Posted on: April 2, 2024
Louard_le_Barbare
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A triumph of roleplaying games
Disco Elysium is an experience. While inspired by CRPG classics (notably Planescape: Torment, although you play as a drunken cop and not an immortal warrior), it’s very much its own beast with a unique atmosphere and smartly-designed mechanics. Being a narrative-driven game where everything is achieved through dialogue trees and dice rolls, DE is thoroughly well-written, and a great example of gameplay/writing integration. It goes to great lengths to let you forge your character’s personality as you see fit: the Detective will be a different person in each game, with events and conversations each time playing out in a new way. It’s pretty much impossible to see all the game has to offer in one playthrough, but DE cleverly encourages you to embrace your failures, as selecting terrible dialogue options or failing checks will often yield hilarious results! What I’d consider a design flaw though is that some skillchecks are needed to complete important quests… And if your character is not built for them, those can be nearly insurmountable, even with temporary modifiers applied. It can be frustrating. Still, Describing DE in terms of gameplay does not do it justice. It’s a dense and heartfelt experience, hard to sell without spoilers. It’s about psychology and politics. About the comedic and tragic aspects of mental illness. About the secrets people and places hold from you. About all the things we messed up and can never fix again. About all the hope and beauty left in the world. About so much more. It feels a bit “artsy” on occasion, but has so much to say and says it so well that you can’t fault it for that. So yes, Disco Elysium is worth your time and attention, for all these reasons and more (I haven’t even gotten into the stellar quality of the visuals, music and voice-acting!) Considering the issues around the studio that made it, they may never release anything else of this quality, but they still game us one of the best and most unique RPGs on the market.
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