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 Establishing the first fully-featured base feels awesome.
LOW The experience is fairly buggy.
WTF All this space age tech, and no simple method to descend into caverns.
HIGH Repeatable outposts.
LOW Forgettable villians in a series known for memorable ones.
WTF The Aurora Borealis? At this time of year? At this time of day? In this part of the country?
HIGH The new, more open areas are beautifully realized.
LOW Getting lost in these areas and wandering aimlessly.
WTF ‘Sacrifishious’ would have been a much better trophy name…
HIGH An excellent game for new dungeon-crawl RPG players.
LOW The pain-inflicting 3D effects.
WTF The amazing and ridiculous Cannon Palm!
HIGH A well-realized story I connected with deeply.
LOW It’s about 10 hours longer than necessary.
WTF The entire game.
Welcome to This Is Not A Review. In these articles we discuss general impressions, ideas and thoughts on any given game, but as the title implies, it’s not a review. Instead, it’s an exercise in offering a quick recommendation (or dismissal) after spending enough time to grasp the ideas and gameplay of a thing without necessarily playing it from A to Z.
The subject of this installment: Pikuniku, developed by Sectordub and published by Devolver Digital.
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 An actual push forward for the series.
LOW It’s short and easy, even when going for high scores.
WTF Only a few of the birds are usable.
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