The Disco Elysium Review Wars

[@dialectiks]

Truly a game with no politics in it

[@Wave_Commander]

A purely centrist work of tranquil sage pragmatic wisdom

[@nhaedzwero43]

​@@Wave_Commander Hey, if being a centrist is not choosing to be either a communist or a fascist, then I may be it, or maybe not... Wait- *Achievement Unlocked:* The World's Most Laughable Centrist.

[@ValoTheBrute]

Apolitical hidden gem

[@calamari4125]

​@@nhaedzwero43"Now you are not only Crazy, you are also boring."

[@Im-BAD-at-satire]

There's media that does a bad job writing politics into it, and other media does a good job at it, this media went the apolitical route.

[@AuthenticallyAwful]

"This game promotes drinking," looks over at harry, "Does that look like a role model to you?"

[@MarxistMogger]

Harry makes me wanna pound 50 litres of pure neuro toxin and then die instantly

[@EloquentTroll]

I've seen zombie characters in games look more okay than Harry.

[@genericname2747]

Harry being a mess is the reason this game isn't banned in Australia

[@HellecticMojo]

What you talking about? He's a superstar

[@AtlasNL]

@@HellecticMojohe’s also THE LAW.

[@xagatal]

Anyone who complains that an uncomfortable chair or stretching to turn off a light can kill them, is under 35 years old, and doesn’t know what will hit them soon.

[@neilwickman]

I hate to say how true this is. Disco Detective woke up without remembering he had a slipped disc a few years back and didn't bring his lumbar support to that crate. Dead. 11/10 most realistic RPG.

[@capiest]

wait you mean it gets *worse*?

[@capiest]

wait how do you make text bold again

[@THExRISER]

@@capiest Put a space between the second asterisk and the interrogation mark.

[@Cirac1]

I took a nap on the sofa last month and couldnt look right for 2 weeks...

[@EviIPaladin]

The "I can't read. *thumbs down*" into "I can't read. *thumbs up*" is so good.

[@Caroscribbles]

Apparently "a thousand curses upon Steam and the developers" guy went back in and played for 13 more hours after posting his review. Truly incredible

[@Khono]

Bro matured a bit after his thoughts on the game had time to percolate through his neurons some more.

[@user-bw4jm1bv1i]

Videogame Dunkey coming back to Death Stranding.

[@keyman245]

He even tried refunding after 3 hours but came back when he couldn't just to play some more hours, he's literally Harry

[@actualgoblin]

relatable honestly

[@mcslender2965]

Bro leveled up Endurance and Pain Threshold way too much

[@naturequeen2597]

"Can't have sex with Kim" finally some actually good criticism I can get behind.

[@FaeMasquerade]

If only we could get behind Kim 😔

[@ix67ml]

​@@FaeMasqueradewell at least HE is always behind us😏

[@PostingCringeOnMain]

The only valid criticism tbf

[@nathanrohde3292]

I don't know if Kim is the type of person that is up for being seduced in a few days.

[@trianglemoebius]

@@nathanrohde3292 Given what he does outside the Whirling-in-Rags, I'd say he's quite quick to become fond of people.

[@telidro]

5:28 the only, and I mean only, instance of the phrase "white male" being used in the entirety of Disco Elysium is when the detective identifies the victim as a "white male in his forties." Literally just an objective description of the corpse. Absolutely incredible that anyone got upset over this lmao

[@JamrockHobo]

Of course they had to kill the white male, huh? Who is also a war criminal? The woke agenda smh

[@e-agjohn8176]

@@JamrockHobo ok I don't have anything against dead people but did they HAVE to be a white male?? What's wrong with a black dude? Woke sjw propaganda smh.

[@capiest]

you can also ask kim about the case and tell him you're a white male in his forties (you get a kim point for doing this)

[@javgodos]

Same thing with feminism. It is an idea that is only searched in depth with Garte and only if you choose to pick it up.

[@42Caio]

@@javgodos That's what's so funny about it. A lot of things these people are absolutely outraged about only show up because they picked enough options related to it to get a Thought based on it, and then left it equipped to their thought cabinet. It's literally living rent-free on the head of their Harry.

[@NyJoanzy]

A guy accused the game of being non offensive while listing the reasons they were offended. Beautiful 10/10 rationale.

[@NeedForMadnessSVK]

Nooo, you don't understaaand. It's only "offensive" when it teeters on the verge racism, misogyny and homophobia. Only SJWs get offended. What us conservatives and rightwingers feel when we get angry when someone is clowning on us is not "offense", it's a completely rational righteous anger. I am very smart.

[@kobinho1917]

“Punched a kid within 10 minutes”

[@nowheremap]

so many cool facts about that comment, but they seem to imply the nazis were funded by the jews?? 😭

[@RexPomaro]

I found it even funnier that they called the Rothschild family communists

[@obnoxiousweeb9101]

@@RexPomaro And said communism killed over a billion russians, specifically.

[@dialectiks]

"game that is afraid of offending anyone" well, it sure did offend a ton of people featured in the video lmao

[@arempy5836]

"Say one of these fascist or communist things or fuck off" Yeah, real fence sitters.

[@gwen9939]

When the left is offended by something it's because they're fragile little snowflakes who screech every time someone is mildly racist or sexist. When the right is offended by something it's because the media is pandering to leftists by talking about the problems with capitalism and systemic injustices faced by minorities, and has a lot of woke people(women(feminists) and minorities) in it. Also we're not offended. Only snowflakes get offended, we're just annoyed because it gets shoved deep down our throats all the time. Shut up. It's not being offended when we do it.

[@JamrockHobo]

All the right wingers are offended by the sheer mentioning of feminism or communism. At the same time, you rarely see the opposite with leftists complaining about racist options options. I wonder who the snowflakes really are.

