Valiant Hearts: The Great War™ / Soldats Inconnus : Mémoires de la Grande Guerre™

Valiant Hearts : The Great War is the story of 4 crossed destinies and a broken love in a world torn apart. Dive into a 2D animated comic book adventure, mixing exploration, action and puzzles. Lost in the middle of the trenches, play as each of the 4 strangers, relive the War and help a young German soldier find his love.

The co-director of Valiant Hearts is diving back into another World War for his next game, teaming up with English animation studio Aardman to make 11-11: Memories Retold. The game’s a bit of a mystery for now, but it’s set in World War 1, has a pretty painted style of animation, and I’m told will “follow the story of two soldiers brought together in the most unlikely of circumstances.” Let’s go out on a limb and guess that it’s two fellas on different sides who realise the other is human too and war is awful. (more…)