Disco Elysium - The Final Cut

The game promised much, but in reality it is a jumble of doubly pseudo-intellectual text that could pass as ironic if it were sufficiently grounded in something compelling. The core problem is that as time goes by you find that it is a useless script, characters that stand like lampposts in place all the time, a map that is appealing in principle but becomes tedious and tiresome day by day. The character setup files, the ideas, the objects, promised a lot, but in the end nothing work toghether nothing materializes, it never works with the script and the text of the story that is with capital letters a heavy indescribable suffering. They need much better scriptwriters, and real hardcore gamers to redesign all the game throw the garbage by the window (with director included) and try it again without mumbo jumbo gibberish wathever comes to mind deceiving "playing" system.

An unpleasant game about unpleasant people doing unpleasant things in unpleasant places. It's got a lovely art style, but that wasn't enough to salvage the game. I didn't enjoy a minute of my time with Disco Elysium.

刚玩完的时候，我感觉一般，原以为会是一个正儿八经的革命大剧，结果最后以超自然事件戛然而止，然后就觉得有点像一个喝醉了的鬼佬臆想出来的意识流世界，虽然苏联解体后的东欧也确实很魔幻现实主义吧。 虽然之后还是想明白了点儿，七十多年的共产主义社会实验早产在苏联，伟大的同时也有迫于现实的无奈，就像最后的巨大竹节虫一样，神秘动物学家坚信它存在的同时，其他人对这个想法只是嗤之以鼻或漠不关心，如同早期的共产主义斗士一样，当代人对之存在与其理想或许有时候想不通，但其历史上确实存在的现实与共产主义终将实现的理想使得等以后哪一天时机成熟了促使世界产生巨变之日，终将会震惊不信“巨大竹节虫”的普通人。 At the moment I had just finished the game, I thought it was just normal. I used to think that it must be a great historical revolution scenario which turned out to be, like a drunk man imagined the world, ended up in an unreasonable supernatural event with a gaint walkingstick, although the former soviet union contries in east europe in 90s are indeed sad、 bad and unresonable. However I came to understand the meaning which the game wanted to convey, in my own understanding. The Soviet social communism experiment happened in last century and lasted for more than 70 years was great and noble, but meanwhile failed in many domestic or foreign difficulties, with despair and helpless. CCCP, founded by a pile of people who were full of passion and idealism, was a premature infant according to the theory of traditional Marxism. Some other people now, brainwashed by neoliberalism and consumerism, sometimes hardly understand the situation in history and what it does bring us. They, just like the people in game who are skeptical about the gaint walkingstick, are attacking those socialism ideals. It is a wonderful metaphor to compare that gaint walkingstick with communism ideals, because they are all regarded as things that would never exist in the world. But in the near future, I believe the realities that exist in history and the ideals that communism will eventually realize will cause the world to change dramatically and make a better world when the time is right, which will shock everyone who previously did not believe "the gaint Walkingstick". Proletarians of the world, unite!

As interesting and strange as the games world is, I can't forgive percentage based dialogue skills checks in RPG's for me they completely ruin any and all conversations with the games characters, for knowing that if I fail I can reload a save and try again negating the whole point of spending points in any speech categories.

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