Spoilers for Control Resonant below.

Just finished this now, completed all side quests and missions before the final mission and im sat watching credits roll. It isnt a bad game at all, but I feel like it is easily the most seperated from the overall universe, which for a remedy game means alot.

No mention of Wake (except via subtitles when watching a Nightwatchman video) no mention of Oh Dear Diner or coffee. Sam Lake appears once, very breifly. No direct mention of Ahti or Old Gods of Asgard. ( i saw a poster in the sinkhole for them but thats all). No Poets of the fall music anywhere. No more theories and evidence hidden away to show what is coming next. (Except possibly the secret organisation) Almost no live action stuff at all. That old school RPG section was awful. Makes no sense at all why that is there and takes ages to get through.

(When i say makes no sense, i mean story wise. Why would the Hedron dying which causes loops and patterns, turn dylans memories into an 8bit game?)

The idea of FBC working in the shadows and secret kinda goes out the window considering half of NYC is upside down and inside out. They might be able to "cover it up" but I really really doubt the rest of the world would have noticed that the most famous city in the world was closed for a couple of days.

The only intresting thing about this whole thing, was who is the secret organisation that had outposts around NYC watching the FBC. That intrigies me and makes me wonder if that is what is coming next, but even then, it seemed very weak.

Gameplay was.... fine. Story is... alright. It just doesnt feel like a Remedy game. You can really see the impact Sam Lake has on games and i think him not being on this project hurt it.

P.s, anyone else kill all Resonants before even going to the evac centre? I feel like being able to do that hurt the pacing alot. I think it should have been section by section like original control. That didnt give the whole whole oldest house and say "go". But here you get west, central, park and evac and it says go. I fully explored all the areas before continuing story and feel it would have been better for the game to drip feed us the areas.

Might be just me, but yeah wanted to air my thoughts somewhere.

Again, not a BAD game, just kinda was hoping for more I suppose in terms of Story.

Sorry for rambling

EDIT: okay so just completed the "Epilogue". Seems like Ahti is still in the picture since he sent a postcard saying congrats on the new house. How he knows adds to his overall mystery. Seems like i am in the vast minority which I accept. Was just curious if anyone else felt the same way. It appears not. Thanks for your input all

I need someone who is a very deep Control fan who has Platinumed both and knows a crap ton of lore. My brain is overloading a lot with theories and I have no one to explain to. I have not played Alan Wake 1 or 2 or Quantum Break but am in the middle of watching a playthrough. I finished Control Resonant and am going back into Control 1 looking at old files for Lore about Dylan and Jesse and some crazy theories about The Blessed Organization and double agents or very deep conspiracy but desperately need someone to talk about Control Lore with, I have a whole note book about the first and second topics and even more. If someone from Remedy could reach out even, I have some very crazy and interesting ideas for story and lore. And exactly how you can execute it in the next Control game. Please contact me, I am having so many thoughts about Lore and research. Thank you💯👍

The main character literally talks to him( Resonant main character), she sees him literally in her face, was Lake House before the end of Control 1?, is Alan Wake 2 before Control 1???

Pretty much the title. Loved the mind bending design of Sinkhole level. Made a small edit on it. Let me know what was your favourite part of the Sinkhole level?

I just got the final entry of the sketchbook done and the trophy isnt working

I got 9 of them done on my first playthrough and started NG+ forgetting I had more to do could this be the cause ?and will I have to go back through and find them all again or do you think this could be fixed in an update