i finished my second playthrough of pentiment tonight and i'm crying over it even more than the first. i love this game. even when i saw the edges and bugs in this second playthrough, i felt more of it and got even that more immersed in this setting and story, i felt the beats much harder, i saw the recurrent themes even more.
pentiment is going on the list of "games i will probably think about for the rest of my life" which is an illustrious award, but i needed this game in a way i've not needed one before as an artist always struggling to find purpose with my work and how that intersects with my personal beliefs and that of the world at large.
it has it's faults, but i'd say they're mainly functional and due to those aformentioned bugs, but to me at least, pentiment is a near perfect video game.