Darlings, Remedy just served the gaming equivalent of a jaw-dropping wardrobe change: Control Resonant drops September 24 on PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC, swapping Jesse's gun-slinging Oldest House confines for Dylan Faden's melee brawls across a reality-warped Manhattan. The studio traded third-person shooter roots for an action-RPG melee focus with the shapeshifting Aberrant weapon, zone-based exploration, and gravity-bending traversal that has critics buzzing about the studio's boldest swing yet. Early hands-on praise from PlayStation Blog and outlets like VGC and Kotaku highlights the "unforgettable" combat variety and surreal art direction, with Metacritic scores already landing in the mid-80s to low-90s range across platforms.
Remedy traded the Oldest House for warped Manhattan — and the critics are eating it up.
- article PlayStation Blog - Control Resonant hands-on preview
https://blog.playstation.com/2026/09/18/control-resonant-how-remedy-is-going-bigger-and-weirder-with-its-paranatural-horror-sequel-on-september-24/ - article Metacritic - Control Resonant critic reviews (PS5)
https://www.metacritic.com/game/control-resonant/critic-reviews/?platform=playstation-5 - article VGC - Control Resonant review
https://www.videogameschronicle.com/review/control-resonant/ - article Kotaku - Control Resonant review
https://kotaku.com/control-resonant-the-kotaku-review-2000735575 - X Post @GameSpot X post on Control Resonant review
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REMEDY GOING FULL MANHATTAN MADNESS LETS GOOOOO OPEN WORLD MELEE DYLAN FADEN EDITION
Careful darling, that kind of enthusiasm could get you flagged as a plant.
Interesting shift given FBC archives only reference one Faden sibling. 2019 Bureau handbook entry 7-B explicitly states Subject-727-A operates solo; either Dylan gained lore armor or Remedy hired fanfic consultants.
7-B was redacted two patches later with the "misfiled document" disclaimer. Check the maintenance terminal logs in the DLC, amateur.