For the 200 or so people that seem to watch this video every day: Argo Tuulik, one of the writers behind Disco, is in the middle of a legal battle with the IP holders. He also has a GoFundMe set up because as you can imagine, that shit eats into one's funds. www.gofundme.com/f/help-disco-elysium-writer-survive-the-winter
I've been waiting for somebody to chef uo some content. Just started watching, I hope he cooks. Doesn't have too be the way *i'd* Cook but we'll see, it might still have that Bitter but Hopeful taste of The Pale I Enjoy. Aka Reality.
Me after playing Disco Elysium: Evrart is evil. Me after playing Disco Elysium twice: Joyce was playing you like a fiddle, and is evil. Me after watching this video: literally no characters are evil, even the evil ones. WTF. I really loved this, thanks.
Deeply flawed characters, yes. But i would say most of them are just making their own ways in the world and survive. Its like that in real life too, rarely someone is completely evil or irredeemable
@@HellishSpoonyeah while the game at bare minimum makes people like Evrart, Joyce or Measurehead potentially funny or *maybe* at least have a humanity to them. The mercenaries are straight up not human.
Less than 10 minutes in and this is already a more literate and comprehensive analysis than basically any other video I've seen about DE. A breath of fresh air among a sea of glorified Wikipedia recaps. We will be watching your career with great interest.
By the way - massive kudos for doing proper subtitles for such a long video. Way too many channels farm it out to underpaid gig-work places that have a ton of basic errors, if they even bother at all. I know it's a lot of work so rest assured it doesn't go unappreciated!
Honestly? It's not that much work. YT can auto-time it if I put in the whole script as a .txt file. Sometimes the words don't match because I changed my mind mid-recording and forget to fix it, but any channel doing pre-recorded content has little excuse.
Diving into what the pale truly is, is a fascinating part of the game. I always thought it was a representation of all of the information humans have ever forgotten, congealing into a pseudo physical form. That’s the reason that humans seem to be a source, and the reason it’s expansion. Weirdly enough, though, while it did strike me as unique and interesting and existential in my first play through, I regarded it in the same way one regards the fact that the Earth will get swallowed by the sun in several hundred million years. The world is always sort of ending, so it never bothered me much.
Part of the fun is not knowing exactly how the pale is. Most importantly, consider where each explanation come from is a great insight the video brings, with the moralinterns using the fear of the pale as fear of changing the status quo
Personally, when I encountered the Pale, I immediately connected it to existential terror. In my eyes, it’s the looming feeling of everything being for nothing, no matter what you do. It’s something you either distract yourself from, or learn to process in a healthier way. Everyone on Earth asks whether their life will have meaning if everything is for nothing, and everyone in Elysium asks whether their life will have meaning if the Pale swallows everything.
to me the pale was anxieties about the forgotten past and the unknown expanse of the future, it seems to be something that affects everyone but talk of the pale seems moreso in transient areas like revechol because of their place in limbo. it could be an expanse of secrets and wonder or it could be just nothingness. some people want to explore/cross it and others wonder if it will swallow everything into nothingness.
To me Pale is in a way The End of all things. And I feel like it creates a funny commentary that people still decide to squabble among each other about politics when the world around them is ending.
To me, the Pale seemed to be a cosmic destruction of anything which exists, seeking to eliminate anything not just passively living. This explains why Harry is the best offence against it according to Shivers, he is 100% pure, concentrated personality, emotion and politics. He's the "everything" to fight the Pale's "nothingness". He's the most "living" person to exist, to the po8nt that he's almost entirely in the present, apart from his existential dread and trauma from Dora.
YO FINALLY someone else who thinks harry is an innocence!! i was replaying disco elysium earlier this year and came up with the same theory, it makes so much sense
I do think of Harry as some kind of "anti-innocence": instead of willing material change that advances existence, he willed non-existence, and got hit by similar forces. That drew attention of the spirit of Revachol and gave "life" to the voices in his head
I choose to believe that Harry has the potential to be an Innocence, and that he can exert enough change on the world to prevent the events in the book. The latter part is mostly cope though.
