Poetics “Disco Elysium”. Lieutenant, smile!
If the games were studied in schools, the Estonian project “Disco Elysium” would have been suitable for high school. Schoolchildren and students still play, but here, imagine, homework (in a number of other tasks, of course) – pass the game in a week. Great? After all, the passage of Disco Elysium is tantamount to reading a large and incredibly exciting book. The game from the “ZA/UM” studio is very artistic, good visually and in audio perception. This is a thin and stylish project.
The mysterious world of Elysium is full of surprises. But here there is good and evil, betrayal and faith, love and death.
The action “Disco Elysium” takes place in the fictional city of Revashol of the fantastic world Elysium. The game tells the story of the police alcoholic Harry Dubois, Lieutenant of the RGM (Revashol Civil Police), who is investigating a strange murder – hanging in the backyard of the hotel with the incredible name “Dancing in rags”. Step by step revealing the crime, Harry returns his own memories of himself and the surrounding world (with Kop Amnesia). Harry, a disco admirer (even wears orange cooling rooms and a crazy talking tie!), tries to refer, but every now and then breaks into the gloomy abyss of depression. Something pulls him to the bottom, some melancholy memories from a past life. For some reason, the smell of apricot chewing gum is painful for him, for some reason the image of a fair-haired Virgin on a glass stained glass in an abandoned church is painful for some reason and for some reason hurts the voice of an unknown woman in a random telephone recording … In the course of the game we will learn about Harry a lot about Harry.
The protagonist sometimes passes well Nonukgamblingsites.co.uk and jerks hard, but he is a magnificent detective. Colleagues call him “opening” – he will talk to any, the most closed person. And he also hears and feels that no one is given. He touches the otherworldly, “talks” with the very essence of things, so to speak. Gusts of wind, freely walking everywhere, will tell Harry that there are around the distant kilometers ..
“Disco Elysium” is a role -playing game, but without a traditional battle system (although the battle will be!). Promotion in the game occurs due to dialogues and the use of the skills system. Dialogs are long (it reaches 20 minutes of reading!), but very interesting. During communication with the characters, you can ask many questions on very different and deep topics, up to questions of the universe, and receive detailed answers. More answers about the surrounding reality, and just excellent intellectual humor gives reading books from a local book shop. True, they still need to earn money. Well, Kop has a yellow package for collecting bottles … Aida on garbage dumps!
Harry’s personality consists of 24 skills (I like the “internal empire” referring to the mental mechanisms – instinct, visions), there is still a “cabinet of thoughts” (we think a new line – we get a new line). Often in Harry’s minds, internal dialogs are manifested. They are magnificent. For example, “authority”, “thrill” and “gross force” are arguing between themselves – they advise something in the situation, pull in different directions – it is very cool implemented. Even his limbic system sometimes speaks with Harry, and sometimes, at critical moments, the ancient reptile brain intervenes! Delight. The portrait of the protagonist helps to reveal his partner Japanese Kim Kitsuragi, in contrast to Garry, an incredibly pedantic policeman. It is sometimes not easy for them to get along, but there is a lot in the hands of the player. Suddenly, even a strict Kim will once look at Harry with his eyes full of admiration.
To win the trust of Kim Kitsuragi is not easy. Responsibility and the highest professionalism against the obvious abuse of alcohol. Fortunately, the original Harry Dubois will find how to melt the ice in the relationship of two opposites
Passing the game, you will find out not only Harry, but also yourself. After all, communicating with different topics with characters, the main character can answer as a communist, fascist, ultralliber or moralist. So one of the four main political worldviews in the game will have to choose, receiving achievements in the course of the game. So the project in some way can be used as a psychological technique with decoding data about the personality of the player. One way or another, internal qualities will appear.
“Disco Elysium” – a serious, multifaceted detective story. However, it, of course, has poetry in it. What kind of game can become romantic, touching, tender. This image is created by many components: an excellent audio content (tracks of the British indie rock band “British Sea Power”);Atmospheric locations of the ruins of the once prosperous city, which at times snow is broken;But the main thing, of course, is side tasks. For example, you can undertake to help an elderly pair of cryptozoologists (scientists seeking creatures from myths and legends unknown to science) to discover the island phasmide (the rare, invisible to the eye of a huge insect). You know, when at the end of the game he suddenly met, I even had to wipe the unexpected tear of delight. The meeting is served so that the most solid heart softened ..
“A dazzling flash of a blade cuts air … Fasmide freezes in a bright light, like hypnotized, turning his head to the lieutenant …”.
