hey Hayden what what kind of language is this I'm not I don't understand this is
a this is French Adam it's a more cultured language I'll be honest I
swapped the language because the English voice acting in this game is not very
good no okay hello everybody this is a plague tale
innocence which is a mouthful of a name what's the name in French do you know a
plague tale okay yes so this is a plague tale innocence came out recently and I
surprisingly really liked it why is it surprising I would say this I
thought this would be a budget game and it is but it's a surprisingly effective
budget game yeah cuz it's actually pretty cheap $20 right yeah something
like that and you would know better than me Adam
looks at the price before we actually record one of these videos yeah it is a
budget game in actual price and in also how long it runs it's about ten hours
but it is uh I would say very refreshing in 2019 to play a game there's ten hours
long and tells a an actual story Wow nice and it's beautiful yeah yeah for
especially for that like mid-tier be to your game it's interesting I think in my
review I wrote that it reminds me of like a game that THQ would have put out
I don't know like ten years ago huh or a game that like THQ might have remastered
in 2019 if you know what I mean like it's a super linear story driven game
there's not much to it mechanically but it tells a story about black plague
France in like the 1300s yikes Hema and it is just grisly I mean
this looks grim yeah so we're gonna play we're playing a level that's about
halfway through the game maybe a little less spoilers
it is a so there's the Black Plague there's also the Inquisition going on at
the same time around the 1300s and then there's the hundred years of war which
is a bit of a bit of misnomer I think if I remember correctly from my history
classes that was a 78 year war off and on also but yeah you come across this
battlefield and you have to walk across all these bodies okay your your brother
here asks if you're hurting them which is a one of the moments that really
stuck with me in this game so yeah this is a it's interesting it's like a blend
of ultra real like I don't know about ultra real but like realistic fantasy
type stuff uh-huh with also this very over-the-top
supernatural story about the plague so if you know anything about the plague
you probably know that the rats were a disease vector yeah and so if you've
seen anything about this game you've probably seen the rat rat war that's
like their they're a weird tech like think swarm to think like Gibbs back in
back in the day or I'm trying to think like terrain deformation in Red Faction
yeah yeah here we have rat swarm tech interesting
so you'll notice we have all these lanterns and right up here we're gonna
rat swarm of this level oh it just it gives me the heebie I'm
not even like that scared of rats but it so yeah they like all come at you oh and
they they lock on to you yeah so if you're too close they just kind of yeah
and then they'll eat you alive if you walk into them what does that look like
I do you want me to walk into them yeah you know I want to see we can we can die
wow dude that's so yeah they alive they'll also eat alive any soldiers that
find themselves trapped in that area okay and you might notice we're like
picking up crafting materials here oh there's crafting in this yeah kind of so
you have some basic right now we haven't unlocked much because we're
not far into the game but you have some stuff so this one will light like fires
in the environment okay because the rats are afraid of lights like you have to
light it on something or you can just place it anywhere hide so this one you
have to light Amber's specifically but later you'll get stuff that'll let you
just create a fire in the middle of anything huh okay so it's almost like a
puzzle to kind of yeah and that's kind of the the whole point of the whole like
mechanics of this game is like a light puzzle system so you'll notice over here
we have these embers underneath this log oh I see it it's got one of those things
yeah we have a sling so when I throw the sling the rats run away and you'll see
they're like right on those right here right so we've got more crafting stuff
so we can make more of that later just pick up the like a lane and not so
at CERN's right so you can get torches which and the thing with the hay bale
here is it only stays lit for a certain amount of time but it's a lot of light
so you have to run past it and then as we get past you'll eventually notice it
dies out and all the rats come back over there so real quick the I'm noticing
some hitches here and there yeah I think it's on our end we've got it running on
ultra I haven't noticed this at home okay there was some hitching online but
we're gonna I'm nosing more here than yeah at home so I'm not sure what that's
about but we do have it on ultra with all this
fog and stuff so and all these rats I mean we've got a beefy machines yeah we
are playing on that though what made make a graph 131 yeah so yeah I'm not
sure but yeah in general that's the core of this game is just lighting these
lights it gets more challenging as you go through is I mean it it's almost like
a like a puzzle kind of thing like portal or something right where I mean
yeah that is the main panic so like here for instance we have this trebuchet and
