I'm not entirely sure what I expected going into A Plague Tale: Innocence. It was a very popular release, with a fairly high review score for such popularity, so despite being a stealth adventure game, I decided to give it a try.
A lot of people praise it for its great graphics and amazing story, but I could honestly see neither. Sure, for game standards, neither is bad, but from a cinematic standpoint, the animations and models were still noticebaly janky, and I was thoroughly bored with the story.
The game is about being on the run from the inquisition with your little 5-year-old brother in 14th century France. You have to evade guards and rats in usual stealth game ways - throwing things, moving through tall grass, and waiting. This is just my personal gripe with the genre, but especially the waiting I find dreadfully boring. It's not like the rest of the gameplay is any exciting either.
I don't really have much to say about this, except that the story and quality did not nearly meet the level of hype this game seemed to have. Maybe it's still worth it for fans of stealth games, but if you're someone like me who doesn't like the genre and hoped that either the stealth portion would be really good, or that the story would carry it, then that's not the case. Honestly, even for a stealth game, this seems pretty average, so I really don't have any reason to recommend it.
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