What does Yea Forums think about this? It's coming out in a about a week and I haven't seen much discussion about it. It's from a French studio I've never heard of, but Eurogames have, for the most part, been good (The Witcher series, Anno, Life is Strange). It seems to build on the post-apocalytpic survivor buddy dynamic established by The Last of Us/Telltale etc. but with a medieval low fantasy twist. Also, it's an older sister taking care of her brother instead of older male stranger/young girl.
I'm somewhat worried that the gameplay will be repetitive (throw fire to keep rats away) and that the game will go out of its way to paint Catholicism/The Inquisition as cartoonishly evil, but the graphics seem good and the story definitely has potential. I'm not sure it's worth a buy before it gets cheaper, but I don't know the length of the game. Discuss away.
seems pretty cool. hoping the little kid isn't a cumbersome twat like kids usually are
Jackson Stewart
Frenchies make good games, I will get this one
Joshua Walker
Just another garbage walking sim. Thanks Sony.
Anthony Lopez
From what I understand, the little brother has had 0 contact with the sister before the game starts. They're lower nobility/upper middle class during the Black Death in the 14th century. Maybe there will be some overlap withe the early phases of the 100 years' war (one of my favourite historical periods) The little brother is sick, but I'm not sure it's the plague. There something special about him (immunity, lineage?) and he needs to be protected according to in-game npcs for reasons we have yet to discover. The Inquisition seems to be hunting him/them.
TWD was a walking simulator as well, and season 1 is one of the most emotionally impacting games ever. Plus, they seem to have put some effort in stealth and rat puzzles. I read somewhere that one hit meant death though, so fighting up close isn't an option. Nice, I hadn't heard this yet. There are too few medieval themed soundtracks out there. Europe generally does well in the character design department. I hope the renders reflect the game.
Kevin Torres
>this shitty game no one mentioned was a walking sim too! And?
Josiah Bennett
The dump of concept art screams shilling for me. I still hope your game does well user.
Elijah Sanchez
>and season 1 is one of the most emotionally impacting games ever. So? Are these the same writers and people behind TWD?
Jason Miller
>TWD S1 >Shit What do you consider good, user? Not a shill, just didn't want my thread to die in 10 minutes. I think it's too expensive to buy at the current price anyway.
That whole protecting innocent child in a bleak setting thing is getting really old. It's overplayed and it was cheap emotional manipulation even when it was new.
I have played this game for a week now and finished it in about 7 hours. It is very repetitive, after 30 minutes you have seen all of the mechanics that are in play to solve the puzzles along the way.
The entire game is a puzzle to create light on the road you have to walk in order to avoid the rats and soldiers on your path.
Along the way you get a few extra mechanics to use but the basics remain the same (lure rats to a location, gass a soldier, ...)
Storywise the game is a lot of fun but gameplay wise not really. I personally expected a realistic game about medieval live and the plague, but it is a dramatization that involves the supernatural (little brother has a disease but in the end it lets him control the rats)
Source: am reviewer
Jaxson Morgan
>French Lets cross fingers for incest.
Xavier Howard
Looks a bit daft
Lucas Barnes
Cool design, but impractical helmet. I wonder if they'll reveal the villain's face at the end and he'll be a character you met before?
I hope it's good, but I have my doubts. What makes you say this? What have the french done of note in the past decade beyond trash their own capital city.
Can you imagine what women in medieval times feminine hygiene levels were at? The plague was the yeast if their problems.
Justin Lewis
Are you saying the inqustition couldn't be evil?
Blake Lewis
dishonoured
Aaron Hill
OP also seems excited about this >Also, it's an older sister taking care of her brother instead of older male stranger/young girl. So yeah he seems right up tumblr's alley
Dominic Richardson
maybe shill your shitty tumblr indie game elsewhere, friendo
Ryder King
There will be lewds of Amicia before too long. LiS was comfy and had great music. I'm saying that there's an annoying tendency to denigrate Christianity and portray it as bad in modern entertainment, essentially misrepresenting history to suit modern political agendas. The Inquisition may have done some bad things, but the overall balance of the Church was very positive in Western history. Still, it's a grimdark game with some fantasy elements, so a big bad is needed for narrative purposes.
youtube.com/watch?v=379R-rcQV6Q They're using paintings and authentic medieval architecture from hometown as references for game. It looks like it has soul, but I really hope the puzzles are more complex than light brazier x, now pull rope y.
Tyler Gray
God, imagine the smell.
Ian Wright
Seems good.
Brandon Foster
>A game featuring siblings is tumblr This game isn't even out yet, and you're reeeing about tumblr. There's no blacks, homos or anything remotely political from the trailers. I'm glad a European studio is making something so we can get games that aren't tainted by American stuff. Instead of shouting buzzwords, we could talk about video games/gameplay/story?
Joshua Lewis
Stronk female protagonist
Jason Fisher
The co-op stuff reminds me a bit of Ico, but the rest is giving me serious Hellblade vibes. Not sure about this one.
also: fuck rats
Julian Baker
what even are those accents on the kids, the only way I can describe it is non-anglo european
Blake Flores
Switch version?
Owen Lewis
She's a teenage girl who dies in 1 hit and seems scared and out of her element, only doing the things she does to protect the last of her family. Brave, but not very strong if you ask me.
Josiah Jones
>ubisoft
Easton Cooper
What is this? another walking simulator?
Charles Murphy
Its The Last of Us clone but with no guns. So I guess, yeah, sorta.
Luke Sanders
I thought this was an actual game, into the garbage it goes.
Luis Edwards
Ah ancient times when french were still white
Austin Hall
Looks good.
However I cannot even buy Mordhau at the moment, so I won't be able to buy it.
Bentley Hall
I made a thread about this game a few months ago and nobody replied so I just assumed nobody cared
Connor Cooper
This thread reeks of shill marketing. Is nu v really this retarded?
Blake Cooper
>talking about vidya Yea Forums is shilling The state of this board
Christopher Taylor
>From what I understand, the little brother has had 0 contact with the sister before the game starts. >There something special about him (immunity, lineage?) and he needs to be protected according to in-game npcs for reasons we have yet to discover. Fucking hell, that's a bit blatant.
Ryder Brown
It's another story-driven game with casual stealth as an excuse for gameplay. And they pussied out of using French as the main language, instead everyone speaks English with a horrific frog accent.
Camden Mitchell
It feels a bit like Da Vinci Code meets Ellie from the Last of Us. I think English with a French accent sounds nice/cute, but it's easy to butcher. As long as the protagonist voice isn't too grating it should be fine.
Henry Sanchez
It's almost never fine. If the game is set in France and you want a sense of authenticity, you use French voiceovers. Otherwise, just use normal English. You can't have both. The only thing worse is when character say a single phrase in their native tongue and then carry on in English. It's dated and lazy. It only works in cheesy, campy stuff, or in anything else where the story's not the main focus.
Aiden Morales
I wonder, will it feature French VAs like The Witcher did for their Polish audience?
Michael Watson
It does, only question is if you can mix and match audio/subtitles.
If you can have Italian or Spanish subtitles with other audio, I should think you can have French audio/English subtitles. I'd play it in French for authenticity/to improve my understanding.
