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I feel like I'm going a little bit crazy with how much praise it's getting. I think it suffers from trying to hard to be Disco Elysium without understanding the conditions that game was made under. A single person trying to emulate the collaborative works of a dozen plus artists. The politics of the game are "what if DE was written by a single Nordic soc dem" and it shows, given that most of it revolves around voting
. The setting feels completely disconnected from the world too, DE walked the line between idealist fantasy world and direct allegory. Shoving a bastardised version of it into a generic DnD setting with literal magic and whatnot is just so alienating and, again, a total failure to understand what made DE great.
i haven't played esoteric ebb so i don't want to cast judgement, but i think it's so telling how the endings differ.
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having casting a ballot be the last thing your character ever does is such a western idea. and then saying "it doesn't matter how you vote as long as you have fun!" (which is kind of true i guess. i certainly had fun seeing all the write-ins in this past us election.) but the tribunal and the stuff harry does after is such a good ending and way more interesting than stuffing a paper in a box.really the problem with these disco elysium clones is that it's the sort of thing that could only have been written by a communist from a post-soviet country. it bleeds through everything in elysium. you can only get that flavor by watching the world crumble around you and feeling the sky fall on your head. you can't get that from books.
Yes, I've said it before but in my mind a true "Disco Elysium Successor" would probably not resemble DE in anyway. What really made DE unique was that a bunch of talented artists where given an insane budget (for artists) and basically no oversight to create whatever they wanted. It was a deeply personal work to the people and place it was made in and any true Successor would have to be also.
I haven't played it but that sounds really interesting, I only know of the hype because it's a "Disco-like" (I hate that term lol) and because people on the disco sub liked it