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Didnt play elysium because I hung myself in the starting room from the fan and figured that was a fitting ending for a cop, calming a lesbian communist down is very close to home and easy for me to do so I'm somewhat enjoying zero parades. Just have her boop dolphins and flirt with women and shes pretty happy

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[–] Piltdowntown@hexbear.net 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Didnt play elysium because I hung myself in the starting room from the fan and figured that was a fitting ending for a cop

This was the first of several writingbased reasons that the game never synced for me like it apparently did for everyone else. The game wants you to feel for cop man Harry and it never succeeded in convincing me to have interest in his wellbeing and I'm surprised as many people had that interest as they did. I still went through the motions of his road to healing arc because that's what the game clearly wants you to do but by the end I still felt nothing for this slightly less of a total wreck man, and by then the rest of the writing had started to annoy me as well.

Not to suggest I suddenly have any interest in this game either. Giving private investor skinwalker slop space in your brain never ends well, and the cynic in me has to believe the lesbian protagonist was chosen solely to gain favor with the less intellectually rigorous Tumblr side of DE's fandom that never even played the game or knew what dialectical materialism was and just got obsessed with drawing and writing about Harry and Kim kissing. The same people that hideous "collage mode" was added to cater to.

[–] Keld@hexbear.net 10 points 6 days ago

I like how all the women you can flirt with are just such a clearly bad idea to flirt with. Hersch has a type and that type is "Actively trying to fuck up her life"

[–] chgxvjh@hexbear.net 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Including the scientology link?

[–] ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 6 days ago

I'll wait for some time before trying it. The guy in the TV has lines from two or three different voice actors. So I felt maybe the game was rushed out and needs some time for polish.

[–] Tabitha@hexbear.net 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

more scientology or less scientology?

[–] starkillerfish@hexbear.net 1 points 6 days ago

zero tomodachi parades for living the dream

[–] Flyberius@hexbear.net 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Wait, you can hang yourself at the beginning of disco Elysium?

[–] Abracadaniel@hexbear.net 21 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I think she's misremembering having a heart attack from jumping for the tie.

[–] Keld@hexbear.net 7 points 6 days ago

I did kind of like that Zero Parades doesn't kill you if you run out of "health", it takes away a level from a skill and resets the health bar.

But since there's no time limit that actually matters you can just sleep off any damage so it's not a real threat. So much of the game relies on you thinking there's a time pressure.

[–] Flyberius@hexbear.net 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ah yes. I've had that happen

[–] Dort_Owl@hexbear.net 5 points 6 days ago

My first playthrough lol