"If everyone just sees you as That Communist Cop, nobody is gonna ask about why the hell you look so sad. It's obviously because you're a communist" As a leftist, this line made me laugh with pain
Коммунизм, это очевидно очень плохая затея. Ведь он даёт: бесплатное образование(от среднего до магистратуры), бесплатную медицину(от стоматологии до хирургии и бесплатную скорую помощь), бесплатное рабочее место во всех уголках страны(по профессии и без), бесплатные вещи производства(если отработали 5 лет на авто-заводе, то получили бесплатно машину, а если на заводе мебели, то бесплатно всю мебель для квартиры и так далее), бесплатное жильё(в зависимости от состава семьи) и бесплатная часть земли(в СССР это были 600 квадратных метров), бесплатные общежития для студентов, низкие цены на продукты питания(потому что их переизбыток в стране не уходит в частные руки по завышенным ценам и на помойку, что не продалось), бесплатные кружки(хобби на любой вкус), бесплатные ежегодные курорты(от работы или для лечения здоровья), безопасное общество(от наркотиков и преступности), запрещает проституцию, запрещает пропаганду антиморальных ценностей(ЛГБТ, и прочее), следит за человеком(чтобы он всегда был при деле в коммунистическом обществе и нашёл отклик и помощь в лицах знакомых людей), запрещает кредитование населения(от ввода его в денежную кабалу), запрещает работодателю определять самостоятельно "рабские" условия труда, направлен на развитие страны и здоровый патриотизм, искореняет религиозные секты и другие виды проявления мошенничества против человечности. Коммунизм, это то, что заставило человечество развиваться и двигаться темпами, которые были невозможны в тех реалиях, хоть и на короткое время. Коммунизм запустил человека в космос, создал НАТО, и дал евреям землю. И именно, он и только он, победил нацистскую Германию, сделав хоть на мгновение мир без войн!
@@imparanoid8738 Блжад, человек, ты в каком веке живешь? Какие "антиморальные ценности"? Антиморальные ценности - это гнобить людей только за то, что они чем-то отличаются от тебя.
I actually completely bypassed the hard-core church quest on my first play through lmao. I was trying to rebuild Harry’s life and the idea of dealing with a bunch of drug dealing 20 Somethings seemed like it would not be a good call. I never had any sort of psychic revelation, hell, I never even had the final dream in the bunker.
Copmaxxing. I do need to try absolutely ignoring everything regarding Dora, as it apparently changes the contents of that final dream and I wanna see it. But that's at least two years from now.
@@LastMinuteEssays Some things are ingrained in the game, you cannot omit them, for example the game forces you to reveal the information about your lost badge to Kim at the beginning. I think it's the same with Dora, you will probably just get less dialogue options, but the dream will be mostly the same. I'm curious about it as well, but played DE so many times that I'll stick to watching letsplays for the next 2 years :) My friend has just told me that if your HALF LIGHT is high enough, you can actually taste the water after you cook the mercenary's boots. I still keep finding hidden gems like this! Also: Yuck!
@@ZwiekszoneRyzykoI hate to give so few details but I’m pretty sure I saw on Reddit that you can avoid the Dora dream entirely. Not seeing the stained glass Dolores portrait was one of the requirement iirc
We seriously needed this! I was mad that all the DE analyses were less than an hour long when people could analyze Skyrim for 20 hours straight. I can already tell this is gonna be a good one! Your channel looks interesting, subbed.
"with all respect" I respect xD But what Savlecz is saying is true- if Skyrim can have multi-hour long analysis's then Disco Elysium should have them as much.
Year ago, after finishing my fifth playthrough, i would sit there in front of my tv digesting all the dialogs all the tidbits i would find in the internet about pale, the end, "girl child revolution" geting closer to the conclusion only to fail miserably time and time again, losing hope for any closure due to a lack of video's and essays online which would go deep and around covering all subjects in detail including the ones in a book! And suddenly, 5 years after release this video shows up in my recommendations. I watched it in one breath, its such a relief and at the time i am writing this it seems that all my questions were answered. I guess all i am trying to say is thank you.
something i'd like to point out is that the radio operator you contact has her face obscured by a different human face in the form of the separation caused by talking to you over a microphone and always talking in procedures and as the voice of moralism the mask of humanity is firmly in place
Your analogy of Dros murdering Lely to punish Klaasje to the Moralintern destroying the Commune to punish La Revacholiere to deconstruct his bullshit "The bourgeois are not human" monologue was beautiful It's worth noting that in both cases, the "Killer" used a weapon of comparatively overwhelming power from incredible distance to do the deed, an attack neither victims could have seen coming, let alone do anything to stop or defend against. With Dros, it was his breech-loading high-caliber sniper rifle; and with the Moralintern, it was the massive army of the Coalition, but especially their airships.