[@ancientofdays8644]

Eh, while some are probably offended others are probably just genuinely annoyed. I certainly am, I want to like playing this game but it relies almost 100% on its writing which while very unique has the problem that it adresses things it clearly has no deeper understanding off. Every political view is taken the shit out of for example. Which is fine, every view has its flaws. The problem is that almost all of those flaws only apply when the ideology is followed as badly as possible. Which fits cause the place is a run down dump but also makes most of the writing pretty hot or miss.

[@slumgummy]

​@@ancientofdays8644peak third positionist take

[@supremeplatypus7192]

"non-offensive status quo game" and "Communist propaganda" are wild statements to have in the same paragraph

[@JamrockHobo]

There are legit people who think that Joe Biden is a communist, so don't think too much abt it...

[@supremeplatypus7192]

@@JamrockHobo You're telling me, our prime minister got called Lenin with hair, and our country's been neoliberal as all hell for a good 40 years now :( Jacinda Ardern in case you were wondering

[@daneverharen1694]

@@supremeplatypus7192fellow kiwi!

[@supremeplatypus7192]

@@daneverharen1694 Yesh

[@Marewig]

​@@supremeplatypus7192Sometimes, my morbid curiosity is strong enough to want to ask them what they're huffing.

[@Astuar]

Calling Disco Elysium "fluffy non offensive SJW propaganda" is something else, lol

[@istvanpalanki5316]

even funnier they kept listing how the game offended them

[@danroak]

I found it hilarious too. The person clearly was intent on seeing omly what they wanted to see. The game often goes out of way to poke fun at near every view.

[@GangsterFrankensteinComputer]

This is the only game I've ever had a chat with a racist lorry driver about bad these foreigners are, then received a packet of cigarettes as a reward. Then had a conversation with a racist security guard, internalised advanced race theory, then discovered the truth about how occidental haplogroup B4 controls the media.

[@caramel7050]

i mean when you consider awesome communist politics, feminist commentary, or basically anything remotely leftist "sjw and non offensive" then i guess it fits. conservative brainrot lol

[@brentsta]

@@caramel7050 “awesome communist politics” lmao

[@littlesnowflakepunk855]

"non-offensive game that is afraid to offend everyone" - guy who is very clearly offended by the game, about a game in which you can shoot a child in the face for being annoying

[@GangsterFrankensteinComputer]

CUNO - "F****ts love it in the dick."

[@Khono]

Is Cunoesse only 1 of 2 people we can actually kill in the game?

[@littlesnowflakepunk855]

@@Khono are you counting harry?

[@Khono]

@@littlesnowflakepunk855Harry's not a person, he's a piece of furniture filled with random thoughts and smelly stains.

[@Limrasson]

Okey, but how is shooting a child in the face supposed to be offensive?

[@Mecha_phant0m]

“I got a game over sitting in a chair…” 🤓 “I got a game over siting in a chair!” 😎

[@viktorthevictor6240]

Reminds me of a review of a camping chair on Amazon. Guy said one of the legs sank right through the dirt and he fell off backwards. He gave it four and a half stars

[@roach590]

"Walk slowly from place to place while people are rude to you" lmao best review about the game

[@AtticusKarpenter]

and about real life basically 🤔

[@manboy4720]

@@AtticusKarpenter even the crippling alcoholism is accurate!

[@salmon-stan]

In that guy’s defense it’s difficult to figure out how to auto-run. It’s probably the most important control, one without a clickable equivalent and it’s not even listed in the controls menu. I walked slowly everywhere my entire first day haha

[@kekero540]

This is pretty accurate tbh

[@michgarcia1294]

Well someone didn’t find the run button

[@Nipah.Auauau]

There are reviews both positive and negative for the politics the game supposedly espouses. But all of the reviews that reference punching a child are 100% positive. Truly there are greater dreams that bind Man together.

[@SolarFlareAmerica]

ALL MY HOMIES HATE MEAN CHILDREN

[@realdragon]

Politics is like dying by sitting in uncomfortable chair...

[@danubeisreallypeculiarrive7944]

People who made the game: We thank Karl Marx for our political education.

[@dragonflymoonraven]

The Rika avatar speaks the truth. Fight-o, nanodesu!

[@BirdieRumia]

​@@dragonflymoonravenPunching a child, hitting a child with a chair, same difference, right?

[@manfaceddog9288]

'unhinged bisexual meets gay car nerd' is my favorite

[@monochromedream-eatingbaku]

His description sounds like an ideal life tbh

[@Marewig]

That's actually perfect 👌

[@Moosemoose1]

I mean, to be honest, its not wrong

[@GangsterFrankensteinComputer]

@@Moosemoose1 I asked Kim and he said I wasn't into men.

[@ryenguy]

@@GangsterFrankensteinComputer he said that to YOU. for me. he said something else. 😉

[@yetanotherkeyblader3572]

"can't have sex with kim" okay, that one is fair.

[@valideno9592]

it is fair if you are a deviant homosexual

[@Selmo15]

The funniest thing about the unhinged negative reviews is how they sound like they could be a characters from Disco Elysium themselves. Some passages from this video out of context would make for killer lines in a sequel. Guess the rumors are true, that many original characters were based on prolific twitter posters...

[@yeeee859]

The "Not Recommended", "Product received for free" and "Product refunded" combo has me crying 😂

[@SolarFlareAmerica]

You can refund those???

[@Beregorn88]

"The game is so bad, I wouldn't want it even if it was free"

[@AtticusKarpenter]

​@@Beregorn88 i mean, free game is basically communism, disgusting! (i remember posters accusing torrent users in being communists :D)

[@xmlthegreat]

​@@AtticusKarpentereven Piracy is woke now!

