ZERO PARADES: For Dead Spies

I would recommend. I loved the game. I hope there are more games like this in the future.

First off, I'd like to say this game isn't terrible. This is an okay game, but knowing what I know now I would not have paid $35 for it. This is a $20-$25 game that was bumped up because it was "brought to you by the makers of Disco Elysium". With that out of the way, lets go over why I believe this game isn't worth $35. I've played for around 7 (6.9) hours and I still constantly get lost. If I want to avoid circling the same area over and over, I have to fast travel. Then, after fast traveling I have to kind of hope I'll stumble in the right direction to get where I need to go. "But bippo, you're probably just an idiot. I never get lost and always know where I'm going" I hear you say. Well, lets go over something that isn't just up to the kind of player playing the game; bugs. When I was trying to meet the Doctor in party alley, I pressed tab to try and discover things in the area, and saw a lady standing off in the corner. Obviously intrigued by this mystery lady in the shadows, I walked over and began a conversation, only to realize the dialogue was built in a way that suggests you're already familiar with her. Uh oh, now I have a quest to meet some people I've never heard of and the immersion is almost completely gone. Okay, the game just came out not too long ago. Maybe it's too harsh to call out bugs right away before we get patches to fix them? Fair. Lets go over the "branding" around this game. "brought to you by the makers of Disco Elysium" might get you a few more downloads, but it also invites comparisons out the wazoo. In Disco Elysium, it was believable when harry would make odd choices or have weird things to say, because they set him up as that kind of character. You have no idea who he is, and neither does he. You and harry go on a journey of self discovery that could lead to any kind of interactions you could think of. In zero parades for dead spies, Cascade is already set up. In my opinion, there is no reason as to why cascade would have any of that ridiculous DE humor other than the developers saying "hey remember when you could do and say weird stuff in disco? Here some more of that" and often times it falls flat for me. It feels forced. I'd describe the game as comical, not funny. Disco Elysium did a lot of things well, but my favorite was how it made me forget I was following a script. There are characters you have to talk to drive the story forward and it feels rewarding to do so. When you click on them you never know if harry already talked to them before the game started and what kind of hijinks might ensue because of this. This game insists on you gathering irrelevant information for the sake of worldbuilding, which is boring. The best way to sum up my point here is that Disco feels player driven, whereas Zero parades feels author driven, which works well for books but not games. Disco feels like an insane adventure full of excitement and hilarity from start to finish. Zero Parades feels like talking to people on the train to work, or in the waiting room of a doctors office. It just fails to capture your imagination and continues to drone on and on That being said, I don't HATE this game. It does have a sense of charm to it and the writers are just as talented as they've always been. I just hope this game is taken as a learning experience and applied to future games. In conclusion, this game is 100% worth playing, but get it on sale... and when you do, forget disco entirely. Give it a chance on its own right. It can stand alone, just not well

l just cant recomented that narrator sounds like a so unnatural like she dosent want to be there the characters feel no importans at all. all thouths feel so boring and unintresting the game paising is extremely slow and predictable l also found a lot of the text is not voiced acted and if you dont pay attetion you gonna miss key words in the game.

У игры явно есть то самое

luck and skill, operant

Meh, good start, good middle, terrible ending Fells like your choices don't matter, your character doesn't grow, I left the game with a sour taste in my mouth but not for what they intended. In Disco Elysium you had real enemies that you had to conquer, here is more like "yeah, you passed 1 test and now they are your best friends with no strings attatched, just ask the owner of the biggest enterprise on the region abou secret meetings and how they went, he will tell you everithing" PSEUDOPOD was the biggest dissapointment, I got everything back, every clue and had no chance to help him recover besides imprinting myself. Take that and the bugs, missing voicelines, jank controls and the price I wouldn't recommend the game.

