Disco Elysium: The Final Cut

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  • Summary: Disco Elysium is about a detective who wakes up in a rundown coastal district with a banging headache and only a few dregs of memory left. You set out to discover what happened to him inside the unique world we have created. We’ve thrown together disco music, early motor carriages, andDisco Elysium is about a detective who wakes up in a rundown coastal district with a banging headache and only a few dregs of memory left. You set out to discover what happened to him inside the unique world we have created. We’ve thrown together disco music, early motor carriages, and post-revolutionary angst for our setting, and brought it all to life with actual oil paintings.… Expand
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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 10
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 10
  3. Negative: 0 out of 10
  1. Impulsegamer
    Apr 19, 2021
    100
    If you’re worried that Disco Elysium might be too slow for you, you’re probably right. It’s a visual novel through and through, where 90% of the gameplay is reading. It doesn’t skip any big issues, it doesn’t mind reminding you about the human condition, right after making you giggle uncontrollably; it wants you to be engaged, intoxicated, and uncomfortable. If you value engaging writing and exceptionally gorgeous graphics over a fast paced RPG, Disco Elysium is an adventure absolutely worth investing in.
  2. PSX Extreme
    May 3, 2021
    97
    With full voice acting of over one million enrapturing lines of dialogue, new quests, and an undeniable painterly look, Disco Elysium: The Final Cut is a landmark RPG. Boasting an excellent murder mystery, it also challenges the player in deconstructing a broken socio-political system and interacting with its inhabitants. The game then slowly unravels itself a dense meditation on the human condition, made possible by your dialogue choices and their consequences. What’s more, most bugs are now fixed, making the PS4 port a near-enough perfect platform for playing this near-perfect game.
  3. COGconnected
    Apr 15, 2021
    95
    Disco Elysium: The Final Cut is everything the 2019 classic was and more. If you’re a fan of the original, you need to double-dip to experience the incredible work this cast of voice actors has put together. If you’ve never heard of Disco Elysium before, I envy you. I wish I could play this again for the first time. Be warned that you may run into a few bugs here and there, but it seems like every other day, ZA/UM is squashing more of them. And if you’re still here reading this review, it’s time to turn the world off and put your dancing shoes on.
  4. RPG Fan
    Jun 4, 2021
    93
    Despite my occasional narrative discomforts and technical gripes, Disco Elysium: The Final Cut is absolutely essential material. This is a game that will stir the mind with masterful prose in one moment and have you gasping on the edge of your seat from the crucial roll of a cube in the very next. Disco Elysium will split your heart open with tectonic ferocity and leave you demanding more games exhibit the positively shameless amount of grace and humor that peppers every minute of this cerebral adventure.
  5. SpazioGames
    Apr 7, 2021
    90
    Disco Elysium The final Cut is a good port of a masterpiece, and as such, it's highly recommended to RPG fans and to whoever thinks videogaming is more than shooting and fighting.
  6. Eurogamer Italy
    Apr 8, 2021
    80
    Disco Elysium: The Final Cut is a problematic port of a wonderful game, where technical problems are balanced by the magnificent and long awaited full voice acting.
  7. Het Nieuwsblad
    Apr 9, 2021
    60
    Genre remixes often get lost in good intentions, but Disco Elysium pulls it off just fine. The dialogues fit perfectly with the visual style that portrays a world as captivating as it is gloomy. All top notch, but still we'll stick with three stars. Why? Because the console version we tested was plagued by bugs that sometimes even made it impossible to progress further.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 21 out of 33
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 33
  3. Negative: 6 out of 33
  1. FunkyBoi
    Jul 28, 2021
    10
    Absolute masterpiece.
    This game is a masterwork in narrative storytelling, and utilises the video-game medium to accomplish it with    Absolute masterpiece.
    This game is a masterwork in narrative storytelling, and utilises the video-game medium to accomplish it with impeccable finesse.
    The story is utterly compelling from start to finish, there are always stories and side stories for the player to get entirely lost in, with innate moments of satisfaction when the player is able to follow the threads and put pieces together to resolve a number of mysteries.
    The art is gorgeous, absolutely stunning. It's been a long time since I've seen such beautiful aesthetics. Character portraits all have this hand-painted look to them, to the point where I would happily frame and hang any one of them on my wall, and the style only gets better from there. The artworks for thoughts and skills are gorgeous, and I never once got tired of admiring them even throughout my roughly 30 hour playthrough.
