CONTROL Resonant

The story starts in Downtown with the main mission Orientation. It ends with the first Resonant, one of the giant bosses that hold most zones of the city. After it you can enter the Gap, Dylan's upgrade dimension: hold outside combat to go in or out. There you buy talents, upgrade the Aberrant (Dylan's weapon) and choose combat abilities at the Mural.

Assist Mode (Settings, Options, Assist Mode) can make Dylan immortal and costs no trophies. The game only autosaves, but it keeps a save after each main mission, which you load from Settings, Load Game.

Play the zones in this order: Downtown, Central, the Evacuation Zone east of Central, then the West Incursion Zone west of it. When you run out of marked objectives, the next main mission usually waits for a Resonant or a Jesse Sighting. These short platforming missions search for Jesse, Dylan's sister, and most give Dylan a new way to move. Do them as soon as they appear. The Subway Fault in the Evacuation Zone gives Reach, and The Incursion Fault in the West Incursion Zone gives Shift.

Along the way:

• In Central, talk to the agent just outside the entrance of the Field Office, the camp of the FBC (the Bureau fighting the Hiss, the enemies that have taken the city). Unmarked, he stands where the "O" of "Office" is on the map. He unlocks FBC Tasks, short jobs from a taskboard in each zone, which can wait until after the story. If he is not there yet, come back later in the story.
• In the West Incursion Zone, once you have Shift or Reach, go where the map says "Singing reported?" in the west. Enter the apartment from its roof, reached from the higher street to the east. Sing the karaoke inside without a wrong lyric, since each wrong one kills a guest (Hidden trophyBe What You Want to Be). If anyone dies, load the last save and sing again.
• Beat the West Incursion Zone Resonant, in the theatre in the north of the zone, before the Central one in the basement of the Patterned Factory. It is the easier fight, and its ability helps in the next one.

The story ticks off these steps as you go, through to the ending.

The Park (optional)

The Park lies north-east of Central, through The Park Checkpoint. The story never takes you there, and its enemies are hard early on. Go once the four zones above are done, before you start Enemy of My Enemy, the main mission that opens at the Field Office once the West Incursion Zone and Central Resonants are beaten.

• Talk to the soldier on the roof of the FBC Base, the Park's FBC camp, to start the side story New Growth.
• Then talk to Heidi, the woman in the pink jacket in the construction site in the middle of the Park, to start Carbon Copy. Finish its first part now by finding her twin sister in the building to the south, so the later parts follow as the story goes on.
• Drop into the hole under "New Mold strains?" on the map and eat the Mold growing there to start the Park Resonant's quest (Hidden trophyInsidious Growth).

The main mission Recursions and Iterations takes Dylan to the Underpass. Look at The Spire, the tower named on the map, and press L1 to add the Underpass Resonant's quest. Then climb it and collect the three keys around the boss door (Hidden trophyAstral Reconfiguration).

The main mission The Hedron Link takes Dylan to the Unknown, the last zone, a scatter of floating islands.

• Pope's Research, a side story from Emily Pope, the FBC's researcher, starts by itself. On each island, cut down the weather balloon and place the probe relays it drops. A Gravity Well, a floating jump pad, then carries you to the next island. Finish it at all eight balloons and then at the centre of the main island (Budding Analyst).
• It gives a Resonant Token. At the Mural, learn one more combat ability with it and fill all six slots (Hidden trophyCombat Rediness). This needs the abilities of the five Resonants so far.
• On the way north, a radio call starts the Unknown Resonant's quest on the Unknown's own Field Office island. It is optional and a timed fight, so bring your strongest artifacts (Hidden trophyHonorable Discharge). It gives Command, an ability needed after the story.

The main missions that follow in the Unknown end the story. With all six Resonants beaten by then, the Mural in the Gap is complete at the end (Hidden trophyGraffiti Artist). If one is left, it unlocks when you beat it.

After the ending you are back in Manhattan with every zone open. Work zone by zone to save backtracking. [Region by Region](trophytracker://game/ec34d8c4-71a1-4fdf-a342-63a921c3cfaa/chapters) lists the collectibles below in the order you pass them.

Side stories

Finish every side story, since they also unlock artifacts. These count for trophies:

• Finish New Growth and all three parts of Carbon Copy (Budding Mycologist). The second part starts with a call from Zoe, the agent in the Watchtower in Central, and it can take a while.
• Finish Crossing the Threshold (a body in a garage west of the Field Office), Unsupervised Science (six underground Testing Facilities) and The Last Taxi (a taxi in each zone) (Threshold Researcher).
• Finish every side story about an Altered Item, an everyday object with strange powers: Freeze Frame, The Party Won't Stop, The Complete Set, A New Directive, Into the Valley of Death, Panopticon Service Request and Maintenance Protocol (Panopticon Intern).
• In Every Dog Has Her Day, find the dog in each of the seven zones and bring her the blue plush dragon lying nearby, then find her in the Gap (Dog's Best Friend).

Sketchbook scenes, hideouts and FBC Tasks

• Complete all 11 scenes of Dylan's Sketchbook, shown on the map as a "?" once you are close (Work-Life Balance).
• Open all six Secret Hideouts, each a puzzle behind a shop front (Backroom Espionage).
• Do 20 of the 42 FBC Tasks from the taskboards at each zone's FBC camp (Diligent Consultant).

Aberrant Strength and artifacts

Vendors sell any materials you still lack. Buy Aberrant upgrades in the Gap until Aberrant Strength, Dylan's power rating, reaches 100 (Astral Potency). Craft artifacts at the small well in the Gap until you have made 30 (Paranatural Artisan). Crafting the same one again counts.

Trophies you may not have yet

Most unlock as you play, but these might not, so now is a great time to get them done. Any time lists each with its first chance.

• Take control of a Breaker, a giant Hiss such as the bus-shaped Hiss Transporter, with Command (Psychic Domination).
• Keep Dominance, the boost a finisher gives once you have its talent, going for 60 seconds, on the training enemy in the Gap (Intense Precision).
• Make three Perfect Dodges within six seconds, after buying the Perfect Dodge talent (Paranatural Agility).
• Play a level of a SHÜM! arcade machine to the end. The parkour one east of the Patterned Factory in Central is the easiest (SHÜM!).
• Fill all six slots at a wardrobe. The accessory slot is the one usually empty, and the Downtown vendor sells Reading Glasses (Out of Uniform).