Friends, I have news. I'm reporting live from the afterglow of an Alan Wake 2 preview event held, inexplicably, in an independent cinema in Cologne, and I can confirm—after 41 minutes of a hands-off demo showcasing the game's first mission as Alan himself—that Sam Lake definitely really liked The Matrix: Resurrections.
That was my primary takeaway, anyway. Alan's had a glow-up in his 13 years trapped in the Dark Place, you see: he's adopted the straggly hair and befuddled demeanour of Keanu Reeves in the latest and most meta Matrix film. The demo I saw kicks off as he’s thrust awkwardly onto the (live action!) stage of late night talk show "In Between with Mr. Door," who interrogates poor, baffled Alan about the imminent publication of his new book in a scene reminiscent of Neo being pressured to write a new Matrix game in the latest film.
