This is fairly inline with traditional role-playing, but I found how it was implemented to be more interesting when compared to the common options in other games. Secondly, your skills provide different angles to approach quests. This led to additional dialogue options where I’d be able to press the person to gain additional, more truthful, information. Whenever I was interviewing someone and they lied, drama would pipe up to inform me it thought something was amiss. Drama is characterized as your ability to both detect lies and tell them convincingly. And it’s those skills that largely contribute to Disco Elysium being so enjoyable.įor example, the intellect skill drama was a stand-out in my play-through. Motorics: refers to dexterity and cunning increasing your perception and ability to interface with the world around youĮach of these four categories offers very different skills which will determine how you approach problems throughout your play-through. Physique: refers to physical strength and constitution giving you a greater pain tolerance and the ability to solve problems with brute force Psyche: refers to emotional intelligence and gut instincts allowing you to better understand people and follow your detective intuition Intellect: refers to raw intelligence and contributes to your critical thinking and conceptualizing prowess These points are assigned across four categories and this will define his innate ability with the skills belonging to each for the entirety of your playthrough. Similar to protagonists in traditional role-playing games, Detective Drunkypants has attribute points. And it is this defining of the character that I want to talk to today. From this blank starting point you’ll make a number of decisions about your character that define them over the course of your investigation. You, unfortunately, have a case of anime amnesia which came on after completing a week long bender where you’d hoped to end your miserable existence. For those not in the know, Disco Elysium is a detective RPG where you take on the role of a police officer investigating a lynching.
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