As a result, Innocence would not get a second internal review, and the first outside comments would come from reviewers a month or two before the book’s publication. Up to the game’s final release, there was cautious hope about it, and many were surprised that it managed to score so well in the end. This gave the developers renewed drive to create A Plague Tale: Requiem better than Innocence, absorbing every piece of negative criticism and addressing what didn’t work.
