Disco Elysium - The Final Cut

The game starts of brilliantly and the first 75% of the game had me completely hooked. However just as it's largest influence Planescape Torment, Disco Elysium falls slightly apart during the last 25% of the story. The conclusion left me slightly disappointed and I found some of it quite silly after the story being so serious for 90% of the game (like the Game of Thrones conclusion but not as bad). The second area is also a drop in quality but not terrible overall. The mechanics are unique and work well overall (although it is difficult to say at the beginning of the game which skills do what). RNG still plays a role in all situations but in an RPG it is fine (I was lucky and managed to pass 4 impossible checks in my playthrough). I recommend not reloading when failing checks as almost all failed checks can be either retried or solved differently. The humour is hit and miss for me. Some of it was genuinely funny other times I felt it was somewhat forced. I did not care for the political view choices in many dialogues either. In some cases they added to the experience. However I wanted to play an apolitical character focusing on the case and nothing else. This was not possible as being apolitical often meant that you agreed with the spoken dialogue (so I had a character who was a real populist, agreeing with whatever for political gains - instead of a neutral observer). Also some of the dialogue was forced in situations where it did not belong. Finally, I think that using existing languages and references to existing locations subtracts from the immersion. If you can speak Dutch, German, French, Spanish and have some understanding of some Slavic words the immersion is quickly lost as you asociate names and places with existing events and countries. This also means that you project your own knowledge into the game, which in my opinon should defintely no the aim. Unique at time brilliant, but so flawed. Like the detective.

Wow what a game, I honestly didn't think I was going to enjoy this game because of the length, there is a lot of reading and also the fact that there isn't any action gameplay. I am glad I waited for the Final Cut version of the game to come out before I played it because the voice acting was amazing and definitely made the game much more enjoyable. Overall, Disco Elysium's world building and story is captivating, the voice acting was amazing, and it was just fun to play and see what happens next. Likes: Graphics / Visual Style Music / Sound Design / Voice Acting Story Characters Dislikes: N/A Rating: 9/10 Recommend: Yes!

Firstly I don't fully agree with the genre definition here. Yes you can say it RPG to the same extent as you can say that DOOM is. It actually is much closer to the quest games of late 90s/early 2000s. That said it does not take anything away from the game. The game itself is absolute masterpiece. From now on I have a new standard for character, dialog, narrative design for myself. And it will be very hard to surpass it.

Great game with unforgettable dialogues and voices. Didn't play so good adventure in ages... if similar big story would be in Cyberpunk - it would beat everything. Quite difficult it might be at the moments. You can even become a communist through the game! Had lot of fun - 60hrs of playtime to beat the game and the side quests. Get prepared for some minor bugs though. Had to reload the save to meet "the Pigs" and get my gun back. Otherwise nadstandard gaming experience. I would more say open-world adventure than hardcore RPG.

This is a fun little novel to read, though there is barely any game-play apart from clicking and talking to people. I do enjoy the premise as a big fan of point and click adventure games, seeing them mix the prior genre with role playing is promising for the future. However, as much as I enjoy the story book, what I cannot abide by is the save feature being locked out randomly and permanently. What this means is.. if I cannot save my game, I have to reload a previous save and hope it let's me save. I just lost 2 hours. I know I can spam click through it all again, but it's a lot of reading to just click through. Just be aware the game can disable saves randomly, it's a bug, one the devs seem keen that does not exist. Sadly I am stuck with it.