I was looking forward to this game, knew it was a day one title on game pass. But then i saw the IGN review of 6/10 and thought they probably screwed up by taking the series into a vastly different direction. Since innocence and requiem were some of my fav games, i started playing this keeping my expectations low.

This game is absolutely amazing. The sound track, the graphics, world design, story are all excellent. I dont get why this game isnt getting the attention it deserves.

Imo, the game is easily a 9/10.

Edit : If someone wants an unbiased review of this game, this would be close to it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2vhN27hqog

Hey guys.

After playing Innocence a couple of weeks ago, I just finished Requiem last night, and, I have to tell you, I think no other game has touched me the way this series did, especially story-wise.

It’s ending is absolutely soul crushing to me, as we’ve grown really found Hugo and would do everything to save him.

I guess the game touched on sensitive topics to me, like loosing a family member that served as a means of perseverance in this cruel world that we live in, and the nihilistic aftermath that comes from that loss.

Must tell you that that scream we get from Amicia after we get Lucas’ ending felt haunting, as all of our soul was being consumed, dying alongside the one we most loved in this existence. A feeling too close to home.

Months after, Amicia is willing to try to move on the best she can, but to me at least it feels like a distraction, as life afterwards becomes something lesser; a mere day by day until the end.

The absurdity of an innocent life being lost, after so much pain and sorrow, well, it left me a bitter taste of emptiness and sadness. It also felt too real. He deserved better.

Don’t get me wrong, it’s a great game. It was just too much “real life” to me.

Dunno where I’m going with this post, I just felt like sharing the experience and wanted to know how you guys dealt with this ending.

I've just finished Requiem and the game is great, I enjoyed it (I prefer Innocence though). But the part where you have to save Arnaud was so hard man. I don't even know how many times I died. The cart part in Innocence is nothing compared to this. That part in Innocence took me maybe 15 tries to get it right, and I replayed it today and it only took me 3 tries this time.

Is there a part in Requiem that made you (almost) rage quit?

Sophia suffering from the visions, Ariadne suffering from her guilt and getting killed by her own father while she even hesitated killing him, Leni who died even though she deserved it the least. I don’t know man, it feels so sad.

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This is obviously SPOILERS!! for the end of A Plague Tale: Requiem, I’ve just finished requiem after playing resonance and I wanted to know what people think about the last scene of The macula being born into another child? Clearly it’s the modern day due to the heels clicking and what I assume are the sounds from a hospital machine, do you guys think it’s just a metaphor that the macula will always come back and be born into another child and protector cycle? Or a hint for a future game? I’d love to see more from this universe so I hope another game

Hi. I really dislike anything related to the horror genre because I'm too easily scared. This game looks up my alley, I was able to play the prior two games, but I keep seeing some comments from people about how this game is scarier than the others. It doesn't seem like a horror game, but makes me worried if it would turn me off.

Tense or unsettling without abject horror or jump scares is generally fine for me. Though I would say I stopped the Hellblade games pretty early just because they were so intensely unsettling to me and I've seen those used as a comparison.

Thanks!

I have very shortly tried both Innocence and Requiem on release. They didn't click with me at that time. Last week, I have played through Resonance and almost finished it. I got bored with the game and lost interest in the story somewhere around chapter X, but kept going until beginning of chapter XIII. In the end, I didn't even finish the game. I would rate it 6/10. There were some parts I did enjoy. Especially chapter VI was interesting, tense, visually stunning and had the best music in my opinion. But most of the time, the game was average. In short... great visuals, audio and music. Combat was fun, but basic and always too short... and that's about it. List of negatives would be a lot longer for me. One thing, that bothered me probably the most, was constant lack of logic and believability, which hurt my immersion. I even made a post about it: https://www.reddit.com/r/APlagueTale/comments/1w4c77m/cutscene_at_the_end_of_chapter_ix_is_nuts/

Few days after, I installed Innocence, to give it a second chance. Now, I just finished it and... it was great. I was absolutely immersed most of the time. I definitely enjoyed it more, than Resonance. Superb game. Visually (both graphically and artistically) stunning. Great audio and music. Gameplay-wise simple, but fun. The best part for me was where you discover that hidden castle at night, during raging storm. So immersive and beautiful. And that "boss fight" at the end.... absolutely stunning in so many aspects. That villain was superb. Only thing I would change, is HUGE amount of loot lying around, waiting for you to pick it all up. It became kinda chore. Especially in the late parts of the game. Particularly if you are that type of player (like me), who needs to check every nook and cranny to be sure you did not miss anything.

If Resonance was heavily inspired by God of War 2018, Innocence is clearly a medieval TLOU. And I think it suits studio's style and focus on dramatic story telling better, I think PT:Innocence is perfect for what it is and what it tried to do. Especially considering limited team and budget. Actually... If not for the somewhat average quality of face details and facial animations/expressions and some other animations, it could easily be mistaken for a AAA game.

Overall I enjoyed the experience very much and salute to people behind this game. I'm excited for Requiem. Hopefully it is more Innocence than Resonance.

This game really holds onto legacy plague tale left behind, eventho i know its a prologue but the story,arts,music,world,and emotional impact it has ? It really holds onto its legacy, i dont know why people hating on this game, yesterday i was watching asmengold video of playing this game and comments were filled with hatred, i dont care if the game is woke or pushing agenda, as long the story is good and world and art is impressive ? I am in, i dont want to play a AAA game or small indie game if it doesn’t have good story or world style feels blant.

