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This is a well-writren article that I disagree with immensely. It is in its embrace of self-loathing and self-interrogation that Disco Elysium is at its most imaginative, and most sincere. https://twitter.com/waypoint/status/1300800752865161216
(I would also argue that the Nar Shadaa beggar bit from KOTOR 2 is less about the game's own moral universe than it is about demonstrating Kreia's teaching philosophies, but that's a side point.)
Disco Elysium constantly tears down every idea in the Detective's head. But it also never stops saying "Gotta try though, right?" And in the end, it's that sentiment - as expressed in its purest burst of magical realism - that wins out.
I think, especially, the idea that the game flinches from a full-voiced support of communism doesn't ring true for me. It mocks the stereotypes, but it's support for the base principles runs all through it. "This is going to hurt so bad. But it still needs trying."
The worst you can say about it is that it's sometimes fatalist about the chances of pulling it off - that it might be a failed dream haunting you every night, doomed to repeat itself with no variation of success. But you gotta try, right?
The most important thing, to me, about The Thing That Happens At The End Of Disco Elysium is that you can bring back PROOF that it did. You can import a little magic back into the real world. That's hope. That's not flinching