[@dragonflymoonraven]

@@AtticusKarpenter Maybe we are. Maybe we're worse. Maybe we're anarchists. >:3 (or maybe poor people just want to have fun, and enjoy free things. :P)

[@billy6044]

The majority of the negative reviews of disco elysium say "Great game, It was stolen, Pirate it, Fuck ZA/UM"

[@JamrockHobo]

fit7girl-repa7cks.si7te/disco-elys7ium/ without the 7s, if someone needs a link 🏴‍☠

[@YouTubdotCub]

the PMG video has been pretty soundly critiqued for inadequacies and biased presentation

[@PankoBreading]

​@@JamrockHobofellow Fitgirl enjoyer 🚬🍷

[@billy6044]

@@JamrockHobo fitgirl is where I got the game lmao

[@billy6044]

@@JamrockHobo i had never had a warm feeling in my chest, then jamrock hobo hit me with the ❤️

[@BrickFrog1]

"I didn't even get to any of the actual combat" damn, can't believe that reviewer missed the area near the gate where the random battle zone reaches your side of the wall and you can grind scabs early

[@JamrockHobo]

I think you have to be in NG+ for the game to change into first person shooter

[@bibrosko]

the pvp servers shut down 😔

[@JamrockHobo]

tbh I would love if there was a custom map mod of some shooter where you could play matches in Revachol

[@realdragon]

What the fuck is this game? With each comment I read I'm more and more confused

[@donpollo3154]

@@realdragon to put it simply, story-driven game set in futuristic retro France after a failed communist rebellion. You're an alcoholic cop who punches children

[@samwalters6170]

Half the reviews sound like a Disco Elysium character wrote them.

[@helios566]

You'll notice all the negative reviews from fascists and bigots are long screeds about their ideology. Literally just how Mesurehead talks to you.

[@gaussminigun]

@@helios566 what a cringe response

[@helios566]

@@gaussminigun You sure you're not mad because I'm talking about you?

[@gaussminigun]

@@helios566 lolol cope

[@helios566]

@@gaussminigun you're doing a bad job of convincing me you're not mad.

[@giuthais]

there was this one review I saw of a guy complaining that the game called his character racist because he only agreed with *some* of the things the racist lorry driver and Measurehead said

[@JamrockHobo]

roleplaying games are not for everyone I guess

[@KripticKill]

He wasn't roleplaying, he was looking into a mirror lmao

[@HellishSpoon]

learning you are racist the hard way

[@tsumikiayato1560]

Bro was projecting

[@elvingearmasterirma7241]

... what uh. What was he expecting

[@Medosse]

I love how u put the contradictive reviews next to each other,makes the video so much better.

[@RaunienTheFirst]

"This is woke propaganda!" "This game is just full of slurs! UGH!" "This game promotes drinking" "This game is the best anti-drinking PSA I have ever seen" Truly the game of all time.

[@noaag]

i cant read 👎 i cant read 👍

[@Ehh.....]

FunFact: A 97% chance of passing means you still means you have a 3% chance of failing. Hit up the lottery, jack.

[@sernoddicusthegallant6986]

The worst part is when you pass a 3% check and know that at some point in the future when you least expect it the universe will restore balance by making you fail a skill check youre certain you have in the bag

[@dmitriyrasskazov8858]

In another time and another world Harry could be an Xcom recruit!

[@tophatcat1173]

Ah, yes, _disco elysium_ is a game that is afraid of offending anyone, of course. Disco elysium is notorious for never saying anything controversial.

[@faffywhosmilesatdeath5953]

People saying it's designed to be inoffensive just send me for a loop especially considering that statistically at least 90% of people will meet a drug-addicted child who cusses you out and calls you a f****t within the first hour of gameplay

[@pycckueopexu9043]

@@faffywhosmilesatdeath5953 how's that offensive? It's just edgy and childish writing

[@faffywhosmilesatdeath5953]

@@pycckueopexu9043 okay, the realities of drug addiction in war-torn and impoverished areas completely aside.. I don't find it offensive, but I can completely understand how other people could find it offensive. The point isn't that it's crossing all of the farthest lines in existence. The point is that this game could not possibly be called totally inoffensive by any stretch of the imagination. I mean it lets you play a racist, woman-hating fascist.

[@lucasberhends1141]

Tf you mean it's childish and edgy writting? ​It's just comedy, nothing wrong with it, It's been a long time since i had so much sincere laughs with a game, the game makes fun of a lot of things and political sides, you just need to have fun and don't take things seriously@@pycckueopexu9043

[@rockhardcelery1214]

​@@pycckueopexu9043come to my farm in guatemala we have very refined and adult writing. you come help us write more, we right about american boy becoking happy guatemaan wife yes❤

[@DelProv]

The guy who was upset that there was a racist lorry driver and not a communist or atheist lorry driver absolutely sent me. Like, how are any of those things even remotely related? Does he think that racism and communism are religions? Does he think that communists are incapable of racism? What is going on in that guy’s head?

[@JamrockHobo]

i dont know, and thats why its so fun for me

[@NikolasoGames]

It means that he thought there wasn't enough insults thrown at both sides, apparently. And communists coult be racist but I'd say that's usually not the case. Isn't it all about equality?

[@nhaedzwero43]

@@NikolasoGames same as Lenin was all about equality but a hardcore sexist at the same time. No political view is inseparable to its opposite views. Gay homophobes, trans terfs, christian slavers, colored nazis, you get the point.

[@Dis_Dis]

"What's going on in that guy's head?" Not much probably.

[@MiArDm]

@@nhaedzwero43 Sexist? May I ask.....?

[@Wezla]

That one review describing the writers as... effectively who the writers were, but probably without context. Like an asshole took a shot from half court and only just barely missed.

[@Danielsonsonsonson]

the random emphasis on sharing hair products killed me

[@JohnSmith-ox3gy]

@@Danielsonsonsonson A lesser writer would have used the communal toothbrush meme.

[@pycckueopexu9043]

Oh no the writers who are literal commies and publicly stated so are being called commies!!! No context! The tragedy!

[@RunicVersion244]

I'm still kind of amazed at the guy who thinks that "White People Bad" is somehow the message of DE. I assume he had like an allergic reaction or something the first time the game suggested that racism is bad and immediately deleted it, least the Cultural Marxism infest him.

