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Control: Resonant | A game trailer from the Finnish company Remedy Entertainment ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ฎ (www.youtube.com)
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[โ€“] MrFinnbean@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

They lean pretty much to finnish culture in their games. The Old gods of asgard-band from alan wake games is alias for Finnish band Poets of the fall

The coffee termoses in alan wake and controll are just blue versions of the legendary airam-thermos that was long time basic kitchen accessory allmost in every kitchen,

Ahti character speaks and sings in Finish a lot and Ahti is Finnish name meaning the god of the water (basically Finnish version of Poseidon)

In Alan wake 2 there is town of Finish immigrants and the town hall and the sauna next to the lake both are riddled with details. Things like finnish darts boards (tikka taulu) to the old bike leaning to the sauna are really authentic things.

Also Ahma bear means wolwerine beer, and finlands most popular domestic beer has really similar design and is called Karhu, a bear.

Max payne has also music from finland, finish vodka bottles.

All games have also many many nods to Finnish culture. If you ever tought any building looks weird or some poster or picture in the wall does not seem to fit, it most likely nod towards something cultural in Finland.

Also RedLynx (Trials), Housemarque (Returnal), and Allmost Human (Legend of Grimrock), Frozenbyte (Trine), Bugbear (Flatout, wreckfest) are From finland.

On mobile side there is Supercell (Clash of Clans), Rovio (Angry birds) and Fingersoft (Hill climb racing)

Also if somebody likes rogue likes there is game called UnReal world that is about surviving in finnish iron age, its a freeware game that first came out in 1992 and to my knowledge had updates untill 2016.

[โ€“] sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 weeks ago

I was not aware of these connections! Thanks for the write-up. Guess I need to check out the full extent of the Remedy-verse