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Aunque no lo considero la mitad de excelente que Overture en su cuidado equilibrio de tensiones, Black Plague es meritorio por ser uno de los primeros juegos en introducir toques de posmodernidad al género que aún estaba por nacer. Con Clarence haciendo las veces de narrador engañoso, el carácter trágico y solitario de Overture se ve sustituido por una suerte de burla constante hacia las convenciones que Frictional está evocando constantemente en su homenaje a la Cosa y tantas historias de terror ártico. Como ya dije, creo que es un equilibrio más difícil de apuntalar por cuanto se derriba a sí mismo, pero sería difícil negar su impacto en la escena posterior.

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Although I don't consider it half as excellent as Overture in its careful balance of tensions, Black Plague deserves credit for being one of the first games to introduce touches of post-modernity to the genre that would be born soon after it. With Clarecen acting as a trickster narrator, the tragic and lonely character of Overture is replaced by a constant mockery of the tropes that Frictional is evoking by homaging The Thing and so many arctic horror stories. As I said, I think it's a harder balance to maintain and it ends knocking itself down, but it would be hard to deny its impact on the later scene.

great game, better than overture even if the ending is a little bit anticlimactic