{"id":13390,"date":"2026-08-26T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/?p=13390"},"modified":"2026-08-26T21:37:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T18:07:22","slug":"resonance-a-plague-tale-legacy-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/2026\/08\/26\/resonance-a-plague-tale-legacy-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy Review"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I tend to appreciate risky new ideas over safe sequels, so I was pretty interested to see what the Plague Tale series would be like without its signature tornadoes of man-eating rats. But while Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy makes plenty of intriguing changes, like its focus on a different protagonist and all-new cast of supporting characters, most cause it to fall short of capturing the same magic as its predecessors. This prequel story moves away from rat armies into more ancient, unexplored horrors that don\u2019t live up to the high standards of the series, and its shift from stealthing around as a conflict-averse child to straight up knifing folks to death in melee combat never quite works when the fighting itself is too bare bones to sustain this 12-hour campaign. That said, the simple but entertaining puzzles, gorgeous environments, and tense stealth sections that eventually arrive later on are still mostly worth playing, but this side quest feels like it takes more steps backward than forwards overall.<\/p>\n

Resonance follows the same third-person adventure playbook that you\u2019re probably already familiar with. In the storied tradition of fellow \u201ccrevice crawlers\u201d like Star Wars Jedi: Survivor or God of War, you\u2019ll pass through a series of small combat arenas and puzzle rooms with a companion in tow as you banter with one another and the load-bearing story slowly unfolds. Most of this feels pretty similar to the previous Plague Tale games, with some pretty notable exceptions: Hugo and Amicia have been replaced with one of the supporting characters from A Plague Tale: Requiem, Sophia, and the stealth mechanics have mostly been swapped out for the typical third-person melee combat that\u2019s common in these kinds of games. Unfortunately, like many of its peers, it also does that super annoying thing where characters immediately shout out the solutions to every single puzzle mere seconds after you step into a room \u2013 but thankfully there\u2019s an option to turn that off, which I did immediately and with great prejudice.<\/p>\n

While Resonance\u2019s story is one of its strong suits, it\u2019s still not quite on par with the rest of the Plague Tale series. What starts as an Uncharted-like treasure hunt devolves into a horrifying doomsday scenario that mirrors a lot of the same themes as Innocence and Requiem, but with a cast that gets significantly less care in how they are developed. It\u2019s like they were trying to speedrun through the backstory for Sophia, who was a fairly flat character in Requiem. There, she was a generic outsider with a heart of gold who doesn\u2019t have much of an arc, so Resonance had quite a bit of heavy lifting to do while fleshing her out. It succeeds only modestly on that front \u2013 I definitely knew her better and cared about her more after experiencing her harrowing tale firsthand, but also found myself perplexed by the fact that she still doesn\u2019t have a real character arc, beginning and ending as the same scallywag in pursuit of treasure. That feels a little wrong with the lifetime of trauma I just piloted her through.<\/p>\n

Instead, the ancient history you uncover actually pays off far more than Sophia\u2019s personal journey. The bits and pieces that are revealed through flashbacks unravel the mystery of the long-dead civilization that\u2019s at the center of her treasure hunt, and the characters, twists, and dialogue in these sequences drew me in far more than the hunt itself. By the end, it almost felt like Sophia was just a sidekick along for the ride (like she was in Requiem) rather than the focus.<\/p>\n

The side characters have many of the same issues as Sophia, like Leni, the luck-obsessed pickpocket who tags along but never has anything interesting to say, or Faro, the captain of your pirate crew whose only likable trait is how much of a complete knucklehead he is at every leg of the journey. Despite spending a pretty good chunk of time solving puzzles and chatting with these folks, they never grew on me as much as I\u2019d hoped, even if Faro\u2019s hilariously terrible haircut did make me laugh every time I saw it. That really highlighted how crucially important the relationship between Hugo and Amicia has been in the other Plague Tale games, and this cast doesn\u2019t fill the void all that effectively. They\u2019re not bad per se, but don\u2019t leave nearly as strong of an impression as I\u2019ve come to expect from games that are as focused on the story as this.<\/p>\n

The history you uncover pays off far more than Sophia\u2019s personal journey.\u201c<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

The biggest difference with this prequel spinoff is that instead of creeping around armored enemies you have no chance harming, you\u2019ll be standing your ground with a sword in hand, parrying and dodging about the battlefield and taking out enemies in simple, repetitive encounters. The shift from stealth to all-out combat isn\u2019t the most seamless transition \u2013 not exactly bad, but consistently shallow and sometimes sloppy, with standard light and heavy attacks, a kick to break your opponent\u2019s guard, and just a handful of bad guys with two or three different attacks to learn. So much of the time between its entertaining puzzles is spent in these claustrophobic arenas, but there\u2019s so little depth to combat that it almost immediately felt too one-note to sustain my interest. I mostly just wanted to get these humdrum encounters done with as quickly as possible to get back to the story and puzzles that are a substantial step above.<\/p>\n

You at least have a skill tree you\u2019ll occasionally be able to buy a new perk in, which do things like give you a more powerful kick that knocks people back or gain temporary protection from damage after killing enemies. But these are mostly modest upgrades that help combat go by a little faster without making it any more entertaining. Hilariously, every once in a while Resonance will introduce a new mechanic to shake up the action, like glowing red attacks you can\u2019t parry, only to then offer skill tree upgrades that make it so you can just\u2026 parry those red attacks, functionally removing that new mechanic so combat stays overly straightforward.<\/p>\n

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