That One Game With The Brilliant Rats, aka A Plague Tale: Innocence, now has a demo so we are able to all admire the rats. And perhaps be drawn into the story of kiddywinkles sneaking by means of France in the course of the Black Death, pursued by the Inquisition and surrounded by ravenous rats. Even our Alice Bee, who is understood to really feel nothing for the terrible digikids we’re pressured to babysit because of the continuing daddification of video games, grew keen on A Plague Tale’s pricey youngster when she performed it for assessment. Me, I’ll confess I performed the demo largely to see rats.
“I am famously not a fan of children in video games, because I think they mostly dead-eyed haunted dolls that are used as cheap, empty receptacles for player empathy. I don’t even like Clementine in The Walking Dead. Yes, I am a monster, etc,” Alice mentioned in our A Plague Tale: Innocence review after the game launched in May.
“I tell you this so you understand how cute Hugo in A Plague Tale: Innocence must be for me to love him. He is a little stampy only-just-not-a-toddler bundle of wonder. I want to pick him up and pinch his little cheeks.”
Having performed the demo, ah hell, I’m inclined to agree.
The demo incorporates the game’s first chapter, the traditional story intro & tutorial sorta setup. Meet the characters, learn the way its stealth works, watch wee Hugo’s entire world collapse. It begins out a beautiful and vibrant fairytale kind of factor, prettier than I anticipated. I had anticipated it to finish grim however I didn’t understand how apocalyptic the rat-o-rama may really feel.
Good information: you may press E to pet the canine:
Bad information: rats really feel no fondness for canines.
The demo obtain is 8.7GB to slam down your datapipe. Look for the “Download Demo” within the right-hand bar on Steam. The full game’s additionally discounted there till Monday, with a 33% low cost bringing it all the way down to £26.79/€30.14/$30.14.