[@haltorn2611]

Plus the guy clearly didn't meet measurehead, the stand in for black hebrew israelite that flat out makes his reading impossible lmao

[@dogg6628]

measurehead called him a ham sandwitch and it broke him

[@GangsterFrankensteinComputer]

The funniest thing is all the races in the game are completely fictional.

[@dogg6628]

@@GangsterFrankensteinComputer It's pretty obvious the disco elysium world is supposed to be a parallel to our own, and most of the although fictionally named races are pretty clearly supposed to be real life ones, like Cuno and his family being scotts, Measurehead and Liz being either subsaharan or caribbeans, Specially with the accents which are just real life accents with another name

[@Kimmie6772]

​@@dogg6628 it's pretty clear what races/ethnicities the game references. However, the funniest thing about the measurehead rant was casually calling a race "mosquitos" in the most serious and superior tone that his accent allows.

[@TommyLikeTom]

"I wish french people were real" is my favourite

[@TheGalaxyWings]

Hi

[@Frazer2]

@@TheGalaxyWings My god, its some kind of NEW kind of cryptid.

[@broblerone413]

@@Frazer2 quick, get the camera!

[@waqupi]

obviously. many of these reviews are bad. but i got stuck on the one at 9:10. do they think that all a alcoholics have a dark tragic backstory?? my dude substance abuse can happen to anyone. and for harry it started with untreated mental health issues and joining a stressful job. those are realistic issues!

[@t0th3m4x1mu5]

Also isnt it heavily implied that harry and his precinct are the whole reason the church is ruined? That would be traumatizing...

[@АртурШатилов-б1п]

Those people need to go touch the grass, 'cause they want some epic Hollywood character background, with plottwist and etc. Meanwhile, if you actually try to get into the Harry past, you will find man so broken, that it''s proubably better let him finally forget all the shit that happend to him. Each time you digging to the past - character suffers, even the game itself tells you to not do it.

[@bibrosko]

honestly i think living in a poor world surrounded by expanding pale, and the woman you love and want to have family with aborting your child and moving aways its tragic enough. Its just more real than the hollywood tragic backstory they are thinking of, i guess

[@GangsterFrankensteinComputer]

Harry's backstory is dark, he was with Dora was 12 years, engaged, she aborts his child, gets pregnant to another man and leaves him.

[@AtticusKarpenter]

Also Harry a best cop at his police station. Which kind of ridiculously contradicts the impression from the beginning of the game where he lies doggystyle after a hardcore booze. Pretty epic in my opinion. And by the way, the pain of breaking up with girlfriend is described so realistically that I received mental damage at the same time as Harry, and had to take a break. The author obviously went through this himself, it is impossible to know such nuances of how exactly you are torn to shreds from the inside in such a situation otherwise.

[@aidenLjmz]

The one complaining about nonexistent male on male scenes 🤣 God, I wish there were!!

[@JamrockHobo]

I know right?? 😭

[@genericname2747]

LET US KISS KIM, COWARDS

[@SneedRemembrancer]

Damn there’s no ram ranch

[@klimychbarin]

@@SneedRemembrancer It's under lockdown

[@SneedRemembrancer]

@@klimychbarin under siege

[@JamrockHobo]

What's your favourite part? I'm still laughing about the guy who is somehow just APPALLED by the concept of "male dominated workplaces"

[@Raum2901]

My favorites are: Communist game 👍 Communist game 👎

[@genericname2747]

I love seeing people offended by this games politics/gay/feminism. My brother in Christ, you chose to be a gay feminist communist.

[@JamrockHobo]

It's like playing Wolfenstein and complaining about having to kill Nazis

[@dialectiks]

"Warrior Monk? Mate, you should have kept up with the ciggies."

[@balintnemes6774]

He refunded a freely received game. 9000 IQ

[@charlesmartin1972]

I like how the criticism of "anti-immigration sentiment is correlated with sexual inadequacy" isn't "this is incorrect", but rather "this is overly reductive"

[@Sir_Bucket]

It's the pettiest way to write "I'm in this picture and I don't like it" lol

[@juanjuri6127]

"i'll have you know i'm also inadequate in other fields, which the game does not address,"

[@roadworkaheadIsurehopeitdoes]

Where is this said in the game?

[@charlesmartin1972]

​@@roadworkaheadIsurehopeitdoesask the person who wrote the review at 6:07. I didn't play it, but they did

[@roadworkaheadIsurehopeitdoes]

@@charlesmartin1972 I’ve played the game a couple times but don’t recall this line of dialogue, although it’s really funny lol. Also u should play it!!!

[@funky2999]

"I didn't even get to any of the actual combat." Who's gonna tell him?

[@Bobogdan258]

The combat was intense and satisfying. 10/10

[@Contevent]

I love the negative review where the player expected a hero with a dark past vs a mysterious killer, and it turned out it's an ex-gym teacher turned alcoholic cop vs a loser political officer with PTSD on his island. Disco Elysium is truly about the insanity of the mundane.

[@roosty2266]

“Pro status quo”. “Pushes socialism”. What.

[@visoriannull832]

Most right wingers genuinely think "the west" is "decaying into a socialist hellscape"

[@valentin703]

Never heard of multitasking? 🙃

[@ambmamb8370]

i mean the mainstream does larp as revolutionary and mildly soc here

[@visoriannull832]

@@ambmamb8370 The only time any mainstream entities like politicians and corporations make any mention of "Revolution" is to say "no one has ever done this thing we're doing before" mostly as a selling point to buy their product. The concept of overthrowing the government is so far out of normal political discourse that most americans unironically lump revolutionary leaning leftists with far right extremists. I feel like westerners THINK they're left leaning purely because they're "not racist" (note: Not as racist as literal slavers, which is still pretty racist.) and allow gay people to exist. Other then that, to them, the current world is the best the world could possibly be, and any mention of bettering has to be in such slow increments that change is completely unnoticeable and even ineffective.

