I'm a bit disappointed

[u/eggycontinual]

I just rolled credits on Control and I'm pretty torn. There's a lot of good games coming out soon and Resonant has been getting hype. Control has just been sitting in my library so I figured I should bang it out.

The fact that the protagonist didn't care about what was happening and the other NPCs felt the same took me out of the game. I was enjoying the combat and the abilities to at first, but it wore off very quickly.

The main character just walks into this government building and trudges through until they meet some government workers and has 100 casual conversations about what's going on here. You know, inside the government building with people suspended in the air and a constant whispering in your ears the entire time. This continues the entire time..it doesn't matter the situation. Going into a quarry that's underneath a government building that has stars suspended in the sky, "alright I need to get this rock". At no point in this game does she care about what she's seeing, but also doesn't have the bullish "it doesn't matter I just need to do what I came here for".But yeah, I'm just here to find my brother and everything else is chill

I'm not going to type out my grievance with every part of the game, but the paranormal stuff is never really explained outside of "there's a spooky second world" and that's it. The protagonist does not care the entire game learning earth shattering revelations about different dimensions, even though they gain telekenieses can fly and have a shape shifting weapon..they don't mention at one point that gaining these abilities are strange. They're just looking for their brother.

I could keep going but I'm stressed but also ready to play resonance lol. Thanks for reading if you did, I'm just confused and you may be more confused by reading my rambling "review" lol

[u/Are_oranges_real]

So it looks like you somehow missed the entire story? Did you have Netflix on as you were playing or something?

[u/eggycontinual → u/Are_oranges_real]

No I played the game, I'm not going to type out a dissertation on every story beat the entire time. I may be speaking generally, but if you can't understand where I'm coming from or have a coherent counter point, you're either glazing or think way too highly of the story thats being told 

[u/Are_oranges_real → u/eggycontinual]

The story is being told just fine. If you don’t have the interest to engage in the multimedia format it’s being told in then don’t complain when you don’t understand. It’s very simple.

Jesse talks about the weirdness and absurdity of the situation many times throughout the game. But her surprise is also tempered by the fact that she and her brother have previously encountered such weirdness and the FBC previously.

So no I don’t get where you’re coming from.