![]() ![]() These act as the only interactive element in Black Death. Within the invisible wall that keeps you penned into the town, you’re free to roam around and enter any building you see fit.ĭotted around the town are a number of collectables in the shape of pieces of parchment with a drawing on them. Complete with barn, wooden buildings, blazing torches, medieval decorations and a number of appropriately dressed yet totally lifeless NPC’s, the town you’re exploring in Black Death could have easily been lifted out of an Elder Scrolls game. ![]() The town you find yourself in, referred to as Clayton by “Narrator”, looks the part at least. Instead, it’s a game about exploration, taking in the scene while you listen to a reasonably long monologue that goes on and on about the town you’re in and what happened there. There’s no explicit direction or objectives. In essence, it’s a 3D environment to wander around via a first person view. Much like Playstige Interactive’s previous game NeonLore, Black Death is like a digital diorama. In steps Playstige Interactive with their new game ‘Black Death: A Tragic Dirge’, a game set in a ravaged village during The Black Death. It’s a pretty grim time in European history that’s rarely touched upon in video gaming. Piles of pox ridden corpses piled high on a pyre. People dragging carts, shouting “Bring out your dead” down cobblestoned streets. When you think of “The Black Death”, the bubonic plague that claimed tens of millions of lives in the 14th century, it’s likely to conjure certain imagery. The Finger Guns review:Ī digital diorama that you’re free to explore, Black Death: A Tragic Dirge is a lifeless game that doesn’t make best use of its theme. A digital diorama that you're free to explore, Black Death: A Tragic Dirge is a lifeless game that doesn't make best use of its theme. ![]()
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