In fact, volume options and brightness are the only options… One thing I thought was odd, though, is that when you’re given the chance to choose what to say, there’s a timer running down as you decide - but making no choice is not an option. The game at least makes you attempt an event once before allowing you to go into Story Mode, it’s not an available option from the menu. So, “I” shot the centre of the cursor which was less satisfying, but I do at least appreciate a good easy mode - I like to cheat in single player games. Luckily, Star Trek: Resurgence has what they call Story Mode, so if you keep failing an event you can press a button and temporarily (I think just the one time?) the event will automatically clear. Each attempt moved it a little further away from the item I needed to shoot, so not only was I unable to move the cursor, but even if I managed it I’d wind up shooting the wrong thing! I tried it about 10 times, and by attempt number seven I realised that my target was moving. Except the cursor wouldn’t move up - it moved down, but it needed to go up - so I kept failing the event. I had to move the cursor and press a button when the cursor was in the centre, simple, I’d done it a dozen times by that point. The most egregious graphical glitch came during a quick time event - which I kept failing. You can’t exit menus by pressing a button, you have to scroll to the “exit” option, which seems like a strange oversight? Then we have the graphical glitches where people aren’t touching the things they’re holding, or their head disappears before everything else when transporting. Next are the controls which move too quickly, too slowly, or are just weird, because there’s no vibration at all despite the game being designed to use a controller even on PC. But multiple times the subtitles were missing, so if you need them to play the game, it seems like sometimes nobody is talking even when asked a question. I’m used to them not always matching what was said, because another take sounded better than what was written. Let’s start with the subtitles, which were off by default. I can get over nitpicks like the ion storm being the wrong colour, the replicator using the transporter sound effect, and some of the plants having no transparency layer so they had black borders… Stuff like that can be fixed in a patch, and I can just get over the green storm. However, you may be one of those people who checks out the score first and wonder, “if I loved the story, why that score”? Unfortunately, it’s a lot of little things that snowballed into really harming how good Star Trek: Resurgence is. What follows is a true Star Trek plot, and genuine kudos to the writers of this game because it features peace talks, phaser fights, beings with abilities as unto a god, ship battles, scanning, transporters… I don’t want to give too much away, and in fact just deleted a sentence of Star Trek stuff that was potentially spoilery for this game. Also, there’s a particularly nasty ion storm making travel a bit difficult. The ship needs to pick up an ambassador and get over there, as one of the worlds supplies a healthy amount of the dilithium that the Federation uses. The Resolute’s current mission is to broker peace talks between two worlds. You’re given the general gist of it, but I recommend checking it out, it’s a good introduction to the crew, and believe me there are worse Star Trek comics out there. As the game begins, the Resolute is finishing up a major refit following the events of the prequel comic tie-in published by IDW Comics. You also play as Petty Officer Carter Diaz, a member of the engineering team who has been on the ship for a while. Set in the year 2381 - a few years after the USS Voyager returned home - you play as Commander Jara Rydek, the new first officer on the USS Resolute (NCC-92317), a Centaur-class science vessel. There’s a shorthand way to describe the type of game, but I’m here to talk about what developer Dramatic Labs created. You know, the story will be tootling along in front of you when suddenly there’s a quick time event and you need to phaser a rock, then choosing whether you insult someone’s mum or compliment their haircut. Star Trek: Resurgence is a narrative adventure game, or as I like to call them, a visual novel with extra steps. Star Trek has a rich history of great stories over its almost-60 year history, so it’s curious how it’s taken so long for videogames based on the franchise to be set in the adventure genre. Reviews // 22nd May 2023 - 3 months ago // By Andrew Duncan Star Trek: Resurgence Review
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