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for as much as i love the games, i hate amicias ending, because, regardless of whatever symbolic meaning ist holds, its simply unbelievable. As in, its simply impossible to believe that a 14 year old, who suffered through all the horrific things she had would just be "Fine" after a year of sitting in the mountains. It would have been a far more believable ending, albeit probably with less symbolic weight, if amicia had deleted herself or was so broken, that it would take a whole third game of deep, and i do in fact meen DEAP soulsearching and psychoemotional work to heal herself.

18:30 Spoiler BUT there is a way to save the guard! .... . . . There's a torch behind him. Once you drop down into thw corridor, there's a torch holder behind you on your left. Put your torch there and use ignifer to light up the torch behind the guard

Welp. Here it is. The single best Plague Tale video on this entire platform. Biggest of bravos to you - it's plain to see how much thought, love and effort went into the creation of this. It's exceptionally detailed, explained and well-argued. I don't think I could've ever arrived at these conclusions myself, but I find myself in wholehearted agreement. I think you've got everything here spot on and it's nothing shy of an extraordinary piece of work. Don't apologize for the video being 'too long' or 'too deep,' this is exactly the type of super high-value content I love and that I think the gaming industry needs more of as a whole. Man, I just can't get over how awesome this was. Nice work. I'll check out more from your channel and I'd eat up anything else you have about Plague Tale. Thank you for this.

I think the Prima Macula is akin to the Reapers in Mass Effect or the Red Madness in Enderal, a necessary evil during times of change to keep humanity in check.

This was an immensely good watch. I love analytical dives like this. I just finished the game and was looking for additional content to consume-this was just the thing I needed.

Is Hugo dream a trick to get him to reach the island?

The next series for review - Ori!!!

I hate her short hair

Thanks for taking the time to carefully consider the many aspects of this game. I enjoy all the games but bl3 has the most play time for me because of the build crafting.

aren't this video a long one. i actually didn't follow you half of time. but i must say you are incredible, very high quality content. you really delved in, probably more than the writer, while i just touched by thier bond, never thought that much. i can see you truly love this game. i also wish they will continue this series, althogh it does have a complete ending of the de rune siblings. nevertheless, they did leave a big room for sequels in epilogue. it could be in modern time, or with the sister find next carrier and discover more about macula, even a pre sequel about basilius and adelia. all the possibilities

Long after finishing the game, I still hear Hugo and Amicia's voices in my head. Such is the impact they had. I miss the journey they went on. It was an epic tale with a heart breaking end. Well done on such an in depth analysis. I agree and felt that is how the macula worked

Your hard work making this video made me re-live the story from another perspective all over again, amazing job!

Instant sub, great video man seriously.

Im not the best in linguistics but genetally in spanish, french and latin there has to be gender concordancy between noun and adjective which is why the femenine wouldve been used for prima macula.

Hello. Just to say I liked your video and have watched all of it! I could feel your passion for both of the games 😊 As a big fan of A Plague Tale univers, I was also devastated and heartbroken at the ending... I needed several weeks to recover and grief this game! As I'm a gamer, I always needed time to recover from a very good storyline game and an emotional one at that. But this one touched me more compared to others I have been playing to. I liked the thoroughness you put in your video. It was all very interesting! Always very nice to hear other fan's thoughts on a game we loved so much. I learned yesterday that a TV serie of A Plague Tale is on it's way! As it is a french game and it is happening in France, the serie will be in french with french actors and all. I live in Belgium so I speak french and I'm so glad the french director, Mathieu Turi, said he will respect the narration and all that is reflecting the story. I really can't wait for it 💛

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damn such effort and quality from such a small channel. Subscribbled instantly

51:17 Ohh so thats the reason Hugo (or it in this case) doesnt hold Alicia's hand anymore after this. Damn Anyway, great analysis, watched it 2 times. Hope the best for your channel. Great work!

