This game has a lot of sauce but it’s not Disco Elysium sauce like I was led to believe. Some QoL stuff on PC with clicking forwarding text was really annoying when I wanted to interact with important terms and names it’s a lot in a game full of text. The story structure is great but I don’t think the character backgrounds are used to a great effect per playthrough though they add flavour initially. I loved the art style and use of it in the acts that have more classical literature and biblical text use that break up the narrative nicely I think it needed a lot more of this - Andreas’ mind palace was great and the use of the Aeneid was good but this game begs for more of this. The greatest touch in the medium is the use of correcting/updating the story via font/text types for characters and how the use of the pen written stuff is used to express emotion it’s really amazing stuff I don’t see in other games for example rough and ink dripped text can express anger or volume. I want more from Pentiment or this world/style but the story closes really neatly worth every hour spent.

Reviewed on Jul 06, 2023


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