This was a great video! On a side note. Living in a post-soviet country, it's insane how many Iosef Lilianovich Droses are there. The sense of failure is so strong, people forget that we have it somewhat good. They may not live on an island but they are so deep in the nostalgia the real world feels like a one.
The only real way I can describe this review is “human” It focuses on the world and the people who live in it, their lives, hopes, dreams, and fears, and thus it frames this world in a way I haven’t seen done by any of the other reviews I have seen of this game.
Yes, i feel the same! This video is amazing and a very good example of good writing - how it tied all characters in this great flow of information and lore
Oh my... oh shit! As someone who binged this game for two play throughs in quick succession when it came out, watched multiple let's plays and have watched most of the multi-hours essays, reviews, analysis, and expanded world lore videos on TH-cam, I couldn't agree more with your opening monologue/thesis. Thank you for this Christmas/New Years gift!!
Banger after banger. Laughed out loud at the Ruina music kicking in. Your description of the tower of matchboxes got me a little teary-eyed, and I appreciate the power move of talking about the Moralintern instead of the Communist survivor in the section that you did this.
Wonderful insight. This reads like several small essays each one detailed and passionate. You could tear apart Disco for hours, the game is so dense and lush and you have stepped up in a way more people ought to. Breathe in you, the lungs of passion, for the air you exhale is tinged with new love.
If Renee had just resolved to tell Gaston that he loved him they could have had a nice policule going on for their entire lifes. His suffering was not meaningless, but the meaning is simply to get over yourself and love the people you love openly
Great video as a whole, but your analysis on Evrart was the missing piece I was always looking for to understand the character, and you have no idea how much I appreciate it. Thank you!
Same! I am eastern European and those are actually the two games that live inside me. But the Pathologic is so much harder to came back to. Real hardcore 😢
Beautiful video! I love the game and this is probably the most thorough and understanding of the game. Almost everything said is something I know and compared to other TH-camrs there is enough care to be as accurate as possible with all the knowledge in the game. I’ve had to stop other videos about disco elysium because they’re either surface level, missing out on some important concepts, or they just don’t love the game as much as we do. They always miss something, but this video is terrific! It’s something to be proud of! Thank you for the great video!
Last Minute Essays is helping me find understanding and love for characters I never though I would For the best Disco Elysium video essay out there you have my money and my love I wish you all the best brother
This was such a good watch. Thank you so much for putting all this time into it! As somebody who might be about to write his Bachelor's Thesis about this game this was fascinating as it showed me narrative options I haven't seen discussed anywere yet.
This is a beautiful essay - there is so much in here that I had no idea about, or missed out on during my playthroughs. Thank you so much for your work on this - it is as magnificent as the game it analyses.
It was amazing. I saw pretty much every disco elysium video essay ever created (because I have no one to talk to about this game...) And i fucking love this video. Thanks
Wow this was GOOD. As someone who played since the first few months the game launched, has bought the vinyl soundtrack twice and even bough Kim’s jacket: This is the best video essay about DE I’ve ever seen. Extremely eloquent, well thought out and well written. I was pleasantly surprised by the level of depth in analysis of each section. Chef’s kiss. You’ve earned a sub, wishing you success with future projects, you’ve got things to say :)
id wager that since this videos release ive watched it at minimum 10 times. ive played the game over and over countless times yet somehow this video keeps showing me new things to appreciate not just in the game, but also in the world itself. brilliant, brilliant video ❤
so refreshing to see an actual critical analysis instead of just a plot summary that points out a couple major themes and like *one* piece of subtext or foreshadowing.
