u/Sensitive_Brick_1412

>!No sympathy from me. He saw the light wayyyy too light. Bev's a racist bitch of an antagonist, but none of this would have happened if not for him. The less mysterious he became, the more pathetic he looked.!<

>!You got a smear of what you wanted, and you got a whole town burned for it. I wish Sarah was more mad at him for it, but I guess this show is all about giving grace to those who have done wrong.!<

From the new and better looking models for rhe characters, to much more interesting perspectives like a bird's eye view.

Character movement is much more fluid. Chacaters are straight up doing 360 degree turns.

Much more dynamic. Bob isn't wearing his apron the whole time. The only times he took it off in season 1 was when he was fighting Jairo to defend Tina's honour and when he wore Gene's burger costume.

I LOVED this!

Disco Elysium is a game I've heard about before, yet couldn't begin to imagine what the title could mean. I tried playing this on the computer a few years ago, but the constant lagging of my computer turned me off. When I lost all morale at my first meeting with Evrart I abandoned the game. Losing seemed a good place to end it.

Then, a week or so ago, it was on sale in the Nintendo Eshop so I thought, "Why not? I'll start from scratch."

I can safely say this was a great decision.

This game, the characters, the story, the fucking PROSE, the gameplay, and the humour were fantastic. Failing a check could get annoyingly tedious at times, especially when you had no skill points to retry, but then I got onto this groove of switching between Main quest and side quest, consistently finsihing tasks and earning skill points for lucky checks, so a good chunk of the game was a neat cruise.

The story of Harrier Du Bois slowly being told was quite enjoyable, and I love how every hint to his past recontextualises prior dialogue and actions. Like his last dream of Dolores Dei revealing that Dora is short for Dolores, and thus why he was so shaken by her mural at the Church. Honestly, anytime a side quest was mentioned in the main quest was so fun. Felt like Harry was my own character that I had molded, and the game was following ALL of my actions.

For me, Harry is a well-meaning cop who did some bad shit in a past so terrible his mind let go of it. Now, in his retrograde amnesiac state, his better instincts push him towards a chance at the better life. Like, I rarely drank alcohol in this game because I couldn't afford it, and when I had over 50 real at the end, it didn't matter because I had already conceptualised the thought that made Harry sober. Kim and Minoy even note how I was off the drink.

Oh, and he's a little crazy. So much funny dialogue and options. Kim's reaction to Harry trying to lick alcohol off a table was hilarious. I love the trope of a bumbling fool who is also shockingly competent. Every hunch Harry got linked back to the case. I remember getting this check where he swiped a flower up on the Whirling's rooftop, and then wouldn't you know it, it was actually extremely relevant.

And the case! Yeah, I actually do have some criticims on this case, because in retrospect...like...it's not the satisfaction I was looking for. A communist veteran formed a psychosexual attraction towards a woman, which spurned him to kill her lover, a mercenary from Krennel. The knee jerk reaction from Kim, and everybody else, was that Lely's death had something to do with the Union and the strike. I obviously didn't think that because the game had just started and it can't be that simple. But knowing what I know now, it just feels like the real problem of Martinaise was not solved. Now, in game and in real life, a buddy cop duo can't reconcile the historical political tensions of all people of the world, but in game, the Union and the current politics of Martinaise had been built up, and yet the antagonist that set the game in motion wasn't really a big player in that nor was he even concerned with it. I guess what I'm trying to say is that the truth of the big bad did not lead to some bigger truth in Martinaise. He was a ghost from its history, and killed someone because he was jealous. That's so...small. Which is okay. It still relates to the history of Revachole. It just didnt feel relevant to the current problems of Revachole, unlike the proposed idea that the lynching was a response to the strike. Maybe that's the point. Or that there's different point. Lile...Revachole can't move on if people cling to the past? Or if people ignore the past?

Oh, and I loved the phasmid just turning up at the end. I'm pretty sure it saved Harry's career.

