One of the few games where I read every single bit of lore collectibles and easter eggs I could find. I absolutely loved the world and environment they built in that game.

Don't forget the soundtrack!

Martin Stig Andersen. Same guy that made the Limbo soundtrack, except his ambience here seems more polished for a modern era game. Stranger soundscapes than Limbo, which fits the mood. Petri's stuff is pretty good, too, but it's a different kind of creepy ambience and he's not afraid to put more energy behind it for the fight scenes.

I have this in my Halloween playlist to weird out the trick-or-treaters.

Damn. I actually had a screenshot saved that I was going to use to talk about Poets of The Fall and their work in the game, and then use that to lead into talking about the OST but forget it

I’m not sure if it was intentional or not by the developers but it’s a lovely sight nonetheless. I suppose intent doesn’t matter though as art is what you make of it

I struggled a lot on my first playthrough. I think at some point i Outclassed the games difficulty though by messing around with side stuff as the second half of the story was a pretty easy cake walk

A while ago the developers have added an accessibility option called "Assist mode", which lets you tweak some combat related options like increased damage output and health. You can configure it to essentially achieve god-mode.

My thoughts on Control are entirely summed up by the limerick at the end of Yahtzee's review:

Control is intriguing enough,
With its mysterious, inscrutable stuff,
But the combat is cloying,
And about as annoying,
As a limerick that doesn't end properly.

Get good newb.

I'm joking, please don't be upset.

I haven't finished the game yet. I need to get back to it. Mental health has been a bitch the last few years and that was probably when it was at it's worst. I need to restart it at this point. It's an amazing game.

If you’re talking about who I think. Yeah, that dude killed me a lot. And was just annoying.

The best (though slightly tedious) strategy I have is to go up to the balcony and stand with a pillar in between you and him. His attacks won’t break the pillar and you can then time it right to leave cover and shoot him several times before going back to hiding.

Also going to a place with lots of enemies to level up/craft mods is helpful, and do the janitor’s quests and explore as much as possible to gain more abilities / find more crafting materials.

Fighting is a lot easier when you can basically throw the entire room at an enemy over and over again.

They really killed it both with Rasterization and RT implementation. I know i was touting RT here but my very first playthrough was all raster and it was all really gorgeous too. My only complaint is some surfaces were really grainy weirdly enough. I saw some people saying it’s because the game was designed with RT in mind but I’m not sure

Yep, art style and amazing lightning (even without any RT) works wonders. And the game released in 2019, 7 years ago. Mind blowing.

Spoilers I guess but guns aren't the only way to get by in Control... I did very little shooting by the end

The aim is definitely a weak point. This is my second playthrough and I still struggle with it

Ahti legit is probably one of my favorite Remedy Characters next to Alan Wake and Max Payne. Jesse is up there too but Ahti wedges her out of the 3rd place spot with just how charming he is