Patient Gamers

I think I'm almost halfway through Control because the new one looks like an action game and I got tired of people asking me to play it… and I'm bitter.

Context: The three games I beat before picking up Control are Evil West, El Shaddai, and Homura Hime.

WTF is that gameplay density? Most of what I'm doing is going from point A to point B looking for stuff. The way the game dolls out powers sucks so bad… I feel as if I'm slaving away just to pay the toll to start having fun… I have about 8 hours in the game, I unlocked only 3 powers?

The upgrade system sucks too… it's so boring to collect resources for % increase in damage, health… etc. And weapon/personal mods feel tacked on, and don't offer anything exciting past more % boost.

And oh, God, the puzzles… I feel like at least 1 of the 8 hours are my spending time overthinking puzzles that turned out to be way dumber than I thought and less interesting that I wanted them to be. Everything is basically match A shape to shape B.

The enemies so far have been painfully generic. Not only in look, but in behavior as well. None so far made me think or strategize to get through them past the basic: take cover and target the higher priority enemy first.

That sequel better drop the metroidvania BS and give us a proper action game with much higher gameplay density because this is boring AF. It better be a more heightened experience overall.

Also, Dylan better be more interesting to play than this "Temu Scarlet Witch with a gun"

I was gonna move on to Lost Judgment after this, but I think I'm gonna need a proper action game or a shmup to cleanse my palate first.

Edit: I just beat it. Fuck this game 😂 Also speaking of Scarlet Witch, isn't the story a little too similar to Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver's origin story?! Eh, maybe I'm reaching. Either way, fuck this game.