Unpopular opinion: I prefer the voice of Ilkka Villi, the actor for Alan Wake, over the voice actor Matthew Porretta.

The magic of Alan as a character is their dual performance coming together to make something unique

Villi's voice is excellent as Zane the Filmmaker.

I prefer him playing Zane because he is a great voice actor but I find Alan’s voice already suits him.

These days Ilkka Villi can minimise his accent to the point that the two actually sound quite similar.

That being said, I would NEVER replace Matthew Porretta. He’s so perfect as Alan Wake.

It’s a combination of the two that makes the character as iconic as he is.

Couldn’t disagree more. I’m glad Ilkka got to voice Zane and i hope Remedy will let him do more stuff like it in the future, but the combined performance of Ilkka and Matthew is what makes Alan so special.

That's definitely a take...

Now that Illka has had decades to minimize his accent a bit, they actually sound pretty similar. In an interview from last year with low audio quality, I remember hearing him sound pretty much how I expected him to sound, even though it obviously wasn't Matthew speaking.

Not only is this an odd take but the dubbing is intentional, especially in aw2 - for more reasons than just having a more American sounding voice over.

It’s hilarious that that took one man’s face and said no no. Your voice sucks. 😆😆