A Plague Tale: Innocence is a gory medieval fairytale that has bite

The medieval fairytales of the Grimm brothers were strange and gruesome. Stories of children having their hands chopped off, and young women getting their eyes pecked out. One story, called ‘The Ungrateful Son’, tells the tale of a greedy young boy who hides food from his father. As his punishment, a big toad latches itself onto the boy’s face and refuses to let go. The boy is then forced to feed the toad every day for the rest of his life, or else it will get hungry and eat his entire face. As a protagonist, your odds of keeping every part of your body until the last page were low. It was these fairytales I was reminded of while playing Asobo Studios’ game, A Plague Tale: Innocence. It’s a story of two children, Amicia and Hugo, who must survive the black plague in 14th century France. In this rendition of history, the disease has manifested in thousands and thousands of rats, who will swarm to fresh meat and devour anyone who steps into the shadows.

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