Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy

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Latest in each market: best FR #57, worst BR #99 · 13 markets collected

US · last 30 days

Matched by title — a reused name can pair the wrong games. * is a critic aggregate. Prices and positions are each store's United States storefront; Epic charts worldwide. Audience and Score too, except Steam's, which is worldwide.

Hours played at review time, across 1.8K reviews with recorded playtime.

positive critical· bar length = how often the theme comes up

This is a violently OK game. The good: - Runs well. Only hiccups I had were during the "crawl while I load, player" sections, and even then it wasn't bad. No crashes. - The horror sections deserve a lot of praise. The characters react very realistically to the dangers and really sell how horrifying the more supernatural encounters are. It's not just mental breakdowns followed by unnatural courage. Characters will curse, plead, perform breathing exercises and do many other things to try and push forward. It almost made me feel bad for pushing them forward. - Stealth is quite cool, and is the only aspect that doesn't suffer from a very crippling issue the game has, which is funny. More on that later. - Competent acting/voice acting, good graphics, the presentation is amazing. The level design doubly so. - The characters are interesting and diverse. They all had a well defined reason to be in the story and played well off of each other. The meh: - Combat is a strong meh. It feels more like a puzzle where there really is only one right answer most of them time. There is quite a few enemy types but even that didn't keep it fresh till the end for me. It became a constant repeated test of execution. The game borrows from GoW 2018 with normal, yellow and red attacks. This might be biasing me towards negativism, since I really dislike that system. - The exploration is meh. Check "the bad" for more details. - Chase scenes are meh. Same as above. The bad: - The game is SOOOOO RIGID. This the most on rails game I have ever played, apart of maybe on rails shooters. It often blurs the lines between game and movie I am pressing X to. Any time I try something even slightly off script I can feel the invisible hand of the game designer choking me into submission. Try to kick a basic enemy that's attacking? No, hyper armour. Try to run while an NPC gives exposition? I HEAR THE FIRE WRITING MAN, PLS LET ME GO. Try to use the obviously lowered grappling hook when combat (that looked like a chase scene) is happening? Into the drink with you. The mechanics are fun enough for what they are, hence why I didn't absolutely trash the gameplay, but getting kicked in the teeth every single time begins feeling like playing RAW DnD. Except I have a gun to my head that will fire if I don't recite Stealth rules verbatim. Speaking of stealth rules, HOW IS STEALTH the SINGLE MOST RAILROADED mechanic in games like this, NOT HAVING THIS ISSUE? - Base kit deluxe 50 dollar DLC AHH powerups bruh. One "upgrade" just reminds Sophia she has pockets.