Disco elysium review full#
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Disco elysium review full#

It basically took me a full minute for my character to walk out on a balcony, grab an item and come back. 20 seconds may not seem like a whole lot but just sit still and slowly count to 40. It then took another 20 seconds for my character to come back after I picked up the single item on the balcony. It took 20 seconds for the game to load the balcony. I timed a moment where my character went out on a balcony. The problem comes from the sheer amount of things that happen that completely bring the narrative flow to a standstill.įor one thing, the loading in this game is bananas. With all this said and done, Disco Elysium: The Final Cut should be great on the Nintendo Switch, especially on the go as it’s basically a pick-up and play tabletop session. Long story short, after much swearing, he quit. My first playthrough ended quickly because my character got so annoyed with a child that he just literally lost all morale and, through that, his want to even continue being a cop. When I gave the command to attack, a pair of dice rolled and, luckily, I passed.īut that’s how this game works. When fighting a giant skin-head, it didn’t come down to my reflexes or ability to dodge, it came down to the game noticing my strength levels, mixing it with options like whether or not I had shoes on to whether or not I was heavily hungover, and telling me to percentile of my success if I chosen to knock the dude out. The game doesn’t full-on state that you’re doing a perception check but it rolls like a DM that does that all on the sly. There’s a dungeon master/narrator and your ability to see things, notice things in a conversation or have an understanding of the lore of the world comes down to dice rolls. The entire game itself plays like a tabletop roleplaying game. The only thing going in his favor is the simple fact his heart hasn’t stopped yet and, to him, even that’s somewhat up-in-the-air on whether that’s good or bad. It allows you to build your character as if you were setting him up for a tabletop RPG and then, with a series of intro questions, really gives the game an idea of who you want to be for this session.įrom there you enter the role of the most down-on-his-luck detective. But at this point, you should know why I’m writing this intro with “should.”ĭisco Elysium is a remarkably clever title. It’s more focused on storytelling than rapid controller-destroying gameplay.

It utilizes the same dimensional scale as the exceptional Hades. On paper, Disco Elysium‘s newest version, “The Final Cut,” should have been perfect for the Nintendo Switch.

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Platforms: Nintendo Switch (reviewed on), PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, PC