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ZA/UM’s cult-hit detective RPG,
Disco Elysium, is set in a city where every political ideology has failed. As your player character an alcoholic cop in flared trousers and a tie resembling the intestines of a dead animal roams Martinaise hunting for clues and discarded bottles to deposit, the legacy of these failures is painted into every one of the game’s pre-rendered dollhouse environments. There’s the cracked tilework built under the King’s wasteful regime; the bullet holes in the walls along which the Communists were lined up; the King’s statue restored by a bunch of art-school “young ironists” as part of an aborted attempt at gentrifying the area into a resort.
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Disco Elysium s voice acting is a triumph, in more ways than one. (Image: ZA/UM)
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Narration plays a huge role in
Disco Elysium: The Final Cut, the spiraling detective simulator that was recently updated for consoles. As such, one might expect the man chosen to lend his pipes to such a project to be some sort of master thespian, or at least a veteran voiceover artist. But in reality, the developers at ZA/UM went the exact opposite direction.