Thank you for this video. Despite the fact that I liked the creation of ZA/UM (at least the ZA/UM that created Disco Elysium) and I understood that it was deeper than it is, although I could not fully realize and express it, and despite the fact that I went through it and returned several times, I cannot say that I have progressed to the neighboring shore after several attempts to complete the game again. But your video has revealed more deeply my understanding of the events taking place in the world of the game. But more importantly, you made me think about myself more than once (not a bad start to the year) During these almost three hours, I almost cried several times and several times found myself just staring at the monitor, no longer hearing anything, completely immersed in myself. You rekindled the idea in me to start writing something. The idea that flares up and goes out several times a day and who knows, maybe it will fade out again by the time I finish this comment. And despite the fact that several of your phrases expressed and reflected more meaning in me than I will ever be able to write in my pathetic attempts to express at least some kind of holistic thought (as I am doing now) But I will try. Not only because the very idea of expressing at least a little of my thoughts through text, in order to let them be read and give, if not temporary confidence in a better future, then at least a smile, at the same time scares me with the thought that I will not be able to express it, but excites me so much that I cannot sleep. Maybe it's because for today's me in my early twenties, the idea of creating at least something distracts me enough not to pay attention to how empty and repetitive my life is, but it doesn't distract enough to finally start doing at least something. But I'm going to try, because what can we do but try? Thanks a lot again. Disco Elysium
This video is a masterpiece and each section pushes me towards so many directions of thought and even action in my personal life, it feels bigger than my memory and attention can muster up. I feel like I'll have to rewatch it and comment and think about each part separately.
The Pathologic music kicking in near the start and the Capella quote near the end both brought a smile to my face. Fantastic video - absolutely need to go and replay.
I crushed through the game multiple times in just a couple weeks during this winter sale and found myself similarly in love with the story. I also found myself like your scrounging around for content that was a comprehensive and satisfying analysis. After hours and hours of disappointment and/or the desire for more- this is the one. THANK YOU
this is truly the best disco elysium video essay I've seen, I've been looking for something like this since I finished the game. loved specially your comparison to the tree of life!
this video essay is beautiful. you are fantastically articulate, your script was touching, moving, and exceptionally humane to the nuanced, flawed and compelling bunch of characters in this utter masterpiece of a game. the way you concluded your analysis threatened to bring tears to my eyes. this is, without a doubt in my mind, the most HARDCORE analysis of Disco Elysium, and you bet i’m going to share this video til my dying breath
The level of brainrot (affectionate) brimming from the "I can't escape" section is just... chef's kiss. This was beautiful and vast like Harry's soul, I've watched it twice already. Thank you!
I came here after playing the game, and didn’t expect Kabbalistic analysis to pop up, but now I’m subbed to your channel and can’t wait for more analysis with that esoterica
Well, I know what I'm gonna be listening at work. Man, what an escalation from 20 - 40min videos to 2 hours. Also I'm very glad to see a comprehensive look at DE since as you mentioned, it's such a rarity.
hey man, this is the kind of video that just commands I leave a comment, truly stellar stuff; I mean it. thank you for making this, my appreciation for the world of elysium grows knowing no bounds. I look forward to your future work.
Thank you so much for summarizing the plot in less than one minute I hate being 20 minutes into a video and it dawns on me that I'm being told a chronological order of events peppered with sponsor segments
ideas permeating the air, the pale, the phasmid changing the air, revachol/shivers communicating to harry thru wind (thus the air) - this thread of imagery in Disco Elysium somehow completely escaped my notice and it changes how I look at a lot of things!! Its an insanely beautiful and interesting way at looking at it, thank you for pointing it out. Awesome video
Amazing script, concise despite being ~3h long, non-intrusive tasteful humour, fully subtitled, insightful, non-american PoV. Honest to Dei, well done. You really are allowed to pat yourself on the back for this. I'm gonna check out the rest of your catalogue in due time as I've experienced most of what's covered there. Great job.
Beautiful essay! Watched it in one breath. Genuinely impressed by how fresh your analysis of one of my favourite games feels after countless "essays" talking about same mundane things about DE over and over and you going into more philosophical dimension. I really enjoyed your "story beat from character to character" progression, and your thoughts about the God, the Pale and the Air felt like you put in words what I personally couldn't connect because I couldn't find the glue to put between the pieces myself. Thank you for your work, Happy New years, and greetings from Ukraine
Beautiful analysis, thank you for making it. I genuinely appreciate your work in helping me deepen my understanding of this once in a lifetime work even further.
Being Polish and having this analysis in the background while working and suddenly hearing the words "Poland as a Christ of nation" was like getting shot in the head 🤣 Amazing work, though.
I just finished this and I wanna write a longer comment to commend you on it but this changed my life as much as the game no one has gotten it the way you do thank you so so much for this
For the 200 or so people that seem to watch this video every day:
Argo Tuulik, one of the writers behind Disco, is in the middle of a legal battle with the IP holders. He also has a GoFundMe set up because as you can imagine, that shit eats into one's funds.
www.gofundme.com/f/help-disco-elysium-writer-survive-the-winter
I can't believe that the ending of the game is Harry getting stick bugged.
