Spoilers for the whole game.
The ending destroyed me. Both dream sequences were some of the best moments I've experienced in any game, but the second one especially struck a nerve and was an especially bittersweet bit of melancholy.
Also, the Deserter was such an interesting character, his dialog about witnessing capital taking off its human face was well written and heartbreaking.
10/10, not much else to say. (Maybe just a side note that anything other than Sorry cop, Communist, and psyche specialist HDB felt way too natural, like that was just the way you were meant to play the game).
Play OMORI next!
...Oh, and I guess Baldur's Gate 3 since it's now out.
Oh yeah, and Pathfinder: Kingmaker and Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous.
Sadly uni starts soon and Path of Exile 3.22 comes out in a week so I don't have time! But I will definitely play OMORI and BG3 once I find the time.
If you want more great "story games" like Disco Elysium then you should play OMORI and (I guess, but I haven't played it yet) Baldur's Gate 3.
Oh yeah, and Pathfinder: Kingmaker and Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous, but that's only if you're really into CRPGs.
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Someone brought up the dream sequence and not the overrated shoot-out sequence!
(Which is still the best shoot-out sequence I've ever encountered in a game, btw.)
Well in my game the tribunal just went terribly haha. I did a sober run and all the checks had like 15% chance to succeed, failed all of them miserably except saving Kim. I felt the worst over Elizabeth dying honestly, I respected the Hardie boys but they had signed up to defend Martinaise and their sacrifice was something they had agreed to. But Elizabeth was innocent.
The dream sequence at the end was something else. Something about how Dolores had been presented as a recipient for all humanity's love, a perfect human, yet there was immense pain associated with her thru her genocide and the baggage HDB projects onto her just made it feel bizarre. Felt a lot like the third act of Mulholland Drive, where the rug gets pulled from under you and the characters you loved have betrayed each other so all the warmth is gone, it's just despair.
: She's a firebrand socialist, Harry!Not sure if she's completely innocent of everything or anything but I didn't find out anything bad about her in my playthrough and she did nothing but defend the Union. The way Evrart described her, she was even more radical than him, and he's already a communist who's willing to do anything to win the class war.