In an interview with Sport Developer, Treatment’s Sam Lake and Kyle Rowley spoke at size about Saga Anderson, her significance within the story, and the way the workforce went about creating this intriguing character.

Although Alan Wake 2 nonetheless tracks the story of the fictional well-known author who finds himself up towards supernatural forces, the inclusion of Saga Anderson permits gamers to modify between two realities and expertise the narrative from completely different views. It was a daring transfer, particularly contemplating how lengthy followers have waited to lastly spend a while with Alan, however judging by important reception, the danger paid off.

Making Saga wasn’t straightforward, and discovering her took extra time than any earlier sport from the studio. Treatment needed to get some assist from narrative marketing consultant Kim Belair of Candy Child Inc. who helped the studio refine Saga’s voice and ideal her character arc.

The delivery of Saga Anderson

Saga, who’s performed by Melanie Liburd, was added to the sport as a result of the creators felt that gamers would profit from having an outsider perspective on the supernatural shenanigans in Vibrant Falls. She contrasts effectively with Alan. Whereas Alan tends to be dramatic and emotionally motivated, Saga is a cool-headed FBI agent who prefers to take care of information.

She nonetheless finds herself embroiled in a reality-bending world and has to shortly learn to defeat the Darkish Presence if she needs to save lots of her daughter. To assist her piece clues collectively, she has an inside Thoughts Place the place she organizes the information of the instances she’s coping with. It’s a neat technique to hold gamers within the loop concerning the sport’s a number of sinuous plotlines.

Crafting Saga was a collaborative course of, Lake explains. They might spend a whole lot of time discussing the character with Melanie who would additionally give her enter concerning the path the character ought to take.

Treatment’s first Black protagonist

Alan Wake 2 presents fairly a number of firsts for Treatment. It’s the primary survival horror title from the Finnish workforce, and it’s the primary title to function a Black protagonist. Due to this, builders took additional care to make sure she wouldn’t be sidelined and he or she would have an equal quantity of the sport’s consideration as Alan. As Lake explains, “a whole lot of thought and dedication particularly went into Saga.”

There are additionally multicultural parts to Saga. As we study within the sport, she has Swedish ancestry, which is greater than an incidental reality, as her story finally ends up intertwining parts of Nordic mythology. This made issues attention-grabbing for Lake and the remainder of Treatment, as they bought to witness “these completely different points coming collectively to type a really distinctive and contemporary character.”

Alan Wake 2 ends on an ambiguous notice, leaving us with many burning questions. They’ll hopefully be answered within the upcoming DLC.