Resonance Review - The Digital Fix

Those that follow the torrid torrents of fashion all come to realise that popular styles can rise out of the darkest unfathomable corners and then just as quickly fall back to the depths from whence they came, only to raise their heads again decades later. Gaming trends are no exception to this eternal rule. The Adventure genre once proudly stood as the pinnacle of video gaming, back in the late eighties to early nineties, due almost entirely to the fantastic team at LucasArts at the time. Yet soon the style lost favour among those who pull the strings in the industry and, like the dwindling eighties synth pop bands, it disappeared under waves of generic clones and the rise of gung-ho gaming. 8/10