I'm happy they are including english VO just to make the game more accessible and expand its audience but personally, you couldn't pay me to play through a Yakuza game in anything other than japanese and subs.

@mbun Thanks. Yeah, I figured it probably wasn't right for her. Actually she has Yoshi's Crafted World as well as Luigi's Mansion and enjoys both, but Mario is her boy. Guess she will have to wait a few years for this one.

@Mbun I had been hoping to buy this game for my 5 year old daughter who is obsessed with Mario but I'm wondering if the battle system and other mechanics might be too much for a child her age. Thoughts? Do you think a kid who cant read could learn to play this? She's a damn prodigy at Mario Odyssey, Mario Kart etc.

@El-Shmiablo Oh, I know. I really enjoyed Max Payne, Alan Wake (esp its DLC), less so Quantum Break. Maybe its just the relative accolades that Control got over its predecessors that makes it incongruous with my experience with the game.

I simply do not understand the love for Control. When I was reading all the dialogue about it last year, especially multiple outlets giving it GOTY, I felt like they must have played a completely different game than me. The combat was satisfying for the first hour and then you did nothing but fight the same enemies with the same weapons and same powers for the rest of the game. Exploration yielded nothing but endless logs to read. Yes, I can appreciate the strangeness of the world but it ultimately was just a space to shoot terrible AI in. In no way am I intending to demean anyone who loved it, I just feel like it didn't work for me. It took me a long time to finish because any time I played an hour or two, I needed a break for a few weeks.

@Mbun lol

Geoff Keighley needs to go away for a long time. Completely oversaturated and irritating.

@Brannox Got it! Thanks and sorry again!

Ok, I'm sorry all. I have to admit, I don't know how to spoiler tag! Can someone please advise and I'll edit my post! Sorry!

@TheMarcV It's amazing how people can have two different takes on the same thing. Love and respect to you and your interpretation, but

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Spoilerthe Ellie boss fight was the one thing I hated about the game. I thought it was incredibly immersion breaking to be controlling Abby, whom I didnt want to succeed, and I just wanted to turn the gun on myself lol. Then when Ellie got the best of me on my first try, the game just gives you a game over screen and reloads because Ellie's victory here is clearly not the canon intention of the developers. So my options were to either a) beat the hell out of Ellie which was completely against my inclination or b) be funneled without agency into a fight that could only end one way. I absolutely loved the game and the story but this boss fight reminded me that I was playing a game with an agenda I had no part in.