A Plague Tale: Innocence - [PC Online Game Code]

So after hearing all the praise for A Plague Tale: Innocence, I decided to take a chance and try it out.This is an extremely well made third-person stealth action game by a studio that seemed to have come out of nowhere. You'll be playing the role of Amicia de Rune in 14th century France. After returning to her family estate on a hunt with her father, she then visits her sickly brother but not after the French Inquisition attacks and her and her brother Hugo are on the run to survive.You're quickly shown the ropes at this point and learning about basic mechanics like taking cover, when to leave cover to sneak past enemy paths, & using distractions to your advantage. Afterwards you'll also get access to Amicia' sling for puzzle solving and combat.Once combat comes around, you need to know that for the most part it's a one hit kill for you. Most of the time you want to rely on stealth but if you use your dodge and aim quickly, you should be fine early on to take out enemies. This will only work for a time until enemies start to use more armor and other tools to counter these tactics. Luckily for you, you'll get access to different ammo types and upgrades for your equipment if you have enough resources to craft them. Puzzles aren't too difficult and if you happen to get stuck, try to find anything shiny to hit or even reload a checkpoint if your not sure what your goal is.Visually the game looks amazing, Asobo Studios has used the same middle ware solution as Resident Evil 8 known as Quixel Megascans as well as motion capture for character movements. Small details like the correct sheen on a leather belt to individual strands of hair when examining the hair styles on many people. A minor thing I noticed was that facial animations aren't as good as the cut-scene during game-play, there is proper lip syncing during dialogue but nothing else animated on their faces. It tends to have a poker-face effect if you stop & look too closely.The elephant in the room that I haven't mentioned yet are the rats. A Plague Tale takes place during the outbreak of the bubonic plague, also known as The Black Death. The game adds a supernatural flair to these rats and they can number literally in the thousands in real time across a level. Getting caught in any part of the rat horde is basically instant death. Using your wits to escape the rat horde or use them to take out your enemies can be the difference of keeping most of your resources or barely scraping by for a while.Audio is quite good with the mo-cap actors also handling voice acting. I was genuenly surprised on how good it was after finding out they used child actors for the main roles, it can be hit or miss using child actors with any kind of medium and I think they did a great job. Sometimes the writing for character dialogue can be kind of weird though, not sure if its trying to be historically accurate or translation quirks but sometimes it sounds strange.A Plague Tale: Innocence is well worth your time but it can feel like a bit of a slow burn at times. Play at your own pace and enjoy the ride, it's quite the adventure.

I found this game to be visually stunning, and emotional in its story impact. I was drawn in right away, and I found the combat and crafting system to work out well. I also knew there would be graphic, scary scenes, and it sets that more of an emotional drive to get these two children through a dark time. There are lots of good puzzles, and ways to figure how to use your character's abilities. The characters were great. Between the challenges, story, and visuals, this game was a solid 5 stars until the last chapter. During that chapter, the difficulty ridiculously ramped up and I died dozens of times. The checkpoints weren't placed at the best spots either, I had to repeat a few conversations before jumping into the fight that had already killed me a lot. Even during the final battle, I finally took a break to watch someone's YouTube instruction, then died many more times trying to finish it. If you are up for a difficult final chapter, that shouldn't be a bother at all. The rest of the game was great in every other aspect.