Re: Pentiment | XB/PC | 15th November 2022
Posted: Mon Nov 14, 2022 1:40 pm
Octoroc wrote:RECOMMENED on Eurogamer:Christian Donlan wrote:...And this is the trick, isn't it? The same trick that The Name of the Rose plays. Eco's novel is dense and complex and theoretically slightly off-putting. Do I really want to read a 400 page novel that spends so much time banging on about Thomas Aquinas? A book that has footnotes in Latin which it doesn't bother to translate? But you give it a go - a page or two - and the complexity reveals itself to be a kind of inviting richness. You get drawn in despite yourself to a treatise on semiotics that is simultaneously a great detective novel and a treasure hunt.
Pentiment works the same magic. Five minutes in I was wading through a tense disagreement on Martin Luther and wondering if this game was for me, but Obsidian draws you into this world by making it human, and by making it funny and kind and surprising and awful. And more: while I played Pentiment, the richest man in the world was muddling about at Twitter like a bored cat with a ball of crumpled paper, and this 16th century narrative of who gets to decide what is history, of who controls the flow of information, seemed surprisingly timely.
https://www.eurogamer.net/pentiment-review-a-sixteenth-century-mystery-that-blossoms-with-intrigue-and-human-warmth
Sounds brilliant, but definitely one you'll need to be in the right mood for. There will be an inevitable flood of one-star user reviews from idiots who think every game should be for them, all saying variations of "What is this gooseberry fool? More boring rubbish on Game Pass". The same sort of people who won't watch a film if it's got subtitles.