These games are two of my absolute favorites, growing up as a middle child I've been able to experience both the protection given by an older sibling and the need to protect a younger sibling. This video did a fantastic job helping me to understand some of the deeper symbolism in the game, amazing job

Awesome video. I don't think everything needs a definitive answer. That's life. Full of unanswered mysteries. It's up to us to make up our own minds.

Could the Macula be kind of like an Outer God like in Elden Ring?

RFF Jlo?

I feel like there's gotta be some symbolism in Amicia's hair and how it just keeps on getting shorter and shorter until it looks like a buzz cut

Thank you for this Amazon Video. I hope that there will not be another game in this Series. These two games have a very nice story and ending

I think the moment where Hugo "died" for me, was when he saw the slavers on the island where it was supposed to be full of nice people. I already knew that things there was too good to be true. But to a child's eyes, their innocence knows hope. That hope was lost, when he lost faith in humanity. It was bitter-sweet, but even Hugo knew his faith, when they were on Sophia's ship. In my opinion, Hugo would've still been alive, if he was just kept in his room from the first game this entire time. He would've been severely sheltered, and infantalized (all the way towards his adult life). But alive... I really hate myself by being "that guy", but Beatrice, Laurentius, Vaudin, heck, in some twisted way, even The Order, might've had the right idea from the beginning.dult life). But alive... I really hate myself by being "that guy", but Beatrice, Laurentius, Vaudin, heck, in some twisted way, even The Order, might've had the right idea from the beginning.

best analysis ever

love you man, you've deep dived alot and it all makes sense, you gave me a deeper meaningful perspective on the entire story and why the game goes the way it goes; also when amicia and lucas go back to their home for the Beatrice laboratory, Hugo's room is not at all touched by the rats, it stays as same as when they leave their house due to search for the hugo in the beginning of the innocence; what could be the reason tho 🤔

I really love the video and how much effort you put into it, i also love games where its not all about shooting killing and being the first place, its all in the story and if you have any other games to suggest me that has a really deep and great story like this one let me know!

Excellent video, wow! I loved the Plague Tale series & very much had a path like Amicia's. Having younger siblings myself I was very attached to Hugo & in denial the whole time, hoping chapter after chapter that he might be saved, despite slowly coming to realise that it would never happen... Don't think I've reached Rubedo, though 🤔 On another note, loved your analysis, it's super well structured and very easy to follow, and the points you've made make a lot of sense. It kind of helped me get through the grief of killing Hugo at the end 😥 thank you!!! Subscribed :))

I really like this more scientific approach of a lore analysis. Great video!

I just watched your entire video, your ideas seem really great and i love the prespective, also what the actual fuck, how do you only have 192 subs? The writing was great, the editing also, the research that went into it. 10/10 Really loved the game, the story, the design, the writing, tha narrative.. everything was on point, its a masterpiece. It can be interpreted by a milliad of ways, depending on how you felt before the game and what's going on in your life. I had 2 paralells closely resemble the story in the context of hope in my life. (wich i wont detail, who cares) I think this game symbolizes hope.. a hope that realistically doesn't exist. The acceptance that some things are out of your control cannot be changed, and you have to come to terms with it. If i had to summarize in 1 word: Hope. To some unrelated ideas i thought interesting: Idea 1: The game could also represent humanity as a whole, the cyclical nature of hardship and prosperity. War, Plagues, Disasters and all the horrible things that happen should happen to have a brief, but brighter future. What comes after war, plagues and disasters? peace and unity. This is also supported by the symbol of the phoenix, who also goes through hardship to be reborn again. And also what is the most iportant thing in hardship? What gets you throught it all? Love. Just like the love between Amicia and Hugo. ------------------------- Idea 2: (seems like an interesting paralell [its probably too specific to be tha case but eh] ) What else has 4 stages just like the macula, doesn't have a cure, breaks people around you and forces your relatives down the path of acceptance? This might be far-fetched but cancer.. Also the stages of acceptance consists of 5 steps (Amicia has to go through theese to come to terms with the truth) : denial, anger, depression, bargaining, and acceptance Denial: Mainly Amicia Doesn't want to believe that hugo cannot be saved, yet fights tooth and nail. This is mainly the entire first game and the beginning of requiem. Anger: Do you remember when amicia lost it multiple times against the count's men, and went on a rampage? i think it represents anger in the chain. Depression and bargaining: Amicia feels broken, overwhelmed by the things that happened, in some sections about to give up. But somehow she overcomes them (usually through help from others), a new light of hope comes, that pushes her to do the unthinkable, a brief one, before coming to terms with the facts the macula presents. Acceptance: Basically the ending of requiem and the results of the story making her broken, yet she seems like she found herself, on a journey to help the next carrier and protector to come. --------------------- I still have some more ideas but im really bad at writing and its 1 am so yeah :D Theese ideas could be wrong, but if you think about it, any good story can be interpreted in multiples of ways. some might be a bit far-fetched but the most iportant thing is that the story made you think about some topics. and induced emotions. and thats the most important thing. 10/10, cried

