Posted on: March 30, 2021
mzywiol
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"Crime and Punishment" of videogames
So many times I've heard of video games medium still waiting for their "Citizen Kane". I don't know about Kane, but in "Disco Elysium" we got our "Crime and Punishment". "Undertale" is like "Watchmen": it's amazing, layered and extremely self-referential, but you can only appreciate it if you've played other RPG games/read other visual novels about superheroes. "Disco", on the other hand, is like Dostoyevski's master work. Not only it has this dense, heavy, very Russian atmosphere (Robert Kurvitz's hometown of Tallin, Estonia is not that far away from St Petersburg), but also while it's lengthy, wordy and seems like impossible to get through, once you get into it, it turns out to be surprisingly light at times, flows extremely well, it's full of fleshed-out characters and everyone - really, everyone - could find something that resonates to them in the myriad of stories told. Truly a masterpiece in the medium of video games. PS. Also, that music... I thought it absolutely makes sense that the soundtrack to a game called "Disco Elysium" was made by a band that previously recorded an album titled "Valhalla Dancehall", but the truth is, it was the other way around - Robert Kurvitz is such a fan of the band that the game is absolutely riddled with references to the band's body of work.
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