This review contains spoilers
"Hartman was Stetched! Devoured by hungry darkness!"
Why'd i play expansion 2 first? I dont know! But this is clearly where the bones for Alan Wake 2 were set. The style is all there: Alan's writing, the way the darkness acts, the deep horror vibes, it's all started here. A bit of a follow up to Alan Wake (and maybe american nightmare? I dont know), Hartman dives into Cauldron Lake and is taken by the darkness. The FBC brings him back, but then the hiss mixes with the darkness.
Story's a bit straight forward but once again Remedy KILLS the presentation aspect. Wake's hotline calls are fantastic just as they are in Alan Wake 2 and the way they show the darkness mixing with the hiss is really damn cool. On top of that, Hartman's design is genuinely terrifying. Especially when they have just his silhouette in the dark halls of the Investigations sector. He's such an unnerving threat, and him repeating Wake's writings in that distorted voice? It just hits right.
Gameplay side of things, nothing really new. Darkness is very one dimensional. Turn on generators and run from light source to light source or else Hartman will get ya. Or pick up a light to burn darkness. It's not the best, i'll be honest. Hartman's boss fights play around with the darkness aspect so well though. The game loves to put you in situations where you need to run into the darkness with Hartman right on your trail. It's so tense and i love it to death.
Overall, pretty fun lil expansion to a pretty dang good game. If you like Alan Wake at all, i urge you to play this if you haven't. Also love the lil foreshadowing to Alan Wake 2, they seriously had this all written out for so long, eh?
Why'd i play expansion 2 first? I dont know! But this is clearly where the bones for Alan Wake 2 were set. The style is all there: Alan's writing, the way the darkness acts, the deep horror vibes, it's all started here. A bit of a follow up to Alan Wake (and maybe american nightmare? I dont know), Hartman dives into Cauldron Lake and is taken by the darkness. The FBC brings him back, but then the hiss mixes with the darkness.
Story's a bit straight forward but once again Remedy KILLS the presentation aspect. Wake's hotline calls are fantastic just as they are in Alan Wake 2 and the way they show the darkness mixing with the hiss is really damn cool. On top of that, Hartman's design is genuinely terrifying. Especially when they have just his silhouette in the dark halls of the Investigations sector. He's such an unnerving threat, and him repeating Wake's writings in that distorted voice? It just hits right.
Gameplay side of things, nothing really new. Darkness is very one dimensional. Turn on generators and run from light source to light source or else Hartman will get ya. Or pick up a light to burn darkness. It's not the best, i'll be honest. Hartman's boss fights play around with the darkness aspect so well though. The game loves to put you in situations where you need to run into the darkness with Hartman right on your trail. It's so tense and i love it to death.
Overall, pretty fun lil expansion to a pretty dang good game. If you like Alan Wake at all, i urge you to play this if you haven't. Also love the lil foreshadowing to Alan Wake 2, they seriously had this all written out for so long, eh?
One of the primary reasons I'm doing this Control replay is that I wanted to play this DLC before diving into Alan Wake II. It seems like the Remedy fandom is pretty negative on this one, but I quite liked it. I think they did a really good job incorporating the atmosphere and some of the gameplay concepts of Alan Wake into Control (a game that is, let's be honest, a hell of a lot more fun to play than Alan Wake). The design of the Not-Hartman monster is great body horror, and I really dug the survival horror approach to those encounters. I do think Control's lighting system makes the darkness sections a little harder to read than I think they're supposed to be, but that's my only real complaint.
Some great additions to the Control lore too. Fra Mauro is just a little subplot in this story, but it's a concept so interesting and unsettling that it could be the basis for an entire novel or screenplay.
Some great additions to the Control lore too. Fra Mauro is just a little subplot in this story, but it's a concept so interesting and unsettling that it could be the basis for an entire novel or screenplay.
It is okay. I was expecting a little more.
Juzgar a un par de DLCs despues de varios años de jugar al juego base es medio dudoso sin duda, pero qsyo. Estan piola, The Foundation me aburrió un poco y no me interesó tanto pero el de Alan Wake está entretenido, sobre todo sabiendo maome que onda la historia del juego. Tiene gameplay divertido con lo de evitar la oscuridad pero tampoco nada excepcional. Que haya pasado tanto tiempo de jugar Control hizo que esté re frío con los controles (cuack) y el gameplay loop en general. Igual, están piola qsyo. Control me gusta mucho.