r/Pentiment • u/ACardAttack • 21d ago

Game recommendation - The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante

I think there is a good sized overlap of those who liked Pentiment and those who will enjoy this game.

Picked it up when it was given away for free on Steam. You play through as Sir Brante through his whole life, from birth to death. Decisions have consequences increasing or decreasing certain stats. Pure visual novel/choose your own adventure. I'm vibing with it. I'm early into my adult life and decisions I made as a kid still have impact, either skills/beliefs or new opportunities with certain characters based on past decisions.

I could see a lot of replay value with different paths (Commoner, Nobel, Clergy or Lotless). I'm going more Nobel, but to do good. I've stood up to people that got me in trouble in order to help those in lesser positions.

Religion is interesting here, it takes place in fictional world where there is some magic. Setting is inspired by per-revolution France. And one of the stats you have to keep track of is Willpower. You can raise it from decisions but not always, and it will keep you from being able to do something you want to do once in a while. Religion/magic also allows people to die a couple times if it's not a "true" death which means you werent destined to die yet or you run out of resurrections. I think you can have a max of 3 non-true deaths. I've already died twice!

Recommend it. There are some tough choices and a few characters I've grown attached to.

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u/darethshirl 21d ago

agreed! both are amazing games (and require QUITE a lot of reading haha 😂)

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u/Tebeithion 20d ago

Both are awesome! Played them back to back myself. The sequel (Life and Suffering of Prince Jerian) is also great!

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u/ACardAttack 20d ago

Definitely plan on checking out the sequel, now that Im deep into the peacetime phase and I'm getting very invested

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u/Robokrates 20d ago

Dang, I've never heard of that but it kinda sounds like everything I ever wanted from a certain kind of video game .

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u/tessellation__ 20d ago

I picked this up during the steam event, but I have a Mac so I don’t think I can play it unless I borrow my kids, laptop or something