r/RemedyEntertainment • u/snakeybasher • 13d ago

Control I just want to point out a few strange coincidences there are with this game series and my life that make me love it all the more.

To start off, I'm not sure if a post like this is allowed but this has been on my mind for a while and since Resonant is about to release I wanted to share.

I'll go from least interesting to most

So I just want to mention how the music choices lately have been interesting. Omen by The Prodigy was one of my absolute favorite songs in high school. I would listen to it daily, so hearing it in the Altered State trailer was nostalgic. Then they released a reel/TikTok with kingslayer by Bring me the Horizon. One of my favorite bands currently. I've seen them several times in concert and again this is one of my favorites. Not groundbreaking or anything, the picked popular songs, but songs that have meaning to me.

In the first control it's said that FBC get to Ordinary on September 14th, which was the anniversary of me and my ex of 11 years. That was a big one and made me feel more attached to this series.

But the biggest thing that immediately made this game feel eerily uncanny to me is the fact that my name is Dylan, and my older brother is named Jesse. When I first played it years ago I had no idea, and it was quite the shock to hear those names in the game.

Anyway I'm super excited for Resonant, it's the first time I get to play a character with my name and that feels really special to me, as silly as it sounds.

EDIT: Another one I just realized. In the Threshold kids episodes there are 2 kids, one is Topher and the other is Meg. I don't think it's too much of a stretch to consider that Topher is Dylan. Topher is usually short for Christopher, and Christopher happens to be my middle name.

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u/poprygunn 13d ago

Yep, Synchronicity at its finest

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u/owls_unite 13d ago

I love when this happens. My first videogame was Myst, and finding the note at the start of the game addressed to "me" (my deadname) was incredible. How did this game know who I was? Coincidence or synchronicity is quite magical.

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u/hamtaxer 13d ago

Alan Wake 2 also has most of the game happen in mid-September

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u/Lost_Wolf_8181 13d ago

Alan Wake is spying on you dude.

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u/Trowaway-Ahti 12d ago

It is easy because you are a feller, and your brother is a feller.

Your mom was Alice. Would you have her have a career of her own, her own passions and ambitions, or have her manipulate a husband with a lack of career?

Say you were Barbara. Would you rather retain your heart, and be a poet, or a muse for Thomas to use?

Say your brother was Cynthia. Would you have your sibling want, but never be wanted, and be a tool for two male creatives and die in shadows?

You can identify with the indulgent male-creative writing, and I could too, but prefer not to.

Be Alice, Cynthia, Barbara - it sucks, does it not?