What’s interesting is that you have a short time when your health reaches zero to heal yourself, so you don’t have to feel a need to be at max health all the time. I just happened to figure out that I could heal after quite a long while. The number of healing items was the same as my max health, so I assumed the number was my max health. What I didn’t realize was that I could heal myself by clicking an icon in the lower left hand corner of the screen. I died at the same place over and over again, from a kid being mean to me. This is a good place to mention the first real flaw.

In this title, your battles are verbal: in progressing the story, discussing politics, and fighting with your own mind. There are many ways to die in Disco Elysium, but not from the standard combat you’d expect from an RPG. Or just because you’re sitting in an uncomfortable chair. Or if a kid throws various, colorful alternative terms for genitalia at you. You like that, don’t you? You like feeling miserable?ĭepending on how you create your character you can be very weak mentally or physically, and there’s even a risk that you might get a game over in the very first minute of the game for getting sad about being a fat failure, failing to put on your clothes. I wanted to turn the game off and leave it. I got a bad feeling that stuck, and made me feel dirty. only to be immediately revolted and disgusted.

Expecting a raw, noir detective RPG, I excitedly jumped into Disco Elysium's world.

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