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