Second, Lucas Haasis on Teaching the 16th century with Pentiment, Obsidian's woodcut-medieval arted mystery RPG:

https://middleagesinmoderngames.net/uncategorized/teaching-the-16th-century-with-pentiment/

#Pentiment #RPG #Medieval

Finished Pentiment. I'm lucky to experience two back to back solid mystery games that breadcrumbed well. Without spoilers I need to point out a few things before getting into it

1. It's NOT a traditional point and click mystery. For a lot of the first mysteries what you do as detective don't matter at all. The way it's sat up didn't make this feel unpleasant, though. As long as you don't get into it thinking you can truly unravel the mystery to a neat completion.

2. The mystery do fit together well neatly in the end. Just don't have much to do with you as a player

3. I'm severely underqualified to comment on historical accuracy of 1500s Europe. I've never been to Europe and tbh I have minimal cultural connections there. I don't know if this game will annoy people who are into European history.

4. The art is incredible. And you can choose a readable font too, which is nice.

5. I love how full of life everyone are despite of how oppressive and hopeless the first two acts were. I love how it addressed that while forced marriage destroy the women more, it's also pretty shit for the men who never wanted a domestic slave but forced to take an assigned one. I love how my fictional character broke free of this.

6. Even if I liked [redacted], fuck this guy for constantly self inviting into dinners in middle of a famine, and he wouldn't even bring food. This offends me.

7. Booo no New Game Plus, so I can't stack skills and draw out some of the more hard to achieve lores. Ngl, it's a good game but not quite good enough that I want to Guide Dammit over this.

Overall I enjoyed Threefold Recital more, but I think it's because it met my expectations more, while I got into Pentiment in a wrong mindset. Still a wonderful game despite of that.

#Pentiment

Finished the first arc.

I feel like the least satisfying aspect of Pentiment is the mystery. A lot of evidence gathering is just spitballing, what you find is entirely luck based and the outcome is essentially based on where you end up when you are lost. I kinda hate that.

The issue is, I feel none of the suspects were truly convincing. I also can't investigate as I want in a freakin detective game, because it's all luck.

For what it's worth I played as myself: not pleased by how abusive the church is, but draw the like at digging graves without permission even if just because I'm worried on how the church would retaliate against the peasants. But also, I just do not like accusing people without clear evidence.

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This may be a weird take but, Pentiment feels to me like Disco Elysium Lite. In the sense that the spirit is similar, minus how much Disco Elysium left me feeling personally attacked every minute because I am Harry and I rightfully hate him like I hate myself lol

#Pentiment

For people who are more European cultured, how historically accurate is Pentiment? Please remember the only history class I had were "white people discovered brown people then as noble saviours they saved browns from their savage selves, ps Perez Hilton but 1600s royals", so I tapped out pretty quickly.

I don't know if schools teach every day people history these days at all either. I suspect it's not politically propaganda enough to be deemed as child friendly.

I just can't get over how the protagonist is such a smart ass, the language is really really modern, but the oppressiveness is just everywhere.

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As much I intentionally play as a smartass, Pentiment makes me glad that I'm born in current era. The way the cast interact with each other is like, my TV is currently the more depressed depression rectangle than the phone I doomscroll on.

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Now this on the other hand, is hella enjoyable.

I wonder if whitefellas playing Threefold has the same feels as I do with this. Lol I know who Aquinas is. I just feel zero actual cultural connection.

I just love how my youngish protagonist is like, an expert at everything. Meanwhile I'm just, dying irl

#Pentiment

Got me one of the books the game #Pentiment (one of my alltime fav games) is inspired by
A Morbit Taste for bones by Ellis Peters

so, this is cool by itself, but keen eyed observers know Brother Sebhat in "Pentiment" was on loan from an Ethiopian monastery in the game's 16th century setting. this is a remarkable artifact of the real people he was based on.

https://phys.org/news/2025-05-16th-century-ethiopian-monk-account.html

#math #ethiopia #games #pentiment

Seven Intriguing Video Game Sewers

Delve into the mysteries, horrors, and eerie beauty of sewers in seven video games with intriguing subterranean tunnel systems.

https://sidequest.zone/2025/03/03/video-game-sewers/

#Lists #VideoGames #AnimalWell #Blasphemous #EldenRing #FinalFantasyVIIRemake #HollowKnight #OcarinaOfTime #Pentiment

Une #aquarelle qui reproduit l'illustration de #Pentiment, je cherchais un print de la jacquette ( si ça se dit encore) mais j'ai pas trouvé du coup j'ai bidouillé. C'est un jeu vidéo qui m'a totalement captivé il y a quelques mois: Vous incarnez un artisan mêlé à une sombre affaire dans une petite ville bavaroise du XVIe siècle. Les graphismes sont inspirés des manuscrits enluminés et l'histoire est riche en rebondissements. Si vous aimez les jeux narratifs et l'art médiéval, foncez ! #jeuvideo #medieval #art #fanart #gaming #obsidianentertainment #watercolor #aquarelle #TraditionalArt

Sábado. Llueve. Estoy con ropa calentita y cómoda. Me voy a viciar a saco al #Pentiment.

Sometimes life can be good :blobcat:

Lately I've been doing some family portrait in the style of one of my favorite video game : Pentiment. I'm obsessed by this medieval style (and especially medieval cats 👀)
There is some of the commissions that I have made this year so you can see 🥰

#pentiment #medieval #medievalstyle #commission

An hour-long concert of medieval tunes, by Niccolo Seligmann and Lucas Ashby, at the Kennedy Center's Millennium Stage.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBoqTowDadM

According to Seligmann's web site, they've worked on soundtracks for #TheWitcher and #Pentiment.

#KennedyCenter #EarlyMusic #medieval #concert

Ci sarebbe davvero tantissimo da dire su #Pentiment. Sono rimasto letteralmente estasiato dalla storia che racconta, dal modo in cui niente di quello che fai è lasciato al caso e dall'estetica unica nel suo genere che propone. Gridare al capolavoro è sempre pericoloso, ma qui secondo me ci andiamo molto, molto vicini.

#VideoGames #VideoGiochi #RecensioniFuoriTempo