(There is no action.) You unlock different dialogue trees by allotting points to various skill sets. It’s a conversation simulator and rewards the type of player who doesn’t skip dialogue to get to the action. This game doesn’t have combat or multi-jump levels to clear. You also meet enterprising businessmen, loyal union members, and (my favourite) erudite/pretentious undergraduates who are trying to revive the spirit of Communism.Īre you truly a leftist if you don’t cast aspersions on the ideological purity of other leftists? You meet drug-addled preteens and disillusioned teenage vandals. There’s a building called the “Doomed Commercial Area” where businesses go to die. The statue of the old monarch has been defaced with a bullet. The game paints a beautiful and tragic picture of a defeated city that’s trying to breathe again. All of this is set in Revachol, a city trying to rebuild itself after a crushed Communist revolution. The player’s job is reconstruction - you have a murder to solve and you have to figure out who you are. In Disco Elysium, you play a cop who’s lost his memory after a legendary and destructive bender.
Luckily, Disco Elysium is the best thing I’ve read all year. With over one million words in the game, there’s a lot to read. I described it to a friend as a “game for readers”. It wasn’t intentional I just found the game so immersive that I could think of little else when I was away from it. For two weeks in August, I put all my books away and played Disco Elysium.
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