A Plague Tale: Requiem review - a brutal, spectacular adventure of love and sacrifice

The series A Plague Tale: Requiem keeps reminding me of is Uncharted, and I didn't expect that. But not since Uncharted have I been so dazzled by a production, by an adventure, that I've lingered longer in places simply so they don't end. And not since an Uncharted game have I been treated to so many spectacular sights in so many spectacular places I have never even imagined before. Requiem, it turns out, is every bit a game about uncovering lost legends and their secrets. It's a treasure hunt. Only here, the treasure you're hunting for is a cure.

A Plague Tale is a series inextricably tied to the Plague, the Black Death, which ravaged Europe in the 14th Century and apparently killed as many 200 million people. It was the plague carried, infamously, by rats. And so it is that A Plague Tale is also a series about rats - wonderfully and gruesomely so.

More specifically, it's a series about a young boy called Hugo who has something called the Macula inside of him, a supernatural bond with the rats. And it's a bond that people are trying to exploit and control - powerful people in powerful, shady orders - and a bond that will also kill him if you, his teenage sister Amicia, don't find that cure.

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