    The voice acting really brought the excellently-written characters to life, especially the voice actors for your inner monologues. These monologues were by far my favourite part of the game, such a novel and innovative idea used so well to inform your decisions and give you a sense of how the mind of this eccentric decetive functioned to allow him to solve cases.
    Gameplay is everything a game in the mystery genre needs it to be. Besides the character-building, tied to the DnD like dice-roll checks for certain actions, the dialogue itself is the main focus of the experience. Characters have rich backstories and build the world around you in a compelling fashion, and oftentimes the player is rewarded for remembering these facts or clues and tying them together. I also enjoy the way the game handles failure. Sometimes, the wrong dialogue option can have severe consequences, and you really feel the weight of each individual failure, but despite this the game encourages you to press on. I didn't once use save-scumming to go back and retry my failures, and I can definitively say that no failure made me feel as though I'd lost completely, rather adding an even greater depth of flavour to the experience and the end result.
    I'm infatuated with this game, and I eagerly await what Za/um studios has to come next.
    Perfect.    … Expand
  2. MatthewDavisMed
    Mar 8, 2022
    10
    One of the most creative RPGs of all time, it might not have any combat, the way the dialogue uses the game in a sort of combat way, makes itOne of the most creative RPGs of all time, it might not have any combat, the way the dialogue uses the game in a sort of combat way, makes it all the more interesting. Especially with it's powerfully story and interesting NPCs to interact with.… Expand
  4. mrode
    Apr 9, 2021
    10
    I recently finished Uncharted 4 and really enjoyed its over-the-top and unrealistic action. So much fun. You know what else is fun? PlayingI recently finished Uncharted 4 and really enjoyed its over-the-top and unrealistic action. So much fun. You know what else is fun? Playing an RPG as a cop who really isn't the hero of the game. The heroes are the people you talk to while investigating a murder. And there's a lot of talking. And a lot of reading. And very little action. Just chill for a while. Start by talking about the mundane, continue talking about the case and throw in a bit of existentialism. I don't think this game is trying to be pseudo-intelligent. You're in a run down place talking to what seems like run down people. But if we did that in real life (running around talking to strangers), I think we would find that people would have some real important things to talk about. They may not be as important to us, but it's important to them and they this is their opportunity to give their thoughts some life. They're going to spit out some $10 words once in a while. So let them talk. And really listen. Have fun with it. It's probably the most I've laughed during a game. The cynicism, sarcasm, irony and goofiness of it all makes it a great game when you're tired with the normalcy of many other games. Really enjoyed it!… Expand
  5. BiggieZeke
    Oct 22, 2021
    9
    I haven’t played a point and click game in a long, especially since I’ve been a console gamer. But this game is very quirky and different thanI haven’t played a point and click game in a long, especially since I’ve been a console gamer. But this game is very quirky and different than other games I typically play. Love the story, level/character progression, and sound. Only knock I have on the game is there’s ALOT of dialogue. You can get lost in conversation and going in loops if you’re not careful. Can definitely see though why it earned nominations for PC and overall GOTY.… Expand
  6. MoniWhite
    Feb 7, 2022
    8
    It's a unique experience but there's so much dialogue that at times I just skipped parts, also when you have quite a few tasks built up,It's a unique experience but there's so much dialogue that at times I just skipped parts, also when you have quite a few tasks built up, moving around the town feels too slow, it's a nice chilled feeling at first but not when you know where everything is and where you want to go
    It takes a while before you can appreciate how good the game is, it's a shame too, when you get further into the game you feel like you might have wanted to build a different type of character now that you know how things work and the type of world it is
    The dialogue options are fun, characters are funny, it's weird and wacky at times, voice acting is good, the story unravels a bit at the end    … Expand
  7. UserElysium
    May 11, 2021
    6
    The crashes are unbearable in this game. It constantly crashed with unknown error over and over. It was was especially frustrating to lose allThe crashes are unbearable in this game. It constantly crashed with unknown error over and over. It was was especially frustrating to lose all the progression in a long string of dialogues with no save option. Yeah, even in the final dialogue a couple of times. I lost a lot of nerves and time writing to support. It's unacceptable for a game to be in this state on a console. A typical Eastern European game development level.… Expand
  8. Discosucks
    Apr 10, 2021
    0
    The game is absolutely broken and unplayable. Do not get this game. You will be disappointed. I lost save data multiple times. I am busy andThe game is absolutely broken and unplayable. Do not get this game. You will be disappointed. I lost save data multiple times. I am busy and have limited time to play. This rubbish is not worth my time.… Expand

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