so we can like pull the light down over here and so you'll notice there are
those logs out next to where the lights coming down Oh God
and then we can send our brother here to run out and grab one for us oh so you
have you have direct and not direct but indirect control or your companions
thing and both of them yeah and they don't really use it too much that's kind
of ashamed to me but for certain puzzles like this it's always like a fairy
that's the thing is this whole game is about like very set like there's one way
to solve most of these things okay it is not like a very freeform thing like
portal but yeah it is a like one of your companions are got a strong guy and so
later on he can like tackle certain soldiers and stuff and that's the side
of this that we haven't seen yet is there are actual combat things here oh
here we have one so you'll notice this guy has a lantern post so you're kind of
like hiding like stealth mechanics yeah so he has a lantern and so we are going
to shoot out his Lantern oh so you're gonna actually wrap him eat him alive
yeah the rats do our job for us does that mean they're distracted and you can
run though oh we can run past them because they're gonna be okay eating
this guy on the the bridge here and so yeah there's like a lot of stuff like
that you can also you'll come across like a bunch of corpses and you can
shoot the corpses down and the rats lead um there's like they have a decent
number of mechanics but they're all like fairly easy and we can also fight guys
directly if they don't have a helmet so okay so you can okay yeah as long as
they don't have a helmet and then later on you get tools to like oh this guy's
helmet feels like it's melting on his face so he now is uh gonna rip his
helmet off stuff like that I got it and so yeah it's like a it's a pretty cool
thing it's like a very like OneNote like they keep adding stuff in as you go
further but like really it's a fairly simplistic servers the same purpose yeah
so we have like some basic upgrades and stuff like that and we also there's a
bunch of stuff to collect if you want to learn about the
mid 1300s France and housed soap or interesting cassis Bell eyes so yeah
it's a it's like a very neat little experiment is not like a I don't know
it's not like a super gonna take the world by storm sort of game but I really
enjoyed it as I said it took me about like ten hours which seems like a decent
amount of time it doesn't really overstay its welcome in terms of like
these uh I'm sick of these rats the rats to me are the coolest part the soldiers
get kind of frustrating it's like some kind of mediocre stealth stuff but like
here for instance we can push our card around that's awesome oh yeah I'm super
excited to try it out so like I've been curious so like over here will we push
that cart so that we have a better bead on this guy's lantern oh no we can't
knocks Lantern out at see them you know so and very wholesome music nice and
nice and tense I know I would not say it's super scary but it's got like kind
of that Tomb Raider like the grim like you go into you actually go in like a
very like dark underground area at certain points and the rats are all
chasing you and yeah the music is done by the same guy who did vampire last
year which also had like just phenomenal violin music like this so that was very
exciting I'm going guys getting getting more work
stuck in the mud there and then yeah like it's one of the things I like is
that all the soldiers will talk as you're like walking around they have
actual interesting stuff to say about the world and you do recommend doing it
in French yeah it's hard to do both at the same
time like read the subtitles yeah you kind of get used to it after a while I
was also coming off of Yakuza so a lot of subtitle reading in that that's one
there's less important subtitle readings so that makes sense yeah so we didn't
your cry in here cuz I don't want to do this little stealth sequence cool yeah
but yeah it's a really neat game I think that is cool that rat tech is really
cool it doesn't always work great but you
know it like sometimes you've noticed they're walking in ways that are very
strange but uh it's cool it's like a dumb little application of particle
effects that you wouldn't think of necessarily so and yeah I hope that this
studio gets do another thing like this yeah
they have only made like Nickelodeon licensed games before this they're like
it's like funny because I you know I mentioned the THQ connection like that
you know this is like a game THQ but polish is not its focus if I remember
correctly but it feels like a THQ game and this studio just did like
Nickelodeon licensed games for like 15 years or something which used to be what
THQ did so and then they pivoted from that to this oh good they must said this
must be their passion project or French developers so good yeah it's really neat
and it looks beautiful and yeah as you said we've had some hitching on this
machine but I haven't noticed as much at home searching well all I can say is
that her her braid is on point yeah it's a very horizon zero dawn braid let's be
honest it's pretty good visit this lady could could cosplay as the horizon zero
dawn character and you'd be like yeah yeah sure there you go so yeah that's
the leg tale instance Adam says it's $20 so I'm gonna believe him yeah I'm one uh
yeah we will maybe be back soon yeah games see you later
nice cool