Obviously, it's difficult to boil things as complex and sometimes fluid as political ideologies in a neat, palatable manner, but the developers in ZA/UM (the studio) honed in on these four views in particular. You'll end up a communist sympathizer if you voice options such as worker's rights and just being supportive of left-wing talk. This one is all about the worker's rights, not being tread on by the woefully corrupted system, and by basically saying "the Revolutionaries were right all along," which is an approach the developers mercilessly poke fun at. Do you want to be an ultraliberal capitalist consumer disco superstar cop who's the hottest shit in town? Or a "sorry cop" who frequently apologizes for the difficult questions he's about to ask a witness, with cryptofascist and ultranationalist tendencies in other situations? Or are you going to be a stalwart communist and frequently try to convince every witness and character you meet of the glory and righteousness of worker's rights and communism? Regardless of the choice you make, or even your futile attempts to avoid picking sides, ultimately determines whose side you take on the political mess that's enveloping Martinaise and Revachol - and it's here you're presented with the game's four political hot-takes, all of which it's highly critical of:Ī staunch worker of communism, with his hammer he shall use to destroy evil capitalism.Note the sickle mish-mash going around him.Ĭommunism - In a war-torn nation nearly destroyed in a communist revolution, people in-game seem quite unfazed if you spew virulent Red rhetoric at them. You're able to decide what kind of person he develops into as the story goes along with a staggering amount of choice. Having retrograde amnesia, you don't really know who exactly who Harry was prior to the current in-game events. As you go along, you find out that the local dockworker's union is on strike and has the city harbour locked down already political themes are getting injected into the game, with issues such as worker's right's coming to the forefront. This sets the stage of what will become the adventure of Disco Elysium's story.Īnd with that, you're thrust into Elysium's wacky and markedly aesthetic, dreary and vague retro-discoesque world, that in many ways mirrors the political climate of our own.
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There, you meet a an bespectacled Asian man with a markedly professional bearing, and he introduces himself as Lieutenant Kim Kisuragi, a detective with the RCM, and your partner on this "case." The "case" he's referring to, is the murder investigation of the hanged man, who appears to have been lynched, in the back yard of the hostel you woke up in and trashed. Lieutenant Kisuragi of the Revachol Citizen's Militia. You get dressed in your janky disco-appropriate attire that's scattered about, and head downstairs. You get up off the floor, and realize you're standing in some hotel room in your cum-stained underwear, and it looks like some wild tornado tore up your room. You wake up, mercilessly hungover from some all-day all-night bender you must've had, one so bad you forgot your name and communed with your "ancient reptilian brain" and limbic system whilst passed out, only to find out you now have retrograde amnesia. You play as Harry du Bois a washed up, alcoholic detective working for the Revachol People's Militia (hereafter referred to as the RCM), the moralist (Disco's word for politically "centrist") United Nations-like stand-in that governs the nation of Revachol and the district of one of its cities called Martinaise, post-communist revolutionary war. Let's begin with a brief synopsis of the game's introduction. Detective Harrier "Harry" du Bois, the protagonist, citizen of Revachol, and player character in Disco Elysium.
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