We keep plaguing developers to do something different. Gaming, we tell them, needs different voices and different stories. Well, one plague begets another. A Plague Tale: Innocence is exactly the kind of title gaming used to produce in the Playstation 2 era, an offbeat story that borrows elements from popular big budget games to tell a different story. In this case, the setting is France, during theBlack Death, and the main characters are an orphan, Amica, and her younger brother, Hugo. The developers, Focus Home Entertainment, say they want a story in which Amica has to grow and adapt in a time of fierce hardship, while taking care of her brother and guiding him to safety. These themes are heavily evident in the gameplay videos that Focus Home have released, showing Amica sneaking through the streets of a filthy, disease-ridden France, desperately hoping she won’t be caught by the prowling guards or, worse, the rats who infest the shadows. In A Plague Tale, rats are the ‘dem