#people criticize this game for being a downer and nihilistic and i dont think thats the right thing to take from it
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why is disco elysium one of the best games in the world
#just kidding its because it presents humanity's collective nostalgia for the past as the thing that will ultimately destroy it#people criticize this game for being a downer and nihilistic and i dont think thats the right thing to take from it#harry's amnesia is a second chance#prior to the game hes A Cop like The Cop as in The Most Cop#his obsession with his ex wife and his simultaneous reverence for and vilification of her is a mirror to the killer's motives#the killer is who harry would be without the amnesia#the killer is who harry would be without kim as well#theres no way harry would have been able to accomplish the things he does in the most positive outcome without kim#kim is wish fulfillment for players but theres a reason he has a halo in his portrait#like when the communists knock their thing over u have the option to present it as a negative but#u also have the option to present it as a positive#ultimately the game is about hope#for people but also for People#the pale is literally humanity's obsession with the past#and its offset by the creation of churches initially#but then as the repurposing of the church as a club#or the dice maker's mourning ring as a symbol of her unwillingness to give up and her determination to move on from her failure#thats why the phasmid tells humanity to look away from the fire#idk man i love this game#like what a fucking masterpiece
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