Game news A Plague Tale Requiem: a premonitory name for the future of the French “The Last of Us”?
Starting tomorrow, the French studio Asobo, now known worldwide for its A Plague Tale license and its exemplary work on Microsoft Flight Simulator, will reveal the continuation of the tragic adventures of Amicia and Hugo in a medieval France plagued by the plague and the Inquisition. . On the occasion of the launch, the studio, through the voice of Kevin Choteau, the game director, spoke about the future of the license. Does this second part sound like a requiem for the franchise? Here is the answer !
Summary
- A slap made in France on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S
- Asobo’s swan song for Amicia and Hugo?
A slap made in France on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S
In May 2019, the Asobo studio stood out with A Plague Tale : Innocence. For many players, the title of the French company turned out to be very well made: an enthusiastic reception that prompted the developers to put a sequel in the works. Formalized at E3 2021, we had to wait another year to finally know the release date and learn, at the same time, that A Plague Tale : Requiem would join the Xbox Game Pass catalog upon release. A boon for Microsoft players who can thus get their hands, at a lower cost, on a title that could be compared to the The Last of Us de PlayStation. Its universe, as dark as that of Naughty Dog’s hit, has once again not gone unnoticed and the game has never ceased to impress players during its communication campaign.
We are a few hours away from the official release and there is no shortage of qualifiers to sum up this sequel: a poignant story, increased immersion within the universe thanks to the PS5 and at the Xbox Series et a gameplay even more striking than its elder ! On our side, we were finally able to share with you our test as well as our final verdict on the title of the French studio. But if we loved browsing this sequel, we are already asking ourselves the question of whether we will embark on a new quest alongside Amicia and Hugo.
Asobo’s swan song for Amicia and Hugo?
Inevitably, when we were able to discover the subtitle of this suite, namely “Requiem”, we immediately understood that we were not going to venture into a most colorful and joyful quest. Thus, doubt hung over the future of the franchise and it was not until the eve of D-Day that we finally had the answer to this terrible question: Will Requiem be the last A Plague Tale? As part of a post published on the PlayStation Blog, Kevin Choteau, the director of the game, took the time to discuss, among other things, the future of the license.
Unfortunately, players risk discovering this sequel with the ball in their stomachs since it should close the story of the siblings. Well, that’s what the director thinks” for the moment “. Still according to him, the door is never closed ” and the future of the license depends, in large part, ” the reception of the players “. For the moment, the Asobo teams wish above all ” see their reaction before deciding anything “because they are them” the engine of our production “. With this nuanced answer, it’s not really a book that closes but rather a new page that turns: remains to be seen if the enthusiasm of the players will be sufficiently present for a new chapter to be written in the future.