I just noticed your signature now. That's a bold statement no matter how you look at it.
I found it in one of my review threads and thought it was funny because now the association is less to do with any ideas of quality or perfectionism in the reviews and more to do with how much time passes between them. I saw
Tenet and said I was gonna review it but that was two weeks ago and the draft's just been sitting there for a while so who knows when I'll get around to publishing it.
Anyway, back to the videogame tab part of this thread...
So I just finished
Control: AWE. I think the decision to play through
Alan Wake before going ahead with this was the right idea, though I have to wonder if that necessarily makes
AWE good in its own right - it ends up seeming a little compromised between being a follow-up to
Alan Wake while also providing another
Control adventure. At the very least, it offers its own spin on the darkness-fighting mechanics of
Alan Wake that do a decent job of replicating that same tension (especially when it comes to fighting the game's sole Taken enemy in a series of escalating boss battles) and offers more of that same
Control experience of cleansing Altered Items or doing janitorial work, but like both
The Foundation and the base game it can't help but feel a little anti-climactic, to say nothing of how...
WARNING: "Control/Alan Wake" spoilers below
...it basically ends with a stinger that teases an actual Alan Wake sequel so now it's a question of whether or not Control does get another DLC that resolves the new plot threads dropped in Foundation or if this all ended up being preamble for a proper return to Alan Wake.
...it basically ends with a stinger that teases an actual Alan Wake sequel so now it's a question of whether or not Control does get another DLC that resolves the new plot threads dropped in Foundation or if this all ended up being preamble for a proper return to Alan Wake.