"There are cathedrals everywhere for those with eyes to see" - Harry after getting stick bugged
oh you've been cooking
Certified video essay chef
He's been definitely cooking
Crystal?
I've been waiting for somebody to chef uo some content. Just started watching, I hope he cooks. Doesn't have too be the way *i'd* Cook but we'll see, it might still have that Bitter but Hopeful taste of The Pale I Enjoy. Aka Reality.
HE COOKED TO HARD AAAAAAH
Now that is thorough
Ohmagawd it's my favourite Disco funposter
Hell yeah the JamrockHobo
Fuck yes
Me after playing Disco Elysium: Evrart is evil.
Me after playing Disco Elysium twice: Joyce was playing you like a fiddle, and is evil.
Me after watching this video: literally no characters are evil, even the evil ones. WTF.
I really loved this, thanks.
Deeply flawed characters, yes. But i would say most of them are just making their own ways in the world and survive. Its like that in real life too, rarely someone is completely evil or irredeemable
I love this empathetic approach to characters so much in media
@@thatlazyguy588 Nah, Joyce is just evil. Actions are what determines someone's character, not feelings.
I realized half way through disco that there are no evil characters in disco...
except for the mercenaries
they are definitely evil.
@@HellishSpoonyeah while the game at bare minimum makes people like Evrart, Joyce or Measurehead potentially funny or *maybe* at least have a humanity to them.
The mercenaries are straight up not human.
Less than 10 minutes in and this is already a more literate and comprehensive analysis than basically any other video I've seen about DE. A breath of fresh air among a sea of glorified Wikipedia recaps. We will be watching your career with great interest.
By the way - massive kudos for doing proper subtitles for such a long video. Way too many channels farm it out to underpaid gig-work places that have a ton of basic errors, if they even bother at all. I know it's a lot of work so rest assured it doesn't go unappreciated!
Honestly? It's not that much work. YT can auto-time it if I put in the whole script as a .txt file. Sometimes the words don't match because I changed my mind mid-recording and forget to fix it, but any channel doing pre-recorded content has little excuse.
I've been hearing the words of this essay, rattling in my head, for years. I'm so glad to finally hear them in such a clear, messy, beautiful sequence
The power of writing! This essay is so well woven, great script here im just in love with it
Diving into what the pale truly is, is a fascinating part of the game. I always thought it was a representation of all of the information humans have ever forgotten, congealing into a pseudo physical form. That’s the reason that humans seem to be a source, and the reason it’s expansion. Weirdly enough, though, while it did strike me as unique and interesting and existential in my first play through, I regarded it in the same way one regards the fact that the Earth will get swallowed by the sun in several hundred million years. The world is always sort of ending, so it never bothered me much.
Part of the fun is not knowing exactly how the pale is. Most importantly, consider where each explanation come from is a great insight the video brings, with the moralinterns using the fear of the pale as fear of changing the status quo
Personally, when I encountered the Pale, I immediately connected it to existential terror. In my eyes, it’s the looming feeling of everything being for nothing, no matter what you do. It’s something you either distract yourself from, or learn to process in a healthier way. Everyone on Earth asks whether their life will have meaning if everything is for nothing, and everyone in Elysium asks whether their life will have meaning if the Pale swallows everything.
to me the pale was anxieties about the forgotten past and the unknown expanse of the future, it seems to be something that affects everyone but talk of the pale seems moreso in transient areas like revechol because of their place in limbo. it could be an expanse of secrets and wonder or it could be just nothingness. some people want to explore/cross it and others wonder if it will swallow everything into nothingness.
To me Pale is in a way The End of all things. And I feel like it creates a funny commentary that people still decide to squabble among each other about politics when the world around them is ending.
To me, the Pale seemed to be a cosmic destruction of anything which exists, seeking to eliminate anything not just passively living.
This explains why Harry is the best offence against it according to Shivers, he is 100% pure, concentrated personality, emotion and politics. He's the "everything" to fight the Pale's "nothingness". He's the most "living" person to exist, to the po8nt that he's almost entirely in the present, apart from his existential dread and trauma from Dora.
YO FINALLY someone else who thinks harry is an innocence!! i was replaying disco elysium earlier this year and came up with the same theory, it makes so much sense
I do think of Harry as some kind of "anti-innocence": instead of willing material change that advances existence, he willed non-existence, and got hit by similar forces. That drew attention of the spirit of Revachol and gave "life" to the voices in his head
I choose to believe that Harry has the potential to be an Innocence, and that he can exert enough change on the world to prevent the events in the book. The latter part is mostly cope though.
