Thinking about the feelings I had while playing Control for the first time and I thought I’d share.
It’s probably obvious, but it really stuck with me: the characters in Control don’t communicate with each other, ever. Excluding the employees you can hear talking when you walk close, no other character has even a line of dialogue that’s addressed do anyone but Jesse.
If communication happens, it’s never shown on screen, and I think it’s incredibly eerie, or maybe it’s not the right word. It gave me an incredible sense of loneliness, as if one was trapped, without a chance to express themselves.
I don’t really know what to make of this, I just wanted to share it
The Gameplay is very enjoyable imo, and I love the wacky setting and lore so much. “Normal office building bureaucratically and scientifically investigates the WILDEST and most dangerous paranormal shit” will never not be fun.
I also really enjoyed the characters (as few as there are) obviously Dr Darling is a DELIGHT my blorbo, but I also love Trench in a “Awh another dramatic noir monologue. Classic Trench :’) ” kind of way.
I wish we had learned more about the secreeeeets like what the board is and <readacted>Ahti</redacted> entity A001 and what happened to Northmoor and all that. I NEED TO FIND OUT MORE, CMON
Best moments in the game:
1) Ashtray Maze
2) Karaoke Video (Dynamite)
Funny how the best two moments in the game were a song. (The second one especially sjdjjf deserves its own post really… The way you’re so tense and hallucinating a mundane yet horrible office job and then you manage to escape and THAT VIDEO to both cheer you on and gove you some much-needed wacky energy… LOVED IT SO MUCH)
So yeah that’s my rambly review of Control (2019) after finishing my first playthrough. If you read through all of that, I salute you ;) In your hour of need, I will come to your aid, etc
Guess who’s back! I’m sure you all missed me drawing the same two characters over and over again. I’m really happy with how these came out, expect more control content soon!
