Disco Elysium

So I'm going to go back and play it as soon as I get an opportunity.

But what I've been trying to do for a long time now is to get my dear girlfriend Emma to play Disco Elysium.

And I wanted to jump on and dabble in a bit of Disco Elysium to see how it compares to Esoteric Eb.

Spoiler, it's very similar.

The quality of writing's comparable.

A different subject matter, of course.

So she and I played about an hour of Disco Elysium.

And my kind of plan was basically just to say, look, I'll kind of control this, but I just want you to make the decisions.

Oh, I...

A friend of the show, Sarah Bambela, who's been one of our guests before, I showed them Disco Elysium because I proselytize that to anybody who will listen.

And so we played it like the first hour or so to get them into it.

And they really like it.

No, they remind me a bit of a less serious...

Is it Gaston and Remy from Disco Elysium?

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

in the background that's fine I may be having like a weird Mandela effect thing here but I feel like we've either done one or talked about doing one I don't think we've done one did we do L.A. Noire? No.

No, I don't think we did.

I think the only cop-adjacent things we did was last time when we talked about Midsommar Murders on Disco Elysium.

Sorry, Grace, that's what you missed.

That would be number 11 correct

And then Disco Elysium.

That would be number 12, correct.

I'm assuming one of them was Horizon.

So Death Stranding is absolutely recommendable on a gameplay level.

And the last deal for this week is Disco Elysium, the final cut down to £10.79 on Nintendo Switch until the 26th of October.

Nothing less than one of the greatest scripts in a piece of... art that you will ever come across a super super cool and utterly essential game that is initially framed as a detective murder mystery you get called to the scene it's a isometric point and click game which i know point and clicks make some people run for the hills but it's so well written you have so much agency as your character you're playing as this actually i'll even tell you who you're playing as because the whole setup of the game is is based around ironically amnesia as i'm talking about that And you're playing as this detective who arrives on the scene.

There's a body hanging from a tree.

And there's all this law around the city itself.

that you're in and different brewing wars that are happening around the world and things like that.

I wanna recommend Disco Elysium to people who maybe don't know a whole lot about it, but are up for a good time and have the time to take a game like this in because it's extremely dense.

What you're doing for most of the game is reading.

don't fear the dead and don't fear me an exact facsimile of a young Val Kilmer not quite dead and not quite alive utters that baiting line in the trailer for the new western as deep as the grave director Kurt Vorhees

one of the mercenaries from Disco Elysium yup

yeah knows exactly what he's doing.

This is an AI-created version of the late actor, approved by his family, but bringing with it a heap of controversy about whether such technology could make actors redundant.