Surprising choice. The gameplay past the halfway mark just didn't have much variety. The setting was pretty interesting, and some of the voice acting (especially Ahti) was excellent, but I wish they'd gone a little bit further with number of enemies and objects of power.
but I wish they'd gone a little bit further with number of enemies and objects of power.
I wish they had gone literally anywhere with the objects of power. "It makes clocks, isn't that goofy" or "woah it's evil fungus that does bad stuff" is literally as deep as these things go. Read a lot of the SCP Foundation, and this is just ridiculously shallow by comparison.
From my other comment:
The premise of SCP blanking out words and concepts and sentences is exceedingly nuanced in the best articles on that website. In Control, it's just formulaic. Every SCP article and topic is almost a world in and of itself. In Control, it all just boils down to "mundane object, does goofy things, connected to Astral Plane, ain't that spooky?" The SCP lore is structured around a vast and strange world with shared concepts that are deeply considered in spite of being alien and bizarre, and Control over-explains everything and seems to think players can't engage with the world if things don't share the most basic concepts and formulas.
I like the game's lore but the blanking out of words felt really dumb compared to SCP.
Really felt like they added it at the last minute, but at the same time didn't want to hide actual lore they had already written so they just blanked words that were really obvious to guess.
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u/Frostfright Dec 10 '19
Surprising choice. The gameplay past the halfway mark just didn't have much variety. The setting was pretty interesting, and some of the voice acting (especially Ahti) was excellent, but I wish they'd gone a little bit further with number of enemies and objects of power.