This was alright. The setting's fantastic and the rats are genuinely very impressive, but the game never manages to shake off the “The Last of Us/God of War at home” vibes. It also seemingly can’t decide if it wants to be a walking simulator or not, because it gives you a really cool arsenal to approach encounters with but the encounters themselves are so incredibly rigid and usually only have one solution so it ends up not mattering all that much.

The story is fine up until a certain point where it kind of goes off the rails but the characters are great and the voice acting is genuinely fantastic across the board. I really loved Hugo and Amicia’s relationship, but I feel like that has more to do with me and my relationship with my big sisters as opposed to the game actually making me care about them, because you don’t really see their relationship progress naturally like you do in something like The Last of Us with Joel and Ellie or other games of this ilk. Things are weird between them and then they’re not, and then they’re weird again and then they’re not. It never felt natural to me.

I don’t know, it was a perfectly good experience, I’m just a little whelmed given the insane word of mouth this game got.