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You Probably Missed The Best Video Game Song Of The Year So Far

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You Probably Missed The Best Video Game Song Of The Year So Far

2023’s Alan Wake II is an impressive horror game that melds mediums and tells a metatextual story about creating art. It’s a wondrous accomplishment of game design. It also has one of the catchiest songs ever put into a video game, memorably accompanied by a spectacular interactive performance. So I shouldn’t have been surprised to find out that Night Springs, the game’s DLC, also has a song I can’t stop listening to. But the DLC has a twist: this is a proper theme song, and now I think every video game needs one too.

Night Springs is a cheeky bit of DLC for an already meta-heavy game. It plays out as episodes of an in-game Twilight Zone spoof written by Alan Wake himself and hosted by the mysterious Mr. Door. This gives each of the three episodes a canon explanation while not requiring them to actually make sense. With no responsibilities to stay consistent with existing lore, Remedy really lets loose in ways you wouldn’t expect even after playing Alan Wake 2. And as the entire DLC is a TV show, it just makes sense for it to have a theme song.

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