Disco Elysium: Final Cut

Disco Elysium is quite possibly one of the greatest games I've ever played because it tricks you into reading.

I honestly don't like this kind of dialogue-heavy game. Even in the dozens of RPGs I've played, I rarely paid that much attention to dialogue. Partly because some games subject you to endless walls of text, and partly because, when it comes to role-playing, the characters I create tend to have this attitude of, "Something happened in the world? Cool. Not my problem." But Disco Elysium... Wow. Just wow. Good lord. I don't think I've ever read this much text in a game before. And why? Because every single line, every sentence, every little corner of this game is meticulously crafted and packed with detail. The consequences, the successes, the failures, the way everything reacts to everything else... I've had moments like this before. The sheer brilliance of Hollow Knight's map system. The level of realism in Red Dead Redemption 2. The incredible narrative cohesion of Baldur's Gate 2. I honestly wasn't sure whether I'd ever experience that kind of shock and admiration from a game again. Then I played Disco Elysium. And I f...ing loved it. Even though I feel like I've done pretty much everything that can reasonably be done in a single playthrough, I'm absolutely certain that if I played this game a few more times, I'd have completely different experiences every time. There was a scene in Naruto where Madara declared Might Guy to be the strongest taijutsu user. Well, I hereby declare Disco Elysium to be a literary masterpiece of the gaming world: a game with an unparalleled depth of writing, a truly unique role-playing system, and an almost flawless narrative centered around human psychology. You somehow got a man who is practically illiterate when it comes to reading dialogue to sit there for 30+ hours and read like a f....ng book worm. And it didn't stop there. You made me love it. Then you made me feel guilty for not doing the game justice. [b] 95/100 [/b] **P.S. — A huge shout-out to Locpick and the entire Turkish localization team.** Disco Elysium has roughly 1.2 million words, so localizing a game like this into Turkish must have been an absolutely enormous task. Knowing that a 20-person team spent around nine months working on the translation, proofreading, and localization QA makes the quality of the result even more impressive. The Turkish localization is genuinely outstanding. Huge respect to everyone at Locpick who worked on it. You made this incredible game accessible to Turkish players without losing the depth and personality of its writing.