Alan Wake 2 – Initiation 6: Return walkthrough

After the meaty Initiation 5, Alan Wake 2 lets you take another break. For like, two chapters. Anyway, our walkthrough and guide for Alan Wake 2 – Initiation 6: Return is nice and simple, just like the chapter itself.

Initiation 6: Return walkthrough and guide for Alan Wake 2

There is one thing to watch out for during Initiation 6, but it’s tough to miss. The chapter contains a single collectible, an Echo, acquirable the moment you stumble out of the hotel.

Go back to Parliament Tower… again

After you leave Oceanview Hotel, stop and watch the Echo just outside the door. Doing so unlocks the ‘Draft Two: Dead Tired Echo’, which you can listen to via the Writer’s Room radio — if you wish.

Next, travel back to Parliament Tower. I hope you’re not getting bored of the place. The good news is that you don’t have to talk with Tom Zane beforehand. There’s no need to navigate all the way back to the payphone. All the revelations happened in the prior chapter. Instead, you only need to make your way to the place and head up to the apartment via the elevator.

The apartment’s layout seems a bit different now, but no matter. Once you’re inside the apartment, you can go left to check out the bathroom, which Alice has transformed into a dark room.

Go back to the hall and head into the kitchen to find a PC with email exchanges between Alice Wake and Barry Wheeler. Across the way, the first video of ‘Alice’s Documentary’ begins to play. Watch it and turn right. Walk to the far end of the living room and turn right to enter another room with a second video.

Leave the room and walk down the hallway to your left for the next documentary video.

The final video is down said hall in the room to the left. Watch it until it’s finished, then hold the button prompt on the TV sets to watch the cutscene and end the chapter.

That wasn’t so bad, now was it? The next chapter, Initiation 7: Masks, does not take you back to Parliament Tower, thank goodness. But it is about as quick as Initiation 6, giving you a bit more time to unwind before the game begins its final acts.