Review: Pentiment (Switch) - Obsidian's Medieval Murder Mystery Is Portable Perfection

Renaissance, man.

Listen. We've already reviewed Obsidian's superlative Pentiment over on our sister site Pure Xbox, where we gave it an excellent 9/10 score. However, now that we've been given the opportunity to return to 16th-century Bavaria all over again in this fantastic Switch port, we daresay it's better — worthy of a slight amendment to that scoreline, even. Ahhhhh, now, that's much better.

Yes, Pentiment pretty much blew us away when it first arrived back in November of 2022. At its core a very clever and utterly absorbing medieval murder mystery, the hook here comes through a unique style and setting that results in one of the freshest and most original games we've played this gen. In fact, this one — previously an Xbox exclusive — is a real highlight of Microsoft's Game Pass service, so it's incredibly exciting to see it arrive on Nintendo's console in such fine form.

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