THE FUSE

I didn’t see a single rat during my time with Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy. That wouldn’t be worth remarking on in 99.99 percent of game reviews, but 99.99 percent of game reviews aren’t discussing the latest entry in a series that, until now, was set during a fantastical version of the Bubonic Plague. A Plague Tale is the one franchise that promised that, if you bravely ventured along its dimly lit corridors, you would encounter rodents doing stuff you’d never seen rodents do before; devouring the skin off soldiers’ bones like you might clean a chicken wing, moving in waves to wreak havoc on medieval infrastructure, and whirling around in tornadoes at the behest of an evil Catholic priest. As such, it’s a bit surprising that the only time rats are invoked in this spin-off, it’s as an insult directed at you and yours.