- Control resonance art director Elmeri Raitanen confirms that it has always been the plan to make a game starring Dylan next
- Raitanen explains that the creation of the control world was the priority
- This allowed the team to create more “organic characters”
Remedy Entertainment has confirmed that it was always the plan to make one Check game starring Dylan.
It is according to Control resonance art director Elmeri Raitanen, who told TechRadar Gaming in an interview at a preview event just before this year’s Summer Game Fest, that a game starring Dylan as the playable protagonist was a concept the studio always had in mind.
But Raitanen said building Check‘s “high level” world came first, even when they made the first game starring Dylan’s sister Jesse, because it allowed for more creative options.
“The high level idea in building a world of Checkand Check franchise is obviously that we want to be ‘world first’ as I think it creates more organic characters,” Raitanen explained.
“So we create the world, and then there are opportunities to have these different lenses into it, or different stories. So the first one was Check [which] was Jesse’s angle into it, and now we’re looking at the other side of fate and the coin, so to speak, at Dylan’s point of view.”
He stressed: “That has always been the high-level plan Check like a world [and how] we are approaching these things.”
Lead level designer Anne-Marie Grönroos also added that there is a “symmetry” between the two games, explaining that Jesse is an outsider who enters the oldest house in the first game, whereas in ResonantDylan is the one who leaves and experiences Manhattan for the first time as an adult, and it’s a place “he doesn’t belong.”
“So things that are everyday for us and actually strange for him,” Grönroos said.
Control resonance launches on September 24 for PS5, Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S and PC.
Remedy previously confirmed that while Jesse will appear alongside her brother in the sequel, she will not be playable.
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