![]() It calls the player out personally, as tackled in several analyses including my own and Noah Caldwell Gervais’ videos - as Gervais puts it “you wish there was a disco option” but real world revolutionary struggle simply isn’t that easy. Disco Elysium casually assumes communist politics in such a way that even playing as a police officer doesn’t dilute its radical messaging. We now live in a post- Disco Elysium world. Plus, you get to drive a flying car.ĭisco Elysium can comfortably be called the best RPG yet made. It demonstrates the atomisation and alienation of neoliberal capitalism as well as the radical and truly revolutionary nature of community, both in comic asides and in very serious plot moments. It manages to foreground the mystery and the detective story while building a rich and intelligently constructed world - the politics of the cyberpunk setting are important enough for you to come across them as part of the mystery, interesting enough to make you want to learn more, but included casually enough that it never feels intrusive or exposition-y.Ĭloudpunk is a masterpiece of intersectional anti-capitalist storytelling, focusing on the everyday precarity of someone driving delivery as itself a vehicle to literally and figuratively take the player on a homeric tour through apoptocractic capitalism. Observer is a creepy, atmospheric cyberpunk detective game starring the late great Rutger Hauer as he searches for his son, who may have killed someone, or may be tangled up in something altogether darker and more complex. The cyberpunk setting is stunning, the level design is near-flawless, the voice acting is great, and the game’s plot is reminiscent of Bioshock if Bioshock ended in a glorious workers’ revolution. Ghostrunner is a frenetic, demanding, wall-running, shooter-platformer that forces you to redo rooms over and over until you execute the exact sequences, sometimes with only frames of lenience, turning combat into both a test of sheer mechanical reflexes and simultaneously a strategic puzzle in the most rewarding way. The game diverts from the overly common combat and collection mechanics of modern games by instead getting you to photograph things for a newspaper, while punishing you for photographing “the wrong things”, and in this way makes the player acutely aware of their own lens. Umurangi Generation is a photography game about dispossessed Maori teens in a future Tauranga, Aotearoa (that’s New Zealand for us Pakeha) under UN martial law due to an alien invasion. And I’m not going to talk about the bugs until much much later in the essay.Īlright let’s actually get down to some game analysis. This video is about why CD Projekt Red’s new game, Cyberpunk 2077, is pretty bad. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe: motherboards on fire from running too hot genitals clipping through clothes in the inventory screen cars suplexing NPCs Sony refunding opened copies of a Triple-A release.
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