Video game in a quirky dystopia: Where is Trump Tower?

When you walk past Trump Tower in New York's Manhattan district, your fingers can tingle. The many windows would definitely leave a nice pile of shards. In the new game “Control Resonant” I can finally start hammering away in Manhattan.

Think of “Resonant” as if the Avengers met in Christopher Nolan’s “Inception.” The hissing, a paranormal force, was locked up in a government building in the first “Control”, but in the sequel it has spread across the whole of Manhattan.

Since then, skyscrapers no longer tower up, but rather scrape the asphalt. Streets end abruptly at 90 degree angles or in huge craters, which make the opencast mine near Lützerath look like a hole in a sandpit. “Resonant” is as stylish as an A24 film production and therefore stands out from most games.

on Steam/PC, Playstation 5, Xbox Series X/S

The character Dylan Faden is more of a Schluffi type, but has supernatural abilities. The Federal Paranormal Authority takes advantage of this and sends him into the urban canyons to stop the folding and find his sister Jesse.

It's not that easy because the first few minutes of “Resonant” are very confusing. Little by little you open up the world in which there is no longer any up or down.

But the folded Manhattan also tickles the urge to explore: dark red spots on the horizon mean that there are enemies and prey there. I hit paranormal monsters with a hammer, in other missions I return a dog's dinosaur toy and tame runaway speakers. “Resonant” mixes dystopia with the quirkiness of “Twin Peaks.”

By the way, I spent many minutes trying to find Trump Tower to no avail. Luckily there are still a few SUVs on the streets.