Night Springs | What's in a Name (Analysis)
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- Опубликовано: 30 июл 2024
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Night Springs is probably the longest running sub plot in the Remedy setting. A simple TV show that rose up and took on a life of its own. First appearing in Alan Wake, it has shown up in every subsequent game. A mysterious town where weird things happen. But the town sometimes is a real place.
What is the nature of this mysterious town? How do the events in the episodes eventually become real? At the end of the day, What is Night Springs really?
In today's episode breakdown we will be focusing on the episode, What's In a Name. In it, a mysterious master and his apprentice carve a name into the underside of a bridge. Claiming the town as his own. The ramifications of this are reality changing.
Night Springs | What's in a Name (Analysis)
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The answer is absolutely yes, do all of them if possible. Very single of them so far has been very interesting AF.
Seconded! 😆
I actually read this one a little different than you, I saw this as sort of an absolute origin story to Night Springs. By writing a new name around the town enough, he wasn't just marking territory, but metaphysically altered the name of the town once he hit a critical mass, and because its true name and his true name were the same, they merged into one entity.
I more take it that Night Springs being able to change locations and shift out of reality is due to it being both a town and a magus with deep eldritch power.
I also didn't read the officer as losing his free will at all. Police swear to serve their community, and the man he had been called to look into was his community, so there was no reason for him to stick around any longer. Reality shifted so that his staying there made no sense, but I don't think that's necessarily the same as his free will being stripped.
The hilarious production values strike again! I love that they're talking about carving his name on steel beams, but all they could afford was to rub the walls of what looks like a pedestrian tunnel.
And in the clips the actor wasn't actually scraping at the walls. Didn't want to actually deface the place lol.
I know it was due to the production value, but because of what he’s doing it could be he’s carving into reality instead of the wall
The low budget cop uniform cracks me up too!
Interesting how each episodes of Night Springs goes in deep about further connection to the main plot of Alan Wake or the Remedyverse as a whole!
Cant wait to see how it all comes together. AW2 for sure will have far more info on this town
Bad things are about to happen in AW2. The writing is on the wall.
Also, now that it has been established that other towns may also have magical properties, the Dale Cooper cameo is a must.
Dude if we have a Kyle McLaughlin cameo I would lose my shit
If one of the dlcs is named "Night Springs" then everything else definitely deserves a further analysis.
Hence why I'm getting these all out before the dlc. Cant wait to see how wrong I am when we get to play it lol
Possibly relevant: the literal meaning of eldritch is simply "strange", but the etymology is closer to "of a foreign realm". Now it's most tied to HP Lovecraft's work, which deals heavily with ideas of other planes of existence, knowledge humanity cannot handle, and terrible monsters from outer space.
Ok but I had a reality crisis for a moment because at first I thought this one was CREATED for the remaster, so it was newly made and with that thinking.... the voice of "Magus" sounds JUST like David Harewood, Mr. Door in AW2. So I thought oh this is something related to him to tie the games! But apparently this video have always existed since the first game? BUT HE STILL SOUNDS SO MUCH LIKE HIM THAT I'M FREAKING OUT NOW! What is real anymore?! My brain's so desperate for lore it's making up dots to connect now? But WHY does it makes so much sense? HELP😭
I'd be interested in a lyric analysis for Balance Slays the Demon. The other Old Gods of Asgard songs all describe events that happen in the games the song is in, but while a lot of the lyrics apply to American Nightmare the game doesn't end with Alan using balance to slay the Demon and finding peace, it ends with him using light to slay the demon and it doesn't work, because "in the end it's never just the light you need." I think the song is going to be connected to Alan Wake 2, which has Alan seeking through the darkness while Saga is in the light, hopefully in the end the two will connect and find balance.
What the people want is for you to reenact the Night Springs script from Control so you can put it into a video just like this. I trust our tuitions will cover that big Night Springs production value.
I agree, besides, there's fan version of the show's themruclips.net/video/PNLtXzLl6Iw/видео.htmlfeature=sharede:
I know it's all supposed to look like it's done on the cheap, but I just love the officers outfit, it's so cheap it becomes comical
No joke the campiness of is part of the charm lol
I'm so ecstatic for your takes and lore and science you point out and discover in AW2. Be playing that night.
Wow I’ve been watching all your videos in the last couple week. I’ve fallen down this rabbit hole thanks to Max Derrat.
I can’t wait for AW2!! I love that you make these types of videos that analyzes the meta stuff in Alan Wake. I also love how meta this Night Springs episode kind of is. Gosh you can spend so much time playing Alan Wake and STILL find stuff in the game to analyze. While the gameplay may get repetitive, I actually love that, makes it replayable to me. Good video
Are the triangles (in the trailer of Alan Wake 2) connected to this idea? Alan has already tried using Night Springs to escape but it was just part of the fabric of the dark place maybe like a bubble in a bog. Could the triangles have anything to do with title and territory? Could Alan be using others to mark the town so that he can exist somewhere beyond the dark place? I wonder.
