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The good news is that, if you’re not sure whether it’s worthwhile, it’s a free update! Existing PC players don’t have a lot to lose. It felt more like being weighed down by destiny than becoming a superstar cop. That, too, may very well be deliberate, but it still made my experience essentially the same thing over again.Īs I said, a lot of people did enjoy replaying Disco Elysium even before The Final Cut, but if you were hoping for fresh content to make the story feel entirely new, this isn’t that. And, while I thought my knowledge of how the story unfolds and some lucky early rolls might let me shake up the investigation, it was impossible to avoid certain deliberately written speed bumps in the pacing. But as far as I can tell I did hit all the major beats - both main and side quests, even with the additions. My first playthrough was around 20 hours, 10 shorter than ZA/UM’s prediction, so I assumed that I had missed at least enough to shake things up for a second go. Worse, nothing different really seems to have happened to him.
He’s definitely more confident this time around, and more communist, but it’s not enough of a change to feel like I’m playing a totally different cop. That limits just how different my detective can be. There are a lot of ways to play your protagonist, thanks to his amnesia, but I still don’t feel especially drawn to making him a bigot or a general asshole - which the game allows but does not reward. My replay hasn’t been quite what I expected. I never got around to that, but when The Final Cut was announced, it seemed like the perfect excuse.
Many people I know chose to replay the game immediately to get a look at what happened with different choices or failed, digital dice rolls that make up the core of your game time.
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The seams of the new are obscured by the fact that there was always a lot you’d simply never see in a single playthrough of Disco Elysium.
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Studio ZA/UM also say that the upgrade brings things like new clothes, characters, and quests, but these are trickier to pick out from within the game’s inherent density. He was always sarcastic, supportive, and funny at turns but being able to hear that out loud adds an extra layer of endearment. This is an incredible undertaking for a script that is reportedly over a million words long, and works to bring out the humanity that’s always underpinned the best parts of the detective RPG. The biggest addition is that everyone has a voice actor now the city chatters in a dozen accents. Ultimately, not much has changed in the snowy, crumbling streets of Revachol since the last time I visited a year ago. And your partner, Lieutenant Kim Kitsuragi, is still one of the best characters ever written. That world is still abrasive on its surface but layered underneath with humor and beauty. Everything Steven wrote in their original Disco Elysium review for Fanbyte holds true in its newly updated Final Cut. You’re still a drunk, amnesiac cop who wakes up in the run-down, capitalist world left behind after a failed communist revolution.