'I think fiction sometimes forgets about the bonds between brothers and sisters and how powerful they can be.' Games of 2022: A Plague Tale: Requiem provided the best big sister
I think fiction sometimes forgets about the bonds between brothers and sisters and how powerful they can be. I guess we usually see siblings as a way of showing two sides of the same coin - one who turned out evil while the other turned out good, like me and my brother. But if a story wants us to feel that harrowing sense of fear or loss, and desperation, it's usually a parent-child set-up they go for.
In all this time - about a year's worth, I think - Amicia is Hugo's everything. She keeps him alive day to day, and alive in the face of murderous soldiers and murderous rats, and there are hordes of both. And through it all, and perhaps because of it all, a profound bond forms between them.Maybe this bond was there all along. Maybe it's there between all siblings.
The stakes are much higher in A Plague Tale, of course - there are no soldiers or plagues in the example I'm thinking of, but underneath, that fear of separation was fundamentally the same. It's an atomic kind of power to try and split.That's why the brother-sister relationship in the game really stays with me, because I believe in the power of it. I've seen it. So I see the desperation in Amicia and I believe she will do anything because of it.
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