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A video essay connecting Remedy's games to David Lynch's work — from the Black Lodge to the Dark Place, Project Blue Book as the real-world basis for the FBC, the Episode 17 transition technique from The Return, and how Alan Wake 2 delivers the ending Twin Peaks fans never got for Cooper.
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