Switch players are in for a treat with Disco Elysium: The Final Cut. Bringing us a murder mystery detective RPG, Disco Elysium pays tribute to classic isometric RPGs like Planescape: Torment, while providing a fresh take on the genre. Set inside the fictional city of Revachol, it reviewed brilliantly on PC, and Final Cut promises to build upon that further with expanded content.
It isn't arriving until this Summer for Nintendo's hybrid console, though The Final Cut launches later this month on PlayStation and Stadia. Developers ZA/UM are gearing up for this release, and as part of that, lead writer Helen Hindpere recently sat down with GamingBolt for an interview.
Mostly focused on The Final Cut's new content, this interview notably ends with a question about Disco Elysium's future. Her response is expectedly non-committal, but Hindpere teases that we haven't seen the last of Elysium just yet:
The future holds more of Elysium – we’ve spent years designing the world and we’re not ready to leave yet. Martinaise is just a slice of Revachol – and Revachol just a single capital among many others. Who knows where the future will take us?
Given Disco Elysium's previous success, we're not surprised ZA/UM aren't ready to move on just yet. Whether a sequel actually materialises is another matter, but considering the narrative and storytelling received wide praise, we'd be very interested in seeing what else this world can offer.
[source gamingbolt.com]
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Yep, it’s the second work in the world already so I honestly didn’t expect them to just leave it there.
All real gamers don't support communists. That's FAX
So looking forward to this. Hoping this franchise takes off.
@nessisonett as a matter of curiosity - what’s the other work?
@NintendoCopium The entire game’s a critique of Communism along with plenty of other political systems. Revachol is literally an allegory for post-Soviet states. Play the actual game you melon.
@BaronCorvo Kurvitz wrote a book in the universe called Sacred and Terrible Air back in 2013. It didn’t sell well.
I hope we get a release date for the Switch version soon. It's one of the games I'm most looking forward to in 2021.
I'm glad this game is coming to the Switch.
@nessisonett they have a picture of Stalin in there studio tardo. look at there game awards speech they praise marx.
REAL GAMERS DONT ***** WITH COMMUNISTS
FAX
@NintendoCopium Marx is the foundation of all modern political thinking regardless if you’re actually a Communist or are a right-winger. Considering that the game is inherently political, yes they owe a lot to Marx and also Engels who they thanked. Plus the Stalin portrait is ironic because they come from a post-Soviet country in which Stalin merch was produced at a staggering rate. In Prague, plenty of cafes or even houses I went to, even occupied by young people, had Communist merch as a sort of ironic reminder of their past. Like a garden gnome. Their Lenin bust belonged to Juhan Smuul, an Estonian author that Robert Kurvitz idolises. If you actually took 5 seconds to research your mindless brain farts then you would know all this.
@nessisonett think if THQ or nintendo had a picture of adolf hitler and called it "ironic" lmao. Reset Era and twitter would cancel the ***** outta them.
@NintendoCopium Stalin is a different situation. Yes, he committed mass atrocities. Nobody disputes that. However his cult of personality extended long past his death and permeated the very culture of these countries. This is what they’re mocking. Stalin was all about the iconography, same as Mao. What’s a better way of mocking the ‘sacred’ nature of Stalin iconography than displaying it in a video game studio full of D&D nerds or in a trendy coffee house that would never have been allowed to exist when Estonians were living under Soviet rule?
@nessisonett i just find it funny that the gaming community got some one fired over videos, but when a video game studio has a literal dictator on there walls its crickets
@NintendoCopium Because context matters. Which is literally what the right have been preaching for years.
@nessisonett Bless you for trying to patiently explain these things.
@NintendoCopium Yeah, should they really be selling this game? Isn't that a capitalist pillar, lol?
@nessisonett good thing they don't claim, "ZA/UM is a cultural movement uniting artists, writers, entrepreneurs and socialists, established 2009." Oh, wait.
@twztid13 Yeah, they’re socialists. So? Claiming that they’re Stalinists because they’re socialists is like arguing that all rectangles are squares.
@NintendoCopium thats incredibly silly, "All real gamers don't support communists. That's FAX". You can still be a far left leaning person, either socialist or communist that still enjoys games. I don't understand how that goes against enjoying games, maybe we'd get even more interesting games without the profit incentive of capitalism? I mean who's to say one way or another I just thought your statement was incredibly stupid.
@nessisonett that's some context that should matter & a more apt response to the OP could have been explaining the small (almost negligible to all who aren't on the left) differences between communism & socialism.
@Yubacore opinions ftw!!
@twztid13 At the same time though, it doesn’t relate to the whole Stalin poster. The reasons aren’t motivated in the slightest by their stance on socialism. Besides, Disco Elysium itself criticises pretty much all walks of life.
I mean, actual Communists wrote and published one of the most popular video games of all time, which was literally the foundation of Nintendo's portable gaming empire. But sure, Communism Bad.
@Yubacore @JasmineDragon 94 million people
Estimated * at least 60
so yeah, communism is bad and socialism is bad
@NintendoCopium ahh nice, the bad company fallacy, the laziest of "gotchas"..anyways, have fun being cucked by capitalism and the exploitation of your labor.
@NintendoCopium
Oh, right. rEaL gAmERs lets their mom pay instead.
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