What a truly wonderful game Pentiment is.
It's nice to see companies like Obsidian willing to hedge their bets on a game so truly niche, what other companies would look at as something "difficult to market". Sure, it has Josh Sawyer at the helm, which allows people to claim it's "by the mind behind Fallout: New Vegas", but even still its truly inspiring to see something like this come out from a big studio.
And what a fine choice they made, Pentiment is a deeply intricate, well written narrative adventure that made me regret not paying more attention in GCSE history. Its knowledge of 16th century Europe is fascinating, but if the pages upon pages worth of history on Monastic Scriptures don't hook you (which, frankly, it should) the story it tells is one to behold.
It's a murder mystery, that tells an enthralling tale over three points in time, towards the end I had prepared myself for a vague sort of ending, where interpretation is left to the viewer, and yet I was pleasantly surprised by an exceptionally neat bow tied around the story, with a fantastic message about our place in history and the impact we have on our futures to boot.
The controls are a little janky, and the prose can get a little heavy, but this is more than made up for with its benchmark writing and stunning art.
It's nice to see companies like Obsidian willing to hedge their bets on a game so truly niche, what other companies would look at as something "difficult to market". Sure, it has Josh Sawyer at the helm, which allows people to claim it's "by the mind behind Fallout: New Vegas", but even still its truly inspiring to see something like this come out from a big studio.
And what a fine choice they made, Pentiment is a deeply intricate, well written narrative adventure that made me regret not paying more attention in GCSE history. Its knowledge of 16th century Europe is fascinating, but if the pages upon pages worth of history on Monastic Scriptures don't hook you (which, frankly, it should) the story it tells is one to behold.
It's a murder mystery, that tells an enthralling tale over three points in time, towards the end I had prepared myself for a vague sort of ending, where interpretation is left to the viewer, and yet I was pleasantly surprised by an exceptionally neat bow tied around the story, with a fantastic message about our place in history and the impact we have on our futures to boot.
The controls are a little janky, and the prose can get a little heavy, but this is more than made up for with its benchmark writing and stunning art.