r/Pentiment

I am currently near the end of act 3, and I just need a place to gush about how WONDERFUL this game is. I bought it not thinking much of it, I just liked the art style and I wanted to play a story game similar to Disco Elysium. The game was very slow at first, to the point where I paused it for a month before even getting to the big event of act 1. I decided to pick it back up and power through the main story progression, but when I got to the twist, I knew I was in for something special.

The world feels so alive. Every single character is incredibly well written, and so detailed too! I found myself pondering over every single one of my dialogue choices, as well as looking up every word that I didn't know the meaning of, since english isn't my first language.

I graduated from an arts academy recently, and I think that was a huge reason why I fell in love with Pentiment, since I studied a lot of art history and I especially loved learning about early Christian art in college. I also have a huge interest in theology, especially in the context of art, even tho I am not religious at all myself. I found that through Andreas, I could actually kinda play the role of myself if that makes sense, challenging the beliefs of the characters in the game and choosing dialogue options that would offend some of the more extremely religious characters in the game, I thought that was very fun.

The entire time I am wondering how does one even write this? I really believe it takes a genius to create such an intricate story.

Thanks to anyone who read this, feel free to add anything (please don't spoil anything past Christmas eve in act 3 :D)

I loved every second playing the game! It was very interesting and better than I expected.

The player has to read much, I did not mind it and I think it is better- this way each player can interpret the lines in their own way without being influenced by the emotions/tone of a voiced character.

The first act was soooo good! Maybe the youth of Andreas made it that way? The second one was too depressing. The third not so, the people had more hope for the future.

Overall, the feeling of uncertainty followed us in each act, we will never be sure who committed the crimes and I prefer it that way. I was a bit disappointed about who is the culprit but I can understand why they did it.

From what I understand there aren't different endings. There is this one big ending which can have minor outcomes. I would have preferred if there was a way for Mags to stay in the town, or to become a Poor Claire etc.

I'm convinced it was someone acting for Matilda, not that she murdered him. But it happened in the church, she had an overwhelming amount of evidence that points towards the crime. The only other candidate I see as likely is Lucky, he had issues with him. They smelt the people from the coal burners the night of the murder. I have a feeling many people were involved in the conspiracy with Lucky being the one to commit the murder itself, with Matilda and her lover involved. So my conclusion would be conspiracy, Matilda and her lover allowed them into the monastery and lucky committed the act. Maybe the occultist father knew too and also helped with the conspiracy.

Personally I accuse the father because he was an asshole and also if'd you'd have accused him for witchcraft he'd be executed for that anyway. So he is at least confirmed guilty of something so unlike the others I do not feel as if I am condemning an innocent man completely

I am Franciscan who prays the liturgy of the hours. I was searching for ideas as I am making a clock of canonical hours and I stumble upon the Pentiment clock, which leads me to the game. I am about to dive into this world and it just looks marvelous and visually stunning. I am a recovering video game addict but will backslide for a few weeks while I go to 16th century Bavaria. In profunda vado.

So I just finished it first time and it was quite great.

I'm in the mood for second run, but tbh I don't have much time. Is it worth it though?

I have no idea how many endings or different plots are they... If you can tell me smth, but maybe not with big spoilers. ;)
For example: is it possible to end second act w/o major rebellion and library fire (if yes it would be a great reason for second play, but it looks like an enormous change and I don't think the game offers it).

I'm sorry if my question is silly or newbie, but I probably am (newbie, not silly;))

I don’t wish to sound r/IAmVerySmart lol - more so looking for similar experiences.

But was anyone else certain of the thread-puller at the start of Act 2 and it kiiiiinda ruined the rest of the game ruined for them?

The ghost/trapdoors as well as an admittedly wrong suspicion that >!Amalie presumably burned down her convent)!< made that part click, and >!Thomas’s close relationship with her & avoidance of all suspicion in the writing!< made them inescapable as the suspects in my mind.

Hell - I could have wrong in another timeline and usually am… However in this instance it kind of did ruin the experience (which I’m aware has far more to offer than just the murder case re character development/overarching story).

Can anyone else relate?

P.s. first time on this subreddit so apologies if this gets posted frequently but have searched a bit and not found the answers I seek…

I don't want to spoil too much, but I recently saw The Samurai and the Prisoner (which I really liked) and couldn't help re-thinking how fans of Pentiment will really love this movie. If you want some light/medium spoilers on the similarities:

• >!A set of mini-mysteries under a overarching plot in a historical setting!<
• >!A "detective" main character unfolding the mysteries under a time limit with a sidekick/advisor!<
• >!A "thread-puller" of sorts connecting all of the individual cases!<