From its electric melee fights to its surprise Firewatch nods, Control Resonant's radical sequelcraft looks like it might just pay off
Control the First , in my defence, took its kinetically supernatural shooting, put it in the hands of a likeable hero, and wrapped everything in a delightfully weird megastructure of brutalist concrete.
Control the First , in my defence, took its kinetically supernatural shooting, put it in the hands of a likeable hero, and wrapped everything in a delightfully weird megastructure of brutalist concrete.
The short version
- Could Resonant get away with changing all three?
- On the basis of that preview, this humbled hack says: yes.
- The melee brawling, for one thing, is a hoot.
- Still, after a few practice rounds with the Abberant, his shapeshifting hammer/spear/axe/nunchucks, he emerges as a much faster, much fiercer fighter.
What happened
Could Resonant get away with changing all three? On the basis of that preview, this humbled hack says: yes.
Why it matters
Combat, thus, lands somewhere between the air juggles and particle effect chaos of Devil May Cry and the smooth mook-to-mook transitions of a Batman Arkham.
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