Disco Elysium: The Final Cut

Easily the best set of characters ever written into a video game. Voice acting is phenomenal, and the art style is beautiful. **** Za/Um though.

I know most people adore this game and a bunch of people hate it, but I'm kind of in the middle. It's abundantly clear that it was crafted with a lot of passion and an insane amount of creativity, but it didn't really draw me in as much as I expected or hoped. It probably doesn't help that I'm more into action RPGs than tabletop RPGs, but... The writing is mostly top-notch, with really convincing and original dialogues, and a decent amount of positive wackiness. The dialogues between personality traits were a great addition too, both amusing and insightful. Above all, the huge number of dialogue options means that we can craft our relationships with other people in very specific ways, and every choice matters and has consequences. However, there is a strange emphasis on (fictional, though based on parallels to real-world) politics. This is fine by itself, but most of the time dialogue options are either very radical or completely ambivalent ("I have no opinion"), with nothing moderate. This broke immersion for me, because aside from my own rather moderate political opinions, I also feel like an amnesiac rediscovering the world wouldn't form radical opinions straight away. The personality/skill system was well-written, but to be fair was one of the main reasons why I couldn't really get into the game. Firstly, I constantly felt like the character *would* have some personality traits still inside him despite the amnesia, which he'd gradually rediscover, instead of going in a completely new direction, which to an extent broke the immersion for me as well. Secondly, the dice-based system meant that it was possible to pass almost every check if we tinker around with clothing and wait with levelling up skills until they're needed. This made it in my view neither realistic nor particularly engaging. Really pleasant and original visual design and fantastic story design, but the implementation isn't perfect. The game actually feels like it should be really inaccessible to a lot of people, so I find it puzzling that it's consistently rated as one of the top games of all time. I really tried, but I just can't see why.

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The port is full of lags and bugs that spoil all other components of this game.

I have no idea why this game is so popular. The dialogue/narration is full of pretentious garbage, and the gameplay is extraordinarily slow and boring. Disco Elysium is a snoozefest, plain and simple.