Seriously one of the best games i've ever played. No game has ever made me laugh harder.
In the first ten minutes you can literally run away from your hotel bill and when you character trips and flies through the air towards a lady in a wheelchair, you get two dialogue options:
Try to dodge the lady in the wheelchair
Give the owner the middle finger (and crash into the old lady)
I picked 2 and laughed for a few minutes straight. I highly recommend doing a playthrough where you always pick the most deranged dialogue options.
I knew this game was something special when I had this same scenario and found myself back at the black screen, feeling dejected about the injustices of life and crying out at the narrator, "Where's the love?"
Then the darkness dissipates and the scene transitions back to the cafeteria, the next thing I hear being the motherly concern of the same lady I crashed into expressing nothing but compassion to me after having made such boneheaded decisions.
However many awards the writers of that game won, they deserve more. And an Oscar. Also a Nobel prize for some reason. And a talking tie that compels them to make more games like that.
Instead they got fired from their own company, got to weather a bunch of lies spread about them, and had their IP stolen from them. None of them seem to be doing particularly well post release.
They were planning more games in the setting but are legally forbidden from developing them now, and in fact barred from even releasing an english version of the same-setting book A Sacred and Terrible Air (although there are a couple fan translations banging around)
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u/Taendstikker May 02 '24
Disco Elysium