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Five of the Best: Meals

A table of food, illustrated for the game Pentiment. We see a tart, roast fowl, bred, wine and other morsels presented before us.
Image credit: Obsidian

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Games have always struggled a bit with the fundamental truth that we, as humans, need to eat in order to survive. The problem is that cooking and eating slow us down and take us out of the action, because theytake time. It wouldn't do for Nathan Drake to hang about making a sandwich before exploring a Nepalese temple, now, would it?

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