Has A Plague Tale: Requiem learned from the mistakes of the first game? Watch me spend too long trying to explain why the answer is mostly yes, and sometimes no.
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Footage used from (in order of appearance) - A Plague Tale: Requiem, Uncharted 4: A Thief's End, Gears 5, The Last of Us Part I, Assassin's Creed Unity, A Plague Tale: Innocence, Uncharted: The Lost Legacy, The Last of Us Part II, Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons, Spec Ops: The Line, Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020.
A deep dive analysis and critique of A Plague Tale: Requiem. I guess you could call it a video game video essay.
0:00 Introduction
1:00 Overview and genre
3:45 More freedom
7:42 Some steps back
12:44 Following design tropes
20:15 The Rats make Plague Tale Plague Tale
22:40 Brothers – A tale of narrative gameplay
30:30 Plague Tale’s attempts of narrative gameplay
40:45 Analysis of the plot
1:00:50 A meaningful ending
1:12:03 The power of ambition
1:14:34 Conclusion