It is not just cultures that are distorted through the lens of Disco Elysium. When you learn his name is Kim Kitsuragi, a mix of common Korean and Japanese surnames, you are no longer sure which culture he is supposed to represent. Some allusions to our mortal realm are transparent such as your partner’s ‘Seol’ heritage, but as you peer through they become cloudier than clearer. Everything tumbles down the uncanny valley.
A sense of unease, a creeping deja-vu, these perceptions are written through the streets of Revachol. The world is what allows Disco Elysium to embed itself deep within you. A memory of an amnesiac detective and his lucid, empathetic, yet mechanical partner, investigating a murder in a town which both is and is not situated on the French coast. A memory you will carry with you long after the whimsical conclusion.
Disco Elysium is a visual novel, and also an RPG, a “choices matter” title, a point and click adventure, a film noir thriller, an RNG-based dreamscape and a metaphor for mental illness. The best visual novels seamlessly blend with other gaming genres, weaving gameplay through the fabric of the narrative.
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