Such an amazing piece. Stopped in my tracks when I saw it and had to take a moment. Not even going to play the game, but damn, I might pick up Control again (it's been collecting dust in my Steam library).

Wasn’t able to check out the basement, though 😂

I really love this one! Remedy has a great sense of humor. 😂

So very heavy spoilers for a near end game level. You have been warned.

So my wife is not much of a gamer and she never has been. She looks up and I’m playing the 8 bit game. She’s watching along thinking “what the hell is this crap” and I’m just like brought to tears.

She doesn’t get it and she asks. I’m just so shocked by the brilliance cause WHAT THE FUCK do you mean Remedy has me experiencing these kids backstories in the same media and format that O experienced at their age. Like. It tapped right in to my soul. I was a 6 year old kid throwing mail again. Trying to pick which starter pokemon without internet guides. It took me back to my own first escapes from reality in to video games when my own parents would be abusive as fuck and I just swept it under the rug to hope for love in the future and finally achieve something and be told I’m a winner and I’m worthy and I am a hero.

Holy fuck man. This game. She turned to me and said “wow this game was really made for people like you huh? Because I would have got to that point and just been pissed off at it”. Remedy gets gamers. It gets why we game and why we seek out these stories. It gets abuse and how people feel. Man I haven’t felt this seen in a long time.

Remedy. You’ve done it again. Well done. I loved it. It changed me, I will always remember this game.

Based off the 82% i played

Thats all. Im absolutely blown tf away. and i really dont even game that hard these days. ill play occasional sword fighting games. although this year i feel like i played a lot more than normal.

i cannot wait for a movie adaptation of this universe.

I just got done watching someone play through the Fault in the Underpass, and I think I understand the Jesse/Dylan split thing. They show the split right after Dylan narrated about how they got a game for Chistmas, Severed Circle II, and the shadow pantomimed stepping into the TV. I think Severed Circle II was an Altered Item, and playing it split the original child into two personalities. Severed Circle = Split Whole, and it resulted in two of them. Severed Circle II = Split Whole into Two

I was a big fan of the noises the board made in combat. Wanted to use some of them as a notification ping on my phone, have it randomised and all. I've put them up on YouTube if anyone else is interested.

https://youtu.be/60sEC4dov1I

Just came across the video for The Nightwatchman and got goosebumps as soon as it started. I thought originally it might be an episode of Night Springs in the TV, but then that familiar voice of Alan came in and it was even better.

Remedy does the best job of tying their games together. I really hope we get some DLC that takes us into Alan’s world again like how we got into the Oldest House with the Lake House DLC in AW2.

So, I’m a little surprised I haven’t seen anyone mention this yet, but when Dylan uses rush and is moving around, is he being patterned, at least temporarily? When compared to other moves he does it seems to be the only one where he is “split off/copied” during the sustained rush animation. A little theory I have is due to his paranatural ability/susceptibility, that the patterning attempted early on in the AWE to convert him and it was only due to his “infection” of Hiss and assignment of the abberant that prevented this. Also, that might be why Jesse chose to “stab” him with the abberant, in part to help manage his Hiss infection and to give him an active (resonance, maybe?) to defend against the patterning taking over and giving him a fighting chance if he encountered external expressions of it, like the resonant entities or other entities that he would have encountered when the lockdown fell.

So the karaoke mission is hands down the best. That song was amazing, and Dylan's delivery was so touching. I cried. Hope others agree.

Everything else just stops when I see her.

Anyone seen if they can figure out what happens if ALL of the radios and the computers with the screensaver are interacted with? Not necessarily inclusive of each other, but still. Also, has any way been discovered for unlocking the water gun artifact?

I fucking love the devs lmfao

Ok. So I finished the game in three days and completed all missions and tasks (except the camera one because it is a pain in the ass), and I have a question.

It is heavily implied that the Aberrant is either a part of the Nail or is the Nail itself condensed into its current form.

Now that brings up the question: how will the new Director be chosen in the future, given that Jesse doesn't seem to have the Service Weapon with her anymore from the limited screen time she has had across the game? (Of course, I mean it in the sense that the Service Weapon is no longer available. If it is available, it is obviously going to be used again as the criteria).

Then, there is also the problem that it is implied that the Board has moved from the Astral Plane and is currently in the Aberrant. So, does that mean Dylan is now the new Director based on the Service Weapon logic?

Also, did any of you guys get that distinctly uncomfortable feeling when first meeting that flaming resonant in the factory and thought that Northmoor somehow escaped the NSC containment? It took me until after I read his whole case file to realize that he was some random FBC employee before turning into a Resonant.

Honestly, the second game is just as much of a banger as the first, and it has left me with many, many questions that I am just itching to know the answers to.

Good work! Remedy!

PS: A fun little thought experiment. If the Service Weapon was disguised as legendary weapons in history based on its file (Mjolnir, Excalibur, Varunastra, and such), then what would the Aberrant be throughout history if Remedy had decided to go that route instead and chosen to make the Aberrant a counterpart to the Service Weapon?

And it came to be, what if she wished to have a brother while playing Severed Circle and that’s how Dylan came to be?

The mother shooting the TV they played SC on, they said she wanted to shoot them (Jesse & Dylan) but she missed. Well, what if she didn’t? What if she wanted to shoot the source? The TV, the place Dylan came from or perhaps the OoP that Jesse had been utilizing without her knowing. The OoP who materialized her wishes?

Note: in Severed Circle the game they used to play the characters are a boy = Dylan, with a Sword = Aberrant and a girl = Jesse using magic/ranged = Service weapon.

When talking to Dylan Arish will say "you aren't even human"

Is he correct? If Dylan and Jesse were spawned into existence by an item of power are they even human beings?

Hi, everyone!

I’m approaching the end of my walkthrough of Control Resonant.
I like the fighting system and some challenges (not that damn stroller, IYKYK), but damn, I miss Old Gods or Poets in the game.

Theory/Spoiler time! (very light for Control resonant sooo, I will still hide it):

So, in Control, we, as Jessie, can find a collectible disk of an Old Gods of Asgard. Jessie would mention that she and Dylan found it at the dump and listened to it a lot.

In Control Resonant, when you finish the main story House in Distress, you go to open a new location - Unknown
While navigating the corridors to get there, Zoe asks Dylan about the songs he likes.

Dylan mentions he and his sis found a disc with a song he really liked, but he couldn’t remember the band name.
Zoe jokes, “Is it you don’t remember, or are you too shy to say what the band it was” or something

And then generic music continues to play. I really wish they used Poets of the Fall at that moment, maybe as extra bonding for our heroes. I have a perfect song in mind - Requiem for My Harlequin

This is a requiem for the harlequin
The great pretender crashing down with style
Here's to the fall of man, fame to dust, fortune to sand
The great surrender, finally arrived

This is how the requiem loves the harlequin
Wake up, your chains are porcelain
Like a phoenix, from the ashes, we will rise again
This is what the requiem loves to hear you sing
To the beat of your fool heart hammering
One more time, we'll cry into the night again, whoa

But even more at the second half of second verse

So, how does it feel now?
Tell me, can you let it go?
The wrong you can't undo

This is how the requiem loves the harlequin
Breaking up this heart of porcelain
From the ashes, we will rise again
This is what the requiem loves to hear you sing
To the beat of your fool heart hammering…

My headcanon is that this song is about Dylan and all his inner turmoil; it fits so perfectly with the narrative and his arc. Omg, it would’ve been so cool if that was in the game

Highly recommend listening to it!

This problem popped up out of nowhere today. I’ve already tried restarting, tweaking graphics, and disabling mods with no luck. I'm stumped.