Disco Elysium - The Final Cut

Masterpiece. Don't buy it.

incredibly boring gameplay, or maybe the better choice of words are that there is no gameplay in the first place

can the original developers please make something along the lines of a visual novel where kim and harry yaoi is the only thing that happens in it

‎Я не просто играл в дискач, я, ♥♥♥, жил в ней. И теперь я буду тем занудой, который говорит: Эта игра изменила меня!!!!!!! Конечно это не совсем правда, но темы на подумать безусловно остались. ‎ ‎Это не детектив в привычном понимании, где ты ищешь улики. Ты здесь, чтобы собрать в первую очередь себя, разобраться в своем прошлом и понять, как тебе быть дальше. Ты просыпаешься в разгромленном номере и не помнишь даже своего имени, а на дворе болтается смешной весельчак. Вместе с напарником Кимом (лучшим компаньоном в истории игр, фо рил ) ты пытаешься выяснить, что произошло. Хотя это выглядит как... Одноименное аниме про дайвинг, где дайвинга была одна серия. ‎ ‎Ну короче, почему это гениально: ‎ ‎1. Мозг это главный игровой процесс. У тебя 24 навыка, и каждый из них - это голос в твоей голове. Логика что-то доказывает, эмпатия чувствует чужую боль, а шизоидность советует прикольнуть галстук. Они спорят, подсказывают и постоянно пытаются тебя запутать. Это безумие, но в этом-то вся суть и прикол, который зашёл не только мне, но и большинству. ‎2. Персонажи, которых не забудешь. У многих персонажей на улице такая история, что хочется заплакать. Каждый диалог это либо ебнуться какая психотерапия, либо дичайший фарс. Ты можешь быть суперзвездой, бомже-копом и, о Господи, коммунистом! И игра реагирует на любой твой выбор, что очень приятно. ‎3. Атмосфера, которая так хорошо знакома комьюнити из постсоветского пространства. Картинка похожа на масляную живопись, а музыка группы British Sea Power создает ощущение, что ты смотришь нуарный фильм. Визуал и саундтрек работают в унисон, превращая Ревашоль в поистине живой и атмосферный город. ‎ ‎Важно: Здесь нет привычных сражений. Весь экшен в твоей голове и в диалогах. Если тебе нужен динамичный шутер, пройди мимо. Но если ты готов читать и чувствовать, то это откровение. Просто дай игре шанс: первые часы она может казаться странной и непонятной, но как только ты втянешься, она затянет тебя с головой . ‎ ‎Итог: Игра шикарна, чего я ещё скажу? Уже все расписал!!!! Разве что жалею, что долго не закрывал её на сотку. Потраченного времени не жаль. Всех люблю целую!!! ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎И, пожалуйста, не снимай галстук!!! Я обожаю его, но все ещё не Ким

I could go on and on about this game, but I'll keep it simple and say this is one of the most unique and enthralling RPGs I have ever played. In no other game can you be an Apologetic, Fascist, Neo-Liberal, Communist, Drunk, Super-Cop and still solve an incredibly complex murder mystery. 10/10

I wouldn't call Disco Elysium a game, since most of the gameplay you'll be interacting with is reading, not playing. A "visual novel" with some light point&click adventure elements or "choose your own adventure book" would describe this game more accurately. With that said, the gameplay of Disco Elysium is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ fire. Devs definitely did their homework on everything they touched in their game, be it medical (both physical and psychological) conditions, political themes, or philosophical topics. This game also has a range - it can be both depressing and inspirational, funny and sad. all at the same time. It's a shame the original devs got scammed out of their own company by current leadership of ZA/UM, but hey, even if we won't ever get a proper sequel or DLC, I'm still happy this game was made.

This is no longer just a game. This is art. This is a masterpiece, a work that uses the medium of video games to bring together literature, history, philosophy, psychology, and sociology. If I were to imagine the kind of game I would want to create, there would probably be two different possibilities. One would be something like Stardew Valley: a warm, peaceful home where you can temporarily escape from reality. The other would be something like Disco Elysium: a game that forces you to look into the deepest parts of yourself while relentlessly questioning yourself, other people, the world around you, and the meaning of existence itself. The moment I opened the game and saw Revachol at sunset, painted in those loose, expressive brushstrokes and those incredible colors, I knew the visual style was made for me. The art direction throughout the entire game is stunning. And then there is the writing. Apparently everyone in Revachol is a philosopher. You could pull almost any random person off the street and end up talking to them for hours. Sometimes I genuinely wished I could crawl through the screen and sit down with these people from different classes, backgrounds, political ideologies, and schools of thought and simply talk. I wanted to hear all the different ways they understood the world. And the game lets you listen and reflect. The pain, confusion, oppression, and nihilism that permeate the writing suddenly brought me back to my years in academic research. Reading it gave me that peculiar, exhilarating feeling of recognition I sometimes get from Dostoevsky: that feeling of entering minds that are painfully self-aware, contradictory, ridiculous, wounded, and desperately trying to make sense of themselves and the world. After changing fields, I had been away from the humanities and social sciences for so long that I had almost started to fear I had lost a part of myself, the part that could perceive and appreciate subtle and abstract forms of beauty. But the familiarity Disco Elysium awakened in me made me realize something: It is still there. I did not lose it. I can hardly imagine how much knowledge, reading, thought, history, politics, philosophy, and lived experience must have gone into creating Revachol, into creating an entire world like this. Revachol feels as if it has existed long before you arrived and will continue to exist long after you leave. Its history weighs on every street, every building, every political argument, and almost every person you meet. But more than anything, I don’t think I will ever forget those words at the end: “I exist.” The weight of those words hit me straight in the heart. They feel unbearably heavy. I think they land differently on anyone who has ever fallen into nihilism, anyone who has ever stared at existence itself and asked: Why? What does any of this mean? Why am I here? And perhaps sometimes existence simply is. Perhaps the answer has been inside the question all along. “I exist.” Maybe that is enough. Finishing Disco Elysium felt like living through an entire century. Through every side quest, every conversation, every ridiculous failure, and every small discovery, you watch people in Revachol struggle with history, ideology, poverty, loneliness, grief, love, memory, disappointment, and themselves. It is a heavy game. Everyone is struggling. But somewhere inside all that struggle, there is always the faintest trace of hope. Not optimism. Not a promise that everything will eventually be fine. Just a tiny, stubborn possibility that something can still exist, something can still change, and perhaps you can still keep going. And the mere existence of that tiny, stubborn hope within all that struggle... that, to me, is Disco Elysium. Finally, I just want to express my respect and gratitude to everyone who created this game. Thank you for making something like this exist. HARD CORE!!