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This article contains major spoilers for Alan Wake 2Remedy Entertainment’sAlan Wake 2has achieved major success after a 13-year-long gap between the 2010 original cult classic. Switching to the survival-horror genre along with the introduction of a new protagonist, Agent Saga Anderson, next-gen visuals, and the continuation of its mind-bending story,Alan Wake 2impressed on many fronts. Indeed, despite its late release window,Alan Wake 2has recently been nominated for Game of The Year in The Game Awards 2023.
Alan Wake 2also expands the history and connections of its side characters. Throughout the tangled tale, two in particular are given a bigger role - Tor and Odin Anderson, the brothers otherwise known as the heavy metal band, Old Gods of Asgard. Theending ofAlan Wake 2leaves open a number of dangling plot threads. One of them involves the older rockers and sets up the part they might play in the next chapter of the story.
The Old Gods of Asgard are portrayed by the band Poets of the Fall inAlan Wake 2’s live-action portions, and have collaborated with Remedy on previous projects.
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Tor and Odin Anderson in Alan Wake and Alan Wake 2
In the first title, Alan bumps into the Andersons in a humorous scene at theBright Falls Oh Deer Diner. Later, he meets them at Dr. Hartman’s psychiatric center. While their antics seem to be the result of advanced age, it’s revealed that in their younger days, they survived an encounter with the Dark Presence, the supernatural force threatening to overtake reality. Though the experience mentally scarred them, their faculties remain largely intact, and they are astutely aware of the true nature of the menace. The Andersons provide Alan with vital assistance and important information on how to combat it, proving themselves stalwart guardians against its horror.
InAlan Wake 2, the Andersons have even stronger connections to events. When Saga meets them, they divulge that she is related to them; Tor is Saga’s grandfather, making Odin her great uncle. They explain that their family lineage and prior contact with the Dark Place is what grants them their paranormalMind Place abilities. Shortly thereafter, Saga must use this bond to rescue her newly found relatives after they are captured again by the Dark Presence. Once all the Andersons are reunited, they meet up with Saga’s allies, Agents Casey and Estevez, to enact the next step of their plan.
The Old Gods of Asgard Reunion Tour
Since art affects reality in the vicinity of the Dark Place,The Old Gods of Asgardperform one more grand anthem on the shores of Cauldron Lake, acting as a summoning ritual intended to pull Alan from its depths. The elderly rockers put on a banger of a show, and it works perhaps too well, as the Dark Presence itself materializes and a tense fight ensues. During the battle, Saga is thrown into the lake. In the last moments they are seen, Tor and Odin wade into the waters after her. It’s assumed they will return the favor by rescuing her, as she is shown to be trapped with Alan in the Dark Place at the conclusion.
ThoughAlan Wake 3is far out at this point, as Remedy is working onControl 2next, the events of the current game set up the brothers to feature heavily in the future. While theprotagonists ofAlan Wake 2’s upcoming DLCprobably won’t be Tor and Odin, The Old Gods of Asgard still have their own story to conclude, which is intimately related to resolving the overall plotline. It is highly likely they will appear again, possibly even as the next playable duo in further content.
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A string of ritualistic murders threatens Bright Falls, a small-town community surrounded by Pacific Northwest wilderness. Saga Anderson, an accomplished FBI agent with a reputation for solving impossible cases arrives to investigate the murders. Anderson’s case spirals into a nightmare when she discovers pages of a horror story that starts to come true around her.Alan Wake, a lost writer trapped in a nightmare beyond our world, writes a dark story in an attempt to shape the reality around him and escape his prison. With a dark horror hunting him, Wake is trying to retain his sanity and beat the devil at his own game.Anderson and Wake are two heroes on two desperate journeys in two separate realities, connected at heart in ways neither of them can understand: reflecting each other, echoing each other, and affecting the worlds around them.Fueled by the horror story, supernatural darkness invades Bright Falls, corrupting the locals and threatening the loved ones of both Anderson and Wake. Light is their weapon—and their safe haven — against the darkness they face. Trapped in a sinister horror story where there are only victims and monsters, can they break out to be the heroes they need to be?
