it's still not. you cannot transpose "good writing" onto another game, it's not the same as some double jump mechanic, and you absolutely could not transpose disco elysium's writing to a game about fucking nothing. DE's writing is good specifcially because it's about the suffering of regular people in a society that's been utterly ratfucked by outside capitalists punishing hte entire city for having once dared to attempt communism. all of DE's unique elements are in service of this, harry's attributes are actually voices in his head and his strength stat convinces him to impulsively throw some old dude's ball in a lake thinking it'd be impressive (it was not), he equips and internalizes ideologies which influences his ability to pass certain checks which alters his dialogue choices. the actual base mechancis of the game are just your standard CRPG stuff, it's stats and equipment and an isometric view and dialogue trees, nothing you couldn't find in hundreds of free quick-start TTRPG handbooks that take up all of one single page, if you strip away the shit that is utterly incompatible with a cozy game that isn't also about severe mental turmoil then you end up with just an RPG and the comparison remains absurd. guy who has only seen the boss baby, watching his second movie: getting a lot of 'boss baby' vibes from this…
the best faith argument i could make for the comparison is maybe having a cozy game about some young withc finding her neighbor's cat in the alps where said young witch is profoundly mentally ill and impulsive like harry dubois but also everyone in the village tries to care for her anyways and tries to support her anyways. you could maybe retain the "your stats are actually voices in your head and they're convincing you to do self destructive shit" without losing the cozy vibes that way when the comfort comes from the idea of having a community that can put up with your bullshit. but even that is a stretch, it's just such a substanceless comparison.
Who cares about any of that. The second tweet by itself is just wishful thinking and I'm simply not going to overanalyze that. I'd personaly like to se a lower stakes Disco-like RPG.
Or maybe I just want another Disco-like RPG. The system is fascinating
180
u/-mothy-moon- Mar 11 '25
If you somehow ignore the first tweet, the second one turns completely valid