[@ileutur6863]

@@ambmamb8370 The key work here being larp. That's like china still calling itself communist while being the biggest force of capitalism on Earth

[@everettbr]

two kinds of political reviews: "the game made fun of my conservative beliefs" - not recommended "the game made fun of my leftist beliefs" - recommended

[@Mike-wb3oc]

Never seen much conservative cope since the rise of communism lol.

[@usuariob4948]

"This game is too political correct and it's afraid of offending people" "The game is openly racist and a kid wont stop calling me a f****t"

[@Zergking100]

What rise lol.

[@user-pc5qj2ix2c]

Well yeah, but communists would commit genocide on conservatives given a chance so that makes sense.

[@IndiumInk]

​@Zergking100 Why do you think the Cold War happened you dumbass? 😭

[@NeostormXLMAX]

“As a russian my people were slaughtered 1000 million plus” when you cant do math

[@bugsephbunnin4576]

Or history

[@itsathing3369]

They probably got these numbers from miss remembering “the black book of communism” which end of itself misremembered how many people died, it was not 50 million people, it was 20 million people, which is bad, but it’s not as bad as Hitler’s kill count of 40 million people, and it’s especially not as bad as capitalism kill count, which is 3.4 billion people. People really need to shut up about communism kill count, I’m not tanky, I will not defend the USSR, but come on!

[@gianlucamattos8684]

Stalin killed a morbillion people and then smoked a joint, disrespectful if you ask me

[@SolarFlareAmerica]

"This game has too many words, as a leftist i find this very funny because we always make things that require too much reading 10/10"

[@JamrockHobo]

"I can't read. 10/10."

[@omega6749]

​@@JamrockHoboMucho texto

[@Lincoln_Bio]

Honestly the "bad" reviews just made me want to play it more

[@Danny-kk4nj]

1:45 hol up, gay propeganda, male and male scenes?? Conservatives are wild, the game basically just mentions gay people, you literally don't see a single thing and if you were to play the game without digging into the homosexual undergroung and talking extensively to all side characters very few people are actually confirmed to be gay but they're so fragile even that is enough to send them raging into the reviews. Imagine being that fragile, can't relate. Unless there's some hardcore gay porn that I managed to miss in my playthrough, Harry and Kim just go nuts if you choose not to sleep on the island or something 😂

[@JamrockHobo]

Hey leave them alone, they just have a very vivid (and willing) fantasy!

[@ANunes06]

I like to imagine a world where gays are as fragile as straights, and have spent the last :checks watch: 12 thousand years bitching about all the guy/girl relationships in all the stories humanity ever told. Instead gay people came up with the ultimate solution: Shipping.

[@evilmiera]

That's Russia for you. So afraid of gay people even mentioning them is considered hardcore porn.

[@BurgerTankCoach]

​@@evilmieraooo spooky scary gays, ooo

[@zigmus00A]

I like the subtle implications that he actively had to go looking for it, and only started complaining when he found it

[@vandarkholme8548]

My favorite review is the one where the Russian guy accuses this game of being soft and non-offensive while being clearly offended.

[@sabojude]

Even goes out of his way to say that he's offended in the next paragraph

[@truedarklander]

a thousand million dead by communism (most sane Russian anticommunism)

[@bigpoppa1234]

His display name was "tread on serpents", which strikes me as an anti-libertarian/right wing, pro-"SJW"/left wing display name. WHOSE SIDE IS HE ON!? Maybe he's a nazbol.

[@danvolodar]

That whole review is trolling, obviously, as evidenced by the "unironic" claim of a billion Russian victims of communism.

[@cozybones4644]

“This game is afraid of offending anyone.” -written by a man pounding his mechanical keyboard, breathing heavily with tears streaming down his burning cheeks.

[@Geriato]

2:00 non-offensive? I think its the exact opposite. This has to be one of the most politically controversial game simply because of the sheer amount of NPCs with differently branching ideologies. Its like a political FFA

[@SleepyMatt-zzz]

And yet this fact has gone completely over people's heads.

[@Nomadith]

And the hilarious point of Harry being able to be a communist, hustler, gay, racist, fascist feminist simultaneously. HDB has no idea what cognitive dissonance is (and made funnier when Kim and your squad comment on it at the end of the game)

[@Sera-F1nn]

What they mean by non-offensive is that it's not offensive enough to the imagined blue-haired barista liberal living rent-free in their head.

[@AtticusKarpenter]

@@SleepyMatt-zzz echo-bubble people. For them, rich political representation in the game a "ridiculously big amount of (leftist? Sexist?) idiots with which i do not agree"

[@Nombre-nn5dj]

"Can't have sex with Kim" is the only valid critique ill accept for this game.

[@mathiasrryba]

"This game is so inoffensive that I got pissed enough to rant about it for multiple paragraphs after barely making it out of the tutorial".

[@why_is_this_a_thing]

"wouldn't let me be racist enough" When being neo nazi isn't enough lmao

[@NikolasoGames]

regardless, it would be funny to be even more racist, yet I think what the game had was already enough to 'roleplay' that part. (CRPG) It was funny.

[@Dis_Dis]

​@@NikolasoGames How can you even be *more* racist?

[@CarolusRexI]

@@bogdanov2395 i mean, you can learn "advanced race theory" thats literally nazism

[@epsteindidntkillhimself69]

@@CarolusRexI No, it is not Nazism at all. It is a form of ethnonationalism though, so good enough.

[@varsoonhks3211]

@@CarolusRexI Eeeh You can internalize the mystery of Advanced Race Theory in order to come to a conclusion about it, wherein the characters decides it's all just arbitrary aesthetics. The racist thing is that, knowing that, you can still choose to be bigoted and shitty.

[@dawidwojacki5049]

"Too French" is the best review out there.

[@halapenopepper]

I love how you can tell who played this game without any reasonable amount of reading comprehension.

