Disco Elysium is one of the best RPGs I've ever played, as well as one of the most advanced role-playing components I've ever seen.
The premise is as simple as it is intriguing: you are a cop who has to solve a murder, but you got so drunk that you completely lost your memory; and it is from a motel room that the adventure begins through the streets of Revachol.
The game is purely investigative: multiple choice dialogues and reasoning reign supreme. And it is in its supporting structure that Disco Elysium excels: a fine, complex, elegant, divinely written, and above all layered plot. Because yes, the tree of possibilities, expressing the concept of role-playing to its fullest, is infinite. Dozens of wonderful characters, thousands of possible dialogues, hundreds of consequences of one's actions.
And all this in a story that talks about political ideals, about social cohesion and clashes, about madness and depression, about building trust, and about love. Not forgetting the interesting world building.
The protagonist's 24 characteristics are meticulously constructed and balanced, to make him one of the most layered and moldable characters i have ever played in a video game.
Exploration, in addition to dialogues, is the other fundamental element. We are detectives, after all.
The areas that can be explored, artistically, take your breath away: the artstyle, which is expressed to its fullest in the locations and in the myriad of designs present in the interfaces and menus, is divine.
They are also quite complex, with several crossroads and places to visit. The only flaw: the choice to make all areas a visual masterpiece has led to far too many invisible walls, which often make it difficult to move and understand which areas you can actually move through.
I therefore conclude by repeating myself: Disco Elysium was one of the most authentic RPG experiences of my life, how you control your character cannot be done in other games.
Unfortunately, I must report, at least for the Nintendo Switch version, many technical problems: serious and frequent frame drops, and occasionally even bugs (which force the game to be restarted) and crashes. But still, the game was far more successful in keeping me glued to the screen.
The premise is as simple as it is intriguing: you are a cop who has to solve a murder, but you got so drunk that you completely lost your memory; and it is from a motel room that the adventure begins through the streets of Revachol.
The game is purely investigative: multiple choice dialogues and reasoning reign supreme. And it is in its supporting structure that Disco Elysium excels: a fine, complex, elegant, divinely written, and above all layered plot. Because yes, the tree of possibilities, expressing the concept of role-playing to its fullest, is infinite. Dozens of wonderful characters, thousands of possible dialogues, hundreds of consequences of one's actions.
And all this in a story that talks about political ideals, about social cohesion and clashes, about madness and depression, about building trust, and about love. Not forgetting the interesting world building.
The protagonist's 24 characteristics are meticulously constructed and balanced, to make him one of the most layered and moldable characters i have ever played in a video game.
Exploration, in addition to dialogues, is the other fundamental element. We are detectives, after all.
The areas that can be explored, artistically, take your breath away: the artstyle, which is expressed to its fullest in the locations and in the myriad of designs present in the interfaces and menus, is divine.
They are also quite complex, with several crossroads and places to visit. The only flaw: the choice to make all areas a visual masterpiece has led to far too many invisible walls, which often make it difficult to move and understand which areas you can actually move through.
I therefore conclude by repeating myself: Disco Elysium was one of the most authentic RPG experiences of my life, how you control your character cannot be done in other games.
Unfortunately, I must report, at least for the Nintendo Switch version, many technical problems: serious and frequent frame drops, and occasionally even bugs (which force the game to be restarted) and crashes. But still, the game was far more successful in keeping me glued to the screen.