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Young mother is working on a laptop on the sofa in her home with her baby daughter sleeping in thefollows the bestselling crime-writer Alan Wake as he attempts to escape the Dark Place, a horrific, alternative dimension that preys on people’s insecurities and fears. The game takes place thirteen years after the events of the original, in which Alan and his wife Alice travel to the small coastal town of Bright Falls so that Alan can work through his writer’s block.
Lots of games use a kidnapped, or otherwise threatened, child to motivate the player character. But what I found original and moving in Saga’s story arc, is the way the game works through the self-doubt that goes along with being a working parent. This tension explodes when Saga becomes trapped in the Dark Place toward the end of the game. The Dark Place looks different for every character. For Alan, it is his writing room. For Saga, it looks like her Mind Place—a mental space she has gone to throughout the game to organize information about the crimes she is trying to solve. Typically, the player interacts with this space by pinning “clues” to a board in order to advance the plot.
While the most important part of Saga’s world is clearly her daughter, at her lowest moment, she perceives herself as a bad mother and a bad detective. In trying to balance the multiple parts of her life, and her identity, she feels that, especially mothers, feel like they are always letting someone down—surviving, instead of thriving, in all arenas. It’s not so much that one area of life is sacrificed for another, it’s that all areas of life are constantly sacrificed.
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