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Alan Wake 2: Night Springsis the first DLC for Alan Wake 2, bringing three episodes focused on three different characters running around the fictional town Night Springs. Each has its own unique tale, and each bring a different element of Alan Wake 2’s gameplay to the forefront.
The first episode, Number One Fan, revolves around diner worker and Alan Wake superfan Rose trying to save her beloved writer. It is the most combat-focused episode of the three, as Rose has to shoot her way through plenty of people and traverse quite a distance from her small diner in the middle of town.
Night Springs: Number One Fan Walkthrough
With this being one episode of three for the DLC, the length of Number One Fan isrelatively short. Some of the shortest episodes in Alan Wake 2 take longer than Number One Fan takes to complete if you follow the story and shoot through enemies quickly.
Diner Walkthrough
The episode begins with Rose (or just the Fan) working at her diner. As Rose, you have torefill the coffee and clean up the empty platesof customers around you, and you can optionally offer advice to customers as well.
After completing all those tasks,one customer will ask for literary recommendations. Rose will remember she hasa book by her favourite writer in the back.
Go down the back hallway and open the room to the right. As you go tograb the middle bookfrom the table,Alan Wake will speak up from the talking fishon the wall. He’s in trouble and needs your help.
Go to the kitchen, which will now be open, andhead to the slightly ajar back room to the right. This room is filled with all the guns from the Alan Wake 2 campaign, but the only two you may use arethe Hunting Rifle and the Shotgun.
These two guns areslightly better versions of the guns from the base game, specifically the shotgun. It has a fully automatic function, allowing the player to hold the shoot button to plow slugs into enemies.
Herhealing items are better,too, as her pills heal her to full health no matter what.
As youleave the kitchenon your journey to save Alan, the whole town will be cheering for you, telling you tohead to the boatyard at the end of the road on the right. Reaching the door and activating it will reveal it is locked before Rose kicks the wooden door open.
Boatyard Walkthrough
Walking in the boatyard, you will run intoa man near a motorcycle. Theconversation choices don’t affect the outcome, as this is the antagonist of this story: Bad Boy. Dubbed “Alan Wake’s brother,” he mirrors him in looks with a more gruff exterior, similar to Mr. Scratch in the main game.
He will leaveafter talking to Rose andrelease his army of hatersto fight anyone who stops him. These enemies playexactly like enemies from Alan Wake 2, but aren’t possessed by darkness; instead just avid haters of the writer’s work.
They willrun toward you and do a good amount of damageif they hit, while others willstay at range and throw knives, sickles, and other small projectiles to hurt you.
Rarely, some huge haters will show up, who do not get knocked back by shotgun shots and have quite a lot more health than others.
With the weapons and healing this episode offers,playing with the shotgun and running down enemies is usually your best option. The rifle is just too slow and only useful to shoot down the haters that throw knives at you.
Keep in mind, there aren’t nearly as many pills to collect in this episode in comparison to the weapon ammo. To be frank,you should never run out of ammo in this episodeunless you waste bullets frequently between fights.
In this first combat, if you find yourself struggling,some propane tanks across the boatyard will do massive damageto a small area if shot.
After defeating this first batch of haters,Bad Boy leaves a trail of fire from his motorcycle, showing where he went. Follow this path through the forest, defeating more haters along the way.
The forest isn’t easy to get lost in, especially in comparison to the main game, aslogs will block paths that lead away from the objective.
Cabin Walkthrough
Eventually, you will reacha small cabin along the coastof Night Springs. Bad Boy taunts Rose, which requires the player togo upstairs and search for her writer. He isn’t there, as the Bad Boy leads her back outside.
Heading outside,you need to go to the beach. There are a couple of beaches along this coast, butthe game tells you which beach you need to goto with thissign just outside the cabin.
At the beach, Bad Boy will offer some more conversation that will eventually lead to more fighting. He is off to send his army to attack the writer at his home while you have tocontinue your trek through the forest, fighting haters and following fire tracks.
Just as you reachthe wooden stairs in the forest, the writer will appear as a deer to encourage Rose to keep going.Follow that path to eventually reach the home of the writer, which is in the same location as the Valhalla Nursing Home from the main game.
House Walkthrough And Boss Fight
This isthe boss fight of the episode, against Bad Boy. He willteleport across the parking lot,shooting heart-shaped projectilesthat move slow and knock Rose down if they hit. He also shootswide ground attacksthat hit like a truck.
The damage is significant from either attack, but thoseprojectile hearts can be shot down.
After pumping enough shells into Bad Boy,he’ll turn into a wolf; the same wolf he appeared as when he disappeared earlier in the episode.
This changes his attacks from heart-themed todirectly like the wolf enemies in the main game,hiding in the bushesand trying to jump on Rose from her peripheral vision.
This can be very frustrating to track and shoot, but whether you shoot the wolf or not,there is a chance that it will revert back to the Bad Boy form, allowing you to see and shoot him much easier.
Towards the end of the fight,Bad Boy will even transform his motorcycle into another wolf to attack you. Scary at first, but the motorcycle wolf has little HP, andshooting it a couple of times will return it to its dormant motorcycle form.
After defeating Bad Boy, there still is one thing to do:save the writer from the haters currently doing a home invasion. Shoot your way through the house, starting with a couple of regular foes in the entrance rooms tothe two big haters at the stairs.
Climbing the stairs all the way tothe writer’s roomwill reveal a couple more haters, including one thatbreaks through a room at the top floor.
Defeat the final hater outside the writer’s room and open the door, which will show that Alan is safe. He embraces Rose, offers a cheesy moment of love before the credits roll and the episode ends.
Episode one is complete, but there still are two Night Springs tales to go through:North Star and Time Breaker.
