Today i continued through Alan Wake 2. I have started Alan’s Section. I got to the very end of Chapter 2, but ran into a bug where Alan doesn’t push a subway car door open while being chased so i stopped there.

Overall for the graphic settings, i settled on 1440p, FSR on quality, and Raytracing on Medium. It seems to run acceptably that way. It gets a bit fuzzy in the dark place, but overall it doesn’t look too bad.

One of my favorite examples of this is the Owl in the Writing room. It came out looking really nice in a photo:

There was another one that i captured too of a Phone Booth. The Raytracing combined with it’s lighting makes this feel really realistic. It looks like the light in the top of the booth is shining through a piece of plastic

There was also a photo i took at the very beginning. I tried to frame Alan and the Exit sign into the same photo. I made it positioned where it’s looking down from the Exit sign, so it’s like Alan is too deep to “exit” from the dark place

The New York in this game is one of my favorite areas to explore. After the phone booth, i wandered down to a TV store before going to pick up the flashlight. I wanted to experiment with some alternative camera angles. I tried this one, which i wanted to make look kind of uncomfortable to capture the feeling of the Dark Place

Heading down the alley, i also tried this shot. I tried to make it look like Alan was being peeked on by something behind the railing. I really like how it turned out. I used a grid to make it match up with the Vertical Bars of the railing:

I also tried a similar trick with Casey’s death. I lined Casey and Alan up with the corners of the door. I like how it turned out. The flashlight and angle really helps capture the mood of the scene i feel like

As i headed down to the Subway, i got into my first combat encounter after somehow managing to sneak past all the others. I tried doing a sort of action shot of Alan holding a flare while also trying to make it feel like a spur of the moment photo taken with a shoddy camera. This fight was also when i discovered you could throw flares. It hadn’t occurred to me that i could do that.

I grabbed this photo for far less artistic reasons. Me and my friend i play Zomboid with having a running joke of taking photos of anything that says Jerry on it, because Jerry is the name of my Zomboid character (and the character i use for other games sometimes):

Moving through, i made my way too the scene with the burnt out train car. This one is one of my favorite scenes. I know that there’s nothing that’s going to hurt me, but the scene and sound design is so well done that even after 4 playthroughs now, it scares the shit out of me. It’s so well done:

Somewhere along the way in the subway, i also grabbed this one which is one of my favorites next to the main one i took of Alan and his reflection. This one i kind of tried to capture the feeling of Alan “descending” deeper into the Dark Place in search of the “door that’s not a door”. I tried a bunch of different filters but ended up settling on the normal one.

and then finally, there’s this photo. This scene is another iconic one for me. The way the pages rip up is very memorable for me and the sequence that follows after is just as memorable: