Catsgamer

Beautiful game. Control Resonant kept surprising me with stunning visuals and level design over and over again, I think to myself it can’t get any better, but it does repeatedly, the combat is fun and dynamically evolves throughout the game keeping combat fresh throughout most of the game, and the way it handles combat encounters where it’s you vs the heavy enemies, and the light enemies are there as a hindrance but also a helpful tool to easily regain health and power as well as a means to reliably gain dominance, and with the abilities you attain throught the game the combat dynamic between both light and heavy types keeps the game from being stale throughout. The story is wonderfully done and really amazing at some points in the story. It expands on some points from the first game whilst also being a story of its own with Dylan and the new and evolving world around him. The minimap also, it might be my favorite minimap I’ve ever seen it’s so well designed and tells you all you need to know in such a nice minimalistic way that it’s even useful and effective in combat. The sidequests all feel unique in their own way. The zone progression system is a unique take on the classic leveling system. Although my one complaint is that you can’t turn off a specific filter on one of the end game segments, I was getting motion sick. Or if there was an option I couldn’t find it. And besides a few obscure bugs the game feels really polished my PS5 ran smoothly throughout the whole game when playing on Quality mode. I do wish sometime the “board” subtitles lasted a bit longer or have a voice history where you can go back and see what people said. Overall a fun and beautiful game with few flaws that consistently broke my expectations and a worthwhile reason to get into the series.