I absolutely love to see your perspective on these things. Remedy has made such interesting world, but I we rarely hear any theories about other supernatural entities aside from the board, former, and the thing in the dark place. Obviously, we don’t have much to go on, but I really like your suggestion that night Springs is more of an entity and less of a byproduct.
Always happy to wake up to a new video
I'm very much looking forward to Alan Wake 2, I really do hope people do give it s chance despite how jam packed next month is
From what Yellowbat has told me ALL of the early reviews have been hyped and really positive. Even to those not part of the fandom. I'm hoping this is Remedy's breakout game.
@@GamingUniversityUoG I'm so glad to hear that
Not quite relevant to the Remedyverse; but in the tabletop RPG Werewolf The Apocalypse (Prior to 5th edition which is basically a reboot), Cities, Towns. And Villages can create a spirit embodying it in the Umbra (the Spirit World), known as a City Father or City Mother.
They reflect the nature of the town that birthed them and often carry the town'a name as their own.
A Rose by any other name would smell just as sweet.
Truer words
thanks for your work
You got it dude!
This idea about identities tied to names being swapped reminds me a lot about SCP-4000. In that story, it talks about entities in a alien dimension with no names that steals your name (and anomalously steal your identity completely too) if you don't describe them with new sentences everytime you adresse them. This same rules applies to object, so long as the nature of SCP-4000 is the core intended subject in typing or talking (like an exploration log).
It's not completely the same, but in both cases it ends up really bad for victims.
I hope we see more Night Springs episodes in AW2.
I can almost guarantee it. In the dlc at the very least.
I just realized that I'll have to wait to play Alan Wake 2. Spider-Man 2 is coming out 6 days before.
Oh boy. You're feeding good this october for new games
More Alan wake content please. Also I probably should replay American nightmare if you’re gonna talk about it.
Between now and AW2 release we have 5 videos planned for release on Alan Wake. Going to be a busy month.
@@GamingUniversityUoG Sweet. Because I spoiled myself on some Alan wake 2 stuff. I know things and the thoughts are racing.
Yay! I love Gaming University!
You're awesome thank you!
This is very disturbing and interesting and he called Magus...like the gnostic Simon Magus maybe?
There's one more Night Springs episode that I don't really get. It's the one from Quantum Break where they can't find the Narrator and are interviewing new voice actors.
Don't know if it's just a simple Easter Egg without any deep meaning, but seeing how the plot is so elaborate I can't help but feel it does actually have some meaning. Basically begging for the question: "Where is the Narrator?"
The Narrator isn't a special character in the Remedyverse (aka we can't put a face on him, we don't meet him). He's played by Lloyd Floyd, the actor who also plays Tor. Does it perhaps mean that Tor is missing, or that Lloyd won't be the Voice actor for Tor in AW2 (so that would be a real-life reference)?
Anyone else thinking about that awkward episode from Quantum Break?
Yes do all of them
I plan to
huh, i dont remember this one
6:24 he's just suddenly "agree" as if it was nightsrping all along, the brainwash? is instantaneous
I'm guessing. Innately the cop serves the town so once he realizes he serves Night Springs, (town and entity) he just goes along with.
I love how the "old man" is a 27 year old hipster. A REAL hipster would never have the motivation to take on such labor.
The dude just became the entity of the town itself. Kind of like how the dark place is an extension of Barbara and the entity of Bright Falls.
Your theory is interesting though, as Alan Wake himself says in American Nightmare that Night Spring is not an actual fixed place, but it moves to where it's needed to tell a story.
If you guys haven't figured it out by now. Alan Wake is the author of everything. Even Fictional versions of himself.
Definitely do them all
I'll probably wait until after AW2. My schedule for the weeks leading up to the release are already packed
Off topic but I’m rewatching playthroughs of Alan wake and diving into the lore a bit. Did Thomas Zane write wake into existence or at least nudge those events for the famous writer to come and defeat the darkness? I’ve seen multiple contradictory information and was hoping you’d be able to clarify.
Now, there's one of the BIG questions yet to be answered. Alan Wake 2 looks to be getting DEEPLY into Thomas Zane and who he is.
Letters they are in a Name wow easiest Riddle ever now whose for Time Knife & Chill i have Doritos and Soda.
Lol respect and keep up the epic work.
Riddle? I'm listening
What if, before the town was named Night Springs, it was called Tan Relio?
Could Night Springs the entity be a member of The Board, or even a manifestation of the Former or a similar entity?
No clue dude. Not even sure if we can take these episodes 100% seriously. I feel we can but who knows.
@@GamingUniversityUoG Thats fair, just seems like The Board or other similar groups would do things like this based on the Altered Item vids you did.
Please do!
Will do!
When the next psychonauts 2 video coming out?
Before the end of the year. Right now all the rails are moving on the Alan Wake 2 release.
That being said I've already recorded assets and taken my notes for the script. Just haven't written it yet.
Okay but make sure when you get to the other minds like Cassie and bob, 2 things one shows the images of the figments like how you did in the milk man conspiracy video and 2 use the ground bob model/image for bob bottles okay@@GamingUniversityUoG
Old man? Dud is like 30. At best.