Disco Elysium - A crushing disappointment

The real message is that all political ideologies are shit because they were invented by humans which are a shitty life-form.
 
It's a point n click adventure game, I don't know if anyone played the Lucas Arts games in the 90's, Disco is a detective point n click game of that nature. There's not meant to be any combat. You go around solving puzzles and unraveling the story.
It's nothing like that really. These old games had very clever writing. They were not pretentious, not wasteful, but got to the point. Disco Elysium is basically a huge book, sometimes funny, sometimes awfully boring, squeezed into a rather small game.

But yeah, Cuno was great. Even had him as my partner later on, when the first one got shot. His lines are the highlight of the game.
 


In the first of our multi-part series on Disco Elysium we travel to Tallin, Estonia to explore how a group of post-soviet high school dropouts were inspired to create a video game.

0:00 - Intro
2:40 - Foundations
5:27 - ZA/UM
9:04 - Telling Stories
14:47 - Estonia
24:11 - Past & Present
26:14 - Writing
30:26 - Making Games
36:50 - CREDITS
 
Tried playing the game back around when it came out. I was on a deep point and click adventure run at the time, I think I'd just finished another run through Syberia 2 and I'd heard good things about Disco so I picked it up from GOG.

Dropped the game after about an hour. It felt like I'd mistakenly opened up twitter and was being fed depressing word salad. It was not a place I wanted to escape to so I refunded it (First game I've ever refunded).
 
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