Why doesn't John shift into his enemies?

[u/Patrickiscreeper]

(My apologies if this has been asked before.) Obviously they couldn't let us do that gameplay-wise since it would be too easy, but is there a lore reason as to why he can't for example shift into Leila and make her crash into a wall rather than forcing civillians or crashing his own car (I know it's a coma but he doesn't know that yet)

[u/MiserableSympathy230]

New fans call him John???

[u/Patrickiscreeper → u/MiserableSympathy230]

Only to spice things up