I've made a lot of stops on my journey through A Plague Tale: Requiem to enter photo mode. I probably would have finished the game long ago if it wasn't for this. It's a bit of a curse for me this as it is quite immersion breaking to enter photo mode all the time but then again I really enjoy snapping up all these good looking sceneries. A Plague Tale: Requiem has a lot of those and I'm going to be showcasing my favorite shots from my playthrough in this post.
I took a total og 220 screenshots while playing through this game so I have plans to churn out one more screenshot showcase post after this where I focus on the dark and gritty screenshots that I took. They have quite a different mood so I find it fitting to split them up.
When doing these kinds of showcase posts I try to stay away from screenshots that are directly from a cutscene or cinematic. To me that's straight up cheating seeing as I wasn't the one to compose the picture. The above picture is one exception as it just has such a mood.
A disappointing photo mode
The somewhat disappointing graphics of the game took away some of the joy for me in capturing photos and it didn't really help on the fact that the photo mode is lacking a bit as well. I like the fact that you can free fly with the camera even during cutscenes but I don't like that you can fly straight through the environment with it. It's quite immersion breaking. It's also disappointing that far away objects are poorly rendered even in photo mode. Using the focal setting to zoom in on stuff just makes it look all blurry and of a low resolution.
My biggest complaint with the photo mode though is that lack of filters. It's a really weird decision to leave filters out of the photo mode. I feel like that's usually first in line when it comes to photo modes. There's so many of these shots that could have looked a lot better if I could play around with filter settings. Still, they give us the usual contrast, brightness and saturation settings that lets us alter the images in some way but I still wish there was more.
That's a short rant on the photo mode in this game. I love me a good photo mode in games which is why I may seem overly passionate about this. I'll leave you with my photos now. Enjoy!
Constructive criticism to anything from composition to coloring is always welcome.
All images in this post are screenshots taken by me.