\u201cControl Resonant takes place seven years after the first Control game,\u201d Mikael Kasurinen, the creative director of Control Resonant and the co-creative director of Remedy, told us. \u201cJesse mysteriously disappears, and the lockdown [of the Oldest House] falls apart. All the paranatural forces fill onto the streets of Manhattan. On top of that, a new threat is reshaping our reality and creating new, devastating monsters.<\/p>\n
\u201cDylan wakes up, and this is where the second game starts,\u201d Kasurinen continued. \u201cHe\u2019s the only one who can fight back and help contain the disaster.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Dylan and his Aberrant.<\/p>\n
Dylan, of course, was a main focal point of the\u00a0original\u00a0Control \u2014 Prime Candidate 6, or P6, to the P7 of his sister and protagonist Jesse Faden. Following an Altered World Event in the town of Ordinary, Maine, Dylan was apprehended by the Federal Bureau of Control, where he remained until Jesse entered the Oldest House and discovered him seventeen years later. A further seven years later, in 2026, Dylan is finally free.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe has lived his whole life inside the Oldest House,\u201d Kasurinen said. \u201cTo Dylan, the door leading to the streets of Manhattan might as well be a portal into an alien dimension. This is a discovery of a new reality just like what the Oldest House was to Jesse.\u201d<\/p>\n
As such, Control and Control Resonant are remarkably different from each other, with each title representing, \u201cone of the siblings and their respective journeys through this world,\u201d according to Kasurinen.<\/p>\n
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I don\u2019t remember this in Manhattan\u2026<\/p>\n
\u201cYou can play both of these games in any order,\u201d Kasurinen asserted. \u201cThey stand on their own feet, like two independent siblings. This was always the story of two siblings who [try] to reconnect.\u201d<\/p>\n
While Jesse fought back against The Hiss using her own parautilitarian abilities coupled with a ranged pistol in her Service Weapon, Dylan will use his natural abilities alongside a melee-focused sledgehammer called the Aberrant.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Aberrant [is a] shapeshifting weapon that changes on the fly in the different forms,\u201d Kasurinen said of Dylan\u2019s companion. \u201cThere are several forms for the players to discover.<\/p>\n
\u201cAesthetically, the weapon is raw, crude, and to the point. Function over form; only results matter. It allows you on to pull off superhuman feats, especially when combined with [Dylan\u2019s] powerful abilities.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Dylan\u2019s great and all\u2026 but where\u2019s Jesse?<\/p>\n
Just as Dylan\u2019s sledgehammer is anything but a normal one, so too is Resonant\u2019s setting of Manhattan. The mega-city is closed off by an \u201cotherworldly barrier,\u201d according to Kasurinen, and will function as a, \u201clarger, more open-ended world,\u201d as compared to a straight up open world. It\u2019ll also look and function like the ever-changing Oldest House rather than a regular ol\u2019 city, Kasurinen assured us.<\/p>\n
Kasurinen continued to say that\u00a0Resonant\u2019s Manhattan is, \u201ca world filled with secrets, activities, and stories \u2014 none of them filler, but carefully designed and integrated into the larger open-ended world.<\/p>\n
\u201cA big goal was transitioning the game from action-adventure to action-RPG,\u201d he continued. \u201cWe define this as having player-driven, open-ended exploration, more meaningful progression, and real choices. Players can create distinctive builds, complementing their gameplay style. We want to encourage boldness, exploration, and experimentation.\u201d<\/p>\n
It\u2019s not just in regard to the setting \u2014 opened-ended world rather than open world \u2014 in which Remedy is very careful with its words. Though Resonant\u2019s trailer shows Dylan fighting the Hiss, Kasurinen was careful to repeatedly call what Dylan will face in Manhattan \u201ca new threat\u201d. Picking up on that, I asked him to elaborate.<\/p>\n
\u201cMore will be revealed, but it is a new threat,\u201d Kasurinen told Stevivor. \u201cI want to be clear on that. There is a new antagonist here.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Hiss ended up \u2014 maybe felt almost \u2014 like you were fighting a disease. So, we want to add more elements of personality this time around.\u201d<\/p>\n