A part of what makes Resonance: A Plague Story Legacy interesting is its stand-alone story. Whereas Asobo Studio‘s new spin-off recreation stars Sophia, a personality launched in 2022’s Requiem, the narrative is ready years earlier than that recreation and bears little connection to it. Unraveling Sophia’s origins in a wholly new story, accompanied by a give attention to motion fight, makes for an ideal entry for newcomers who don’t have any familiarity with previous Plague Story video games. Whereas this might simply be a one-and-done expertise, a post-credits scene adjustments how essential Resonance: A Plague Story Legacy is to the sequence’ future.
Spoilers forward for Resonance: A Plague Story Legacy.
The whole thing of Resonance: A Plague Story Legacy takes place 15 years earlier than the occasions of 2019’s Plague Story: Innocence. When the credit end rolling, nevertheless, we discover out that your complete recreation has taken place inside a story body. Sophia has been recounting the occasions of the sport to an viewers of 1. That particular person is none apart from Amicia de Rune, the protagonist of Innocence and Requiem.
What Resonance: A Plague Story Legacy‘s post-credits scene tells us a couple of third mainline recreation
Amicia’s look instantly tells us that the post-credits scene takes place in some unspecified time in the future throughout the occasions of Requiem. Her haircut and contemporary scar slim down the time even additional, to proper on the finish of that recreation. Requiem‘s remaining chapter has a short while soar that takes place after Resonance‘s post-credits scene (as Amicia’s scar is now healed). It exhibits her and Sophia getting ready to depart on a journey to search out the following service of the plague following the dying of the earlier one who bore that title: Amicia’s brother Hugo. This units up a direct sequel to Requiem.
Requiem, like Resonance, had a post-credits scene of its personal. The quick teaser confirmed a child contaminated with the Macula, the sport’s plague. Audio cues that sound like hospital units counsel the scene jumps centuries sooner or later to a modern-day setting. As in-game lore reveals that the Macula seems in a brand new service roughly each 800 years, that will counsel the scene happens in about 2150. A recreation set after Requiem might deliver the sequence to our near-future.
How Resonance: A Plague Story Legacy‘s post-credits scene teases extra Sophia spin-off video games
The post-credits scene is not nearly Amicia or the longer term. On the finish of their dialog, Amicia asks Sophia how she met Arnaud, one other character from Requiem. Sophia tells her that it’s a lengthy story. Requiem solely vaguely gestures at Sophia and Arnaud’s first assembly, making it the right occasion to base one other potential spin-off round.
On the finish of Resonance, Sophia nonetheless has 15 years till the occasions of Innocence. That’s a whole lot of time by which loads of swashbuckling adventures might play out. Sophia is an interesting character and watching her grow to be the smuggler we all know in Requiem could be the right arc for a sequence of video games. No matter Asobo has deliberate for the way forward for Plague Story, there are a number of thrilling instructions the sequence might go subsequent.
Resonance: A Plague Story Legacy is now out there on PlayStation 5, Home windows PC, and Xbox Sequence X.
