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Are you ready to unpack Remedy's ambitious Control Resonant with The Deepest Dive! You all voted for it, so we're breaking the game up into three sections for a game club with Ben Hanson, Jacob Geller, Haley MacLean, and Leo Vader. If you're intrigued, we encourage you to play the game along with us and submit comments here on Patreon for us to read during our discussions. We have a different crew sharing early thoughts on the game on this week's episode of The MinnMax Show, which is releasing Friday morning.

The game is releasing digitally on September 24th on Steam, PS5, and Xbox. Remedy graciously just posted a video recapping the story of the first Control for you as well. All schedules are in flux, but the plan is to record our discussions on Monday September 28th, October 5th, and October 19th. We'll be collecting your comments in Patreon posts the weekend before we record.

The first stopping point for the first discussion is when you hit the simultaenous missions "Power Missions" and "Into the Sinkhole", right after you complete the main story mission called Arish's Briefing. This is roughly 2-4 hour into the game, we encourage you to engage with as many side activities as possible.

As always thanks for supporting MinnMax on Patreon and making The Deepest Dive possible, we look forward to experiencing the big, new game with you! Let us know if you have any questions about The Deepest Dive format in the comments.

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BEEFCAKE

Dodged a bullet with wolverine

MinnMax

Naaah, it would've been a fun one to dissect.

SanzOfTime

Really looking forward to this one!

Jaime Miceli

So, so excited for this. Remedy are hands down my favorite developers, and AW2 and Control further cemented this for me 🔥 cant wait for you guys to cover this, thanks so much for everything you do!

Michael Lunt

Looking forward to following along with this one. Will likely wait until later in the year though because I'm after that physical release. Should be a fun conversation though.

Tanner Hoisington

Yeah same physical delay screwed this for me unfortunately

RedBeast

Wish I could participate, but physical version does not ship until 10/15. Look forward to listening in the future!

Michael Lunt

Tbh I'd rather a delay that hopefully has a better version on the disc, than a necessary day one patch.

CJ W.

I can't wait for VCR dust discourse again! Jokes aside, I'm super hyped about playing and listening along

BEEFCAKE

Yeahh but i don't want to play it😅

EtherEli

would have been a fun one to *dismember

EtherEli

I am also waiting for physical. If Sony is going to pretend nobody buys discs anymore I won’t contribute to that narrative. Happy for anyone jumping in day 1, I’m tempted to but I can wait a couple weeks

Sarah Ripley

Is someone going to stream the game? Like Haley since she did the first one,

Xavier Richardson

Same, I wish they would just postpone and go with the #2 choice for now

The Canipa Effect

I am yet another person in this boat. Looking forward to tuning in next month (or later, depending on how long Fire Emblem takes)

SirCrouchALot

Waiting for physical before playing. Will have to watch these back as I play then

PDXCrow

I worked on this game so very curious to see what folks think.

Daniel May

Forgive me for such an extreme nitpick, but the first of the two missions is "Power LINES", not Power Missions.

Max Malavenda

Shocked at how non-linear the game is, I'm at Ariah's Briefing and have *so many* other missions still available to do Edit/Update: Been playing for 15 hours and still not even done the Arish's Briefing mission yet, lol

Topher F

After completing the first side mission (exploding heads) I am so surprised at how interactive and investigative it felt. Uncovering clues, following leads, discovering piece by piece what happened. The threshold itself was super cool. All the while I'm exploring the city, defeating hiss, and getting a feel for the combat (and dying a fair amount). But honestly, I feel like I'm just not dodging enough. When I slow down and watch the enemies and claim my openings, the combat is more fun! I started playing a bit pre patch, but didn't do enough combat to really get a feel for it before they updated the game to balance it. I'll be super curious to hear how y'all feel about the balance changes on the first episode of the deepest dive!

Kalle Jarvinen

Same same - way off from that and have probably played for like eight hours? I've found the sinkhole, that's it!