About This Game Follow the grim tale of young Amicia and her little brother Hugo, in a heartrending journey through the darkest hours of history. Hunted by Inquisition soldiers and surrounded by unstoppable swarms of rats, Amicia and Hugo will come to know and trust each other. As they struggle to survive against overwhelming odds, they will fight to find purpose in this brutal, unforgiving world.1349. The plague ravages the Kingdom of France. Amicia and her younger brother Hugo are pursued by the Inquisition through villages devastated by the disease. On their way, they will have to join forces with other children, and evade swarms of rats using fire and light. Aided only by the link that binds their fates together, they will face untold horrors in their struggle to survive.As their adventure begins… the time of innocence ends. 1075eedd30 Title: A Plague Tale: InnocenceGenre: Action, AdventureDeveloper:Asobo StudioPublisher:Focus Home InteractiveRelease Date: 14 May, 2019 A Plague Tale: Innocence Activation Unlock Code And Serial I'm always supportive of when a journeyman developer can come out with a breakthrough project that delivers an uncompromised single-player experience. Having finished A Plague Tale: Innocence, I hope that Asobo can join the likes of Ninja Theory with Hellblade in critical accolades and commercial success for their fantastic effort. While it obviously lacks the polished production values you might find in the Naughty Dog games it's trying to emulate, A Plague Tale makes up for with memorable characters, an involving story, and a lot of "heart," for lack of a better term. The stealth gameplay is mostly competent with the occasional frustrating instafail sequence, the controls aren't always entirely fluid, but really, what you're mostly playing for is the engaging narrative anchored by some great, emotive performances from the two leads. You can tell that this was a project for the studio unmotivated by how many units it would sell, but on crafting a unique single-player experience that people could enjoy. Everybody likes to complain about the current state of AAA gaming with its focus on live services and microtransactions to continually extract money from people, but fewer will actually support truly weird, creative projects like these. I hope people don't make the same mistake for A Plague Tale because it is worth their recognition.. Before I opine on the nitty-gritty of this game, I think an important fact worth mentioning upfront is that this game was developed by around 45 people based in the city of Bordeaux, located at the southwestern region of France known for its wine. Hopefully it would be known for Asobo Studios soon too. On to the review! I told myself I wanted to buy this game the first time I saw its gameplay, which was during E3 2018. Fast forward almost a year later, bought it and came away astoundingly impressed. Three points below justifying it.1) Story was captivating, exploring the interactions being the two siblings Amicia & Hugo as they escape from the protagonists with little to no weapon is rewarding. (Amicia is a teenager and Hugo is just a kid.) It elicits that on the edge of your seat feeling, cause you just don't know what's gonna happen next. So you're playing and playing itching to find out. Even though I've so far finished Chapter 1, I'm already sold. 2) Gameplay was mainly stealth based, so more of using brains than muscles, cause you mainly use a slingshot while making the most of your environment to distract your enemies to prevent detection. Puzzles weren't overly difficult, so you won't need to crack your head figuring it out, a balanced mix I would say.3) This is where it really hits the spot for me, environment + sound. This game pulls you right in the moment you start playing. Oil painting inspired graphics and soundtrack composed specifically for this game takes the immersion to the next level where few developers are able to match. The developers truly done their homework and did their best to simulate medieval France in its dark ages, evident by its grim and hopeless ambience (and hoards of rats) plagued by deadly diseases. You'll just empathize the characters and feel bad for them while wishing for things to turn for the better, even if it's just a modicum of hope. To sum it up, this game is essentially a virtual time machine for me to explore France in its past with all the beauties and riches offered, a truly second to none experience.These aspects already made it a very good game for me, almost perfect actually. But the developers went beyond that because they nailed a few things that other developers, even AAA ones failed, and these are all PC-specific. 1) This game barely has any bugs or technical issues on PC, it's completely playable since day 1!! I know this shouldn't even be a praise cause it's a given that it should be shipped in a workable condition. But it's fair to say that many games nowadays have encountered FPS rate drops, weird glitches and bugs that ruin the experience or just downright crashing making it completely unplayable. So thank you developers for porting PC the right way!2) The controls feel extremely smooth and fluid, controllers are not required at all. I've come to appreciate this because I wanna enjoy PC games the native way, with the duo combination of keyboard and mouse instead of anything else. It's good that Steam supports controllers, but I'd much prefer the traditional PC way. 3) No microtransactions that wanna milk maximum money out of you. So you get what you pay, a really well built game that leaves you wanting for more. Well priced at $45, but I just wish there would be DLCs, would definitely preorder for that. (Fingers crossed!)All in all, this is $45 well spent, especially when all you wanna do is turn