HIGH Getting the hang of semi-automated synthesis!
LOW The second-to-last goal is a punishing slog.
WTF So that’s what’s going on with Pamela? I have so many questions!
HIGH The main character’s super-adorbs teddy bear avatar.
LOW Spending half an hour looking for a key that blended far too well into the background.
WTF Is gore-porn a genre tag I can add?
HIGH The bouncy house/missile dodge level is a classic.
LOW A central mechanic is broken.
WTF Wait, I can just go over this wall of lasers? Awesome!
A new entry in the ‘dour and grave’ subgenre of action/adventure games, A Plague Tale: Innocence takes players back to medieval France, when everything was filthy, war was an ever-present threat (and perhaps not coincidentally) a horrific disease was killing people by the millions. Whatever else can be said about the game, it comes by its ominous tone honestly — the setting doesn’t really allow for anything else.
HIGH Finding an enemy that made saving my single .50cal bullet worthwhile.
LOW An AI hiccup making enemies forget to fight each other and gang up on me instead.
WTF Weren’t you shot in the head last game?
HIGH Well, thank heavens I picked the right one last time.
LOW One last set of major graphical glitches.
WTF I wasn’t expecting to run into you in this dream-state!
HIGH Using a magnum kill a licker by shooting through a zombie’s head.
LOW The stories don’t match up?
WTF You are inappropriately flirty given the situation, Claire.
HIGH Using the ultimate secret sword to make short work of the final boss.
LOW This is a swordfighting game. Why is there a flying boss?
WTF How did they not remove the beholders that steal souls and drain experience?
HIGH Homura’s final battle.
LOW Not even Jasmine stopped by?
WTF One menu screen focuses on someone trying to teach themselves to smile.
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