极乐迪斯科

一周目50小时通关，深受震撼。 本作在文字、美术和音乐方面的优秀各家都夸得很多，在此就不赘述了。我主要想谈谈游戏在系统设计上的突破。 先下结论，个人认为本作革新了角色扮演的体验。 在此之前，我还没有看到哪一款RPG能够在“角色扮演”这点上做到如此的平衡和深入。玩家扮演的角色要么只能如创作者的提线木偶般，在既定的剧本（无论单线或多线）中循规蹈矩地行动；要么就是无视人物本身的身份立场和行为逻辑，在所谓的开放世界中肆意妄为。而本作破天荒地把角色的直觉反应和心理活动纳入到玩家可控制的范畴，使得角色的每个行为决定既具备了适度的自由选择又兼顾了合理的动机支撑，在角色扮演的可信度上大大前进了一步。 同时，这也给角色的情感挖掘和人格塑造带来了极大的可能性，玩家第一次被赋予了能够由内到外地扮演一个鲜活角色的权利。诚然，这一点在本作中体现得还不是十分明显，但先河已开，后来者只需在此基础上各显神通，将其发扬光大了。 总而言之，这个神来之笔的设计极大地增强了玩家的代入感，也是游戏虽无战斗但绝不枯燥的根本原因。事实上，战斗系统与之并不冲突，甚至还能形成互补。依个人之拙见，这将很快成为具野心的RPG作品之标配。 —————————————————————— 此外，还想谈谈本作的中文化。 本作文本的翻译难度之大有目共睹，汉化组能在较短时间内以较高质量完成中文化实属不易。这也得益于开放商对于中文市场的重视以及前康米主义兄弟情谊的加持。但不可否认的是，即使经过最近的一轮更新，目前成品的质量仍远远称不上完美，各种瑕疵、错漏仍随处可见。这对一个游玩体验高度依赖文本阅读的作品来说是相当致命的。好消息是开发商和汉化组承诺将持续改进中文化质量，他们的努力我们中文玩家也是看在眼里的。 最后，热切盼望早日看到完美中文化的《极乐迪斯科》，也希望ZA/UM再接再厉，不断为世界玩家带来游戏艺术精品。

This is literally my favorite game ever but the people who originally created the game and setting have been kicked out from ZA/UM and do not have control of their idea. I would highly recommend finding "alternative" ways to play this game as it is truly peak RPG gaming.

Disco Elysium has by far the best writing I've ever experienced in any game, and that's an understatement. I'm also a book nerd and have often found myself thinking, whilst paging through some novel: "well, the writing here is good, but it ain't no disco elysium". The characters feel real. Blood and meat, and bones real. Kim is so well-written he sometimes doesn't even feel like an NPC, but like a bro you're enjoying this experience with. The world, while being really unique also feels real and you learn it in the best way possible - with a character that has a story-justified reason to learn the world with you. It's masterfully clever. The art style is awesome (but that's also subjective), it kind of grasps at the moment in modern art evolution after all the Dalis and Picassos rulebreaking fun era and before all the 90s-00s putting weird stuff in a jar and calling it art era. The voice acting is the best I've ever heard, especially the narrator. How one guys can make 13 different characters sound at the same time distinct and the same is beyond me. Disco Elysium is trully a 'narcotic' experience that breaks your expectations and then picks up the broken pieces of them and build a marvellous collage. ELECTROCHEMISTRY(success): Did he just say 'narcotic experience'? Why are you still waiting, BRING. IT. ON! VOLITION(success): Don't listen to him. He's just attempting to share something. Truth is you will visit Revachol for a while and then leave it. As a guest, not as a local. You will not stay at the whirling in rags, you will not wear ridiculous ties. You will feel bad about leaving. You will wish you never visited in the first place. Then one day, you'll walk down a street in the evening, watch the sodium lamps radiate monocolor and then hear the tinhorns sound in your head. Then all will be fine again.

After listening to 10+ hours of inconsequential drivel from different NPC's, this bit of text from the game summarized the experience perfectly for me: " 'And, as you know, they have this very distinctive dress uniform with scarlet breeches and little cylindrical fur caps, I think these are called...' You daze off, as Trant tells you about the peculiarities of mounted police forces in central Occident." It's like the writer suddenly realized "What the heck am I even writing about here??? There aren't any mounted police forces or central Occident even in the game! Let's end the dialogue quickly this time. Oh my god I wrote the ENTIRE GAME like this..." There is just way, way too much information about things that don't matter in the context of the main quest, side quests or the world that you can interact with. There are many more problems in the game, but I'm very forgiving about general gameplay and design hiccups in a story driven game if the characters, the world and the story are interesting. It's a shame the game fails in that department, because it does have some potential. The art is good. A couple of the main story NPC's are written and voiced nicely. When I interacted with them, I was thinking the game would be so much better if all characters gave out such relevant information. Despite the 2 star review I'm willing to try their next game, if the writing is more focused on the immediate happenings of the game. The parts of the game where that happened, I enjoyed.

I like (mostly funny) click'n'point adventures, where you can goof around and I like RPGs (inparticular action RPGs), but I don't get this game. The game feels like a very slow and detailed version of King's Quest I. I don't feel free to goof around, since everything might have consequences. You can die, time is constantly moving and I might have messed up already two hours ago by giving a wrong answer or by leveling a wrong stat. So far the murder mystery story did not grab me either and the NPCs love to talk about fantasy racism and politics (without funny/clever/satirical connections to the real world - or I don't get them).