on your PC and enjoy a great time. This game is enthralling, exciting and gripping. Serves as a lodestar for other PC games to follow if you wanna have 93% of positive comments (it's 93% as of writing this comment). Asobo Studio, if ever you're reading this comment, thank you so much for what you're doing and pls continue doing it. All 45 of you are thriving and I can't wait to see what you all will have in store next. Be it a new game or upcoming DLCs, I'm down for it. Anyone that's browsing the comments contemplating whether to purchase, it's a resounding yes from me. Gonna be $45 you glad you spent.. Don't care much for writing reviews on a game. Most folks would make up their minds without this. On the slim chance you would take some unknown person's advice- get this game. A great story driven game with wonderful graphics and haunting soundtrack.. Before I opine on the nitty-gritty of this game, I think an important fact worth mentioning upfront is that this game was developed by around 45 people based in the city of Bordeaux, located at the southwestern region of France known for its wine. Hopefully it would be known for Asobo Studios soon too. On to the review! I told myself I wanted to buy this game the first time I saw its gameplay, which was during E3 2018. Fast forward almost a year later, bought it and came away astoundingly impressed. Three points below justifying it.1) Story was captivating, exploring the interactions being the two siblings Amicia & Hugo as they escape from the protagonists with little to no weapon is rewarding. (Amicia is a teenager and Hugo is just a kid.) It elicits that on the edge of your seat feeling, cause you just don't know what's gonna happen next. So you're playing and playing itching to find out. Even though I've so far finished Chapter 1, I'm already sold. 2) Gameplay was mainly stealth based, so more of using brains than muscles, cause you mainly use a slingshot while making the most of your environment to distract your enemies to prevent detection. Puzzles weren't overly difficult, so you won't need to crack your head figuring it out, a balanced mix I would say.3) This is where it really hits the spot for me, environment + sound. This game pulls you right in the moment you start playing. Oil painting inspired graphics and soundtrack composed specifically for this game takes the immersion to the next level where few developers are able to match. The developers truly done their homework and did their best to simulate medieval France in its dark ages, evident by its grim and hopeless ambience (and hoards of rats) plagued by deadly diseases. You'll just empathize the characters and feel bad for them while wishing for things to turn for the better, even if it's just a modicum of hope. To sum it up, this game is essentially a virtual time machine for me to explore France in its past with all the beauties and riches offered, a truly second to none experience.These aspects already made it a very good game for me, almost perfect actually. But the developers went beyond that because they nailed a few things that other developers, even AAA ones failed, and these are all PC-specific. 1) This game barely has any bugs or technical issues on PC, it's completely playable since day 1!! I know this shouldn't even be a praise cause it's a given that it should be shipped in a workable condition. But it's fair to say that many games nowadays have encountered FPS rate drops, weird glitches and bugs that ruin the experience or just downright crashing making it completely unplayable. So thank you developers for porting PC the right way!2) The controls feel extremely smooth and fluid, controllers are not required at all. I've come to appreciate this because I wanna enjoy PC games the native way, with the duo combination of keyboard and mouse instead of anything else. It's good that Steam supports controllers, but I'd much prefer the traditional PC way. 3) No microtransactions that wanna milk maximum money out of you. So you get what you pay, a really well built game that leaves you wanting for more. Well priced at $45, but I just wish there would be DLCs, would definitely preorder for that. (Fingers crossed!)All in all, this is $45 well spent, especially when all you wanna do is turn on your PC and enjoy a great time. This game is enthralling, exciting and gripping. Serves as a lodestar for other PC games to follow if you wanna have 93% of positive comments (it's 93% as of writing this comment). Asobo Studio, if ever you're reading this comment, thank you so much for what you're doing and pls continue doing it. All 45 of you are thriving and I can't wait to see what you all will have in store next. Be it a new game or upcoming DLCs, I'm down for it. Anyone that's browsing the comments contemplating whether to purchase, it's a resounding yes from me. Gonna be $45 you glad you spent.. I don't normally pay full price for games on release, but seeing the marketing for this game had me intrigued. So I treated myself and bought the game ready to install for release. So far I am happy with my decision. 2.5 hours in and I feel like I'm really just getting started with the meat and bones of the story. That's not to say it's a slow start, rather that the character introductions, theme, and atmosphere as so well done and expertly integrated into the game-play that if feels like you're reading a book, watching a movie and playing a game all in one. Not much more I can say really, the strength of this game is in the atmosphere of it, which if you let it will suck you in entirely. Edit. I'm now 6+ hours into the game and the narrative is still going strong, that passed the value for money threshold for me. Also forgot to mention how good the music is.
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