Hugo, as a coddled attic child, is bereft of experience, and so in the realm of adventure enjoys low status. This is, then, a story of innocence versus experience, of children versus the ruined world of adults, with all its plagues, both physical and ideological.Įvery duo has its teacher and its student, its noble and its serf, and in this partnership Amicia is the voice of wisdom and responsibility. Before the day is out, Amicia’s dog is dead – ripped apart by a thrashing mass of rabid vermin – along with her former life of privilege as a French noble, ripped apart by soldiers of the inquisition, thugs acting on behalf of an equally corrupt church.Īmicia and her younger brother Hugo, a boy who suffers from a blood disease and has spent his days in jaundiced confinement, escape the family estate and begin to pick their way through a countryside turned hostile. If this is the “innocence” of the game’s title, it plays but a fleeting cameo role in the drama.

A Plague Tale: Innocence opens on a scene of idyllic playfulness: a teenage girl, Amicia, walking her dog through an autumnal forest in 12th-century France, bumping apples from tall trees using pebbles hurled from a homemade slingshot.

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