I bet making this game was hard, with all the backlash coming from all sides, and still continue coming. Yet they prevailed, and it's an amazing game. As you can guess it has a lot of common things with Disco Elysium, the same painty vibrant art, another completely made-up world with its own politics, economics, technology, nations and religion, the same amount of heavy text, where everyone is a philosopher and a poet: a tailor, a drunkard on the floor, a harmless door and your 15 skills, all contradicting yourself. Disco Elysium is of course a unique novelty, an impossible project somehow manifesting and surviving, full of dreams and romanticized concepts. But I liked Zero Parades more, it's less ambiguous, more concrete, more fleshed-out somehow. Besides the idea of a retro sci-fi spy detective flick is just way cooler in my mind. It was probably just more of my vibe. I absolutely loved the voice acting, even though it had many issues on release, loved the weird, eccentric and loveable characters, with Dr. Gonza probably being the craziest and freakiest one. I loved the episodes of espionage action, even though it was still text and turn based. But I do feel that the game lacks any sort of memorable soundtrack, apart from some written tracks like Cover The Moon. That is a shame. It also runs really poorly on Steam Deck, which is strange, considering how simple the game looks. The skill checks could me logical or less punishing. Juggling clothes around like a clown feels off a second time around. I guess I got a semi-okay ending, although it could be better, or not - who know. But I'm really interested in replaying as a more cold-hearted calculating and sacrificing spy next time. I also want to revisit Disco Elysium now.

As a huge fan of Disco Elysium I was skeptical going in, but I ended up really loving this.

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Zero Parades is another one of those games I can say is "unfortunately really good"; though unlike any other game I've used that phrase for, it is a unique case of the reason not being immediately apparent as the game on it's own would likely be easy to declare a masterpiece in the CRPG genre had it existed under drastically different circumstances. It is ultimately bittersweet that the writers and devs pulled off creating something so damn great despite living in the shadow of Disco Elysium and the horrible business practices of their higher ups, because no matter how great it is, it is doomed to never be judged on its own merits and forced to exist under the thumb of a company that cannot be trusted to keep the souls of it's IPs alive. I didn't go into Zero Parades expecting to like it all that much, I felt it was sure to be a very poor attempt to create Disco without any of the charm, but while certain reused and referencial aspects can certainly make it feel that way, I feel that the team behind the game (sadly whatever is left of them now) proved that they could create something compelling enough that it honestly stopped being all that distracting the more I lived in the world and got to know the people in it. I did not expect this game to exceed my expectations in any way, I went in thinking that, given a miracle, it could end up being a pretty solid game marred by the company's reputation and then when it ended I felt like it was a phenomenal game marred by the company's reputation. There are elements unique to this game that I even slightly enjoy more than how Disco handled them. The Fatigue, Anxiety, Delusion system makes the protagonist feel all the more human, and Hershel as a whole feels a little more freeing to truly roleplay as. I also feel like the world building and character writing almost reaches something near the heights I felt when I first played Disco, though maybe taking a bit longer to really wrap my head around and live with. Of course it's too bad I cannot trust Za/Um to properly allow this setting to expand and live up to it's true potential. Many of the aspects I'd consider flaws here I feel boil down to it presumably being rushed out. It seems they wanted to ship the game fully voiced like Disco's rerelease, so the text to dialogue mismatches and vocal deliveries with incorrect tones and misreads feel a lot more numerous than they did in Disco. There's also just a lot of random unvoiced lines and sentences that cut off too short. In a similar vein is how buggy it can be. My only real complaint is that the game feels like it only really needed a stupidly short time left to cook and they just threw it out there for a quick buck. Really wracking my brain for anything else to complain about, I guess I don't really love the map screen, it could have been a bit more clear and interactive. Maybe the inventory system could have been more sortable but neither of these really felt like a big deal. Zero Parades compelled me in ways I never thought a game with Za/Um in front of it would ever be capable of doing again, I fell deeply in love with it's characters and the twists and turns of their mission, I deeply resonated with many of its themes that manage to feel familiar while standing on their own, and ultimately it left me wanting to play it again and do everything I screwed up as "correctly" as possible. It's only sad that I have to keep reminding myself that not even something I love as much as this game could ever make me trust the company that made it. In the end, I got another fantastic game, but it'd be nice to have something to look forward to