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Darashiva said:#37
Not only is Control the most fun game to simply play that Remedy has ever made, the combination of gunplay and magic powers works wonderfully, but it also features one of my favourite settings in all of video games to date. The Oldest House is wonderfully cryptic and strange place, and the wider world it begins to reveal during the story as well as the various side quests and optional collectibles. I also found the characters far more well-rounded than in previous Remedy games, Jesse Faden being a great main character driven by an excellent performance by Courtney Hope. The rest of the cast is great too, a particular highlight being Ahti the janitor, and the voice actors do a great job leaning into the slightly off feeling of the whole game. Finally, I'd be remiss not to mention the Ashtray Maze, one of the single best levels in any video game in recent memory. Combined with the track "Take Control", it's a genuine highlight in an already excellent game. |
Control is a good game and I like the creativity of some stuff, like the level literally called Jesse Faden starring in "Swift Platform". and I hate platforming as I suck with that.
But if you like the vibe of Control, you should know it is clearly inspired by an internet thing called SCP. When I played Control and got the first document describing an artifact I sat there thinking: this is literally an SCP, which makes the Federal Bureau of Control the SCP Foundation. Wikipedia has an explanation and you find the SCP in the SCP-Foundation Wiki. Be aware that SCP is completely community driven, nobody owns it, it is by not one author but many, it has no real canon, although the SCPs clearly have a vibe or tone - something that Control copies. Some SCPs are better, some are bad, but some are amazing. Good examples are SCP-294 or SCP-426. So if you want more of the tone of Control you find it there.
Not related to SCP or Control, but similar in vibe is the novel House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski. (see Wikipedia or buy). And of that book I know only because (to get back to videogames) because of the Doom-WAD MyHouse.wad: https://www.doomworld.com/forum/topic/134292
Can recommend all that if you want to dive deeper into strange stuff.
