Asobo Studio is coming off their development work on ReCore to shift gears into the horror genre with their upcoming game A Plague Tale: Innocence. We managed to nab a behind-closed-doors demo session with publisher Focus Home Interactive for this rat-infested game, and have our preview ready for you. Hope you?re not squeamish with rats!
A Terrifying Time
A Plague Tale takes place in France in the year 1349, at the height of the Black Death. You play as Amicia, who is 14 years old, as she tries to survive a harrowing existence with her brother, eight-year-old Hugo. They are the only family that either have left. The Inquisition is also taking place, so the danger is two-fold for the duo. Since they are children, their method of progression is generally a mixture of stealth and strategic hitting of objects with rocks via a sling that Amicia carries. We were shown a level that was built specifically for E3. It showed us a small portion of the game?s stealth options, where Amicia and Hugo snuck around, avoiding Inquisition soldiers in one moment, and then running away from rats the next. A major gameplay element shown here involved taking out sources of distant lights, so that rats could overpower and consume enemies, their blood-curdling screams fading to nothing as they are quickly eaten alive. It is an unimaginable, and horrible, way to go.

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