Pentiment

I absolutely love this game, a friend of mine played it and recommended it to me. The art style is stunning, the plot is intriguing, gameplay is casual, dialogue options can be very funny, the game rewards you for being incredibly nosy and exploring everything you can. I've been having a great time with it and highly recommend it for anyone who enjoys these kinds of games. You can tell the development team put a lot of love and research into it. I'd play it again.

让人沉浸其中的虚构历史童话。Steam指南里的中英双语精翻真神了。 游戏用心刻画了镇上每个居民，寥寥数笔就能勾勒出他们的性格、生活、好恶。比如在游戏开头，皮耶罗修士的形象只用一句话就立住了：“在未来的岁月里，这本书会向那些看到它的人、那些与我们无缘相识的人们传达什么？” 制作组追求真实的态度所带来的，是在电子游戏中前所未有的厚重感。游玩时仿佛真的在触摸那段历史，看着与我们一样快乐与悲伤的塔兴居民们，在为他们自己的事务而欢乐、烦恼。 游戏通过巧妙的组织，让历史的虚构充满了美感。整篇剧情围绕着塔兴的历史演变、四季流转而展开，从三个时间点出发，观察主角三十年的生活历史和塔兴千年的考古历史，却不似许多通俗文艺一样以轻浮而傲慢的态度掠过历史，真正担得起“史诗”二字。 游戏中日程的安排、对话的斟酌意义重大，而且设计合理。当我看到判定一片蓝（有时是一片红）时，我第一次感受到这些对话选项不是在糊弄我，也不是用一些道具、数值奖励来搪塞我，而是真的要我扮演这个角色作出对故事发展有意义的选择。（谢天谢地没有投骰子环节） 游戏涉及了真实与虚构、激进与保守、知识与传承、神秘与启蒙等诸多主题，但对其中任何一个主题都没有刻意深究，它们只是作为历史和生活的一般部分，不可避免地出现在故事中。Pentiment不是那种需要“深度解析”的作品（虽然有点装神弄鬼），而要论真实与厚重，它已经达到了大巧不工的效果。 厄休拉很可爱，帽子小偷很可爱，修士唱歌很好听。烤乳鸽？我tm吃吃吃吃吃。

Pentiment is one of the best games I've ever played. Obsidian's approach to storytelling, the hand-painted art style inspired by medieval manuscripts, and the depth of the characters come together into an experience that's rarely matched in video games. Every choice you make genuinely shapes the story and how the world perceives you, and the atmosphere of the 16th-century Bavarian town is captured with incredible attention to detail. [spoiler]My only gripe was with navigating through the labyrinth section, something felt a bit off, though that might have been because I played on Steam with a PS4 controller, so the controls may not have been perfectly optimized for that setup.[/spoiler] Still, that's a minor issue compared to everything else the game offers. Aside from that small hiccup, everything else about this game is close to perfect. Huge respect to the team behind it. Pentiment is a genuine work of art, and I wholeheartedly recommend it to anyone who values stories with depth and character.

