A Plague Tale: Innocence
Medieval Europe is a thrilling – chilling! – place…
Format PS4 ETA 2019 Pub Focus Home Interactive Dev Asobo Studio
The 14th century is at the crossroad of many important historical beats. We could call it the ‘darkest times of history’ and Amicia and Hugo are right in the middle of it,” outlines Kevin Choteau, game director at Asobo Studio.
You may think he’s laying it on a bit thick, but when you consider A Plague Tale’s mix of stealth and puzzling is set against the backdrop of The Black Death, the Inquisition, the Hundred Years’ War, alchemy, banditry, and medieval superstition, you must admit he has a point.
Controlling Amicia, you must guide her younger brother Hugo across France Ico-style, avoiding the Inquisition and fleeing (and making use of) thousands of hungry rats.
“It’s a dream-like, but authentic, vision of the Middle Ages,” adds Choteau, and the period one that’s certainly “intriguing and relatively new to videogames.”
“IT’S THE DARKEST OF TIMES AND AMICIA AND HUGO ARE RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF IT.”