#She talks mostly in enraged free-verse and gives big Gef the Mongoose vibes.
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OK but hold on I can think of ways to make this good though
It’s a DE (prequel/sequel?); MC is Cunoesse.
The main companion is in fact the neighbor’s (very dead, possibly hallucinatory) cat, and she fucking hates you.
One of the major overarching narrative points is figuring out whether or not you killed and ate the cat.
Half-Light stat is automatically set to max, and there is no dialog or character interaction in the game that doesn’t automatically include “BITE EM’S FUCKING ANKLES OFF.”
(Apologies for flying past OP’s point; that take was just rancid enough to hit me straight in the malicious compliance.)
I hope the "What if Disco Elysium was about a witch finding her cat in the mountains" post never leaves the gaming discourse vernacular. It will never not be funny to me bc it's got all the Gamer Entitlement™ levels of CoD bros throwing hissy fits about "woke" shit but instead of being couched in far right reactionism it's the exact kind of "Kingdom of Conscience" style liberal outrage at anything with conviction and beliefs that DE waxed on about. Like even chuds who get mad that the game calls you out for being racist interact with the themes of DE better and understand them more than Cat Lady did.
#What’s that you say?#You would like there to be less grime and mystery in this grimy mystery?#And the best way to achieve this is to remove it from the setting and place it somewhere Picturesque and Pastoral#where as we all know Everything is Wholesome and grime doesn’t exist?#WRONG. This game is now an existential horror about isolation and abuse in a small-town setting.#The beautiful backdrop is jarring and unsettling when contrasted to the interiority of a little girl in the process of losing her mind.#Neighbor’s Cat is at once a terrifying and piteous presence whose rage and victimization echoes that of the protagonist.#She talks mostly in enraged free-verse and gives big Gef the Mongoose vibes.
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