This game is absolute GARBAGE. It's not fun. At all.
Control 1 is one of my favorite games of all time too. Sucks they thought it was best to appease the Reddit-Gamer-Chuds rather than making a good game.
It’s simply bad in every way and only idiot gamer-chuck pretend to like it.
So the first / original Control is vastly superior to Control Resonant because, for all its flaws, it at least understood that a video game should occasionally aspire to be something other than a masturbatory exercise in artistic self-congratulation. The original had a genuinely compelling atmosphere, an intriguing central mystery, and a wonderfully bizarre setting that made exploring the Oldest House feel like uncovering something genuinely strange. Its brutalist architecture actually served a purpose, creating an oppressive, unsettling environment rather than functioning as an enormous concrete monument to the developers’ own perceived brilliance. Even the combat, repetitive as it could become, had a satisfying physicality to it. Hurling office furniture at supernatural assholes was inherently entertaining. The original Control understood the value of spectacle, mystery, and occasionally letting the player have some goddamn fun. Resonant, by comparison, feels like somebody systematically identified everything enjoyable about its predecessor and replaced it with the sort of pretentious, mechanically overwrought horseshit that makes Reddit gamer-chuds ejaculate into their limited-edition collector’s editions.
Where the original Control was a flawed but fascinating game with a distinct creative identity, Resonant feels like a cynical attempt to manufacture a cult masterpiece specifically for terminally online dipshits who believe enjoying deliberately obtuse entertainment makes them intellectually superior. The original didn’t need to constantly remind you how clever it was. Its weirdness emerged naturally from its world, its characters, and its wonderfully deranged supernatural bureaucracy. Resonant takes that same creative DNA and apparently subjects it to seventeen rounds of Reddit-approved intellectual masturbation, producing something that mistakes needless complexity for depth, tedium for sophistication, and player frustration for artistic integrity. It’s the difference between a talented filmmaker making a strange, ambitious movie and a film-school graduate spending three hours explaining why his footage of a slowly rotating chair represents the existential collapse of Western civilization. The original Control was weird because it had interesting ideas. Resonant is weird because it desperately wants you to think it has interesting ideas. One is a memorable supernatural action game. The other is a fucking personality test for people who describe themselves as connoisseurs of interactive media without the slightest trace of embarrassment.
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u/DukeMancannon 10h ago
No.
This game is absolute GARBAGE. It's not fun. At all. Control 1 is one of my favorite games of all time too. Sucks they thought it was best to appease the Reddit-Gamer-Chuds rather than making a good game.
It’s simply bad in every way and only idiot gamer-chuck pretend to like it.