Decisions, Decisions

HIGH Huge emotional investment. Fat-free design.
LOW My witch’s fate.
WTF Some of the ‘sidequests’ are incredibly easy to miss.
HIGH Huge emotional investment. Fat-free design.
LOW My witch’s fate.
WTF Some of the ‘sidequests’ are incredibly easy to miss.
HIGH I’ve rarely felt this satisfied beating a final boss.
LOW Spending ten minutes lost because an arrow wasn’t visible onscreen.
WTF The shocking number of dead clones left scattered across the map.
HIGH Walking through a ‘Red Sea’ of rats.
LOW The final boss encounter is a complete mess.
WTF Ratnado!
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.
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