This may not sound very interesting as a story hook, but the game actually allows you to make certain decisions about what his past was and who he is. Your character in Disco Elysium is Harry du Bois, a late-stage alcoholic cop who wakes up to an amnesia hangover due to heavy heavy drinking.
“Your skills guide you, calm you down, but sometimes torture you too.” In consequence, Disco Elysium is not a regular game (whatever that means) but rather a philosophical statement on what human being is and how human mind works. Apparently, they broadcasted an online radio before, and published novels by Robert Kurvitz, Disco Elysium’s lead designer and writer, but no game that might precede something this ambitious.įrom what I understand, ZA/UM is actually not a regular game studio but rather a youth initiative, a proto cultural movement even.
Disco Elysium is the very first release of Estonian studio ZA/UM. Part of the raving is the element of surprise that it came out of a studio never heard of before. Let’s hold the word “best” for a while but this game really Official or otherwise acclaimed nominations include “best narrative”, “best music”, “best art”, “best voice acting”, “ best RPG in the last decade”, “ best RPG since Planescape: Torment”, or even “ best cRPG ever”. Some critiques already named it as Game of the Year. Did you hear about Disco Elysium? If you are even remotely following game industry news, then yes, you did.
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