A Plague Tale: Requiem (2022)
A Plague Tale: Requiem is a 2022 role-playing (rpg) video game made by Asobo Studio and Focus Entertainment.
Amicia de Rune and her young brother Hugo are still running. The first game left them scarred; this one carries them south across a plague-struck France of sun-bleached coasts and rat-choked ruins, chasing a cure for the curse in Hugo's blood. Soldiers of the Inquisition hunt them on one side, and seas of rats, thousands of them, boil out of the dark on the other. Amicia's sling and alchemy let you sneak or kill as the moment demands, across larger and more beautiful ground than before. A grim, tender story about a sister who will burn the world to keep her brother safe.
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What is A Plague Tale: Requiem about?
Amicia de Rune and her young brother Hugo are still running. The first game left them scarred; this one carries them south across a plague-struck France of sun-bleached coasts and rat-choked ruins, chasing a cure for the curse in Hugo's blood. Soldiers of the Inquisition hunt them on one side, and seas of rats, thousands of them, boil out of the dark on the other. Amicia's sling and alchemy let you sneak or kill as the moment demands, across larger and more beautiful ground than before. A grim, tender story about a sister who will burn the world to keep her brother safe.
When was A Plague Tale: Requiem released?
A Plague Tale: Requiem was released on 18 October 2022.
Who made A Plague Tale: Requiem?
A Plague Tale: Requiem was made by Asobo Studio and Focus Entertainment.
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A few thoughts on A Plague Tale: Requiem
The unbearable weight of a child in a cruel century links it to The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, while Lord of the Flies shares its portrait of innocence hardening into something that can kill. Pan's Labyrinth is the film that best matches its blend of fairytale and atrocity.
Coming-of-age stories where the world won't let kids stay kids
A Plague Tale: Requiem watches Amicia and Hugo carry an impossible burden through a France gutted by plague and inquisition, their innocence eroding with every choice Amicia has to make. Lord of the Flies, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, Pan's Labyrinth, The Outsiders, Flowers in the Attic and The Crucible all put children in rooms built by adults' violence and ask what's left after.
A protector who won't put down the fight for one kid
Requiem's real weapon is Amicia's refusal to abandon Hugo, no matter what her sling has to do to keep him breathing. The Last of Us game and series, God of War, The Witcher 3 and Red Dead Redemption 2 all build their whole story around one worn-down guardian and the family worth protecting past reason.
Siblings who carry each other through a fight that isn't theirs
Requiem's real heart is Amicia and Hugo depending on each other completely, brother and sister against everyone else. Fullmetal Alchemist's Elric brothers, the Ninja Turtles, Avatar's Sokka and Katara, Supernatural's Winchesters and Asterix and Obelix all run on the same fuel: siblings who won't let each other fight alone, whatever chases them.