Is anyone else not clicking with the writing of this game? Im really enjoying the wider story and the gameplay in general but I'm really struggling with the banter and "in-between" dialogue.

I really wanted to love this game. I absolutely loved A Plague Tale: Innocence and Requiem, so I had very high expectations going into Resonance. Unfortunately, this game was a huge disappointment for me.

The biggest problem for me was the repetitive gameplay. There are way too many repetitive puzzles, followed by the same pattern of soldiers attacking you over and over again. After a while, it started feeling like I was doing the same thing repeatedly just to move the story forward. I don't remember Innocence and Requiem feeling this repetitive. Even the combat system didn't feel satisfying.

I also really missed the rats. They were such an important part of what made the first two games unique. The atmosphere, the fear of the rats, and the way the environment interacted with them were a huge part of the identity of A Plague Tale. Without them, the game just didn't feel the same to me.

What I loved about the first two games were the characters Lucas, Roderic, Mélie, Arnaud. Here, all the characters felt weak, I couldn't connect with any of them and honestly couldn't stand most of them. When Leni and Farro die, the game clearly wants you to feel devastated, but I simply didn't care.

The same problem applies to Ariadne. The game clearly expects us to sympathize with her and understand her motivations, but I personally couldn't. Her actions caused destruction and suffering to the citizens, yet the game still seems to push us toward feeling sorry for her. I kept thinking about the consequences of what she had done to innocent people, which made it difficult for me to sympathize with her.

The writing has the same issue with its backstories. Sophia had already experienced Macula herself, and she could have been one of the few people who genuinely understood what Hugo was going through. She could have told him she'd experienced similar visions and helped Amicia understand what was happening. Instead, Resonance gives Sophia this huge, important backstory and then expects us to accept that she never once mentions it in Requiem.

By Chapter 10, I just wanted to get through it as fast as possible. I can't believe the same studio behind the first two games created this. In the end, showing Amicia felt like a cheap attempt to hook players for the next entry, but it really just made me miss Amicia and Lucas.

If there is one positive, it's that the visuals and soundtrack were still decent, but good presentation can't save a hollow story and tedious gameplay.

I know some people are going to love Resonance, and that's completely fine. I'm not saying my opinion is objectively correct. But personally, I can't believe the same studio that made the first two games made something that feels so disconnected from what made those games special.

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Hey everyone. I actually found out about Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy through a popular Indonesian YouTuber. I was so hyped watching him play because I absolutely love history and daydreaming about these settings. But after some episodes, I realized the writing is a complete mess.

The game tries so hard to push "woman power," but instead, they ended up making the female characters look like the dumbest people alive. Here is my deep breakdown of why the story fails and how better mechanics could have saved it.

1. The "Wannabe Sparta" Sophia & Cringe Lore

The game sets up a world where almost all the main authority and troop figures are male (Alec, Ezra, Faro), and the leads are female. That’s fine, but the execution is awful. Sophia has this legendary lineage as Alec's daughter and Ezra's student, yet she has zero strategy. Once Faro takes her Minoan book, she becomes completely useless—exactly like when Tony Stark took away Peter Parker's suit.

Instead of a cool plot where Sophia has to race Faro's team by using her memory, wit, and risking traps to show an imperfect but growing character, she just becomes a "Wannabe Sparta." She solo-rushes 90% of the enemies. Even with the Theseus armor, it looks cool in gameplay but feels incredibly cringe in the story. Her whole attitude is just: "I see enemy, I kill, easy." No thinking, no planning.

1. The "Ice Age Girl" Who Doesn't Know Fire Exists

Sophia is my crush in this game, but the writers made her look so dumb. The game's monsters hate light. Historically, people in that era loved burning things down. Yet, Sophia never once thinks about making a fire torch or using light to fight back. It’s as if she’s an ice age girl who doesn't even know fire exists.

The game completely wasted the mechanics here:

The Light Orb Waste: The orb shines in three colors, but the white light only reflects sunbeams instead of being an independent mechanic. It should have had a battery percentage that requires players to find sunbeams to recharge it.

The Flame Torch & "Sniff" Mechanic: Since the game takes place underground, Sophia 100% deserved a Flame Torch mechanic. When the monster does its "sniffing" animation, it should create an air current/wind. The gameplay should force Sophia to crouch and shield the flame from dimming out. If it dies, you have to scrounge for items to relight it while hiding.

