Disco Elysium is a groundbreaking role playing game. You’re a detective with a unique skill system at your disposal and a whole city block to carve your path across. Interrogate unforgettable characters, crack murders or take bribes. Become a hero or an absolute disaster of a human being.
probably the best written game I have ever played.
One of my favourite lines from the game (MASSIVE SPOILERS FOR THE LAST 30 MINUTES)
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The Deserter: He opens his eyes and stares right through you. "It was real. I'd seen it. I'd seen it in reality."
Half-Light: Some kind of great terror. Worse than what you've seen.
You: "Seen what?"
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The Deserter: "The mask of humanity fall from capital. It has to take it off to kill everyone - everything you love; all the hope and tenderness in the world. It has to take it off, just for one second. To do the deed. And then you see it. As it strangles and beats your friends to death... the sweetest, most courageous people in the world," he's silent for a second. "You see the fear and power in its eyes. Then you know."
I know right? Like DE has three concurrent narratives; the murder case, the detective's mental state, and political struggle. The case is only really important as a vehicle for the others. Playing the game, it's really obvious that a), the devs are comrades, and b), they care a lot more about the political philosophy and how it manifests in Harry than the case itself.
One of my favourite lines from the game (MASSIVE SPOILERS FOR THE LAST 30 MINUTES)
spoiler
The Deserter: He opens his eyes and stares right through you. "It was real. I'd seen it. I'd seen it in reality."
Half-Light: Some kind of great terror. Worse than what you've seen. You: "Seen what?"
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The Deserter: "The mask of humanity fall from capital. It has to take it off to kill everyone - everything you love; all the hope and tenderness in the world. It has to take it off, just for one second. To do the deed. And then you see it. As it strangles and beats your friends to death... the sweetest, most courageous people in the world," he's silent for a second. "You see the fear and power in its eyes. Then you know."
You: "What?"
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The Deserter: "That the bourgeois are not human."
I tried to convince him I was a fellow communist and he called me a lib. 10/10 political discourse simulator
he called me a reactionary lol
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I know right? Like DE has three concurrent narratives; the murder case, the detective's mental state, and political struggle. The case is only really important as a vehicle for the others. Playing the game, it's really obvious that a), the devs are comrades, and b), they care a lot more about the political philosophy and how it manifests in Harry than the case itself.
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The deserter's island
resolves all the important parts of the game.
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It wasn't the climax of the action and tension. The climax was
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when you have the shootout. Which ends act 2.
To be fair, the number of people saying that was shockingly few, considering gamers normally.