It was very heartfelt video to watch. That is some god-tier content level. it is a shame that youtube algorithms don`t recommend this to a bigger number of people so we could share our thoughts about this amazing game. Thanks a lot

I'm still riding on the emotional roller-coaster having just finished Requiem a few days ago and went looking for lore videos to see what I might have missed. Coming across this, it's an utterly impressive analysis that goes far deeper and into themes than anything else I've yet to cross -- Plague Tale or not. This was a fantastic watch, wonderfully put together, and so thoughtful to the journey of the characters and Macula alike. Bravo.

Minor correction. You'd use Prima because the subject "macula" is feminine. I like your theory but in romance languages if the subject is feminine than any linking word before it will also be feminine.

Something I love, is playing these amazing games, then finding my people in videos like this. I happened upon this game from the PS+ having really almost no preconception of what it was apart from a few second promo clip of rats on an IGN video. I’ve since played both games, and now re playing requiem. My favourite part about games like this, is playing them, then coming to TH-cam and listening to people more insightful than me, dive into the game that made them really feel something. Amazing work here mate :) thank you for keeping me within the world and those feelings! I’m so glad I played these games

this video simply needs to get more views, amazing analysis and theorys.

Haven't played Innocence, I jumped straight to Requiem because it was free on PS+ subscription. The story was weirdly great though, until the end of the game you're still left with a million questions about what the Macula is etc. This video helped me understand in a bit better, although we're still speculating...

Definitely my favorite video. Thank you ❤

Hugo dying right after Beatrice makes that final walk and conversation between Amicia and "Hugo" make so much more sense. When I first played the game, I was taken aback at how much older "Hugo" seemed mentally; he felt much older than his age. Through your analysis, it's obvious now that it's the ageless Macula using Hugo's form and the siblings' bonds to lead Amicia to finish its cycle.

This is an incredible video! Thank you for making sense of the Macula and everything else!

As someone who has taken care of a loved one on their journey through cancer and death, I really identified with many aspects of this game. How Hugo accepts his fate and is calm, how Amicia fights against authority to take care of her brother, and how she herself finally accepts the only possible outcome - this game seems like a parable of our modern day journey through disease and acceptance.

Duuude! Last entire year I spent listening to APT lore analasis and I thought I knew everything there was to BUT THIS CHANGED EVERYTHING I THINKED ABOUT THE GAME. I want to add that I don't plan to start a youtube chanel or something, but I really want to start analysing games I love myself and I am ,,taking notes" from marvelous people like you and many other!

The Macula is neutral in the sense that it has neither benign or malicious intent. It’s evil because it’s understood to some extent as a corruption. That’s how you reconcile the two.

I enjoyed this but around 40 minutes I started to feel as though we'd strayed into pure speculation.

I didn't even know Requiem was a sequel. Only downloaded it because it was free on PS Plus. Absolutely broke me at the end. Now i have to play Innocence

the video starts at 2:55

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Absolutely amazing video. thank you

you did an amaizing work, really. thanks for the effort and all the info