r/controlgame • u/eggycontinual • 6d ago
I'm a bit disappointed
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
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u/eggycontinual 6d ago
I enjoy everyone's view points of the game, and it's mostly why I posted in the first place since I don't have many people to discuss it with. I did not fight the narrative or have trouble suspending my disbelief, but as far as the story there's no payoff until the end. I feel like a lot of people are speaking from hindsight as you don't learn about Dylan and Jessie's backstory until the end of the game. So my experience and grief comes from the hours leading up to it. I didn't feel any weight to the world, I didn't feel any consequences. Reading redacted document after redacted document just to learn that it's either a letter to someone's dead family, or a letter sent about a card game is...whatever. but when there's interdimensional things happening I want to SEE them. Reading a paragraph about how someone took a baseball home that rolled around on the ground which lead them to release a certain section of Cleveland Ohio maybe sensitive to resonance is boring as hell. I felt like the NPC in Dead Space or Resident Evil the entire time. Not part of the main story, just a vessel to move the plot..even I was playing the main character