Pentiment

Absolutely phenomenal and unique experience in hand-drawn medieval Europe. Fantastic story, characters and world building. The only thing missing is the voice acting, but Lingua Ignota makes it up in the final credits. Highly recommended. 10/10

Bold to put out a story game in this day & age of online gaming & a gaming community that has poor attention span & low IQ where as they can't play a game without combat... Playing this game if basically like reading a book, if you don't like reading, you wont like this game, if are an intellect & like to relax by reading, then you will enjoy this game. Story is nothing spectacular but you having the capability of making choices that effect some outcomes make it more interesting, will be a game I will remember for sure, neat experience.

A narratively-brilliant, excellent, and original medieval adventure game with a unique art style and extremely deep choice and dialog reactivity. There's a good amount of the Persona games here with Pentiment's time management system, where you only have certain amount of time segments in a day, and have to pick and choose what to do with each one. You also build up relationships by talking to people and saying the right things, which ultimately helps you achieve your goals. Pentiment also reminded of Frogwares' Sherlock games because you spend most of your time investigating and following up on clues, usually to solve a murder. The reason I can't rate it higher is that there isn't that much gameplay to speak of. It's almost all clicking on things and choosing dialog options. One of the selling points of the game, the feeling of authenticity, is also a negative, as most NPCs are fairly mundane, and talking to them isn't that interesting. It's a masterfully-crafted adventure game, but I found a lot of it dull, talking to villagers about raising kids or a monk about life in a monastery. I seldom say this, but it could have used some more whackiness and excitement.

Game was cool the art was old school but I found the story to be very entertaining.

It’s just so boring. It’s never exciting any second. Sound design is dull, graphics are dull. It feels like an interactive very boring book with lots to read. You never have to be smart. Just click through the dialogs, speak to all persoan mentioned in your diary and the mystery will reveal itself. I stopped playing in the middle of the second act when I realized I would have to spend another 7 hours with this.