I'll be honest, I didn't know a lot about World War I prior to getting a taste of Valiant Hearts: The Great War. I still don't know a lot about it, but this unassuming, charming and deeply moving take on one of the bloodiest conflicts in human history has inspired me to want to know more.
That inspiration spawns from an elegant approach to writing and game design that adheres very much to a 'show, don't tell' mantra. Valiant Hearts' five playable characters rarely utter more than a word or two, but the quality of the hand-drawn and painted visuals exude so much meaning that the intricacies of both plot and relationships are never anything less than powerfully communicated.
It's an overtly adult direction to take and one that requires you to pay attention at all times in order to properly grasp everything that's happening in any particular situation. The common theme running throughout everything I've played so far, however, is the idea that love can exist in many different ways in even the most testing of circumstances.
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