Fire Arrows: Since enemies use bows, Sophia should have been able to scavenge arrows from the ground or dead bodies, combine them with materials, and light them using her torch to create strategic fire arrows.

1. #JusticeForLeni - The Most Useless Character Ever

Then we have Leni the cutie. She is written so poorly. She claims to be a master smuggler/thief, which should imply agility, high IQ, or quick wit. Instead, she has no brain, moves slow, and gets caught by Faro’s team like a total amateur.

Why is she even there? The game doesn't let us switch to Leni to utilize her small frame to squeeze through tight ruin spaces, solve agility challenges, or pickpocket enemies to steal hard-to-get items. They benched her potential completely.

Conclusion

Asobo Studio spent millions on gorgeous graphics but completely threw away how the daughter of Alec should handle betrayal, trauma, and the teachings of Ezra. They replaced deep psychological survival with mindless solo-rushing. The game is a visual masterpiece, but narrative trash.

What do you guys think, feel free to give your opinion and correct me if im wrong. Im sorry if my words pretty harsh and hurt anyone <3

Have not finished the game yet but at chapter 12 (right after Faros dies).

From what I gather with story so far:

1. You as child gets injected illegally with substance to trigger visions when your dad dropped you off or found you after losing you?

2. You have visions - your dad and his gang's goal is to defeat whatever is on the island to cure you and/or enticed by the treasures from your vision. I guess they are assuming you are "dying" because of the black vein?

3. Your dad's gang now KNOWS the dangers on the island and repeatedly goes on expeditions to save you, with some (faros/irene) still clinging on that there's some treasure at the end of the road.

4. You are throwing a tantrum because Faros/Dad wouldn't bring a kid/teen to a dangerous island and just lie to them that you don't see visions anymore?

5. Now you are on the island and complaining how you want out of the island and blame Faros for the situation?

6. And the woman you see flashback with, is trying to expose her dad and maybe incite a rebellion and/or fix the impending doom that will befall the island. Maybe more on this in last chapters. But it doesn't seem like the brightest of ideas... plus her dad i guess is dumb too.

I feel there are so many dumb assumptions by chars or plot holes like "no one talked" about the dangers on the island? Like Faros literally mentioned he "seen it all" and seemingly bypassed every door/puzzle that you had to use your orb on EXCEPT the door you had to use the bracer on? I guess you do need to orb for the light weapon but it is just kinda wild.

Any clarifications to my understanding of this?

You stab the guy like 30 times during that fight and then they just sit there and calmly talk, like nothing happened. They don't even breathe heavily. Not to mention they go from being enemies to death, cutting each other with steal, to working together in matter of seconds, without any major reason other than... being tired? Wtf was that :D I know you cannot overthink or sometimes even think in videogames, but this was pretty weird and immersion breaking in a game, that goes for serious and grounded tone (be it with unnatural elements). And there were so many such moments, where the game lost any sense of logic. Like when you spent solving multiple puzzles and opening multiple doors in order to solve your way into ancient "impenetrable" temple, only for enemies (without necessary key) to just appear out of nowhere in the middle of a that place in every other room. Using exit fire staircase, I guess.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying hard to find an excuses to find a dirt on it. I just find some of it really missing any sense in very distracting way. I wonder, if anyone else noticed these "game illogics" as well.

edit: what a pointless post, huh? I got to much free time :)

LensDistortion aka chromatic abhorration is the worst one and the only one, that can be disabled in-game.

If you have PC strong enough to run with native FSR/DLAA or ultra Quality TAA at 4k, I also recommend disabling sharpening (Sharpen).

It's not really a super worked and thought through theory, just something I came up with while scrolling through Reddit after finishing the latest game. We know that Hugo and Amicia come from a noble family, as well as Ariadne and Asterion being from a royal family. Unfortunately I do not remember if Baslilius and Aelia came from a noble family, but if not then this theory is pretty much worthless lol. Still I think it would be an interesting touch if only those that came from families that had power would be the Macula's targets.

Hear me out people I am a big Plague Tale fan and thought about a concept for the modern teaser at the end of Requiem. It's just the baseline idea but if you like it pls help me so that Asobo will see this one day!!

