You and your partner/voice of reason/best video game character in a generation Kim Kitsuragi have a number of set objectives to complete, namely, solving a murder, but you’re left to your own devices in how you go about it. Disco Elysium: The Final Cut always lets your choices and actions guide the plot, with any number of different paths being available to you to hunt down answers. Of course, if the game’s writing was only concerned with political ideology, it would be more of a lecture than a video game. The game doesn’t try to argue that ‘all sides have a point’ or anything pedantic like that - the fascist dialogue paths make you an absolutely awful person, and on the opposite end of the spectrum the communist dialogue paths make you reckon with the gulf between your ideals and your current reality. There are four major political identities your detective can fall into: communist, ultraliberal, moralist, or, if you really just can’t read the room, fascist. Your hapless, amnesiac cop quickly finds himself in a massive conspiracy involving a labor strike, a failed communist revolution, and some truly weird forces that might push past your human understanding.ĭisco Elysium: The Final Cut still wears its politics on its sleeve, giving an unabashed dash of very clear real-world ramifications in all of its situations. Underneath its rough opener, Disco Elysium is, just as it was at its initial release, a mind-searing manifesto of a video game. Staying on the ride is well worth your time and energy, though. Maybe now’s the time to get off this ride if you can’t handle it.” Disco Elysium The Final Cut The game almost dares you to stick with it, as if to say, “do you really have the stomach to solve this mystery? It’s a gross world, after all. In the first hour or so, you’re bombarded with vomit, a corpse, deep existential self-loathing, open racism, and a few censored (but still very clear) homophobic slurs. ZA/UM’s smash hit, which we called the most intoxicating RPG of 2019, doesn’t make itself easy to get along with in its early stages. In other words, it’s Disco Elysium wrapped up in a bow. The introduction is cerebral, opaque, and captivating. This is your introduction to the world of Disco Elysium, whether it’s your first trip to the war-ravaged city of Revachol and the district of Martinaise, or you’ve been around this neighborhood before. Then you wake up - a mostly naked, hungover cop who’s forgotten everything, even your own name. Disco Elysium: The Final Cut begins the same way its original release did in late 2019: in total darkness, with the voice of your own Reptilian Brain and Limbic System encouraging you to stay in the dark.
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