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I've officially hit the "Just watch the rest on YouTube" portion of Control Resonant. After a 1+ hour long traversal and cutscene rampage, I emerge into a new open world section, think "Good, now I can finally stop for a bit" and when I reloaded... it reset me back to the start of all that. NOPE.

Maybe Control was one-of-one. Maybe the magic of 'faceless bureaucracy vs. cosmic horror' only works once. I don't know. But this feels like I'm finishing it just to finish it and I can give my button-mashing fingers a rest by watching the remainder.

Also, can I just say, naming them the hiss 5 minutes into the first game was a massive missed opportunity. Like, they could have left it this faceless, nameless -thing- and kept the tension and drama up for longer. But no, they name it and rip all of that away.

It doesn't even make sense because they don't HISS. There isn't a hissing noise. There's a chant, and a red light, and that's all there is. The "hiss" feels like an artifact of an earlier version of the game design, which stuck in their heads and now they don't want to get rid of it.