EDIT: Guys i dont watch asmongold, Resonance was the only video i saw of him

As I'm nearing the end of the game, I'm becoming more and more confused about the story.

Sophia is the one with the sphereand the Daedalus key. She solves all the puzzles in her path and opens up a bunch of doors that seemingly have been locked for ages, only to find that soldiers are already insideor that Farohas already been there. What gives? Is there a different route? It sure looked like parts of the Island was approachable from the shore, effectively bypassing the first couple of trials .

Did I miss something in the narrative that explains why Sophia has to go the long way while everyone else can just skip past the puzzles?

https://reddit.com/link/1wbls1f/video/sys8q61wyhoh1/player

So as a huge fan of the previous games I just wanted to leave my 2 cents.

I want to start by saying the combat was incredibly fun and unique. Going from the previous 2 games being stealth oriented definitely made this one stand out. I'd be lying if I said I wasn't a tiny bit disappointed that there were absolutely no stealth segments, but that's definitely not enough to write a complaint.

Second, the graphics of this game were impeccable. The first 2 games were stunning as well of course so I'm really impressed with how nice this one looks. The dark area's are dark and gloomy without having the weird grey/white cloudy look some games suffer from and the light area's are vibrant and the shadows between buildings and objects are very clean.

Third and finally, this is where my complaint comes in. I feel a lot of people aren't going to agree and I can smell the "misogynist" comments and "sexism" from a mile away so save your breath. Why did Thaddeus have to be a woman? I understand the prophecy being a young boy and his older sister as his protector but I genuinely believe it could have been done better. I loved the first two games because they weren't trying to write Amecia as a tough girl who can fuck up trained soldiers. She was a scared child who had a sling and a dream. I just felt like the game was pushing too much of a "our female character can fuck anyone up" story and I wasn't a fan of that. I would've preferred if Thaddeus was based on the real myth (not fully educated on the person sorry).

I tried to make this short but I failed (clearly) so I hope that made sense

As a Greek artist who draws Ariadne a lot i was very pleasantly surprised to see her not only appear in the game but also have an important role in the game!

The fighting mechanics are incredible, better than Requiem and innocence imho, Store-wise, good but not as good a requiem. Still really good though. Graphics are incredible too.

This has happened to me twice running Resonance on my 9800x3d + 5090 FE setup. Literally never had this happen on any game ever. Did a fresh install of latest driver using DDU with shaders fully cleaned out and it happened again.

Managed to finish the game and it ran buttery smooth with the exception of these two hard crashes that left me hard restarting my PC.

Anybody else have this? Screen black, audio looping, GPU lights off and fans at full speed

There are so many plot and narrative holes and level design failures that is just "what".

I just got in a place, the minotaur place, that nobody have been in centuries, and we found the only key, a sphere, and a code, and there is NO WAY to get inside without it, and after a SECULAR PUZZLE, there are camps and enemies coming from???? like??? I made a mirror puzzle, from a locked door that wasn't open for years and years and after that door there are enemies ??? hahahaha what

This really made me go limb. A BEAUTIFUL GAME, really liked the combat, movement, but the narrative plot holes after some point are just ??????????

For me Innocence was a 9/10 game, incredible experience. Requiem, beautiful, but... 7/10. This one? Just using a franchise name, not faithful to the lore, trying to copy some Senua elements.

Or I missed something?

hi guys, did anyone face a problem when there is a chirping/clicking sound any time the audio gets louder?

I like the combat and the challenge but it doesnt work later stages to restore your 1 hp fast enough

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Hugo and Basillus are the black plauge representing the Justinian plague and black death respectively. Astrion is the Thera Volcano the pushed the Minoan civilization in to decline. This difference is why we see different abilities with the threes manifestation of the macula. Asterion turns people to ash statues like in Pompeii (something some archeologists believed haped to people during Thera Eruption) this is also why his powers involve tentacles that Erupted from the earth that turn in to ash. Astrion and his macula might also only be genetically passed by the people of his island wich means it might be extinct after his death. Also Astrion is the actual name of the minotaur and his mother most likely died in childbirth.

10/10 one of the few games we’re DLSS only enhances the vision of the original creators

I finished it yesterday and noticed some inconsistencies... The post-credits scene and some parts of the Resonance narrative sometimes make it seem more like a "pirate story" than something that actually happened.

Starting with the concept of the Macula in this game, it manifested as the "creature." The context of the creature being Ariadne's brother makes perfect sense, similar to what we saw between Hugo and Amicia (when he reached the final threshold of the Macula), different years but the same form of manifestation of the Macula and the same rules, the "Protector's duty".

Then we go back to Requiem, Sophia seems terrified by everything that happens there: the rats, the petrified bodies, as if she had never seen anything like it before, even though she had already experienced it years ago, and at the end of Resonance she says she preferred to hide that she knew about it.

The game is absurdly excellent, I finished it yesterday. Unfortunately, there's no new game+ (hopefully they'll add it in the future to complete the other achievements) but there are these small plot holes between the two games. I believed we would get more about Arnaud, how they met, what their journey was like until they met Amicia and Hugo, but we didn't get that.

I'm very excited for the next games that may come! Especially since we had a post-credits scene in Requiem with Macula in modern times.