I have mixed feelings about this game. It has outstanding art, and the story starts really well. If it ended at Act 1, I would praise it highly, despite its various historical inaccuracies (more on those below). Sadly, the quality declines steadily from there. Starting with Act 2, the illusion of meaningful choice disappears, the dialogue becomes increasingly tedious, and the new characters fall flat. Act 3 brings this decline to its logical conclusion, turning the game into a largely linear sequence of bloated dialogue. The finale is especially cheap and baffling, feeling more like a parody than a serious conclusion. I'm also conflicted about the historical accuracy. A lot of things here are astonishingly well done: [list] [*][b]The visual style is heavily inspired by actual late-medieval and early Renaissance manuscripts[/b], and many details of manuscript art and typography are remarkably accurate. For example, references to God in dialogue appear in red, reflecting real manuscript conventions. [*][b]Everyday life is largely period-appropriate[/b], from food and work to homes and meals. There are even tiny details that most players would probably never notice - for instance, the pigs look like medieval pigs rather than their modern descendants. [*][b]Social realities are much more complicated than a simple division between nobles and peasants.[/b] Different groups have distinct interests and genuine grievances. You also see the difficulties a single woman could face when inheriting property, although the presentation of such cases is somewhat oversimplified. [*][b]The broader historical backdrop is also strong:[/b] the Reformation and the Peasants' War, the transition from manuscripts to printing and the resulting decline of scriptoria, and so on. [/list] That said, being somewhat authentic does not necessarily mean being historically accurate: [list] [*][b]The game compresses chronology[/b] and portrays some historical transitions as happening much faster than they did in reality. The shift from manuscripts to printing is a good example. [*][b]Characters frequently express distinctly modern worldviews[/b], particularly when it comes to gender roles, sexuality, personal relations, and identity. At times, they feel less like medieval people and more like 21st-century people dressed in medieval clothing. [*][b]The dialogue is also noticeably modern.[/b] Characters banter constantly, use contemporary-sounding jokes and insults, express sarcasm in familiar modern ways, openly discuss their feelings, and have casual conversations about complex ideas. [*][b]Religion is nuanced to an extent, but the distinction between paganism and Christianity is too neat.[/b] In reality, folk practices could be heterodox or superstitious without necessarily being regarded as "pagan". [*][b]The game features far too many foreigners for a middle of nowhere.[/b] The Ethiopian monk in Act 1 is the most obvious example: why is he travelling to a remote abbey in Bavaria, where is he going, and why is he travelling alone? How does he manage to cross dangerous medieval roads by himself? Such characters are presented almost like 21st-century tourists. [*][b]Literacy is unrealistically widespread.[/b] A rural villager being able to read letters or simple messages is plausible; comfortably reading complex books and following theological arguments is not. Having half the village able to do so is even less plausible. [*][b]Many individual situations are possible, but extraordinarily unlikely.[/b] The abundance of foreigners and highly literate commoners are examples. Magdalene, the Act 3 protagonist, is another: she is unusually empowered by late-medieval standards. [*][b]Demographics are also distorted.[/b] Families are too small, with only one or two children being typical. [/list] Yet I'm giving this game a thumbs-up, as it's still better than the vast majority of history-themed crap out there.

艺术

95/100，精彩的故事，卓越的作品。Pentiment充分利用了电子游戏独有的特点，将宗教历史、哲学思维和侦探题材糅合了起来，通过对一个16世纪宗教改革初期巴伐利亚虚构地区的切片式展现，让玩家在15小时内体验到了遥远彼方的人与事在25年间的微妙而又巨大的变迁。 制作组在几个方向上精雕细琢，并成功达到了极致的水准。游戏大胆地把多达20个以上的各色居民和神职人员纳进叙事脉络中，赋予他们迥异的性格、倾向和命运轨迹，某些角色的故事可能刚开始就迎来了终点，而另一些角色则是从不起眼的角落慢慢走向了舞台中央。扎实的人物群像刻画不仅让游戏质感变得更加细腻、也让叙事显得更为可信。而与此同时市面上还有不少游戏的角色塑造是如此薄弱，甚至没法让玩家真正记住故事里仅有的几个人物，这就更显得Pentiment的深刻和难得。 制作组显然也投入了很大精力研究16世纪神圣罗马帝国居民的日常生活，以及那个年代的神学和社会学等。单从居民的餐桌出发，玩家就能感知到不同阶层悬殊的社会地位，结合游戏努力展现的日常工作、田野闲谈等细节铺陈，玩家会自然地对当时农民的沉重税赋、异教传统和先祖记忆的缓慢失落、修道院在中世纪社会结构中所扮演的复杂角色等问题产生自己的思考。这些元素都导向了超越普通娱乐作品的厚重感，令人深切体会到了制作组对历史本身的诚挚敬意。 + 大师级别的角色刻画和群像塑造，能令玩家产生情感共鸣 + 拥有娱乐作品普遍忽略的历史厚重感和文学性，叙事深入且有感染力并避免了简单的善恶论 + 充分利用探案部分的时间管理机制，进一步营造了优秀的剧情张力 + 玩家选择确实能产生或轻或重的后续影响，而不全都是假分支 - 游戏前期节奏较慢，并且整体流程都缺少传统意义上的游戏性 - 中文本地化有提升空间，只使用一种字体掩盖了作品的魅力

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