@@Itomon I wonder if Shivers IS the Spirit of Revachol. Especially if you heavily invest in it and lend your ear to it.
nice touch of putting on the kim kitsuragi fan song when you're talking about kim's personality and history
"If everyone just sees you as That Communist Cop, nobody is gonna ask about why the hell you look so sad. It's obviously because you're a communist"
As a leftist, this line made me laugh with pain
Коммунизм, это очевидно очень плохая затея. Ведь он даёт: бесплатное образование(от среднего до магистратуры), бесплатную медицину(от стоматологии до хирургии и бесплатную скорую помощь), бесплатное рабочее место во всех уголках страны(по профессии и без), бесплатные вещи производства(если отработали 5 лет на авто-заводе, то получили бесплатно машину, а если на заводе мебели, то бесплатно всю мебель для квартиры и так далее), бесплатное жильё(в зависимости от состава семьи) и бесплатная часть земли(в СССР это были 600 квадратных метров), бесплатные общежития для студентов, низкие цены на продукты питания(потому что их переизбыток в стране не уходит в частные руки по завышенным ценам и на помойку, что не продалось), бесплатные кружки(хобби на любой вкус), бесплатные ежегодные курорты(от работы или для лечения здоровья), безопасное общество(от наркотиков и преступности), запрещает проституцию, запрещает пропаганду антиморальных ценностей(ЛГБТ, и прочее), следит за человеком(чтобы он всегда был при деле в коммунистическом обществе и нашёл отклик и помощь в лицах знакомых людей), запрещает кредитование населения(от ввода его в денежную кабалу), запрещает работодателю определять самостоятельно "рабские" условия труда, направлен на развитие страны и здоровый патриотизм, искореняет религиозные секты и другие виды проявления мошенничества против человечности. Коммунизм, это то, что заставило человечество развиваться и двигаться темпами, которые были невозможны в тех реалиях, хоть и на короткое время. Коммунизм запустил человека в космос, создал НАТО, и дал евреям землю. И именно, он и только он, победил нацистскую Германию, сделав хоть на мгновение мир без войн!
@@imparanoid8738 Блжад, человек, ты в каком веке живешь? Какие "антиморальные ценности"? Антиморальные ценности - это гнобить людей только за то, что они чем-то отличаются от тебя.
@@imparanoid8738 dont forget the plate free of food
Pain for the greater good. To help yourself, your kids and your neighbors.
I actually completely bypassed the hard-core church quest on my first play through lmao. I was trying to rebuild Harry’s life and the idea of dealing with a bunch of drug dealing 20 Somethings seemed like it would not be a good call. I never had any sort of psychic revelation, hell, I never even had the final dream in the bunker.
Copmaxxing. I do need to try absolutely ignoring everything regarding Dora, as it apparently changes the contents of that final dream and I wanna see it. But that's at least two years from now.
@@LastMinuteEssaystwo years + at least 2 more hours (of video essay xD)
@@LastMinuteEssays Some things are ingrained in the game, you cannot omit them, for example the game forces you to reveal the information about your lost badge to Kim at the beginning. I think it's the same with Dora, you will probably just get less dialogue options, but the dream will be mostly the same. I'm curious about it as well, but played DE so many times that I'll stick to watching letsplays for the next 2 years :)
My friend has just told me that if your HALF LIGHT is high enough, you can actually taste the water after you cook the mercenary's boots. I still keep finding hidden gems like this! Also: Yuck!
Boring cop
@@ZwiekszoneRyzykoI hate to give so few details but I’m pretty sure I saw on Reddit that you can avoid the Dora dream entirely. Not seeing the stained glass Dolores portrait was one of the requirement iirc
This is now the definite Disco Elysium video essay, as far as I’m concerned. Absolutely beautiful, you almost had me crying several times 👍
I would say that's a bit pretentious. One's own thoughts and opinions themselves should be definite to them, not others.
for me Anette gave the most sympathetic responses in the game, I empathized with her the most.
I think I made her upset by saying that no one looks like Dick Mullen and he wasn't real lol
If you're empathizing, you're playing it wrong.
