A Plague Tale: Innocence explores war, sickness, and the wrath of the French Inquisition
The rats are at the centre of A Plague Tale: Innocence’s gruesome stage. Asobo Studio will tell you its medieval tragedy is about two children trying to survive the black plague that decimated the 14th century - but no, it’s the bloodthirsty rodents who are the stars.
Alright, alright, the non-rat and very human protagonists, Amicia and her brother Hugo, have to journey through war-torn France to escape the mysterious Inquisition, and you follow them on that journey. But they do all this while under grave threat from swarming masses of tiny teeth that devour anything that steps into the dark.
The story of Plague Tale indulges in the darkness of European children’s tales, enough so that, in my write up of the game’s first three chapters, I compared it to a gory medieval fairytale. As Amicia and Hugo continue on their sorrowful adventure into the fourth chapter, I sense the terrors of the game starting to shift. Once strung together by elements of devilish fantasy, it’s turning into historical horror, as the threat of the rats becomes overshadowed by the ghastly acts of human violence and war.
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