Resonance

This is by far one of the best games at making you feel at one with the game play. Genius programming and the story line is very good too.

I was curios to play Resonance after I read many positive reviews. Unfortunately the game did not work for me at all. Perhaps I played too much into "classic" games from Sierra, Lucas Arts, and Revolution, so call me biased. The interface is weird and I did not find it friendly and easy to use. Puzzles are too mechanical, plain boring, or just stupid. Can't say anything about the plot because I gave up playing pretty quickly. The entire perception of the game I can describe in one word - retarded.

As a lover of the old POC games like Simon the Sorcerer and Monkey Island, this game gave me life. The only reason I gave it 4 stars instead of 5 was because the mini-games were a downer on the experience.

Mild Spoiler: Killing off main characters in the attempt to pep up a half-baked story with cheap shock effects is one of the worst things a storyteller can do. That's exactly what happens here. At that point I lost interest in the game. Having read the rest of the story on the web I don't think it's really worth it playing to the end. Up to the story failure point it was on ok adventure with some nice puzzles but not really outstanding. The graphics are, well, blocky. Pixel graphics were nice in the time when no higher resolution was available, but today they are more or less an eyesore for me. Text is hard to read and facial details are non-existent. So only play this if you are a die-hard retro-adventure fan with a preference for gloomy stories.

The story was great and smart. I don't want to spoil anything but there was a nice twist I really did not see coming. The kind of twist like in the sixth sense, when you play the game a second time, you go "OMG, it was right there the whole time and I did not see it!" It's retro in it's art style but not too retro in it's gameplay. It tries to innovate in the point-&-click genre with its long and short term memory system. Unlike older games, it can be completed without cheating or getting stuck for months. If you get stuck, you can ask your teammates for advices and it generally put you on the right track without giving away the solution. It helped me a few time. It's not really hard anyway, it will require some logic an thinking sometimes but no crazy random stuff like in monkey island I wish it was a bit longer, but it's always the case with good games :)