Pentiment sheds its own text-based murder mystery scaffold about a quarter of the way through Act II in favor of a decent into the labyrinth that is sacrificing blindly for your art - and what we all inherit from barbarism. A beautifully crafted game that exudes the excitement of the developers that made it, Pentiment's extensively sourced world and lived-in characters amount to a Chekov's Gun of artistic performance - if only 16th century Holy Roman Empire typography could fire shots.