​A Plague Tale: ECHOS

​Premise:

• The Protagonists: You play as Allegra, a resilient young woman in a hyper-modern metropolis, desperately trying to protect her baby brother—the new Carrier of the Prima Macula.
• The Antagonist: A ruthless, modern pharmaceutical conglomerate (the modern incarnation of the Order) that wants to weaponize the baby’s blood.
• The Threat (Urbans Swarms & Blackouts): In the modern era, the rats are smarter and more aggressive. They infiltrate subways, sewers, and power grids. They intentionally chew through high-voltage cables, plunging entire skyscrapers, malls, and city districts into instant, terrifying blackouts. When the lights go out, the modern world turns into a pitch-black death trap where only the terrifying sound of millions of claws remains.
• The Gameplay: Allegra uses modern survival tech (tasers, drones, flashbangs), but when the power grid fails, electronics become useless. She must rely on ancient methods of light and fire to survive.

1. The Link: Macula Visions

The Prima Macula acts as a dark, transcendental network across time. The baby brother experiences feverish trances where he can see and interact with the past.

• The Ghost of the Past: Through the baby’s visions, the siblings connect with Amicia de Rune in the 14th century. Amicia is older, scarred, and lonely, spending her life hiding clues and trials for the future Protector.
• Echo Communication: The baby can speak to Amicia across time. She hears him as a "whisper in the wind" or a vision by her campfire. She comforts him and guides him on how to resist the Macula so he doesn’t suffer Hugo’s tragic fate.

1. Core Feature: Dual-Timeline Puzzles

This connection is not just narrative—it is a core gameplay mechanic:

• When Allegra and her brother are trapped by an impassable, centuries-old barrier or ruin in modern-day Europe, the brother enters a trance.
• The player instantly switches control to Amicia in the 14th century at that exact physical location.
• You play through Amicia’s timeline to change the environment (e.g., locking a door, leaving a specific tool behind, or carving a hidden symbol into the stone).
• Switching back to the modern era, the path is now open for Allegra.

The Emotional Core:
Allegra is not alone. Through the ruins and the baby's mind, Amicia acts as a cross-generational mentor. Her message to Allegra is simple but devastating: "I couldn’t save my brother, but I spent my entire life making sure you could save yours."

At the start, when you're in the city ,they say something like "they left us cloth to make it easier to navigate" but then later on, after opening the gate ,being like "oh we are first people to step in here in last Hundreds of years" then two rooms down she goes "oh another one of our cloths" or something, makes no sense unless I misunderstood something.

I played the majority of the game thinking from the start that Leni was the traitor. So up until she got her leg snapped I didn’t give a damn how she felt about anything. Which then kinda had me less attached to her by the time she got petrified and we could burn her out of her misery. Overall though the game was phenomenal.

They released Resonance and still left Requiem on a cliffhanger, expecting the next upcoming game to take place 800 years into the future with a new Macula spread, but instead we get Tomb Raider/Uncharted with the new game?

I just finished Resonance and I just cannot believe they dropped another banger! These games are so damn good i cannot gush enough

I haven't even played Resonance yet, I've just been listening to the album while I work. 'The Land', 'Patera', 'Call of the Ancients', 'The Trials', 'To Our Parents' -- such gorgeous, rich and varied work. Between The Flight's score for Assassin's Creed: Odyssey, Ludwig Göransson's earthy, thorny soundscape for Nolan's Odyssey and now Olivier going sicko mode, fans of Ancient Greece are dining so well

I’m not MASSIVELY far into Resonance so no spoilers but right at the start as Sophia enters the carnival there’s a young girl and a little boy holding hands in masks making conversation and their voices sound super similar to the Derune siblings, is it a cameo from the actors or just a coincidence with VAs who sound similar?

Edit to explain: I don’t mean the characters they play, I mean the actors themselves. I know Amicia and Hugo don’t appear.

power went out when game was saving my checkpoint so the slot was corrupted.

Can anyone please give me the save file of the chapter 10?

Thanks!

I've been hearing mixed things on this game, and I usually buy APT games at full price, but I always regret it because months later it's always 12 bucks. Is this a must have game to play right now, or is it worth waiting on?

This is a really great game, but it has terrible stuttering issues that need to be fixed immediately. I don't want to complete it with all these stutters, especially on Game Pass."

Honestly? I'm using all my screenshots as wallpapers.