Posted on: January 10, 2021

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Zweryfikowany użytkownikGry: 441 Opinie: 8
Fun game with moddable flaws
Control is a good game, blending a superb light horror story with interesting if repetitive gameplay. As a shooter alone, the game lacks; its health mechanism is clunky, and the level design & graphical style obscures too much for competent gunplay, but I don't think one plays Control for the shooting alone. The protagonist, played perfectly by Courtney Hope, finds herself drawn into the Bureau and the catastrophe that has unfolded inside it; what I love most about the story, from all of its subtle horror & quirky 1960's aesthetic to the various lore strewn about, is that her circumstances slowly evolve from 'I'm unexpectedly locked in here with you' to 'you're locked in here with me', and it makes for a truly fun time, worth every little exploration & interesting corner. It's by no means perfect. I deducted one star for a couple of reasons; the first is technical. Even at Ultimate Update 2, the occasional crash mid-boss-fight and needing to use mods to fix texture loading isn't the best experience. When I had to keep entering a menu to just read a combination on a whiteboard, it got more than a little annoying. The other is down to a few frustrating design decisions (many of which can be modded around). The health pickup system and lack of any real shield/cover/dodge in early game makes for a lot of annoying deaths, not least when Jesse gets stuck on many of the destructible parts of the world. The boss fights are mostly poor; built around specific concepts that require you to tailor your approach to what the dev had in mind; one of the expansion bosses can really only be beaten one way and only with the right mods. To Remedy's credit, there is an Assist set of options that can even make you immortal to just enjoy the game and get through these, but it's testament to the game being better at telling a story than at providing quality, varied & heavily tested gameplay. All that said, I'd buy a sequel in a heartbeat. It's a protagonist & world I'd love to revisit.
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