Disco Elysium - The Final Cut

You'll often find diamonds like this outside of the classic FPS genre, games that are incredibly engaging whilst having few quoted 'action' scenes. Games that spend all their time and effort building up characters, world building, asking fundamental questions to the player that to be brutally frank tell a much, much more engaging story then the latest FPS shooter. This game, is one of those games. This game is a adventure-drama, pick your own story experience, not unlike heavy rain, beyond two souls or Detroit: Become human. You start as a man who has suffered oblivion, you name, who you are and what you do are all a mystery to you whilst you attempt to solve a murder that has the stage set for a civil war. In the mean time you will slowly learn more about the world you live in which is very much alike and unlike our own current reality. A master class in world building all told through well voice acted characters and your own interal running dialouge will illumate you to its secrets. In short, the gameplay people will mostly be intereacting with will be dice rolls based on how you have built you character in certain aspects be they, intellect, psyche, physique or motoronics. If played earnestly this game may even reveal something about yourself you may have not known. You might be a staunch believer of socialist ideals, a champion of free market ideology, a conservative fascist or a idealistic centrist. You'll agree and disargee with many a character whilst you form your own opinions about the world around you. The majority of which will have some sort of effect on conversations or actions you encounter thorugh out the game in the form of unique dialouge choices or more often modifiers on dice rolls, increasing or decreasing your chances. All in all I wish there was more, for me its a bitter sweet experience. Sweet that I played such an amazing game that has me begging for more, bitter that its all ended and I feel a void is left. Really hoping for a sequel.

5/5 Stars easily. I cannot recommend this game enough!

I didn't get most of what was happening and died by retirement right in the beginning.

I don't know what I am playing. I guess there are so many games out there nowadays, that they try really hard to create something different. Not always succeeding. IMHO, this is an example. The game is full of charisma but the game play is totally messed up and a total drag. Everything is slow, to represent your state of mind but gosh... This is too much. I get depressed by just playing the game. Is not funny nor entertaining. The narrating voice is nice but just too long-winded and not really engrossing after a while. The rolling mechanic, again, seems too random. You have this kind of one roll that you have chance to fail quite regularly from beginning towards the end. The character creation is not really intuitive on how it works. Overall, very stylish but I am not sure I can recommedn it.

It's a really nice RPG/point & click adventure game. There's great world building with lots of backstory and such that makes Revachol seem like a real place with real history. The story seems straightforward enough, but I soon found myself involved in surreal side-investigations. I'm not sure what I did wrong (based on other reviews) but I finished the game in 12 hours (game-time) including a few side investigations (church, cryptoid thing, curse, body on boardwalk). I wasn't trying to rush or blitz through it, and actually restarted once because I thought I had rushed something and wanted to do it properly. There were things left undone and I meant to go back and do them but somehow the story ended (I met up with the other detectives, they explained what was going on, then credits and then back to the main menu). Most other reviews suggest 20-30 hours, and I'm no "hardcore gamer" so I'm inclined to think I screwed up somewhere, but equally the game let me screw up... That said, there's clearly some re-play value as I failed a few checks due to not having (and not being able to have) enough points for certain skills due to my character archetype, but I'm not sure the story is interesting enough (now I know what happens) to re-do it right away.