The most doomed thing you can be in a videogame is a tutorial dad. If you’re a father reading this and you’ve recently taught your child how to shoot apples or duck under fallen logs, take out life insurance immediately – you’re never making it into act two. This is how A Plague Tale begins, and, unfortunately, for the first hour, it feels cloyingly familiar. You watch your family get butchered. The baddies are cartoonishly bad. And you can only escape by scampering around the Inquisition’s inept search team.
It’s a shaky start, and one that highlights the game’s absurd stealth mechanics. Three people can become invisible by squatting in a thicket mere inches away from the elite soldier hunting them. Once you get over that, however, A Plague Tale…
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PC Gamer United Kingdom (Digital) - 1 Issue, April 2021