Finally replayed this on PC and my thoughts are pretty much the same.
Visually the game looks really good and I did not play with ray tracing on, so, if you do have it on it will look even better.
The story and the mc and some characters are interesting.
For some reason the main game and the dlc's all end a bit too abruptly.
The pacing is nice, you get new powers from time to time and it's always nice using them.
The side characters aren't very well developed imo and I didn't really care for most of them, the facials animations aren't also very good for the most so it doesn't help too.
The game also has TONS of collectibles, if you don't like reading a lot you'll miss some nice lore.
The gameplay is nice although it gets repetitive after a while, most enemies encounters will play out very similarly, I wish there was more variety to what you could do with some of the powers. The melee combat here is literally just one attack, there could at least be another move to send enemies upwards, for example. You can upgrade your abilities and some have additional benefits but nothing too game changing.
The game's harder than most AAA games and it sometimes is annoying, thankfully there are some options which make you literally immortal and one shot every enemy (even bosses), so if you're having a hard time you can use those options. There's a couple of fights that are very annoying due to how tanky some enemies are and when there's lots of them. I think difficulty options would've been great here.
You can also customize Jesse's "item" slots to have more hp, energy, etc depending on what you have equipped. You can get new equipments from enemies and chests, you can also customize your weapons with this.
The map sometimes is very confusing! You have to look really close to see where it's actually leading to.
There's also some missions where you may be confused as what you have to do, there's some "puzzles" that are very dumb.
The first dlc is meh, you basically solve four puzzles, get 1 ability you can only use there and then there's a boss fight.
The Alan Wake dlc was a great improvement in terms of everything although it ends too abruptly, after you defeat the last boss there's a cutscene which teases something and that's it, Jesse doesn't say a word after the cutscene ends lol.
Overall, it's a very good looking game, the gameplay is nice although it gets repetitive and sometimes frustrating, the story, the setting, Jesse are all very interesting and I'm hyped for Control 2! I'm hoping for more variety in combat and better side character development!
Visually the game looks really good and I did not play with ray tracing on, so, if you do have it on it will look even better.
The story and the mc and some characters are interesting.
For some reason the main game and the dlc's all end a bit too abruptly.
The pacing is nice, you get new powers from time to time and it's always nice using them.
The side characters aren't very well developed imo and I didn't really care for most of them, the facials animations aren't also very good for the most so it doesn't help too.
The game also has TONS of collectibles, if you don't like reading a lot you'll miss some nice lore.
The gameplay is nice although it gets repetitive after a while, most enemies encounters will play out very similarly, I wish there was more variety to what you could do with some of the powers. The melee combat here is literally just one attack, there could at least be another move to send enemies upwards, for example. You can upgrade your abilities and some have additional benefits but nothing too game changing.
The game's harder than most AAA games and it sometimes is annoying, thankfully there are some options which make you literally immortal and one shot every enemy (even bosses), so if you're having a hard time you can use those options. There's a couple of fights that are very annoying due to how tanky some enemies are and when there's lots of them. I think difficulty options would've been great here.
You can also customize Jesse's "item" slots to have more hp, energy, etc depending on what you have equipped. You can get new equipments from enemies and chests, you can also customize your weapons with this.
The map sometimes is very confusing! You have to look really close to see where it's actually leading to.
There's also some missions where you may be confused as what you have to do, there's some "puzzles" that are very dumb.
The first dlc is meh, you basically solve four puzzles, get 1 ability you can only use there and then there's a boss fight.
The Alan Wake dlc was a great improvement in terms of everything although it ends too abruptly, after you defeat the last boss there's a cutscene which teases something and that's it, Jesse doesn't say a word after the cutscene ends lol.
Overall, it's a very good looking game, the gameplay is nice although it gets repetitive and sometimes frustrating, the story, the setting, Jesse are all very interesting and I'm hyped for Control 2! I'm hoping for more variety in combat and better side character development!