61 - Disco Elysium: The Final Cut
Added 2022-11-16 07:00:07 +0000 UTCThe lads throw on their finest alligator shoes and slap The Expression on their faces as they take to the mean streets of Martinaise for ZA/UM’s political and existential triumph: Disco Elysium. Topics include the dense and fascinating history of the game world, the perfection of Kim Kitsuragi, and finding glimmers of disco in a world on the brink of annihilation.
**Spoiler Warning** If you want to experience every surprise Disco Elysium has to offer, you may want to play the game first. Trust us, your ancient reptilian brain will thank you. Well, first it will probably insult you, THEN it will thank you.
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Media Referenced in this Episode:
- Disco Elysium by ZA/UM, Available on Steam, PS5/PS4/XBOX Game Pass/Nintendo Switch
- “Disco Elysium Writer Alleges Fraud While Studio Accuses Him Of Toxic Management” by Ethan Gach, Kotaku.com
- “TO FANS OF DISCO ELYSIUM, CONCERNING THE SITUATION AT ZA/UM” by Aleksander Rostov, Medium.com.
- “Disco Elysium Studio ZA/UM Confirms Former Employees Were Fired for Misconduct” by Danielle Partis, gamesindustry.biz
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Comments
I wrote about Disco Elysium a few years ago, after it was a big COVID game for me. It's one of those game's that's been added to my personal internal library of inspiration; I simply don't stop thinking about it. Even though I've only played it the one time (though I own it on several systems), so much of the experience is permanently burned into my mind as if I just played it yesterday. There's really nothing else like it.
Brandon Chinn
2025-08-18 17:13:00 +0000 UTCmeow wolf reference! hopefully my displaced estonian comrades come to rescue me. we have common cause.
Billiam
2025-07-28 08:12:47 +0000 UTCThis episode made me replay the game. This time I just went full on phywcial dumb cop. And holy shit. Just blasting the mercs at the shootout and having green check after green check was one of the most satisfying experiences I've had playing a video game.
Clemmo
2025-01-18 19:20:53 +0000 UTClistening to this again post election and tearing up at the idea of hope and survival and finding a hand to reach out to in the dark. thanks guys 💗
Beck B
2024-11-08 04:12:18 +0000 UTCI'd skipped this episode to avoid spoilers, but I bounced really hard off the game a while ago, something about all the chattering voices in my head for every option really. But then I listened to the ep anyways, and hearing you guys describe the story really cemented this as a story I want to experience! Y'all did a great job selling it as something special. Also excited to hear I can turn voices off lol. Can't wait to dig in soon.
Dergon
2024-03-12 20:16:43 +0000 UTCThe thing that I love about this game that is lacking in so many other stories, whether they're movies or books or games, is how utterly sincere it is. It feels honest. It feels human. It feels ugly, and beautiful, and real. And it would have been so easy for them to make it a game about how their ideology is best, to subtly show how communism was good actually, but they just don't do it. They're as ruthless with what they love as they are everything else. I have never played anything that made me laugh, and cry, as utterly hopeful and depressed as this game.
Noblesse Oblahaj
2024-03-01 21:00:43 +0000 UTCThe Moral Intern is like if Aaron Sorkin founded a religion
Noblesse Oblahaj
2024-02-29 12:19:33 +0000 UTCFinally got around to playing disco, an subsequently listening, very worth it
mclonergan
2024-02-24 16:59:13 +0000 UTCStill listening to the pod, but been putting off listening to it till i could actually play though the entire game, and learning more about aspects that i didnt see in my run and the history of the studio puts into picture some of the things that are prominent in the game
S-lappin
2023-12-30 10:37:22 +0000 UTCMaking contact with the person in the shipping container was incredibly fun. If for no other reason than Kim's reaction to it.
Nathan Woods
2022-11-21 16:03:49 +0000 UTChighly suggest norco to you all, very much hit the same synapses in my brain disco elysium did.
LarcenyOctober
2022-11-20 02:14:55 +0000 UTCI really hope you guys consider doing Kentucky Route Zero! It's another adventurish game with a strong left bent
Yura
2022-11-17 03:39:10 +0000 UTC
