A Plague Tale: go play now

Tue, 11 Aug 2020 03:37:00 +0000

Hi again. No politics this time, just a short review.

Earlier this year Steam incentivized me to throw my money on their face due some random special offer, and I got a copy of A Plague Tale: Innocence — also, why not to play a game about pandemic during a real world pandemic. My fellow anon reader, what a game.

A Plague Tale: Innocence is a game developed by a French company called Asobo Studio, released in 2019. The initial setting is already interesting enough: in year 1348, the morbid black death is devastating the European population, killing millions of people of a cruel disease transmitted by fleas living on rats, brought to Europe from eastern of Asia (yes, maybe future China and adjacency). You, the protagonist, is a girl called Amicia de Rune, daughter of some nobles living in old French territories, trying to live peacefully in her mansion. To add insult to injury, the Britons is also invading the region, so soon she is going that life is not some greenish land with rainbows and unicorns. Amicia’s relationship with her mother Beatrice is not that great, and she has a younger brother, Hugo, which is a ill kid since his birth. She also doesn’t have much contact with Hugo, but believe in me, this will be a fantastic starting point.

Then, one day, while walking some fucking beautiful forest (the game is visually breathtaking) with her father Robert and the dog Lion, something (spoilers below), but something very, very bad happens with the adorable dog. It will be just the start of the disgrace that will rain upon de Rune family.

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A Plague Tale: go play now