Control is a game I really wanted to love, but unfortunately it left me feeling rather lukewarm towards it. what it does well, it does really well (world building, interesting environments), but all the other aspects it kind of stumbles upon. Combat is really fun at first and engaging in it in different ways feels exciting, but at some point it just started to wear me down, throwing wave after wave of enemies at me. The difficulty of the game is weird too, sometimes I had no issues, but sometimes I'd die immediately and in stupid ways (falling into a pit I could not see), the check point system screwing me up right afterwards (just put the checkpoint right before the boss battle, don't make me walk 50 miles just to get back).
I do have to give props for the graphics of the game, it looks amazing for being a 2019 title and honestly looks better than some of 2024/2023 titles. I also really enjoyed hunting down the collectibles and the AWE dlc, which I thought tied the game nicely into other Remedy games.

I'm really looking forward to Control 2, whenever it might come out, hoping that they'll iron out some issues. ~