“Certainly, we learned that people loved in Control, as an example of how we use music in our games,” says Lake. It’s one of the best setpieces in modern gaming – and Remedy is keen to recapture that music-loving energy for its next game. How that translates for you, player, as you work through this interactive music video, is exceptional. Loaded with the track Take Control by Old Gods of Asgard – an in-game pseudonym for Poets of the Fall – this cassette player allows you to freely traverse the ‘Ashtray Maze’, a peculiar supernatural object that has take the life of many curious civilians. When navigating it, you are required to wear a cassette player given to you by janitor and (in my opinion) one of the best characters in all of fiction, Ahti. How it manifests, though, is as a non-euclidean and shifting space – impossible to map and truly know. Here's the 'Ashtray Maze' in full, if you need a reminder of how amazing it is. If you’re unfamiliar, the ‘Ashtray Maze’ is a late game setpiece that acts as a fantastic gameplay and narrative device – a paranormal security device designed to prevent people without proper clearance accessing the deepest reaches of the Oldest House. Specifically, I’ve asked about the reception to the ‘Ashtray Maze’ from Control, the studio’s last major release, and the instantly iconic reputation it picked up. “In so many ways, in Alan Wake 2, we wanted to take certain elements of ‘the Remedy game’, and push it as far as we could imagine,” Remedy creative director and lead writer, Sam Lake, tells me in an interview.
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