BUT! My favourite moment of the game was Harry and Kim conversing on the swing set, waiitng for the tide to recede so we'd get a better look at a crashed motor carriage. I did not know this was Harry's. When Kim agreed to sit down, it was a sweet moment of respite between two detectives who were so different, yet had such unique chemistry. I enjoyed picking friendly dialogue as time passed, choosing to increase my bond with Kim. The twist that the motor carriage was mine, and that Kim had immediately known hit me (and Harry) like a gut punch. It competely recontexualised the entire scene to something more bittersweet. He entertained Harry's almost childlike assertion that they should stick around to see the model of the car, despite knowing the whole time that it was a police motor carriage and was definitely Harry's. Such a gentle moment from the lieutenant. I love Kim Kitsuragi.

Oh, and that ending was sublime. Kim asserting how Harry, despite the amnesia, alcoholism, losing his badge and gun, crashing the motor carriage and overall being a mess of human, was still one of the best detective he had ever seen was awesome. Vindicating. And well earned. Really felt like I did that. Loved the dialogue afterwards as well. Being able to tell my own exploits, and my own findings felt amazing. As I said before, feeling like the game followed ALL of my actions is so fun.

I really want a sequel. Me and Kim, against Jamrock. That'd be so cool. Here's a pitch, instead of Harry waking up an amnesiac whose thoughts constantly berate him for alcoholism, how about Harry wakes up with no memory again, drink in hand, with a new case to solve as his thoughts berate him for breaking his 3 years long streak of not drinking alcohol. In a way, we'd be back to square one, but this time everybody is reminding you of how you were the most sober and best cop a week ago.

Anyways, 8.5 out of 10.

I'm looking forward to all the videos, threads, fanfics, theories and related stuff I'm going to dive into now that I've finished the game.

Questions for you lot:

Did anyone else think that Harry's memory loss had something to do with the case? I honestly theorised he had origibally figured out the truth, but it was sk terrible he went on an alcoholic bender, trying to forget. I was wrong, but did anybody else think that at the start?

Why is Minot so supportive of Harry?

Did anyone else think Kim was Harry's actual half-brother? It wasn't until I met Trant, where he is also described as his half-brother that I realised what the narrator actually meant. I was confused by the description through most of the game, and was wondering if Kim was related to Harry.

Is Kim gay? It's a faint memory, but I swear I read something that said he was. Didn't come up in my playthrough. Is there a romance Kim check?

What is disco?

I LOVE THIS!

I can't believe that a game long side mission would also be concluded at the true end of the game.

I saw the perception check and I got a lot of points by playing the crypotozoologist cop. Honestly, in-game, Harry may have put just as much effort into phasmids than the case tbh.

The appearance of the Inslulindian Phasmid cheered me up a lot after failing to save more of the Hardie boys.

Harry and Kim better have gotten credit for this discovery. Sorry Lena and Morrel, but they literally met the thing.

I was returning to the Whirling in Rags after letting Ruby go, but the tribunal had already started.

I failed to talk Titus down, still had no gun and a lot of people got shot. Atleast Kim survived.

Now it feels like the story is kind of over. The Harbour is locked down, most NPCs are gone, and there's even dialogue with Tomny that suggests all I'm doing now is tying up loose ends after the climax.

Am I at the epilogue?

In retrospect, I really should have dedicated more time to following main tasks. I spent a good day or 2 helping the rpogrammer lady and the cryptologists. Also, i could not figure out how to get to the islet. Now that the tribunal is over, Kleyya left a clue pointing towards it and now I can ask the Net lady of ai cun borrow her skiff. Why couldn't I have asked her before? I guess maybe there was something blocking me. Maybe I should have asked her out?

ALSO! There were 2 cops in the Whirling-in-Rags. Where did they go? Why didn't they help during the tribunal.

It's so sad see how empty the Hardie boy booth is now. RIP Fat Angus.

Atleast Garte lets me stay at the Whirling for free now. Turns out, he's kind of a badass.

The first day of playing this on the switch 2, I ended up investigating the Doomed Commercial District rather than focusing on the main case.

Days later, I'm on a more solid path following the case and I run into a radiocomputer assigned to Fortress Accident. It even mentions how I tried accessing the radiocomputer in their abandoned office.

That's really cool.