Asobo’s sprawling sequel feels like the response to a customer survey asking what players wanted to see more of from a successor to returned with every box ticked. There is more bonding time between protagonist Amicia de Rune and her younger brother Hugo, still afflicted with the ‘macula’ disease that allows him to control rats, whose swarms here swell to biblical proportions. The game’s stealth palette has expanded, too, and Amicia’s arsenal with it, leading to a broader range of ways to evade capture to take down guards in gruesome fashion. Environments are more attractive, more detailed and larger in scale – with the side-effect that its puzzles ensure you’ll spend perhaps an hourcover story, we suggested appeared to follow
