The cast fully embrace the weird world with relish and nuance in every line of dialogue delivered. Now, I know I’m gushing maybe a bit too much but it ensures that Disco Elysium has some of the best voice acting there is. And with The Final Cut edition we have on console, all dialogue has been fully voice cast. The soundtrack is stunning as well elegant in all the scenes. Everything looks like it’s been hand-drawn in watercolor, and the little thumbnails for the characters when speaking are a work of art of their own. In the visual department, Disco Elysium – The Final Cut looks great with its artistic styling, beautiful city design, and great use of text fonts. The game caters for that.ĭisco Elysium is great throughout, yet if I had one criticism about the game I would say the controls can be a bit fiddly at times, and it certainly took me a while to get used to the setup of selecting items and characters. Yet you can be completely anarchic if you wish, doing crazy unpredictable things to everything around you.

For example, if you want it to be a straight up detective thriller, leaving you to solve cases, it can – and it’s very rewarding. The beauty though is found in the fact that you can play the game in many different ways. It’s like there are a hundred competing voices and personalities of your character wanting to take control of the narrative and to guide you through. Parts of your psyche, emotions, and feelings talk to you, giving advice. And when I mean weird, I mean very weird. It’s unbelievable the way the team behind it have written in so many different possibilities in the choices you make and how madly weird they can make the world. The story, dialogue, and writing in Disco Elysium and The Final Cut version are probably the best I’ve ever encountered in a game, particularly in terms of originality and prose. Your partner is waiting for you to begin the investigation in the lobby. A dead body in the garden outside the hotel has been lynched, hanging from a tree for a week now. You get yourself together and soon work out that you are a detective and the reason you’re staying in this hotel is that you are on a murder case. You are an out-of-shape middle-aged moustached man who can’t remember how he got here, or in reality, who he actually is.

The debris from a night of drinking and excess lies strewn across the room, including the clothes you have to quickly gather. After that, you are thrown into a void, finding yourself talked to by a strange creepy entity one that happily spends time discussing your life and purpose.

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