Today's game is Control. I went Anchor hunting today and did that whole questline. I can't believe i had never done it up until that point. I would have expected me to easily have a run in with that location considering how accessible it is.
Nonetheless, I escorted the guy out. Then went back, found out i needed the levitate ability, progressed the story far enough to get it, then went all the way back to get it.
With this playthrough i'm not rushing through as much either. As such i've found so many references to Alan Wake that i just missed on my first playthrough. Such as this page with a narration by the man himself. There's also a Coffee Thermos and a few pages describing people going through events similar to Alan's Dreams.
I also found out i can pick up the projectors. There's nothing interesting about this, i just thought it was cool. I feel like a lot of games would just tie the projectors down rather than rendering a whole extra thing for rotating them and such. It was pretty cool.
I made my way through the whole Ordinary AWE site and i'm about to head over to the Research wing to mess with the projectors. This was about the point i remember last time getting too before the last "push" and finishing the main game. So i may very well finish it tomorrow and move back to the DLC.
I can confirm you do not NEED the levitate ability
I enjoy trying to get to places that game designers don't want me to go, even if I'm supposed to come back to something later. I WILL try to climb on everything. It's how I became the first person in my friend group to find all the collectible items in Destiny, and the first one to get to the top of that one mountain in the social space.
I legit thought it was just part of the challenge to get to the anchor fight with just jumping and boosting. I had to stack some things with telekinesis but I made it!
I get levitate first now. It was MUCH harder without it...
But it's a pretty cool ability, so you should get it anyway.
As I said, I get it first now since the fight is so much harder without it.
Levitate also feeds my desire to C L I M B