Pentiment | NSW/PC/PS/XB

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.

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This looks fantastic - any hope at all of it ever sailing to the PS5's shores?

I get mixed up, but I think they are an MS studio now?

By the same token, will this be on Game Pass forever?

kazanova_Frankenstein wrote:I get mixed up, but I think they are an MS studio now?

By the same token, will this be on Game Pass forever?

Yes and yes.

That doesn't preclude a PS5 release, but it seems unlikely.

Cheers for the confirmation.

Octoroc wrote:
kazanova_Frankenstein wrote:I get mixed up, but I think they are an MS studio now?

By the same token, will this be on Game Pass forever?

Yes and yes.

That doesn't preclude a PS5 release, but it seems unlikely.

VERY unlikely.

IGN have awarded this a...

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rinks wrote: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.

And sure enough, here they are, desperate to get their worthless opinions heard. I particularly like the one who mentions the last third of the game, as if they've acutually played that far already.

rinks wrote:
rinks wrote: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.

And sure enough, here they are, desperate to get their worthless opinions heard. I particularly like the one who mentions the last third of the game, as if they've acutually played that far already.

I can guarantee none of these people own an Xbox and actually played the game.

Photek wrote:
kazanova_Frankenstein wrote:IGN have awarded this a...

10

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I did and didn't see anything. Was it a tweet? Because those are blocked for me. I miss half the posts made on this forum.

kazanova_Frankenstein wrote:
Photek wrote:
kazanova_Frankenstein wrote:IGN have awarded this a...

10

Scroll up the page.

I did and didn't see anything. Was it a tweet? Because those are blocked for me. I miss half the posts made on this forum.

It was in a tweet, why are they blocked?

Photek wrote:
kazanova_Frankenstein wrote:
Photek wrote:
kazanova_Frankenstein wrote:IGN have awarded this a...

10

Scroll up the page.

I did and didn't see anything. Was it a tweet? Because those are blocked for me. I miss half the posts made on this forum.

It was in a tweet, why are they blocked?

Because twitter is blocked at my workplace. I can only apologise.

Bastard.

It looks kind of neat in a way, doesn’t really look my game though so I’ll download it and give it one star.

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