Tag: disco elysium

Because I’m Bored, Let’s Figure Out Every Dexter Character’s Signature “Disco Elysium” Skill

Posted on by Chris in A Detour, Criticism, Reviews, Television, Tributes, Video Games, Writing, You Might Have Missed

Something I've always enjoyed in my time writing critically on media are weird comparisons — taking two pieces of media that otherwise would never be placed alongside each other and seeing how hard I have to smash them together to generate something interesting. In that vein, I recently finished binging Dexter, and made a joke with a friend who also loves Disco Elysium about whether Dexter Morgan had access to Shivers. Then I thought about it a little too long... and this happened.

Disco Will Not Save the World Unless it Saves You First

Posted on by Chris in Criticism, Television, Twelve Months, Twelve Games, Video Games

At its core, Disco Elysium is a game about the "post-" in words like postcolonial, postrevolutionary, posthistorical, postmodern; it is about living in the nebulous after, in the shadow of a happening much larger than whatever small piece of the world we can identify ourselves. And so, its version of a new way forward becomes almost unrecogniable — like a creature blending with the reeds.