Une rencontre avec le coronavirus renvoie Penny aux chasses aux sorcières de Nouvelle-Angleterre dans cette histoire interactive audacieusement politique. Les joueurs découvrent un visual novel linéaire mêlant art, son et choix de dialogues pour une narration immersive et ciblée. Les visuels peints à la main à l'encre et à l'aquarelle de l'illustratrice finlandaise Laura Sivonen s'associent à un voice-acting professionnel et une bande-son orchestrale pour sublimer le récit.
Penny croise des figures féminines puissantes qui défient les stéréotypes, au cœur de croyances changeantes, de sciences opposées aux sages-femmes et aux folkloristes rusés, et de cycles de fortune. L'expérience met l'histoire au premier plan, loin des réflexes ou des scores. Elle convient aussi bien aux novices qu'aux joueurs chevronnés.
In this boldly political interactive story game, a brush with the coronavirus sends Penny back in time to the New England witch hunts. Featuring beautiful hand-painted ink and watercolor art by Finnish illustrator Laura Sivonen, professional voice-acting, and an evocative orchestral soundtrack, Penny’s Path is a feast for your imagination!
Discover a time when traditional beliefs were being replaced by dogmatic institutions, a time when medicine and other sciences simultaneously stole from and persecuted the practices of midwives, astrologers, and other cunning folk. As Penny meets strong female characters who challenge past and present stereotypes, she discovers her own special role in the changing seasons of fortune. Was it all just a dream, or was it a prediction of things to come?
Penny's Path is a linear Visual Novel, a type of the game that combines art, sound, and dialogue choices to make an interactive story experience. Visual Novels are different from standard games in that the focus is usually on the story rather gameplay elements like scores and reflexes. As such, Penny's Path provides an experience that is well-suited both to people new to games as well as experienced gamers.