[@suricrasia]

"I didn't get to any of the actual combat" is hilarious

[@rumplstiltztinkerstein]

These reviews show that the silly people portrayed in the game are even more real than I expected

[@hamsandwich1000]

I also scrolled through the steam reviews last week, funniest shit i've ever read, especially the "this game is pro-drinking" take.

[@HellecticMojo]

I find the irony of your profile picture hilarious

[@komaru_7120]

based profile setup

[@forestsavior]

1:11 "I got a game over on a 97% diceroll, this is unfair" -- I see somebody has never played the classic X-COM: UFO Defense. Or a Fire Emblem game.

[@JamrockHobo]

Failing a 97%, leading to you and your whole team getting slaughtered: I sleep Failing a 97%, embarassing myself in front of two elders: real shit?

[@nhaedzwero43]

"I have shit luck, therefore game bad"

[@Lulink013]

Fire emblem famously uses two RNG checks to make high displayed probabilities even higher and vice-versa, though. They blatantly lie about odds bacause it feels better in the end.

[@tipoima]

Hell, XCOM is famous for its 100% misses. They'd probably die IRL from that

[@nickpapadopoulos9978]

Just any xcom game in general, although it isn't quite as bad for the new ones because there are less variables that are decided by a percentage chance dice roll

[@elvingearmasterirma7241]

I love how we all agree Kim Kitsuragi is life The slighest disdain from him was enough to crush me. Made me fall to my knees. Also. The chair? I felt so seen.

[@AtticusKarpenter]

Kim is a sure hand that keeps you from falling into abyss of madness. We all, all really need this. Thats why everyone loves this character.

[@PoolNoodleGundam]

There are no negative reviews of this game, only inadvertent endorsements. Also, your accent elevates all of them immensely

[@jonathancortez9143]

Two kinds of reviews "this game is propaganda and offends my political views, died in dumb random ways, 0/10" "this game is propaganda and offends my political views, died in dumb random ways, 10/10"

[@ozgho09]

The one that I really have to draw attention to "game's finale is bad, guy who did it was a hater" Yeah, man. Sometimes life isn't all an interconnected web of intrigue. Sometimes you get your brain hollowed out while you were trying to nut by a mad grandpa who's been holed up on a deserted fort island since the fall of Communism.

[@ozgho09]

Got to the end of the game, mad that it isn't about the destination.

[@ambmamb8370]

it is interconnected tho thematically the past, nostalgia lost love, getting older and moving on on levels of politics, psychology and personal relationships

[@mixox1197]

@@ambmamb8370 You are 100% right but if someone who expects a bombastic ending unfortunately can't see those far subtler interconnections

[@ozgho09]

@@ambmamb8370 I understand that perspective perfectly, but the simple fact is that to view it that way is to view it disconnected from immediacy. Grandpa didn't shoot War Crimes because he knew him, because he didn't. Anything beyond that is not an immediate concern.

[@varsoonhks3211]

I loved how much the killer was borne of the setting, giving this huge payoff for how much the setting was front and center throughout the game. Him being a nobody is fantastic because it only further highlights how little the actual case mattered to anyone but us. Anyone who cared about War Crimes is already dead or otherwise moved on. No one in Martinaise cares for this case to be solved. It's Harry's--and the player's--own dogged persistence that push them through to see it all done. Having it be some big reveal or character we already knew wouldn't feel right.

[@elaishane8886]

1:54 you just KNOW that measurehead wrote that review, lmao.

[@JamrockHobo]

and 5:53 is definitely racist lorry driver

[@elaishane8886]

​@@JamrockHobolmao yes, he got so offended. Great video by the way, getting a good laugh out of it!

[@realhumanbean7915]

He really did the “1 billion people died of communism” joke but unironically

[@elaishane8886]

@@realhumanbean7915 literally lmao, very cringe

[@BifronsCandle]

How dare you compare the peak of Semenese genetic perfection to some potato-loving, al gul-addicted kojko

[@thisisfine5746]

Dear god I never thought people could miss the message of this game so godamn much. It's honestly so depressing.

[@nhaedzwero43]

Nah, it's such a well-made game that the message is pretty easy to see. Don't get hung up on the loud minority.

[@YOURNOTSAFEAGAIN]

Liberals would misunderstand a bear even if it was chewing their leg off...

[@nacicomi]

Right wingers and media literatcy are two things that don't mix

[@ambmamb8370]

@@nacicomi projection

[@lukeyspooky611]

@@ambmamb8370 The Boys. Punisher. Judge Dredd. Warhammer 40k. Fight Club. What do all of these things all have in common?

[@Gamesaucer]

Ah yes, the game really needed to show more than one kind of such morally gray behaviour as _checks notes_ being racist. Also I didn't like the game because _checks notes again_ the author is Estonian. What? I'm not mad, you're mad! These reviews are truly the gift that keeps on giving.

[@AtticusKarpenter]

Like, yea "oh yes that finnish shithole in Eastern Europe, they dont know what immigration crisis is, thats why they say wrong thing about being racist to immigrants!(its actually a reasonable thing!)" wtf, most of the world dont have problem with immigration crisis, why ever all games must see the world from american perspective?

[@MITAKA9]

The game is afraid to offend anyone?!?! Bro, what game were you playing!?

[@irisanuwu6113]

the guy who said "needless to say theres no commie lorry driver" fascinates me. the way he juxtaposes "racist" to "commie" is so on the nose he couldve just said "i dont like this game because im a racist".

[@JamrockHobo]

I think a lot of reviewers just want to be Measurehead, not Lorry Driver

[@genericname2747]

Fr, he's offended racists aren't given good representation

[@sparkyboi4387]

​@@JamrockHobo So, they want to get 360 kicked by a drunk detective?

[@Wall-enjoyer1]

I thought the same thing, like, he knows that the anti-thesis to communism is the opposite of racism but is anti communist?

[@GangsterFrankensteinComputer]

The worst thing is he actually believes a lorry driver could actually be a communist lmfao.

