Hello everyone, Ric here and this almost slipped me by, but considering my whole channel is
Science Fiction, gaming and star trek, this seems right up my alley! Star Trek Resurgence
was announced recently for PS4, PS5 and the Xboxes, it is a single player story-driven
experience from some of the same people who created the Telltale games, (Dramatic Labs)
and looks to follow similarly in their style of play.
For those who are already lost, Telltale studios produced a bunch of games from a variety of
franchises, the Walking Dead, Game of Thrones, Borderlands and the Wolf Among Us, for example.
Think digital versions of those “choose-your-own-adventure” books. There is a tailored storyline here,
but at frequent intervals you were presented with options that can alter the narrative
somewhat. Just how dramatic a change is still limited by the overall direction the story
needs to move in, but within that framework there is often room for large and small consequences
to your input. In the past, these were released in a chapter format over several months, and
I wonder if it will be the same here. From details shared on their website, the
storyline is going to follow two main characters, which you switch between, guiding both their
narratives, and if I had to guess, one would be this Non-commissioned operations division
officer Carter Diaz, while the other is going to be the first officer, Jara Rydek.
It is set on the USS Resolute NCC-92317, which looks like a Centaur class starship and it
is set in the year 2380, which is why it all looks so similar to the Dominion-war and TNG
film era. This places it before “Lower Decks”, and according to the Picard series books,
before Captain Picard stepped away from the Enterprise to accept promotion to Admiral.
So, it’s in that time where the Federation was still rebuilding after the Dominion, but
before the whole Romulan crisis. As for the narrative, it’s mentioned on
Star Trek’s website that it is going to concern a brewing war between two alien species
(I’m guessing these two), with the Federation vessel caught in the middle. I imagine they’re
trying to play negotiator, as the UFP is wont to do. Now straight up, this story is probably
not going to be considered completely canon, considering that, by its very genre, it has
to have multiple outcomes and choices, but it’s a little corner of a familiar Star
Trek setting to play in, and I’m excited for it.
Gameplay looks to be over the shoulder, but with a lot of variations from shuttle flight,
to phasering and scanning things in the environment, but the appeal in these games for me has been
the characters and tale at play. I imagine as we are taking control of a Bridge officer
and a “lower-decker”, we’re going to get two different flavours of tale here, one
dealing with larger, civilization altering decisions on the bridge, while quieter but
personable choices are made by the crew. This would sort of emulate the episodic shows,
with their A and B plots, running simultaneously and no doubt they’ll interact.
Oh and Ambassador Spock is in it for a cameo. When and where, I’m not sure as this looks
like a Federation starship background and he was dealing with his Romulan Reunification
movement for the majority of his later years, right up until 2387. Still, it’s not like
he was grounded on Romulus, and this is in the wake of the Shinzon Coup of Star Trek
Nemesis,so he could be brought aboard for some reason or another. Maybe he’s here
to lend a hand and inspiring speech in preparation for the Resolute’s mission.
You can bet that when this comes out, I’ll be playing it on this channel, which looks
to be sometime in Spring 2022. So that’s all we have so far. Your thoughts? I think
having played many of these Developer’s games in the past, I sort of know what we’re
in for, the interactive narrative style would work well with Star Trek’s more dramatic
and conversational motivated scenes. Thank you for watching and I’ll see you
later! Goodbye!