Pentiment

If I'm going play a murder mystery, I would like to be able to actually solve the murder. It turns out that the game is written so that you can never be sure who did it. This, in combination with hand holding during puzzles and the use of the illusion of choice made me lose interest after act 1. I'd rather read an actual book.

A thought provoking contemplation on history, time, the things that change and the things that don't, and how the choices of the past shape our present and in turn how our own choices shape the future. Pentiment is wonderful as a look into life in rural 16th century Germany. The characters are realistic and genuinely fun and compelling, and showing how the people of the past weren't that different. However I found the gameplay elements and overarching mystery to be a bit underwhelming. A poor man's Disco Elysium. Still, the good of this game is enough that I think it is worth a playthrough, despite the weaknesses. While the decisions you make do influence the future in interesting ways, you have to make these choices more or less blindly, without knowing where they will lead or how they will be useful. You are only given opportunity to investigate a portion of the leads you are offered, and your backstory choices constrain you as well, so it sometimes feels like future choices are made for you. You don't really have a lot of control. (SPOILERS) [spoiler]At the end of the story, regardless of your choices, the mystery is unravelled and the true culprit and their motives unmasked. But IMO this makes replaying the game less appealing since there's nothing more to learn. Additionally, it reveals that you never had the opportunity to get the right answer from the start. All the possible culprits you can accuse are innocent, so while your choices do affect the future of the characters in the village, the entire mystery investigation aspect is just smoke and mirrors basically.[/spoiler]

只玩完了第一个案子，肯定作者制作这个文本的初衷和中心思想，但我觉得作为游戏而言，这个游戏操作流程的设计非常滞黏，不清爽，选项操作的提示做得很不到位，到处都是操作负反馈。各个板块的美术设计给我一种强按头的感觉，内容方面挂羊头卖狗肉——即便在我看过网上推荐和一部分攻略之后再买，实际玩过之后仍然是这种感觉。冲着悬疑推理来的，结果硬要我在游戏中处理作者世界观中的人情世故，还要我察言观色，问题是你这画风根本不适合察言观色啊，跟破案还没什么关系——如果宣传这是部世情小说游戏我也就不说啥了，因为压根不会买。我个人觉得这个游戏的美术风格选择和主题表达极度错位，买了后悔。

Capolavoro assoluto!! Finito di giocare da pochi minuti e non posso esimermi dal tesserne le lodi. Josh Sawyer, da abile architetto di videogames, qui mette dentro tutta la sua immane cultura e passione nei confronti della storia europea e dell'arte. Personaggi incredibilmente ben caratterizzati, con dialoghi che riversano nelle profondità della teologia e della filosofia. L'animo umano, il dramma, i risvolti psicologici, ogni scelta appare come segnante non soltanto per il personaggio con cui si sta giocando (che si tratti di Andreas o Magdalene) ma incide anche nel sentimento stesso di chi gioca. Se vi piacciono i giochi senzienti, quelli che scavano nell'animo umano, che abbondano di riferimenti storici, filosofici e teologici e che si tinteggiano di giallo alla stregua de Il Nome Della Rosa, allora non fatevi sfuggire questa perla videoludica. Sconsigliato, invece, a tutti coloro che giocano a Call Of Duty e amenità varie

Perfectly perfect in narration. Hardly see a game that blends plot ideas and gameplay so well. I particularly love the historical research and medieval art style of this game. You can tell that the team put in a lot of efforts to polish it so it turned out to be a true piece of art. There's a popular saying in China called 岁月史书, which means time rewrites history. This game vividly embodies this concept in a really sophisticated way. Anyway, sincerely recommend this game to every history and literature and religious study lover. I mean everyone should come and play this game! You won't regret it!

Amazing writing. The pacing is slow, but the story is very well executed

Genialna narracyjna gra, spójna i wyjątkowa pod względem wizualnym, niby minimalizm ale jednak ma w sobie dużo głębi i duszy. Bardzo podobała mi się historia i sposób jej opowiedzenia, oraz możliwości/wybory gracza. Jestem pod wrażeniem i gorąco polecam!

Всё тоже самое что и с Disco elysium - шедевр, который некоторым может не зайти из-за геймплея и графомании. Абсолютно не жалею о прохождении

Beautiful work of art

Really quite very good.