A Plague Tale: Innocence (Xsx) - Xbox Series X

Whew. So I just finished this. I’ll preface by saying my favorite games of all time are: Dishonored, Thief, Tomb Raider, and games where I can create a good stealthy build (like Oblivion/Skyrim & Fallout). Plague Tale was a refreshing and a very different game! (Love the medieval setting). And it was SO FREAKING HARD. The whole game is centered mostly around sneaking and stealthy kills. Perfection is everything. One wrong move and you’re dead. But the auto save is good, so you never have to repeat too much! It is MUCH linear than the other games I listed above, so take your time and don’t go through too quickly or you may miss some loot items. OR go through quickly and get caught up in the story! The story is honestly incredible and beautiful. There’s a lot of depth to it! The characters are interesting; you meet lots of new people. The game gets more complex and your skills grow as you progress. It appears that you can also go back and play individual chapters to get certain completion items, which is awesome since certain points in the game prevent you from going backwards. So if you missed something, don’t worry! You can play the chapter again later without having to play the ENTIRE game again! Love that. Anyway, awesome game. If you love the games I mentioned above, you’ll definitely love this. If you’re looking for something unique or outside the usual boring FPS ;-) get this game! Looking forward to playing the second!

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I previously owned this game on ps4. I never finished it and stopped playing it 3 yrs ago for whatever reason. With the sequel releasing soon; i decided to pick this up for the series x. I just finished it and it’s easily one of my favorite games now. The Series X upgrade is incredible. I love everything about this game: The characters, soundtrack, action/stealth gameplay with various weapons, etc. I’m so excited for the sequel. I really hope it’s as good or better.

This game benefits greatly from the Xbox series console upgrades. Look amazing. Runs great. The game is pretty compelling. The story gets pretty crazy at the end. Really looking forward to the sequel.

I was fairly shocked, how good this game was. It's has a great story I can't wait for part 2

