Objectives
- Leave the Oldest House
- Meet Zoe at the Hotel Building
- Investigate the Alley
- Search for Jesse
- Complete the Ritual
- Find a Vantage Point
- Reach the Source of the Patterning
- Defeat the Artist
Walkthrough step-by-step
1. Leave the Oldest House
Orientation is the first main mission of the game and opens with Dylan leaving his cell in the Downtown Oldest House. Head through the doors marked with green lights beside them. At the locked security gate, step into the room on the left and press the button (L1/LT) to open the gate, then keep going. Optional lore collectibles can be found along the way, though none of them are tied to trophies or achievements. Continue left through the large metal doors to the first elevator and ride it up — your first group of Hiss enemies appears here, alongside basic combat tutorials. Climb the stairs up and around the room, then head into the hallway signed "Thomas Street Exit" toward the exit. Ride the next elevator, then interact with the hole in the wall to get outside.
2. Meet Zoe at the Hotel Building
Once outside, the game gives you no map yet. Head southwest toward the Hotel that the game prompts you to look at. Follow the street fighting off enemies, going right and then left down the alley. After the next enemy group, you pick up your first Secondary Melee form, then continue past another group of enemies. Follow the path up and around the next buildings, using dodge to jump the larger gaps. Keep along the street to its end and speak with Zoe, who is standing before the giant gap.
3. Investigate the Alley
After talking with Zoe, follow her into a nearby alley, then jump across the buildings in the next area while following the trail of birds overhead. Where the birds flow into a window, enter that building and follow the interior path through.
4. Search for Jesse
Inside the room, interact with the TV to be transported to a different area with a platforming path. At the building that looks like a parking lot, go up and interact with Jesse at the far railing.
5. Complete the Ritual
New platforming abilities unlock during this section, so keep moving through the area. You gain the double jump and Elevate (hovering briefly in the air), plus Rush (a short sprint). Use them to traverse to the final TV and interact with it to leave the ritual area.
6. Find a Vantage Point
Exit the interior — a new path opens ahead, so progress along it.
7. Reach the Source of the Patterning
Defeat the enemies blocking the way, then keep jumping across buildings toward the patterned area. Climb the buildings on either the left or the right to jump across to the gallery building at the top of the area. Go inside and, at the back, interact with the door to enter the first boss fight.
8. Defeat the Artist
The Artist is the first Resonance boss and must be defeated to progress. It slides around the arena, throwing cars or waves of rocks. Up close it swings pairs of traffic lights straight down on top of you or across the front — both attacks can be dodged through. There is one main phase transition at the blue dot on its health bar (which also drops healing pickups): the boss floats up in the middle of the arena, so jump up the platforms that appear and strike the glowing spot underneath it to knock it back to the ground. Afterward it mostly repeats the same attacks, except that when it slides, rocks fall from above onto its sliding path — step aside before chasing it. Defeating the Artist puts you in The Gap and triggers a short tutorial on ability upgrades, completing the mission.
Rewards & unlocks
- 1000 x Source
- 1 x Living Shard
- 1 x Reset Item
- Untapped Badge 11-60 Artifact
- Unlocks the ability-upgrade tutorial and the next quest, Welcome to Manhattan.
