When I posted about the beautiful sceneries of A Plague Tale: Requiem I mentioned that I would be back with another post showcasing the darker sides of this game. In my last post you mainly got to see beauty of this game. In this post you'll mainly get to see the deep dark corners of this game. The game really is polarizing in that way. You'll find yourself in this beautiful field of flowers and sunlight then 15 minutes later you're neck deep in a rats nest of pure filth, darkness and decay.
Luckily both of these scenarios look great on camera. I felt it was a little bit harder to make the darker areas look good with the photo mode due to the limited options that it has. I've seen some photo modes where you're able to put in and place your own light sources so that would have been cool to see. Still, I was able to snap some decent shots especially towards the end of the game where I felt like darkness was ever present.
My absolute favorite photo from this series can be seen above. This is towards the very end of the game where everything is just pure darkness and decay. They did a really good job of the atmosphere in this area that really complimented the simple photo mode that the game has. A bit of increased contrast while reducing the saturation made this scene really moody. Reminds me of some sort of black metal album cover.
It was also during these late stages of the game where I noticed you had free flight with the camera even when using photo mode during cutscenes. Had I known about this earlier I would have been able to take so many more cool photos during this playthrough. I sort of make it my own rule to not snap to many screenshots during cutscenes as I feel like it's cheating. You're not composing the picture yourself in any way so what's the point? I'm still contemplating if I should do a NG+ run of the game so I might still be able to salvage some of those images.
But for now, enjoy the darkness.
All images in this post are screenshots taken by me.