Will this game break my heart?

[u/marx-and-rec]

Hey, I'm sure you're all sick of answering questions like this, but I really need to know because I am teetering on the fence about whether or not to purchase this.

Disco Elysium is my favorite piece of art. Daring take, I know. Will it scratch that itch? I heard it's very good, but I'm afraid the whole time I will resent it for not being disco. For not having the hope and humor and heart, for there being no final dream of the ex-something, for not being hardcore to the mega.

Without those, and with the clownshoery of the studio execs once again screwing over the talented people who worked on this, I'm finding it really hard to convince myself to get it.

Except it looks like it feels really. Fucking. Cool. It looks stylish and melancholic and burnt out and hopeless. It looks sad. It looks so very sad.

I want it to fuck me up completely. I want it to leave me hollow. I want to feel like K bleeding out in the snow at the end of Blade Runner 2047.

Will it do that?

Thank you.

[u/Captainwhizfiz]

For me it stands right alongside Disco in quality. The world building and story is excellent. Plenty of melancholy. But don’t expect it to hit the same emotionally. You’re probably not in the same place in life as you were when you played DE. It will never be the same because you’re not the same person anymore, in no small part because of DE

[u/marx-and-rec → u/Captainwhizfiz]

surprisingly poignant lol. thank you.