Club Supreme Evert Z – Lets Go Bananas Ido Maimon - Marathon Jimit – Astral Dance CHAPTER 16 Michael Shynes – You Are Still the Top – Instrumental Version James Parm – What Good Is It Now – No Lead Vocals Louis Adrien – Hopscotch AlexGrohl – Move Will Van De Crommert – The Gathering – No Percussion Jupiter Sands – Passing Sands Daniel Brown keys – Last Dream Veaceslav Draganov – Fiery Heart Jakub Pietras - Stories CHAPTER 17 Marina Ryan & Monty Zander – Torch Time Idokay – The Cycle Continues Eleven Tales – Welcome to the Real Adrien de la Salle – Droplets Roie Shpigler – Phantom Pain Michael Rehn – At the End of the Forest

Comments

AbiTheBard

5 and a half hours!!! oh this is so worthy of a movie night

ai_monogatari

5 hours??? My brother in christ you worked hard 😭😭 I'll be feasting on this for a while!

Solid Snake

Can't wait to finish work and watch this!

Chachisvase76

Monty my good man you have saved my workday hahaha. May the lake giveth unto you all your desires

Jubilation Chambers

Omg omg omg omg it's here thank fuck it's been such a bad week with my apartment in the 80°s but this instantly made me super happy and 5 hours Monty you have really outdone yourself.

E E

So fucking hyped for this. I bought a copy of Alan wake 2 to support the dev team, cause whether I love or hate their games they always put out something different than anything else on the market, and ended up bouncing off of it. Just not my thing to play. Been chomping at the bit to hear you go over the story though!

Tom Hibbert

Alan wake 2 is basically the A24 of Video Games

Chris Holben

Dammit Monty you were supposed to wait till I finished the game! Now I have to sit there and try not to rush it knowing that this is waiting for me! In all seriousness, I’m hyped so much for this

Tempy

Watched it one sitting. Thanks for another great one Monty.

Yeager

"I don't know how to talk about Alan Wake 2" - casually drops over 5 hours of pure cinema

rocketman

I anticipated awesomeness but not 5+ h of it. What a treat. And all that original art made for it. How can we get hold of that story book?

Monty Zander

I had to convert the art from Naima into PDF and take them to my local printer - I don't think she's putting it out for commercial release I'm afraid! 😂

Jonus Morffis

This is one of the most impressive video essays I've ever seen, hands down. The sheer amount of passion and artistry put into every second of those 5 hours is the most inspiring thing ever, never stop doing what you're doing!

SagePage

I don't know how to talk about Monty not knowing about how to talk about Alan Wake 2. 😅 You packed a depth of soul into this. Thank you for an incredible video essay -- and I really hope you caught up on sleep, because my god, I can't imagine how much work this took.