I’m breaking the bit i have going where I mirror the equivalent post for my first play through, but one thing that i noticed was the whole Spiral thing was kind of foreshadowed in Alan Wake’s American Nightmare (Though it makes me wonder why Alan got to keep his Memories in that Spiral but not this one? Maybe it’s because he dies at the end of this one? While also in the VHS tapes we get throughout Alan Wake II we see a Insane Alan who wants to stop writing and give up and die, which is basically the plot line of the Special Episodes The Signal and The Writer in the first game, where we play as the “Sane” part of Alan as Zane puts it. I don’t know if these were accidents, but knowing remedy they aren’t and they adapted these plot threads for this one, which i think is really neat.