The Future Teaches You To Be Alone
I just finished a play-through of Disco Elysium. If you're a fan of wordy CRPGs like (in some ways, very very like) Planescape: Torment it's definitely a great one, and the voice cast of the updated edition, Disco Elysium - The Final Cut, is brilliant and adds a lot to the richness of the story.
Disco Elysium is about an amnesiac detective in a desperate case, in a city like a prism-sphere spinning on the edge of the void. One innovation is that the skills in the game are presented as a cast of characters, very colorful fragments of the protagonist's personality whose running internal discourse composes much of the game's dialog, each with their own personality as deranged as the whole they compose. Savoir Faire, for example, is all about grace and agility, but also show-offishness, con-artistry, and wild self-delusion. Authority is about looking in charge or alternately looking like a total maniac who kicks down doors yelling "I am the law!" Inland Empire is all about artistry and intuitive understanding, but also getting totally lost in a maze of pareidiola and conspiracy theory. And so on.
Only downside is that the Switch port is still a hair crashy (improved but not totally fixed by a recent patch). Still definitely recommend the game, deserves all the critical praise. This entry was originally posted on Dreamwith.
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Disco Elysium is about an amnesiac detective in a desperate case, in a city like a prism-sphere spinning on the edge of the void. One innovation is that the skills in the game are presented as a cast of characters, very colorful fragments of the protagonist's personality whose running internal discourse composes much of the game's dialog, each with their own personality as deranged as the whole they compose. Savoir Faire, for example, is all about grace and agility, but also show-offishness, con-artistry, and wild self-delusion. Authority is about looking in charge or alternately looking like a total maniac who kicks down doors yelling "I am the law!" Inland Empire is all about artistry and intuitive understanding, but also getting totally lost in a maze of pareidiola and conspiracy theory. And so on.
Only downside is that the Switch port is still a hair crashy (improved but not totally fixed by a recent patch). Still definitely recommend the game, deserves all the critical praise. This entry was originally posted on Dreamwith.
comments are there.