Sam Lake "politely" asked Alan Wake 2 devs to kill him more violently: "There was hardly any blood in the first iteration"

Before Alan Wake 2 came out and shook up the 2023 GOTY conversation, director Sam Lake wasn't satisfied with his character's death scene because in his view it wasn't sufficiently bloody.

According to Lake, Alex Casey's death scene in the Initiation 2 (Casey) chapter of Alan Wake 2 originally wasn't very bloody at all. It wasn't until Lake stepped in and insisted his character's death be more violent that we got the scene as we know it today.

"There was hardly any blood in the first iteration of Casey dying in the alley," Lake said, adding that he "politely" asked for "a LOT more" blood in the scene. He even had the cheek to put an innocent angel emoji in the tweet. Sam Lake, you devil, you.

There was hardly any blood in the first iteration of Casey dying in the alley. So I politely requestered for a LOT more