[@NinaadDas]

The climax of this game was one of the best climax i have played in any game, using only two bullets. I never expected such a gripping standoff from a majorly text based game.

[@MoonyMoonzzi]

Calling Disco Elysium “fluffy non offensive afraid of offending anyone” is crazy considering a 12 year old calls you the f slur and then screams accusing you of rape openly in the first 10 minutes of the game.

[@JCdental]

"Not that there is anything wrong with being Estonian *BUT*...

[@AtticusKarpenter]

And then whining about how Estonia is monocultural. Like most places in the world, you know :D

[@danzoom]

​@@AtticusKarpenter and then saying that monocultural countries are more pro-immigration than others 😂

[@denizmergen418]

Google estonian vs indonesian debate

[@sernoddicusthegallant6986]

Bad review: "There are male-on-male scenes" Harrysuragi fans: "FUCKING WHERE!?"

[@anarchohelenism]

Every conservative review is just “I’m in this game and I don’t like it.”

[@vdate]

I mean, same - it's just that I find that to be a point in the game's favour.

[@Casshio]

@@Ozzianman While it does lean in a certain direction politically, it really takes a piss on whatever you do and believe in. And I love it.

[@Casshio]

@@Ozzianman Couldn't agree more. I'm left leaning myself and I had a blast. And not because of my own beliefs. But because of what you describe. Revachol embodies real places I've been at. Scarred cities occupied by all kinds of people holding all kinds of beliefs ending up there over years of complex history. It's some seriously rare world building.

[@visoriannull832]

@@Ozzianman I think the thing they balk at is that it presents communism as something that people could believably be in favor of. Spoiler: Even measurehead has a sympathetic backstory. Literally the only reason right wingers are mad is because communism is presented as a valid thought process in this game.

[@alexjeffrey3981]

​@@visoriannull832they're so used to cold war propaganda (laughed when that guy said communism killed a billion Russians) that they find nuanced discussion of communism rather triggering

[@sanc3375]

"Gamers love politics, they just dislike DIFFERENT politics"-Hbomberguy

[@GigiBranconi]

And even that doesn't apply to a lot of gamers. Gamers love conflict. Conflict is the core of a good story! And one if the easiest ways to have conflict to any degree is different politics

[@deandelvin9924]

But what if I am Kras Mazov.

[@AtticusKarpenter]

Caramel Marx from Equestria at War

[@ghirahimlefabuleux8984]

You are not Kras Mazov. You are Raphaël Ambrosius Costeau, the second coming of Guillaume le Million, the one whose return shall bring the end of days.

[@Hamun002]

I love the people who didn’t even look at the screenshots and just was like “yeah let’s go! Detective game! Shooting bad guys!” They’re so innocent and I wish them the best in finding their cops and robbers game

[@mathiasrryba]

Wondering what the "There's nothing 'Disco' in this game" guy even thought this game is supposed to look like? Just Dance 2023?

[@TheOfficialJeff1]

@@mathiasrryba Just dance 1984

[@AutieZo]

They wanted D**k Mullen but got a sad, depressed, alcoholic loser instead lmao

[@shocknawe]

2:06 - Gets über offended by the game: “this game is too afraid to offend anyone!!!”

[@realdragon]

I know nothing about Disco Elysium and this was a rollercoaster of emotions and opinions. I'm more confused about what this game is about than before I knew it existed 10/10

[@JamrockHobo]

is good game

[@zodian8089]

People buy a game where you can only talk, and complain that there are too many dialogues in it. Brilliant.

[@boingo762]

“Status quo game that is afraid of offending everyone” Yeah, the game definitely doesn’t make fun of literally all political alignments

[@Przemko27Z]

And it does it well, because the writers actually believe in things and have basis for their mockery instead of being just nihilistic "centrists".

[@lordbuss]

@@Przemko27Z It just makes fun of everyone including the centrists.

[@SlashCampable]

Interesting how the negative reviews all boil down to either "this offends me" or "this game didn't do things the way other games do things"

[@genericname2747]

Or just "chair hurt me"

[@memerjohn1]

"Walk slowly from place to place while people are rude to you" tbh that's pretty accurate lol

[@phocarrot]

Saying you don't like Disco Elysium because it has no personality is like saying you don't like ice cream because it's too hot.

[@HellishSpoon]

"Too french" only negative review i agreed with.

[@LordAJ12345]

That and the "can't have sex with Kim" review

[@UnaverageNerd]

I love that most of the bad revievs are either just dumb , far rights or has no idea of how a c-rpg works

[@wea69420]

the Venn diagram for that is just a circle tbf

[@gimpscam9976]

Imo people complain about the same stuff they like in other games just the fact they didn’t have a good time so the whole game is bad. “First 15 minutes died” hmm you’re missing the rest of the game there before your review.

[@blazeburner303]

now are we talking far right as in anti-socialist pro individualism, or far right as in sitting between international and national socialism proclaiming national socialism is the only evil

[@visoriannull832]

@@dontatmetillyouvebeenoutside What a kipt

[@alexjeffrey3981]

​​@@blazeburner303social and economic reactionaries

[@kurtomcburto]

Negative reviews are written by occidental haplogroup b4

[@Moosemoose1]

More like written by a bunch of ham sandwiches to me

[@wszczeklypiesz]

I spat out my coffee on the "not that there's anything wrong with beining Estonian, but (...)" part.

[@GlaukopisCal]

i'm pretty sure the people complaining that this game forces one political view on you think that cod is completely apolitical and doesn't push any agenda at all

[@Dis_Dis]

The game that has fictional middle eastern terrorists attacking irl London surely isn't political. The game devs said so!

[@Torgan454]

The Communist Sandwich Bite of '51

[@annsh.6487]

Do people not collect any healing at all? I have more of it than I could ever have a use for

[@0_0____]

Right? I had 5 healing items by the time I got to the uncomfy chair, was happy to fail the check because it’s funny as hell.

