- Tested on PC via the Game Pass
- Test configuration: RTX 4090 + i9-9900K
- Completed in about 15 hours
- The BO of this game is beautiful
Developed by Obsidian Entertainment (Fallout : New Vegas, Pillars of Eternity 1 and 2 and South Park: The Truth Stick to name but a few) and edited by Xbox Game Studios, Feeling is a 2D narrative RPG with horizontal scrolling, whose action takes place in Bavaria in the 16th century. Spread over several decades, the intrigue puts us at the command of artist Andreas Maler, an apprentice lighting artist in the small village of Tassing, who will find himself despite him investigating the mysterious murder of a nobleman. This is the starting point of his adventures.
He used to be...
Obsidian obliges, pass your way if the idea of spending 15 hours reading pages and pages of dialogs straightens your hair. The others, get closer! Unlike a Pillars of Eternity which punctuates its tides with texts of strategic jousts, Feeling offers a mainly textual adventure, with the exception of some austere mini-games, and completely devoid of fighting. It is our choice of answers in conversations that will influence the events and the perception that the villagers of our character will have.
Understand that if you spend your time squatting in front of the convent to get the favors of Sister Gertrude or you're hammering to anyone who wants to hear that Luther's 95 theses are worth reading, you will soon have made a bad reputation (I'm talking about experience). The possibilities are numerous and the consequences of your actions are palpable.
Over the hours of play, we end up clinging to the inhabitants of Tassing. These poor bougres are subject to the duke's authority and bleed to white by the local abbot, who for example refuses to let them graze their flocks or to pick up wood in the surrounding forest, under the pretext of an intransigent property treaty, which is in fact only a hijacked means of indicating their inferior social status. The artistic direction, similar to the style of the parchments of the Middle Ages, is in perfect connection with history, because it is above all slices of lives that tell us Feeling. It evolves as one would turn the pages of a book, which is also very knowledgeable about history.
... a King of Bavaria
Writing, all in finesse and implying, and without any pathos, makes us feel compassion towards the rural, so poor, but so proud to be able to offer you a little piece of cheese at their table, even to themselves to deprive themselves, a story that you did not go to tell the rest of the patelin that « Drucker don't know how to receive ». The only pride of these peasants? Their piety, their hard work and their families.
On certain aspects, Feeling refers to our time, with its class wars and economic system that always favors the same « first of ropes », which finally have almost all as common to be born on the right side of the barrier, with ingots under the cradle. We also find this notion of « value of work » pushed to the extreme, as if there were only that, and which serves above all today to muzzle the most precarious so that they stay wisely in their place as slaves. The weight of religion and its drifts also play an important thematic role, depending on the choices you make.
If the title of Obsidian suffers from a few lengths and sometimes gets surprised to yawn, it has never been asked for me to let go of the controller. Lowering his arms would have meant abandoning the village of Tassing, and that was out of the question.
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Thank you Ejdjej. I was very touched by your comment.