for the little things you might have missed
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.
I remained silent for a moment. “Yeah, I guess that sounds like me.” Those were the words running through my head when the train came barreling down the deserted tracks and slammed me into the air. In one brief moment of dissociation, I registered that its headlight was flickering and broken, a massive crack running down the center of the bulb, and that something that looked very much like my body had just hit the ground beside the tracks. Then, everything went black.
Sunset Over Ithaca 