[@BoozeNMetaL]

Has anyone else noticed that rightwingers and racist guys surprisingly enough tend to chose high PSY and INT builds? This leads them to interactions that lean towards empathy and rethoric pointing them towards the feminist and communist dialog options that trigger them so much right at the begining of the game. I'm not sure if they have enough self awareness to get triggered by the fascist props of the icebreaker questline.

[@koghs]

"Yes, I am very intelligent"

[@charlesramirez587]

I mean it's all perspective no? Even empathy and rhetorical processes are just dialectics of their perspective culture. Even if we are to assume high empathy within the writing it does not mean the same conclusion in cultural terms. Like from one highly Intelligent person to another will see a trajedy and with equal empathy come to polar opposite approaches. As for rhetoric, it is just a tool to obfuscate meaning for power in a public setting. Rhetoric is performative not principled, and it's useful for any cause and to push any narrative. Dismissing a group by insulting intelligence is also a rhetorical device which is a narrative of dehumanization.

[@BoozeNMetaL]

@@charlesramirez587 I'm just talking in the context of the game. A high level of those skills at the start of the game will present dialog options and props that tend to trigger conservatives that's all. Going deeper into the specifics, that's because Empathy will make Harry interested into the reason why Sylvie left the Cafeteria, that being he himself being absolutely deranged for the last 7 days straight. Not knowing that fact, but having some emotional sense of it, his instincts points suspicions at Garte. Add Harry's tendency to project and reconceptualize his internal stuff and you get his "INEXPLICABLE femminist agenda". The contrast is made very clear if you fail all those empathy passive checks and instead get the "cock carousel" quest. Rethoric is, as you well point out, just a tool, and can lead just as well to communism as to Measureheads advanced race theory.

[@visoriannull832]

@@charlesramirez587 #1 nobody asked #2 have you played disco elysium? The rhetoric and empathy are skills in the game, both of which are communists. All the skills in the game have their own agendas and try to steer you in different ideological directions, that's what the above commenter was talking about.

[@HellecticMojo]

I'm more curious that they didn't opt out. Because Communist thought can be the earliest and easiest to ignore, and feminist thought can be easily twisted into misogyny with few interpretative takes and choices after talking with the waiter.

[@samblaze3223]

“I tried to get a refund for this piece of shot game” 29 hours on record Seems like he really hated it

[@deejaythedj313]

“Status Quo game that is afraid of offending everyone” *proceeds to be offended*

[@kasane1337]

I love that guy at 1:42 - he's obviously mad about this game and got really upset over it, but then also says "fluffy non offensive" and "promotes socialism in the entire game" in the same review 💀 EDIT: Okay, sorry, I didn't get to the obvious Antisemitist part in the review yet, holy shit

[@danzoom]

And also that he's an equivalent of russian 'sjw' in some regard, considering very few russians would say that soviets kіІІеd millions of people. Especially now.

[@SmashingCapital]

how are these people saying that the game tries to not offend you? you get like hours of dialogue with kids that constantly call you a f*g

[@genericname2747]

They're probably the type of person who says that word constantly

[@feral_orc]

@@genericname2747 I'm Irish, that's what we call cigarettes

[@genericname2747]

@@feral_orc That's the fascinating part of language, the same word can have completely different meanings.

[@ax2781]

@@genericname2747 in french, the word "fagot" means "firewood bundle" and thats it

[@lopa-u9f]

that's not trying to offend that's trying to be edgy and shock value

[@vcom741]

6:45 Besides the thumbs down, this is actually a great Disco Elysium review. because he is right. Disco Elysium is unsubtle about politics it thinks are good, bad or somewhere in the middle. We live in the world where the moment someone is given a reason to hate a group of people, WILL take that chance over the moral line and then over the legal line, and not look back. This generation does not deserve "subtlety". EDIT: I also love that the people who criticized the game for using anti-gay slurs almost all went back to playing it later for a while. Almost like their friends told them: "Wha? No, your partner is gay! This game is pro-gay folks!"

[@Ookamiryoshi]

Excuse you, Kim Kitsuragi is OUR bbygrl

[@magicrainbowkitties1023]

"Product received for free" "Product refunded" Stonks

[@cherryJ0lt]

3:28 The only legitimate negative review of Disco Elysium possible.

[@vissersixty-nine6246]

"when leftists try to send a subtle political message you end up with disco elysium" yeah and when conservatives try to send a subtle political message you have a 50/50 chance of something unironically titled "TRIGGERED?" or birth of a nation. at least disco elysium is funny

[@MarxistMogger]

or you get a call of duty game

[@azpont7275]

Alternatively the police may chokehold you while you suffocate.

[@irreleverent]

I'm not sure where anyone gets the idea DISCO ELYSIUM is trying to be "subtle" about anything. The communism is the point.

[@kajamatousek247]

When conservatives try to send a subtle political message you get "what is a woman" by matt walsh

[@stirpiano]

@kajamatousek247 oh god not THAT...

[@the_quadracorn]

There are so many contradictions in the review at 2:17 that I took psychic damage.

[@JamrockHobo]

-1 Morale

[@Necrapocalypse]

Dying to the chair (and being mad about it) is a skill issue tbh. I had 1 health through most of my first run and just stocked up on medicine. You've got multiple seconds watching your health tick down to use one, and I had a small stockpile throughout the majority of the game even though I had to use one every time I took damage. Edit: Not to say it didn't push me towards finding ways around most of the health damage (my morale was high enough I was pretty much immortal on that front).

[@TheRealCarlBrutananadilewski]

"Art should disturb the comfortable and comfort the disturbed."

[@runningking1317]

Player: *is racist* Kim: *Dislikes you for being racist* Player: "Leftist propaganda"

[@randomguy6679]

3:06 Ah yes, the RED physique skills are clearly pink. I’ve heard of people gasping for straws, but this is next level…

[@mtfoxtrot5296]

Some of the more creative and unhinged reviews just sound like lines from the game and it's the best thing ever lmfao