Disco Elysium - The Final Cut

Stale RPGs are a dime a dozen these days. While this game attempts to be different, it seems to be too heavily reliant on dialogue and uses a scenic world as a crutch.

First of all, it's true what they say: this choose-your-own-adventure-book is masquerading as a game. That being said - I actually *like* a good choose-your-own-adventure-book. Planescape Torment and to some extent Arcanum and the original Fallouts come to mind. So why is this one very very very bad? :-) Someone without a post-sovjet + historical + literary background would have no way knowing what this game actually is. This is, unashamedly, a cannibalistic and chauvinistic pamphlet, masquerading as a late-sovjet sci-fi book mixed with Colombian magic realism of the 60s. The message? Mother Graad'sha is the greatest, brutally awesome (think Pladymyr Vutin - on a horse) [ahaha game - see! I can has artsy "fake" names too!!!] mono-ethnic civilization, its neighbors are all techno-fascist, or not-real and the duopoli of the Moralintern are invaders and colonizers (I'm not even going to bother looking up the "artsy" pseudo-Slavic and/or pseudo-Spanish names the author got from randomnamegenerator,com for the EU and the US) This all is structured in a frighteningly professional way and does a terrifyingly good job distracting from it's agenda and targeting multiple audiences simultaneously. It's brilliant this way: it adjusts the SAME message to different audiences without tipping-off the others. How do I even know, if this is so brilliantly done? A blunt reference to the two Ichkerian wars, described (of course) from the official Kremlin perspective tipped me off: it was so pointlessly full of very personal hatred it shattered the illusion, so I started going back and re-reading dialog options. I don't even know what to do with this. As I said.. a very specific background.. and luck.. Thank god not many people will play this.

Excellent game. You should play it. Truly original. HOWEVER, unless you are richer than a successful game developer, you should not pay for it. You should "borrow it." At cannon-point on the high seas. Why? Because the develpers are Commies. For real. As in "Real Socialism." Help the nice commies live up to their commie precepts. Precepts such as "From each according to his capabilities, to each according to his needs." You have more needs than the rich communists, right? Thus you should feel free to help them not be hypocrites. 'Cause commies are never hypocrites right? Not if we can help it.

From a most objective point of view. Compare to other game with similar or better quality, This one Not worth $39.99, No matter what Art Form you consider it is. Fiction book, Art book, Interactive Software ...

With the best of intentions, I cannot understand the many positive reviews for Disco Elysium. I don't like this game at all. If this game has aroused your interest, then read the one-star ratings here beforehand. For me, this was an absolute bad buy. Don't waste your money on this game.