History VideoGame / APlagueTaleInnocence

* BigBad: The Grand Inqisitor.

* BreakTheCutie Amicia is initially quite naïve and sheltered, but the Inquisition's raid on her home breaks her, and it just gets worse from there.

* EverythingTryingToKillYou: Aside from their family, and the orphans, every single person Amicia and Hugo encounter try to kill them, or wind up killed by the rats.

* MadeOfIron: Nicholas survives geting a scaffolding with huge rocks on top of it dropped on him, then he survives being attacked by multiple swarms of rats by repeatedly lighting his sword arm on fire and killing them all.

* BigBad: The Inquisition appears to be the main antagonists, led by Sir Nicholas until it turns out he is answering to a superior.

* ArtisticLicenseBiology: While the game gets a lot of things right about the time period, rats would never be able to devour a human corpse of all its flesh or rip them in half, especially going through armor regardless of how many there were.

* BittersweetEnding: Amicia and Hugo [[spoiler:save their mother, get rid of the rats, and put a stop to the Inquisition's corrupt, unholy ulterior motive. The three of them escape on a cart with Lucas, but Melie has left the group, and everyone is permanently scarred by the events of the game, and the knowledge of their bloodline's powers and the danger it puts them in.]]

''A Plague Tale: Innocence'' is an action-adventure game created by Asobo Studio and published by Focus Home Entertainment.

* BadassAdorable: Amicia very quickly graduates to one in order to survive.
* BaitAndSwitch: Amicia and Hugo's mother is presumably killed with a GoryDiscretionShot. However, it turns out she is still alive.

* BreakTheCutie Amicia is initially quite naïve and childlike, but the Inquisition's raid on her home breaks her, and it just gets worse from there.
* CheerfulChild: Amicia and Hugo, until the Inquisition showed up.

* DefiantToTheEnd: Amicia and Hugo's father says nothing to Sir Nicholas when he offers him one last chance to turn in his son, and promptly gets executed for it.

** The killing of servants and civillians, including children, being depicted as normal, is very much what happened in the real Middle Ages, in stark contrast to portrayals that argued that knights were forbidden from killing civilians.

* PowerIncontinence: The reason why the rats are so feral before Hugo controls them. Hugo's sickness causes him to unwittingly summon them and attack everything including Amicia if she doesn't have a torch.

* UnexpectedGameplayChange: After [[spoiler:Hugo has access to his rat swarm controlling powers,]] the game becomes MUCH more action oriented as you no longer have to fear the darkness.
* WouldHurtAChild: The Inquisiton has no trouble killing Amicia, though they have orders to spare Hugo.

* BigBad: The Inquisition appears to be the main antagonists, led by Sir Nicholas.
* BittersweetEnding: Amicia and Hugo [[spoiler:save their mother, get rid of the rats, and put a stop to the Inquisition's corrupt, unholy ulterior motive. The three of them escape on a cart with Lucas, but Melie has left the group, and the everyone is permanently scarred by the events of the game, and the knowledge of their bloodline's powers and the danger it puts them in.]]

* DeusExMachina: The swarms of rats will frequently attack enemies at very opportune times to save Amicia and Hugo. [[spoiler:After the reveal, you realize that the swarm was trying to protect their master and his sister.]]

* DarknessEqualsDeath: Much of the gameplay involving rats is that if you don't have a torch you could be eaten to death.

* DeusExMachina: The swarms of rats will frequently attack enemies at very opportune times to save Amicia and Hugo.

** Amicia is talked about becoming a lady and following the lords on hunts. Women were very much used as showers of status and were treated a lot less like actual people, being seen as pawns.

''A Plague Tale: Innocence'' is an adventure game created by Asobo Studio and published by Focus Home Entertainment.

* RichesToRags: Amicia and Hugo are of noble status, but the Inquisition's arrival at their home loses them everything.

* DirtyRat: The rats swarm in the thousands and will eat you alive if you don't have a torch.

Set in France, during the early stages of UsefulNotes/TheHundredYearsWar, the game follows [[TheProtagonist Amicia De Rune]] who, along with her little brother Hugo, must escape the encroaching Inquisition and the swarms of diseased rats.

Set in France during the early stages of the UsefulNotes/TheHundredYearsWar, the game follows [[TheProtagonist Amicia De Rune]] who, along with her little brother Hugo, must escape the encroaching Inquisition and the swarms of diseased rats.

* TheManInBlack: Inquisitor Nicholas, who crosses over with InTheHood and MalevolentMaskedMen, counts as this as he hunts Amicia and Hugo.

* ManInBlack: Inquisitor Nicholas, who crosses over with InTheHood and MalevolentMaskedMen, counts as this as he hunts Amicia and Hugo.

Set in France during the Hundred Years War, the game follows [[TheProtagonist Amicia De Rune]] who, along with her little brother Hugo, must escape the encroaching Inquisition and the swarms of diseased rats.

* FromRichesToRags: Amicia and Hugo are of noble status, but the Inquisition's arrival at their home loses them everything.