A Plague Tale: Innocence (PS4)

I LOVE amicia and hugo's relationship. And you feel so strong at the end

Challenging and strategic. Exactly what I hoped for.

I picked up this game during quarantine and I don't regret it. Had an outstanding storyline. You really get emotionally involved with the characters, and I love the era it took place in. The only reason why i'd give it 4 stars instead of 5 is because I felt that there wasn't quite enough combat with enemies. I typically prefer more weapon choice, and unfortunately with Amicia, you only get to use the slingshot. It's pretty entry level although you can adjust the level of difficulty! I'd still recommend, it didn't disappoint.

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So after hearing all the praise for A Plague Tale: Innocence, I decided to take a chance and try it out. This is an extremely well made third-person stealth action game by a studio that seemed to have come out of nowhere. You'll be playing the role of Amicia de Rune in 14th century France. After returning to her family estate on a hunt with her father, she then visits her sickly brother but not after the French Inquisition attacks and her and her brother Hugo are on the run to survive. You're quickly shown the ropes at this point and learning about basic mechanics like taking cover, when to leave cover to sneak past enemy paths, & using distractions to your advantage. Afterwards you'll also get access to Amicia' sling for puzzle solving and combat. Once combat comes around, you need to know that for the most part it's a one hit kill for you. Most of the time you want to rely on stealth but if you use your dodge and aim quickly, you should be fine early on to take out enemies. This will only work for a time until enemies start to use more armor and other tools to counter these tactics. Luckily for you, you'll get access to different ammo types and upgrades for your equipment if you have enough resources to craft them. Puzzles aren't too difficult and if you happen to get stuck, try to find anything shiny to hit or even reload a checkpoint if your not sure what your goal is. Visually the game looks amazing, Asobo Studios has used the same middle ware solution as Resident Evil 8 known as Quixel Megascans as well as motion capture for character movements. Small details like the correct sheen on a leather belt to individual strands of hair when examining the hair styles on many people. A minor thing I noticed was that facial animations aren't as good as the cut-scene during game-play, there is proper lip syncing during dialogue but nothing else animated on their faces. It tends to have a poker-face effect if you stop & look too closely. The elephant in the room that I haven't mentioned yet are the rats. A Plague Tale takes place during the outbreak of the bubonic plague, also known as The Black Death. The game adds a supernatural flair to these rats and they can number literally in the thousands in real time across a level. Getting caught in any part of the rat horde is basically instant death. Using your wits to escape the rat horde or use them to take out your enemies can be the difference of keeping most of your resources or barely scraping by for a while. Audio is quite good with the mo-cap actors also handling voice acting. I was genuenly surprised on how good it was after finding out they used child actors for the main roles, it can be hit or miss using child actors with any kind of medium and I think they did a great job. Sometimes the writing for character dialogue can be kind of weird though, not sure if its trying to be historically accurate or translation quirks but sometimes it sounds strange. A Plague Tale: Innocence is well worth your time but it can feel like a bit of a slow burn at times. Play at your own pace and enjoy the ride, it's quite the adventure.

The characters annoy me so much, if one of the other characters gets in Amicia's way she won't do anything even if you try everything possible to get her to do something she won't move. When you try and kill the guards she just stands there with her sling in her hand doing nothing. Lucas for some reason has a death wish and keeps walking into a group of rats for no reason or he will just stand right outside of a lit area and die. Hugo starts talking to Amicia who is nowhere around and hasn't said anything and Amicia will start moving on her own towards the rats even if you don't have the controller in your hand. This game sucks and I hate that I bought it.

This was a great game. It wasn’t “open world“ which to me was a good thing. There were places to explore but you’re more or less restricted in the paths you take. This is not a wild action game. There’s certainly tense moments, but it’s all about stealth...one hit and you’re dead. The setting for this game was amazing. Having the game take place in the mid-1300s lent it such character and the graphics are top notch. There’s some gory stuff in this and it looks amazing. You feel like it’s a movie sometimes. I’d definitely recommend it. At this point, it’s been out for a while so you’re not even paying full price for a cool as hell game.

I really enjoyed this game! Great story, great puzzles, lots of myself and others getting eaten by rats. I was looking for something sort of like Last of Us and this was awesome on its own.

Één van de beste games ooit gespeeld. Je verwacht het niet maar je wordt het spel ingezogen!

Il genere dei survival horror con protagoinista femminile quasi indifesa era un po' morto, quindi questa e' una entry sicuramente valida assieme a Remothered. Le prime due ore di joko sono state un po' frustranti, praticamente un tutorial di due ore dove il precorso e' obbligato e le abilita' del personaggio mancano ancora, ma poi si scopre quanto il joko proceda sempre con piu' divertimento e con sempre piu' interesse per la storia... Peccato non poterlo rifare con tutte le abilita' sbloccate, resta comunque l'interesse di rigiocare per fare percorsi alternativi nelle mappe piu' spaziose o tentare abilita' diverse in certe situazioni critiche ... Notevolmente bella e originale la storia a mio avviso!!

In love with this game. The game graphics and voice acting are so nice. I have uploaded Intro of this game on my YouTube channel ‘The Johns Gaming’ Feel Free to visit my channel and subscribe for more videos and gameplays . Cheers

اللعبه خرافيه واحداث و التصوير وطريقه القتال تجنن وحماس

Please support games like this from indie studios. After reading a few reviews, the premise for the game and watching a few segments from Youtube, I decided to check this game out. And it’s one of the best decisions I could make! The game starts off slow, but it does a beautiful job of showcasing the environment and slowly introduces us to the two main characters, Amicia and Hugo. From there, you start to see their relationship forming and both characters grow which is believable and the actors providing the voices are superb in their roles. The game itself is beautiful, showing historic France through a dark time, even in its really gritty environments it’s kind of hard not to admire the art on show here, there’s something so very ominous and morbid about the beauty of the scenery. And as for gameplay, it’s more stealth based and very much a linear experience. Coming off of today’s always online games or open world games it’s so refreshing to have a consistent linear story as your not having to travel from across a map to reach the next story segment. The gameplay is simple but the stealth segments are more puzzle based but does a good job as you get from point A to point B to advance the story. Which gets very interesting as you progress. Plague is kind of one of those games that has gone under the radar as it hasn’t been advertised as much as bigger albeit more disappointing triple A titles these days. If your a fan of a compelling story, well thought out characters, a beautiful soundtrack and stealth based gameplay then I cannot recommend this game enough. It’s not terribly long and doesn't have much in the way of replay value once the story has finished or after you earn all the trophies, but these days where single player games are becoming more of an afterthought in favour of always online micro transaction based unfinished models, this game is definitely one of the better ones in recent console generations.