History VideoGame / Resonance

* HeyItsThatVoice: To those familiar with other Wadjet Eye Games productions, many voices are recognizable.
** One of the game's selling points was that [[VideoGame/{{Bastion}} Logan Cunningham]] voiced Detective Bennett.
** Two [=NPCs=] (Ozzy and Officer Johnsen) are voiced by Chris Niosi AKA [[WebAnimation/{{TOME}} Kirbopher]].

** This is explored throughout the game: [[spoiler:Anna being killed before she can make the choice, the Eleven Foundation's master plan, the fact that the game rewinds when you fail a timed puzzle, etc... all refer to how [[YouCantFightFate we cannot truly defy fate]], how we never really have free will, and that every choice and event in life is always calculated and controlled by an unseen force.]]

* [[spoiler:TheChessmaster]]: [[spoiler:Both Ed and The Eleven Foundation, the former towards his four companions and the latter to Ed and the rest.]]

*** [[spoiler:What's worse about this ending is that, even though the Eleven Foundation's leading members end up becoming the world's most wanted criminals, the allegations have caused nations worldwide to distrust each other, [[NiceJobBreakingItHero and that in a time when peace treaties were about to be signed everywhere]].]]

** Two [=NPCs=] (Ozzy and Officer Johnsen) are voiced by Chris Niosi AKA [[WebAnimation/TOME Kirbopher]].

** Two NPCs (Ozzy and Officer Johnsen) are voiced by Chris Niosi AKA [[WebAnimation/TOME Kirbopher]].

* [[spoiler:DeathByFlashback:]] Anna is the only character amongst the four that has flashbacks to her childhood, and some serve as clues to the mystery. [[spoiler:Guess what happens to hear at the end of the second act.]]

* TheNicknamer: Not to the typical degree, but Bennett relies on these from time to time, such as "Sugar" for Anna, and "Jimmy" for Ray[[hottip:*:As in, "{{Superman}}'s Pal JimmyOlsen"]].

** That's the [[MonkeyIsland second biggest monkey wrench]] Detective Bennett has ever seen.

[[caption-width-right:337: Funny story - no matter what choices you make in the game, [[CoversAlwaysLie you will never see this image.]][[note]] Left to right: Ray, Anna, Ed, and Bennet.[[spoiler: Not all of them will make it.]][[/note]]]]

In the aftermath of a Resonance-related tragedy, Ed, Dr. Morales' research assistant, Anna, a doctor and Morales's niece, Ray, a [[IntrepidReporter journalist]] and Bennet, [[CowboyCop a detective]], are brought together to uncover the secret of Resonance before the more "explosively minded" do first.

* ButThouMust: When Bennet asks what's going on at the hospital, trying to let him in on it will lead to Anna interrupting Ed before he can speak (at this point they're not sure if they can trust the police).

* CowboyCop: Bennet, which is made obvious during his introduction, where he violates orders to track a suspicious person down.

* FirstNameBasis: [[spoiler:During the prelude to the final confrontation with Ed, Bennet refrains from addressing Ray as "Jimmy", much to the latter's pleasant surprise]].

** Choleric - Bennet, a no-nonsense, driven detective.

** Lesser of Two Evils ending: Alternatively, [[spoiler:Ray can be sympathetic to Ed's cause and agree to help him destroy Antevorta - but Detective Bennet and several hospital patients die, and it's not clear how much damage has actually been done to the Eleven Foundation.]]

* TheNicknamer: Not to the typical degree, but Bennet relies on these from time to time, such as "Sugar" for Anna, and "Jimmy" for Ray[[hottip:*:As in, "{{Superman}}'s Pal JimmyOlsen"]].

* PrivateEyeMonologue: Bennet introduces himself with one of these. [[WhatCouldHaveBeen That's the only time he does it, though.]]
* RedHerring: [[spoiler:Detective Bennet is not the traitor. The seemingly incriminating letter he drops is about something else]].

* TheReveal: Approximately two-thirds through the game, after you locate [[spoiler: Dr. Morales' hidden vault]], Anna is given the choice whether to save or destroy the research, [[spoiler: only for Ed to shoot her in the head, reveal himself to behind the murder of Dr Morales, and try to kill Ray and Bennet]].

* WildCard: [[spoiler:Ray. He can choose to support either Bennet or Ed in the final confrontation, and if he chooses the former Bennet leaves it up to him if he want publish the truth about the The Eleven Foundation and potentially bring both of them in trouble, or just delete the article and walk away]].

* RedHerring: [[spoiler: Detective Bennet is not the bad guy]].

** New World Order endings: At the end of the game, you [[spoiler:kill Ed with the resonance technology, and Ray gets to choose whether to post an article exposing the Eleven Foundation or drop the charges to go back to his normal life. If he does, the organisation initially succeeds in getting the US government to adopt Antevorta, but their victory is short-lived as they are ultimately exposed, but the two heroes are still on the run; if he doesn't, Antevorta is taken on by every nation in the world, just as the Eleven Foundation wanted.]]

** [[spoiler: Also happens to the Eleven Foundation, courtesy of Raymond Abbot, if the player so chooses. They manipulated him so the AbbotPost could become a reliable news source. But because of Ed's betrayal, they also had to reveal themselves to him, providing enough information to expose them. Normally, as Ray says, nobody would have listened to a mere blog written by an independant journalist. But since he exposed several scandals before...]]

TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture, Dr. Morales has figured out the final calculations to unlock a brand new form of energy - ''Resonance''. By separating and storing the two subparticles of an electron, then releasing them, the resulting collision of particles releases an explosion of clean, reusable energy. The further the separation, the more power.

In the aftermath of a Resonance-related tragedy, Ed, Dr. Morales' research assistant, Anna, a doctor, Ray, a [[IntrepidReporter journalist]] and Bennet, [[CowboyCop a detective]], are brought together to uncover the secret of Resonance before the more "explosively minded" do first.

[[spoiler: * StraightGay: Bennett is implied to be gay and to have been involved with a fellow officer who was forced out of his job after being outed by a reporter. This explains his letter and his mistrust of Ray.]]

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* ChekovsGun: The [[spoiler: database "Antevorta"]] pops up at the beginning, before being mostly forgotten in all the Resonance-related shenanigans. Turns out they're pretty closely linked...

* WildCard: [[spoiler:Ray. He can either choose support Bennet or Ed in the final confrontation, and if he chooses the former Bennet leaves it up to him if he want publish the truth about the The Eleven Foundation and potentially bring both of them in trouble, or just delete the article and walk away]].

* TheNicknamer: Not to the typical degree, but Bennet relies on these from time to time, such as "Sugar" for Anna, and "Jimmy" for Ray[[hottip:*:As in, "{{Superman}}'s Pal Jimmy Olsen"]].