Resonance of Fate Enhanced Remaster Story Explained

The narrative of Resonance of Fate Enhanced Remaster is a steampunk story about three mercenaries uncovering how Basel and Zenith manipulate human mortality through quartz stones. Their contracts for ruling Cardinals reveal secret medical trials, broken lifespans, and artificial control over human existence.

In the distant future, humanity faces extinction on a devastated Earth. In an effort to restore the environment, people built a colossal machine called Basel and entrusted it with the cycle of life and death. — the game description on PlayDay.one

What Is the World of Basel and the Zenith System?

Basel is a massive mechanical purification facility constructed to sustain the remnants of humanity on a poisoned Earth. When toxic atmospheric pollution wiped out surface ecosystems, engineers erected the colossal tower to filter air and support human biology. As detailed on the official tri-Ace website, the machine regulates environmental conditions while directly dictating the life cycles of the inhabitants living inside its multi-level districts.

Zenith functions as the autonomous computational core situated at the heart of Basel. To keep humans alive within the contaminated environment, Zenith links each individual life to an external quartz crystal. This crystal grants resistance to environmental toxins, but it ties physical survival directly to the stone. If an individual's designated quartz breaks, that person dies instantly.

Over generations, the descendants of the original builders lost technical understanding of the machinery. The ruling elite at the upper apex, known as Cardinals, converted operational mechanics into religious dogma. Citizens accepted a rigid class structure where social status and exact lifespans are assigned at birth, worshiping Zenith as an omnipotent deity rather than an automated environmental scrubber. Exploring these stratified levels requires clearing hexes through the world map puzzle mechanics.

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Who Are the Three Hunter Protagonists?

The Hunter group is an independent trio of mercenaries operating out of the lower districts of Basel. Rather than serving the church hierarchy directly, they accept freelance odd jobs ranging from retrieving luxury goods to monster extermination contracts across the tower.

• Vashyron – A former soldier who leads the team with a laid-back exterior. Years prior, Vashyron suffered fatal injuries during an encounter with Rebecca, a woman wandering outside Basel who possesses natural immunity to the poisoned surface. Zenith intervened to save his life, leaving him cynical about divine intervention yet protective of his companions.
• Zephyr – A troubled young gunman raised in an orphanage seminary. Driven to violent rebellion against religious teachings, Zephyr went on a shooting rampage before being subdued by Vashyron. Despite taking two direct gunshots to the head during that confrontation, Zephyr survived due to Zenith preserving his physical body.
• Leanne – A young woman designated as Subject #20 in clandestine church experiments. After discovering that her life had an artificial expiration date set for her twentieth birthday, she attempted suicide by leaping from a suspension bridge. Zephyr jumped to intercept her, and both survived the drop when her quartz failed to trigger her scheduled demise.

Their daily routines alternate between comedic domestic chores and high-threat contracts. Progressing through early chapters presents episodic assignments that gradually reveal each member's connection to Cardinal politics, with the option to engage combat at standard pacing or activate 2x game speed for quicker traversal.

How Do the Cardinal Experiments Drive the Plot?

Prelate Frieda envisioned an era where humanity lived independent of Zenith's automated control. Her political popularity among the Cardinals drew fierce opposition from religious hardliners, resulting in her assassination by extremists more than twenty years before the main story.

Her death plunged Cardinal Rowen into severe grief. Another senior official, Cardinal Sullivan, approached Rowen with the operational truth behind Zenith. Sullivan convinced Rowen to test whether humanity could break free from the machine's predetermined lifespans. Together, they initiated clandestine clinical programs using twenty newborn children.

Each infant had their quartz programmed to shatter on their twentieth birthday to observe whether death was absolute. Leanne was the twentieth infant in this sequence. A sympathetic researcher named Juris smuggled Leanne out of the medical facility before her designated execution date. When Leanne reached age twenty, her quartz suffered an internal malfunction, allowing her to survive past the trial parameters. Concurrently, Sullivan studied Rebecca to isolate biological factors behind surface immunity, subjecting candidates like Zephyr to related physiological tests.

Completing missions during this campaign requires managing character setups through the combat system. Equipping suitable weapon combinations determines how efficiently the trio can execute contracts while following the walkthrough.

What Happens in the Ending of the Game?

The climax occurs when Cardinal Rowen experiences an acute crisis of faith regarding his authority over Basel. Rowen holds a specialized control ring linked to Zenith, which grants the wearer administrative authority over the machine's life-support directives. When Sullivan threatens to destroy Leanne's quartz to prove his hypotheses, Rowen shoots Sullivan to see whether a higher divine power will protect her existence.

The Hunter trio confronts Rowen in direct battle. Zephyr, Leanne, and Vashyron inflict fatal wounds upon the Cardinal, but the administrative connection between Zenith and Rowen's ring immediately restores his physical state. Recognizing that continuous violence against an unkillable administrative host is futile, Vashyron calls his team off and departs the chamber.

Following the confrontation, Rowen uses the power of the Zenith ring to resurrect the fallen Cardinals. He then travels to Frieda's memorial site, permanently resting the control ring on her gravestone to relinquish human control over Zenith. Sullivan survives his gunshot wound and reunites with Rebecca in Basel's lower sectors.

In the final scene after the credits, Vashyron, Zephyr, and Leanne step beyond the mechanical perimeter of Basel onto the Earth's surface. The atmospheric pollution has cleared, revealing viable soil and plant life. A close inspection shows Leanne's quartz stone safely embedded inside her hand, confirming that the trio is free from mechanical obsolescence while living on the restored planet. Detailed background worldbuilding can be found across our Basel lore coverage and the game's official details on the Steam store page.

Where does this guide's official Resonance of Fate Enhanced Remaster information come from?

Official details in this guide follow RESONANCE OF FATE official site (tri-Ace), which describes the game in its own words.

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