Pentiment

在美术和历史考据上无疑是完美的，但是在故事节奏上还可以加强

This game is so engaging and so well-researched! I would recommend it to anyone who loves a good mystery, history nerds, feminist nerds, art nerds, religious nerds, occult nerds, and NeoPagan nerds. I really appreciate how much of women's perspectives are incorporated into the story, even within a patriarchal context. There is an attempt at including voices of people of color as well, despite the time and setting-- even a beautiful set of Biblical images depicting all the Biblical figures with dark skin. In fact, some of the most lovely and most lovingly animated segments of the game take place inside illuminated manuscripts like living story books. Another such segment even talked extensively about women's lack of agency in both literary sources and in the world... ending with an allusion to "The Mirror of Simple Souls," which is a theological work by Christian (woman) Mystic: Marguerite Porete, who was burned at the steak for her theology. I also loved how the Roma man, Vacslav, talked about Gnosticism. Queer players who want to see Queerness in a game: There is some! More than you would think in a game set in the 1500s Germany or Austria or whatever. There is at least one couple of gay men and at least one couple of gay women, although they are quite constrained in their ability to live openly, as one might expect in the time and setting... I won't spoil any of the twists, but there is significant push for the playable character to get married in a straight relationship. You can push back and carve out some choices for them, but it does make you live through the tension of carving that different path very intentionally over and over again, which would be accurate for the time-- but if it's a trigger for you, just know it will make you fight to assert your gayness while also not stumbling into extreme consequences. Another thing that the game does well is give the player a sense of the sheer scale of history, both in the sense that the Roman ruins are ancient even compared to the 1500s which to modern players is ancient... and also in the long-spanning consequences of the player's choices through the passage of time. I binged this game and it absolutely did not disappoint! Yes, you can pet the dogs and cats. Other major trigger warnings (some spoilers!!!) : ------------------------------------------------------------ rape, abortion, birth, revolt, child injury, child death, moral and ethical questions, guilt about things you thought were the right choices and resulted in painful outcomes, public execution (You DO get the choice to look away though), death, murder, autopsy, human sacrifice, burning at the steak, mention of Jewish persecution, mention of Roma persecution, mention of witch trials, the absolute SUCK of grief and depression ("melancholia"), Hedonist personality trait being an absolute turd to women, Christians disagreeing about Christian-ing, spelunking (caves, tight spaces), animal death, animal cruelty, men who do not take "no" for an answer, "the humors" (shudder), leeches mention, gun, hunting, that kind of man who likes to be cruel to people less powerful than him just because he can, parental abuse, domestic abuse, starvation, child starvation, books burning, blood.