BEFORE WE GET TO ALL THE GOOD.:
ZA/UM STOLE THIS GAME AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY FROM PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN CAREFULLY CRAFTING IT WITH LOVE IN THEIR HEARTS FOR OVER 20 YEARS. PLEASE HONOR THE DEVS WHO HAVE BEEN RIPPED AWAY FROM THEIR IP AND DO NOT FINANCIALLY SUPPORT ZA/UM. JUST BUY A KEY SECONDHAND OR SOMETHING, PLEASE. EVEN BETTER, EMAIL THE WRITERS AND ASK THE BEST WAY TO SUPPORT. PLEASE.

Anyway. This game genuinely changed my outlook on life and the way I look at the world for the better.
Just like our world, the world of Disco Elysium is grim, bleak, dystopian, and most of all, capitalist. And yet, you meet people around you who give you hope. There's more than just the broken systems around you; there are people who give the gray world color, and life.

You wake up remembering nothing. People tell you you're a cop, and sure enough, you find your partner, Kim Kitsuragi, waiting for you in the lobby of the cheap, dilapidated brothel you woke up in, and you have a case to solve. From there, the world is your oyster. You craft the person your character is, and you don't have to simply stick to the case. Side quests have just as much effort as the mainline quests put into their writing, characters, and locations. The world around you feels so alive, with characters that have complex emotions and motives behind them. The game is outstanding at emulating a distant, yet not so different world from our own.

This game genuinely ranks up there with the best in terms of storytelling in RPGS; I'm talking in the realm of games like Planescape: Torment, Dragon Age, Warcraft, Baldur's Gate, and more. And yet it's its own breed. The way it revolutionizes RPG mechanics is unparalleled. I think that turning the strengths (and weaknesses) of the human psyche and form into individual RPG stats that not only affect your physical ability, but the thoughts running through your character's head at any given time as well; thoughts which may very well affect your decisionmaking later on.

If any of this sounds interesting to you, please, PLEASE, give it a try. I started this game two weeks ago, and it changed my life to the point I'm getting my first tattoos in honor of it (for anyone wondering, I'm getting the inland empire portrait on the left side of my ribcage and the empathy portrait down my left forearm) later this year.

BEFORE WE GET TO ALL THE GOOD.: ZA/UM STOLE THIS GAME AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY FROM PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN CAREFULLY CRAFTING IT WITH LOVE IN THEIR HEARTS FOR OVER 20 YEARS. PLEASE HONOR THE DEVS WHO HAVE BEEN RIPPED AWAY FROM THEIR IP AND DO NOT FINANCIALLY SUPPORT ZA/UM. JUST BUY A KEY SECONDHAND OR SOMETHING, PLEASE. EVEN BETTER, EMAIL THE WRITERS AND ASK THE BEST WAY TO SUPPORT. PLEASE. Anyway. This game genuinely changed my outlook on life and the way I look at the world for the better. Just like our world, the world of Disco Elysium is grim, bleak, dystopian, and most of all, capitalist. And yet, you meet people around you who give you hope. There's more than just the broken systems around you; there are people who give the gray world color, and life. You wake up remembering nothing. People tell you you're a cop, and sure enough, you find your partner, Kim Kitsuragi, waiting for you in the lobby of the cheap, dilapidated brothel you woke up in, and you have a case to solve. From there, the world is your oyster. You craft the person your character is, and you don't have to simply stick to the case. Side quests have just as much effort as the mainline quests put into their writing, characters, and locations. The world around you feels so alive, with characters that have complex emotions and motives behind them. The game is outstanding at emulating a distant, yet not so different world from our own. This game genuinely ranks up there with the best in terms of storytelling in RPGS; I'm talking in the realm of games like Planescape: Torment, Dragon Age, Warcraft, Baldur's Gate, and more. And yet it's its own breed. The way it revolutionizes RPG mechanics is unparalleled. I think that turning the strengths (and weaknesses) of the human psyche and form into individual RPG stats that not only affect your physical ability, but the thoughts running through your character's head at any given time as well; thoughts which may very well affect your decisionmaking later on. If any of this sounds interesting to you, please, PLEASE, give it a try. I started this game two weeks ago, and it changed my life to the point I'm getting my first tattoos in honor of it (for anyone wondering, I'm getting the inland empire portrait on the left side of my ribcage and the empathy portrait down my left forearm) later this year.