Game review: ‘A Plague Tale: Requiem’ (2022)

This article was originally (partially) a thread on social media, which is why it is formatted with lots of images and short responses.The text is about the image below that paragraph. just finished ‘A Plague Tale: Requiem’.A young woman tries to save her little brother from a rat & plague related curse. I’ll share my opinion, I’ll be annoying, focused on details, there will be spoilers, etc.Be warned. Here’s the trailer: So the game is much like the previous one, you explore, travel avoid a LOT of rats, do some iffy almost magic stuff and fight some bosses.Yes it takes place in the 14th century and yes it involves the plague but don’t expect a serious authentic setting.I wish.Why don’t we have a good Black Death game yet?Or TV show? Or film?It’s only the biggest most awful world shaping event ever, set in the middle ages, deadly pandemic, scary, exciting, weird, etc.Perfect setting for a big budget 10 episode super series with lots of famous actors.But no, nothing.Especially after…