here's some neat things about the video game I didn't like, Control

the game is pulling a The Shining on you from minute one

you enter the Oldest House, walk down a hallway with a couple portraits on the wall, do some stuff, then loop back around to the hallway to go down an elevator between the portraits

the first time you walk through the hallway there isn't an elevator in it

it gets retroactively by your need to access it

also Control canonically takes place in the same universe as Alan Wake

the metal song you listen to in the ashtray maze is written by two characters from AW

and there's a report on an Altered World Event that's just referring to the events of that game

I probably would have liked Control a lot more if i had waited another year or two to play it

and done so on PC

so it'd have a better framerate and accessibility options to lower the difficulty

the Oldest House contains Firebreaks, massive empty gaps in space dotted with narrow bridges that are the only way to cross them

in the DLC, you go to the Foundations of the Oldest House, and you find a cave that appears to be a naturally-occurring Firebreak

there's a cameo from Hideo Kojima as a voice talking to you in a sensory deprivation chamber that's being infested by an evil forklift

I desperately want a Control 2 that learns from some of the mistakes of Control

Control but the primary enemy force isn't generic mans with guns

I love almost everything about Control other than the act of playing it

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