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In this game, I can proudly say "Dead, Dead on the floor!" when my foes are murdered in cold, non-violent blood!
This game is vaguely parkour-based, but with the ability to scream "Dead, dead on the floor I say!"
Yours truly, Ethan
[ P . S: I have refunded this title. ]
Control is such an overhyped piece of drivel, I don't even know where to start.
The graphics are the only thing going for this game. Gameplay feels really basic and the supernatural aspect of the superpowers feels underutilized, and it's bogged down by a tacked-on loot and progression system that's just there for the sake of it.
Jesse keeps externalizing her every single fucking thought like the writers got paid per word, even mid-dialogue.
But the nail in the coffin is the writing... It feels like a bad SCP fanfiction written by someone who wanted to sound super mysterious but took a blunt force approach to obtuse and [REDACTED] elements.
It's such a mess and I'm angrier than I should be because I only realized it 3 hours in, by which time it was too late for a refund.
Poor graphics, flat characters, boring gameplay, messy story
This has to be one of my top five biggest video game disappointments of all time.
For all the hype around ray tracing, this game seriously fails in the graphics department. Too many times in combat (especially the last area), I'm surrounded by so much flashing red and black smoke I can't see what's going on. One of the main characters (Emma) is DEEP in the uncanny valley. As bad as Andromeda. All the areas look the same. Lots of different quality textures are thrown together. It's a mess. And when you reach a new area, you have big while letters pop up in the middle of the screen to tell you where you are! It completely blocks your field of view.
All the areas in the game feel the same. The gameplay is so boring. Enemies are always a nuisance, teleporting in at random to ambush you, while backtracking through areas. It's just not fun. I found myself running past them most of the time. The map itself is also the biggest piece of design garbage I've ever seen.
I've a video game lore lover, and always hunt down every tidbit I can. This game tries to sound deep, metaphysical, and sciency. But in the end, most of it turned out to be nonsense. The story itself is also incoherent. The characters are flat, there's no real progression, the videogamey-ness of it all overshadows any plot...
Seriously, it's not worth the space on your hard drive.