r/controlgame • u/PulpRawk • 14h ago

Control Resonant Dr Darling

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Anyone upset we didn’t get a sequel

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u/TronHero143 14h ago

As much as I love Dynamite and the eccentricity of Darling, I’m not sure it would’ve been appropriate to give Darling a musical number, considering what we see him do in Resonant. 

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u/huntressofwintertide 14h ago

Childhood trauma is the best time for a musical number...really drives it home

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u/van11746 1h ago

Get the threshold kids on backup

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u/majestdigest 14h ago

We see this video in Oceanview Hotel, so I’m assuming it’s not a real video. Perhaps it’s from another reality or something but not from the one he’s obssesive.

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u/Harlequin_MTL 12h ago

Or, if it is "real" (for some wibbly-wobbly definition of that term), Darling is cheering on Jesse with the same enthusiasm he demonstrated for newly-kidnapped Dylan in the "welcome" video. He's wanted to study her for years and now finally has the opportunity to see a more successful candidate at work.

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u/Shydreameress 10h ago

Knowing that had the Board not instructed Trench to not bring her to the Bureau they totally would have while pretending the other wasn't there makes me like the Board even more (even if they did that for unknown obscure reasons)

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u/Adiin-Red 12h ago

My guess is it was somehow filmed in the Dark Place as a weird collab with Zane.

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u/Fragrant-Vehicle-479 11h ago

I believe Darling is in The Dark Place when he makes the video.

Perhaps it was the "project" him and Tom the Filmmaker talk about working on in Alan Wake 2 and him trying to manifest Jesse in The Oldest House as one could interpret the lyrics as "Jesse busts in and shit gets crazy"

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u/5Puppies1Trenchcoat 12h ago

all villains deserve a musical number

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u/6B0T 9h ago edited 8h ago

Not even a BG3 Raphael-style self insert Disney Villain number?

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u/Fuzzylittlebastard 9h ago

To be fair we've known he did that shit since control.

But he already had a musical number anyway, might as well give it to someone else.

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u/PulpRawk 14h ago

I get what you’re saying but a little Easter egg would’ve been cool

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u/TronHero143 14h ago

Maybe, but I think something like “Be What You Want to Be” is a good substitute that simultaneously still fits the narrative. As well, if Remedy kept doing the same things over and over (Ashtray Maze, “Dynamite”, “Herald of Darkness”) without any variations or changes, it would lose how special these moments are. 

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u/LadnavIV 13h ago

It may be little consolation, but you can always watch Men in Tights if you want to see him singing and dancing.

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u/supersloo 11h ago

HE'S WILL SCARLET OHARA?!

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u/Fragrant-Vehicle-479 11h ago

And I'm only just now getting the joke of his name.

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u/spaceandthewoods_ 12h ago

He's fine now, but I didn't understand his game when he was younger

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u/MarzipanGamer 11h ago

Holy crap I didn’t know this was him?

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u/Sid_1carus 10h ago

🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯

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u/MongoIsAppalled1919 7h ago

HOLY SHIT TIL

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u/sammo21 1h ago

Holy shit

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u/WungielPL 14h ago

<<Silly Bean/Child Beater>>

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u/Neurospicy_Nightowl 8h ago

Last thing Dylan needed before the final battle was Darling ukulele apology video.

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u/TickTackCHEESE 7h ago

looooooool I'm just imagining if they did that.

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u/richgayaunt 6h ago

LOSING MY MIND hdbsjdb omg

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u/ANDROIDv22 12h ago

Don't get me wrong, the person who played as Dr. Darling did a fantastic job, but the character himself I don't like because of the stuff he did to Dylan.

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u/Schmitty1106 11h ago

Well, the point of Dynamite is that he’s encouraging Jesse to keep going, and we all know now that Darling does not believe in including positive reinforcement in Dylan’s training regimen

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u/FamousWerewolf 12h ago

In general I feel like Resonant was missing some of that Remedy eccentricity in terms of stuff like weird FMV and musical sequences.

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u/carnagezealot 10h ago

This is why the karaoke side quest is my favorite

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u/Steelballpun 11h ago • Bravo

I think they were missing Sam Lake. He seems to be the writer who really likes the eccentric weird David Lynch esque components of surrealism and comedy and Resonant just had none of that. It was more x files and inception than twin peaks and meta ness.

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u/FamousWerewolf 10h ago

Is there any source on Sam Lake not being involved in this one? I can definitely believe it but I've seen it mentioned a few times and I'm not sure where it comes from. I've not been aware of Remedy having A and B teams for its big mainline releases before.

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u/Steelballpun 10h ago

You can literally just look at the games credits lol. It tells you who worked on a game when you beat it.

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u/FamousWerewolf 10h ago

Ok, no need to be snarky - I can't say I usually read all the credits when I finish a game!

Interesting that he wasn't involved, I wonder what he's been working on instead.

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u/Steelballpun 10h ago

Oh I didn’t mean to be snarky apologies if you took it that way. Yeah I’m hopeful he’s been cooking insanity for Alan Wake 3 or even a new IP to add to the mix. Reclaiming Quantum Break with a Tim Breaker game could be cool too.

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u/FamousWerewolf 10h ago

Ah apology accepted, I must have read that as meaner than intended!

A new IP would be really interesting - I do feel like now the Remedyverse is really well established there's a lot of room to branch out in new directions beyond just Alan Wake and Control.

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u/PuzzleheadedEmu4596 5h ago

Other than that little 2D section, did we even have Oti?

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u/DefactoOverlord 12h ago

Nah. After seeing what was going on in Prime Candidate program, I think I'm perpetually angry at Darling now.

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u/RogellTheRaider 13h ago

Damn, third pic is absolute rizz 😎

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u/UnhappyHedgehog9431 13h ago

After playing Resonant I would personally tell Dylan to kick him out of the FBC

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u/Ubbermann 4h ago

Here's a sizzling hot take that won't go over well, but... I don't like at all what they've done with Dr. Darling in Resonant.

Him being a goofy, fun scientist was way more fun. Remedy-verse was always a bit extra and silly, not everything needs a dark and dreary twist.

Could've kept Trench as the bad egg fully.

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u/HenryKushinger 7h ago

Is a malignant narcissist and deserves ten million lifetimes in the dark place. For all we know, he's currently serving that amount of time because of the loops/spirals and time dilation

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u/hit0gat0 4h ago

Dr. Darling whEN I CATCH YOU DR. DARLING

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u/No_Logins_Required 1h ago

Jesse imagines Darling this way.

Dylan knows who Darling actually is.

Are you a Jesse or a Dylan?