All the while they have to evade the Inquisition’s hunters and packs of rats that have seemingly overrun the country.Īnd this is where I have to address what really bugged me about the game.

It soon becomes clear that the world they know has fallen prey to some sort of plague, and they do their best to stay alive and find help for Hugo, whose sickness is progressing. The soldiers butcher everyone except the children, who manage to escape. One fine day, then, the Inquisition – not sure when this is supposed to take place, it is a fantasy tale, after all, but it does look like roughly 14th century, maybe? – stop by their holdings, looking for Hugo. She is much closer to her father than her, that is for sure. Hugo, an adorable five year old, is carrying a sickness that prevents him from participating in their family’s life and it also keeps their mother by his side most of the time, much to Amicia’s annoyance. And while I have yet to play the latter to the end, the very first episode gave me more of an emotional connection with these two brothers than the entire A Plague Tale: Innocence-story did. It is a classic setup and I could not help but compare the journey to Life Is Strange 2. Set in France, we follow the de Rune siblings Amicia and Hugo as they try to make sense of a world gone mad.

Visually, the game is extremely beautiful. While it has a lot going for it, there were a couple of things that rubbed me the wrong way. So, A Plague Tale: Requiem is coming out this year – not for PS4, though – and so I very recently decided to finally have a go at Asobo Studio’s A Plage Tale: Innocence, to satisfy my curiosity and despite my misgivings, that prevented me from playing this critically acclaimed game earlier.

Instaling A Plague Tale: Innocence