Cool game

Over the years I have collected a number of games through the Xbox Live and PlayStation Plus programs that I claimed as the monthly freebie, but never got around to. This game is among those titles. I initially dismissed this as yet another boring walking simulator and wasn’t all that interested in it. After all, What Remains of Edith Finch bored me to tears, was overly pretentious, and lulled me to sleep on more than a few occasions. I didn’t expect this little indie title to fare much better but needed a reason to delay plugging in Tears of the Kingdom since my wife wants to backseat game that one and is temporarily working nights. So, A Plague Tale: Innocence was supposed to be the game to keep me busy while she finished her project. Let me just tell you I was very wrong about what this game is. If you don’t have it, and you like good thrillers, you need this game right now, because I am going to give my first perfect score in quite some time. Now let me tell you why.The game begins the way I expected it to. But this first stage is a ruse. You begin playing as the noble girl, Amicia de Rune, on a hunting trip with her father, and her dog. While the bulk of this level is a walking simulator, the situation changes when you come to an apple tree and she is challenged by her father to knock down apples with her sling. After that, she is challenged to bag a wild boar. She is successful in knocking it out, but it recovers too quickly, and a chase ensues, and here is where the game takes a dark turn. When you find the boar, it’s been torn to pieces. You find your dog, clinging to life, halfway in a hole too, but as you try to save him, whatever it was that attacked him, pulls him through the hole and the dog is lost.Amicia and her father run home, she is ordered to find her mother and report what happened while her father deals with trying to organize a hunting party to deal with the threat they stumbled upon. Amicia is distraught, having lost her best friend. She tries to tell her mother, but her mother, Beatrice, is uninterested, as she is caring for Amicia’s sickly younger brother, Hugo. But then something goes wrong. There is shouting outside, Beatrice orders her daughter to look after her son while she leaves to check things out. Amicia is ordered not to be seen, but curiosity gets the better of her and she looks out the window to witness her father being murdered by the Inquisition. From here Amicia and her brother must escape using only a slingshot, rock throwing, or breaking pots to clear their path.While one could complain about the simplistic enemy AI, this game is not exactly easy. You have to find just the right distractions and get your timing just right or you find Amicia or Hugo at the wrong end of a sword. While I have always hated material where children or animals come to harm, thankfully this game has a great deal of restraint, and you never see that harm as the camera always cuts away before anything really bad can be shown.Amicia and Hugo reunite with her mother briefly but are separated, and at one point it looks as though Beatrice doesn’t make it. So now the kids are on the run, trying to avoid detection as they flee to safety. Eventually, you get cornered, and your only way out is the slingshot. Since the boar at the very beginning was stunned, but not dispatched, and since it is very loud, the game had discouraged attempting to use the sling against a human up until now… but there was no other choice. It works… and Amicia’s heat-felt reaction to having killed someone is so well-acted, you feel her heart sink into her stomach. She is given a moment to absorb what she did in her panic, but then it’s back to running and hiding until you reach the church and now the game’s next transformation occurs. There is a boss battle, and it is not easy. Until you figure out what to do. Your sling is still the answer, as well as exploiting weaknesses in your enemy’s armor. Then you escape to the church where a monk takes you to the catacombs where you will escape from the town and find the doctor who was helping Beatrice with Hugo’s condition… but while exploring the catacombs the game makes its final transformation into a full horror game.The Monk ends up in the darkness as night falls over the kingdom and the real threat finally reveals itself. Swarms of rats burst through the floors and consume the monk. Thankfully Amicia discovers quickly that the rats fear fire. Through the rest of the game, you will sneak, hide, solve puzzles to light safe paths through swarms of rats, and only when necessary, take down Inquisition and, later, English soldiers. Taking them on without a plan is ill-advised though, as the sling is noisy and loaded slowly. The game forces you to think, plan, then act. As the story progresses, you pick up allies, none of whom are completely defenseless, but still need you to make sure they don’t get overwhelmed by enemy soldiers, or accidentally step into a rat’s nest. It’s very challenging, and gameplay wise has more in common with The Last of Us than Edith Finch. The Last of Us, but with rats, and taking place in medieval France during the 100 Years’ War. It’s as epic as it sounds.I can’t speak highly enough of the writing of the game. It is so good it gives Legacy of Kain a run for its money. The dialogue is rich, intelligent, and realistic. Amicia is likable, sympathetic, a good, strong Tom boy, who still has a feminine nurturing side. She loves her brother, and her family, and the family she builds along the way, are her top priority. She is written as a young girl, forced into maturity well before she’s ready for it, not as a boy… who happens to actually be a girl because the script is trying to check a box. I know it’s not popular to say it, but boys and girls and men and women are different, and we approach problems differently. In far too many games these days, the sex of the characters is pretty much irrelevant, as you could swap Horizon’s Aloy out for a male character and not much would change. The same is true of the female version of Mass Effect’s Commander Shepherd. It takes real skill to write a good female protagonist, and the writers behind A Plague Tale: Innocence did such a fantastic job writing a good, memorable character here that it’s a shame this game was widely dismissed, selling just over a million units. A sleeper hit, to be sure, but far from the blockbuster it deserves to be. I want to see more female characters like this that aren’t men but are women because… checking the box. Femininity is a wonderful virtue, and it was great seeing this game let Amicia be a girl, and approach problems accordingly.Another element of the writing I appreciate is its handling of the Inquisition. As a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, you wouldn’t think me a defender of Catholicism, and yet I am. The history of Catholicism is nuanced and complex. As with every other religion, group, or people, the Catholic Church has had some very dark moments in its history, but overall has done more good than harm for the world around us. I refuse to let the dark moments of anyone’s history cloud the moments of light. Far too often, when dealing with issues like the Inquisition, it’s far too easy to fall from commentary to outright anti-Catholic bigotry. We are seeing a lot of Anti-Catholic bigotry these days, from our government taking a strange new interest in so-called, “White Christian Nationalists,” allegedly being born out of your local Catholic Church, to declaring the rosary as a symbol of “white supremacy,” to the anti-Christopher Columbus hysteria we are subjected to by the actual extremists out there every Columbus Day. Make no mistake, his history is nuanced too… some good, some bad… but the real reason Left Wing Extremists hate him… he was very, very Catholic.So, at a time when Americans are being bombarded with anti-Catholic hysteria, it’s nice to see a developer with some restraint. Amicia prays (optionally) on two separate occasions, and a representative of the pope makes abundantly clear that the activities of the Inquisition are not sanctioned by the Church. The villain even finds himself excommunicated, though by that point he has amassed so much power that this move by the Church is worthless.It is so refreshing to see a story that could have easily steered right into the usual anti-Catholic hate we see so often in media steer away from it instead. I wish the Netflix adaptation of Castlevania had been as nuanced as this. Nuance allows us to explore complex issues and consider multiple angles. Demonizing those with whom you disagree is always the easiest route. But even the Grand Inquisitor believes what he is doing is right, as he is seeking a means to control the rats as a means to end the plague, though his methods would grant him more power, and are absolutely unethical. That his motivation is not simply evil for evil’s sake makes for a more interesting villain. Don’t get me wrong, he is evil, but the best villains are always the ones convinced that they are on the right side of history.I don’t want to spoil too much, but I really can’t say enough about how good the writing in this game is. Its gameplay is really good, the graphics are incredibly lifelike for a game from such a small studio. The music is eerie, haunting, and memorable. That cello will haunt you for days. It’s amazing what can be done with raw talent, and little money. I want to see more games like this that surpass my expectations on every level. I want to see more games that take a chance to tell a good, original story while avoiding the temptation to indulge in modern politics or demonize entire communities. In other words, I want to see more games like this. If you haven’t had the opportunity to pick it up, do it. I played on the Xbox Series X. There are occasional frame pacing issues, but the game itself looks amazing and runs smoothly the vast majority of the time. The game is also available on PS4/5, PC, and Nintendo Switch. Whatever your preferred platform, it would be a mistake not to add this must-have title to your collection.5/5: An absolute masterpiece.

I play this game it was awesome

Uffff, es una gran experiencia y la historia me parece cautivadora, no quieres apartar la vista de la pantalla. Y la jugabilidad es muy buena, las dinámicas son entretenidas. Es un juego corto, eso es verdad, pero tiene una excelente dirección de arte. Y sobre todo, es divertido.

Very good game just started it other day

Gameplay fluide et original, visuellement très beau (surtout en 4K sur Series X) et tout simplement un excellent jeu que je recommande fortement. À ce prix (17$ dans mon cas), c'est pratiquement du vol! Bien hâte au deuxième qui devrait arriver bientôt.Cela étant dit, ce n'est pas un jeu pour tout le monde : si vous voulez courir partout style Rambo et tuer tout ce qui bouge, ce n'est pas pour vous. C'est un jeu où on est très vulnérable et où on doit se faire discret!

Super jeu, une histoire très prenante du debut a la fin, un gameplay qui arrive a évoluer et qui vous garde coller à votre contrôler. Je pense que c'est un hidden-gem du petit studio Asobo. La suite vient d'être annoncée pour 2022, je recommande vraiment d'y jouer.