Today's game is Control. I've been wanting to finally finish this after beating Alan Wake II. Today, i 100% Silent Hill 2, and decided to pick it up and give it a try. I must have stopped at the worst time because i stopped right before the ashtray maze, and i finally understand why people love this game. I don't want to spoil it for people who haven't played. But it was super fucking cool.
The game also just generally is pretty, which i appreciate. The quarry reminds me of the Xen from Half Life:
The stars in the sky i love too. I'm a sucker for anything space so i was happy to see the stars.
I also played around with the Photo Mode with Jesse. Here's one i got of her pulling the switch:
I spent so long trying to time it right, i'm really happy with how it turned out.
I feel like outside the box gameplay and story is Remedy's MO. Alan Wake has the Story and Flashlight mechanics, Control has all the Parautilitarian mechanics and the lore with The Oldest house and Director. Even Max Payne as far as i'm aware was unique with the Bullet Time mechanics
My favorite part of control is how they go into juuuuuuust a little bit of explaining how things work in a science way, and sometimes you can almost feel how things are connected, and then it's like "Yeah we have no fucking clue how any of this actually works, we're just trying to keep it all from destroying the universe and keeping notes along the way."
And then you meet the next thing that almost makes sense. Until it doesn't.
I don't remember if I ever finished AW but I do believe I have the disk around here somewhere. The control dlc definitely rekindled my interest.