I won't be original here, but I finished Disco Elysium 4 times and I cried every time, for different reasons, just can't help it. No other popular culture product even came close. Maybe Beasts of the Southern Wild, the movie, but still not even close.
my one critique of the game is the ruby section tbh. i talked for like 2 lines and then had an opening to turn off the machine, told her not to kill herself and then she ran away immediately. the whole story i never really met ruby and it was very unsatisfying. i spent days looking for her and didn't learn anything!
That's the only location in the game where you meet her, but you learn a lot (of false information) about her from Klasje, by searching Ruby's truck (which I didn't even discover on my 1st playthrough), and from the Hardy Boys. I've had a pretty long convo with her in that hideout, but it probably also depend on the type of character you are building. That said, whether you kill her or she runs away, it does feel rather abrupt.
I won't be original here, but I finished Disco Elysium 4 times and I cried every time, for different reasons, just can't help it. No other popular culture product even came close. Maybe Beasts of the Southern Wild, the movie, but still not even close.
It has more emotional range than any game starring
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a gym teacher
has any right to have
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I shot Ruby by rolling bad dice--it felt so bad, but i thought it'd be more authentic to keep going without reloading 😭
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my one critique of the game is the ruby section tbh. i talked for like 2 lines and then had an opening to turn off the machine, told her not to kill herself and then she ran away immediately. the whole story i never really met ruby and it was very unsatisfying. i spent days looking for her and didn't learn anything!
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That's the only location in the game where you meet her, but you learn a lot (of false information) about her from Klasje, by searching Ruby's truck (which I didn't even discover on my 1st playthrough), and from the Hardy Boys. I've had a pretty long convo with her in that hideout, but it probably also depend on the type of character you are building. That said, whether you kill her or she runs away, it does feel rather abrupt.