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I recently pre-ordered Resonance (largely due to the glowing preview here) on GOG, and I see that people who pre-ordered now have access to an exclusive demo. Has anyone tried it yet? Any comments?

Thanks for the info. I’ll probably try it a bit, but not the full 4 hours, because I don’t want to have to replay all of that.

I’ve played with the demo for an hour or so. And I’m very happy with what I’ve seen. I pre-ordered Resonance last week-end on a whim (I honestly can’t say what drove me to do that, apart from the fact that it was cheap and that the extremely positive tone of Jack’s preview had impressed me). And now, having played a little bit of it, I’m glad I did and I’m eagerly waiting for the full game to be released.

After a short prologue/tutorial, you have to choose in what order to play 4 separate sections, each one with a different character. I made the mistake of starting with one that had a timed puzzle, with a lot of pressure; I was still struggling with the interface at the time and so the whole thing felt pretty frustrating. But I got through it after replaying it once.

But what really impressed me was a section with a character trying to get information form a mysterious company. It’s there that the somewhat-cumbersome interface, with its distinction between inventory, short-term memory and long-term memory, really shines and that I began to glimpse how it could be used to craft fun puzzles. I had an ungodly amount of fun with that whole section (I’ve always been a sucker for computer-hacking puzzles). I especially liked the way the puzzles were crafted: not too hard (I didn’t get stuck), but always asking you to make that little leap of deduction instead of spoon-feeding you everything. They felt tremendously satisfying, and I hope the rest of the game can maintain that level of quality in the gameplay department.

Anyway, I’ve completed 3 of the 4 sections, and watched the introduction to the 4th. I don’t know how much longer the preview is (does it stop after the 4 sections, or is there more?), but I’m forcing myself to stop here and to wait for the release of the full game. And that’s going to be hard, because I like what I’ve seen.

Kurufinwe - 31 May 2012 02:15 AM

Anyway, I’ve completed 3 of the 4 sections, and watched the introduction to the 4th. I don’t know how much longer the preview is (does it stop after the 4 sections, or is there more?)

There’s more. You get to play as two characters at the same time, swapping between them at will (and sometimes making them work together to solve puzzles).

I was really impressed by the game’s intro. It really drew me in - I don’t think I’ve ever seen anything like it in AGS before.

(Full disclosure: I am handling PR for this game.)

I’ve liked what I’ve played so far, but now I’m stuck trying to find a folder and/or a password and I’m stumped! 

Most frustrating because Google is useless!

The public demo is now available to all on the Wadjet Eye Games site.

http://www.wadjeteyegames.com/resonance.html

Played through the demo, definitely liked it a lot.  I do feel that the memory system could get annoying depending on how much you have to keep in your bank, but the story and characters look good, and the retro style is excellent.

I also preordered the game from GOG and played through the preview today. So far it looks like an amazing game. Puzzle difficulty is moderate and there are even a few difficult ones without being frustrating. There was one puzzle which could be solved two ways, puzzles that actually required co-operation between the playable characters, items could be moved between inventories of playable characters and best of all the inventory of short-term memories (where you store memories about items you see in the environment which you can later use as topics of conversation) works amazingly well and feels like a contemporary version of old-school text-parser based conversations where you could actually choose what you wanted to talk about. In short, if the game ends up being as good as the preview, it will be one of the best adventure games this year.
By the way, it seems like the preview version I played is actually much longer than the DEMO. Just out of curiosity, could someone tell me where the DEMO stops?

The demo stops when you find the professor in the burnt out lab.

Castledoque - 14 June 2012 02:31 PM

By the way, it seems like the preview version I played is actually much longer than the DEMO. Just out of curiosity, could someone tell me where the DEMO stops?

Yep, the preview that went out to preorderers is a little longer than the demo that was released to everyone.

It’s out on GOG! I wish they had sent me an e-mail reminder.

Of course, the first thing that greets you when clicking the game’s icon after installing is the AGS configuration dialogue, which promptly crashes when you try to save because stupid AGS is still saving its configuration in the game’s folder and therefore you need to run the thing with administrator rights. Ugh. AGS is my second-most despised piece of software (#1 being the Expression Engine).

Yes, but I think they have a link to a saved game that starts after where the demo ends.