We seriously needed this! I was mad that all the DE analyses were less than an hour long when people could analyze Skyrim for 20 hours straight. I can already tell this is gonna be a good one! Your channel looks interesting, subbed.
And i dont even consider Skyrim half of the game DE is... with due respect to skyrim fans ofc xD
"with all respect" I respect xD
But what Savlecz is saying is true- if Skyrim can have multi-hour long analysis's then Disco Elysium should have them as much.
Year ago, after finishing my fifth playthrough, i would sit there in front of my tv digesting all the dialogs all the tidbits i would find in the internet about pale, the end, "girl child revolution" geting closer to the conclusion only to fail miserably time and time again, losing hope for any closure due to a lack of video's and essays online which would go deep and around covering all subjects in detail including the ones in a book!
And suddenly, 5 years after release this video shows up in my recommendations. I watched it in one breath, its such a relief and at the time i am writing this it seems that all my questions were answered.
I guess all i am trying to say is thank you.
something i'd like to point out is that the radio operator you contact has her face obscured by a different human face in the form of the separation caused by talking to you over a microphone and always talking in procedures and as the voice of moralism
the mask of humanity is firmly in place
Your analogy of Dros murdering Lely to punish Klaasje to the Moralintern destroying the Commune to punish La Revacholiere to deconstruct his bullshit "The bourgeois are not human" monologue was beautiful
It's worth noting that in both cases, the "Killer" used a weapon of comparatively overwhelming power from incredible distance to do the deed, an attack neither victims could have seen coming, let alone do anything to stop or defend against.
With Dros, it was his breech-loading high-caliber sniper rifle; and with the Moralintern, it was the massive army of the Coalition, but especially their airships.
Holy shit. A Disco Elysium analysis from the man himself, that sure is one way to make a gift for a new year! Kudos, LME.
This was a great video!
On a side note. Living in a post-soviet country, it's insane how many Iosef Lilianovich Droses are there. The sense of failure is so strong, people forget that we have it somewhat good. They may not live on an island but they are so deep in the nostalgia the real world feels like a one.
The only real way I can describe this review is “human”
It focuses on the world and the people who live in it, their lives, hopes, dreams, and fears, and thus it frames this world in a way I haven’t seen done by any of the other reviews I have seen of this game.
Now I kind of want to show this video to everyone. The world must know the eastern-european perspective on the funny failguy cop game.
Yes, i feel the same! This video is amazing and a very good example of good writing - how it tied all characters in this great flow of information and lore
Oh my... oh shit! As someone who binged this game for two play throughs in quick succession when it came out, watched multiple let's plays and have watched most of the multi-hours essays, reviews, analysis, and expanded world lore videos on TH-cam, I couldn't agree more with your opening monologue/thesis. Thank you for this Christmas/New Years gift!!
Yeah it’s definitely one of the best essays, finally someone appreciates the brilliance of the Sunday friend
Banger after banger. Laughed out loud at the Ruina music kicking in.
Your description of the tower of matchboxes got me a little teary-eyed, and I appreciate the power move of talking about the Moralintern instead of the Communist survivor in the section that you did this.
I'm usually deterred by such video length, but for the combo of this game and this dude I'll have to sit through it.
HARDCORE TO THE MEGA!
This video is amazing, the script is so well woven, DE is such a complex game with so many themes and still they all fit together so nicely here :)
INTERNALLY COHERENT!
Is it though?
Volition didnt just help harry with his alcoholism and depression but mine as well
Good to hear that
Wonderful insight. This reads like several small essays each one detailed and passionate. You could tear apart Disco for hours, the game is so dense and lush and you have stepped up in a way more people ought to. Breathe in you, the lungs of passion, for the air you exhale is tinged with new love.
Taking this as the sign I needed to finally get around to playing this one. Will be back to watch this in full!
This is absolutely the hands down best DE video on this site
Thank you for making this!!
If Renee had just resolved to tell Gaston that he loved him they could have had a nice policule going on for their entire lifes. His suffering was not meaningless, but the meaning is simply to get over yourself and love the people you love openly
Best essay I've seen for Disco Elysium! Fantastic job!
Great video as a whole, but your analysis on Evrart was the missing piece I was always looking for to understand the character, and you have no idea how much I appreciate it. Thank you!
Absolutely stunned by your writing here, this flows so quickly that I actually did not notice when it ended!
Also kudos for referencing Pathologic ❤
this
Same! I am eastern European and those are actually the two games that live inside me. But the Pathologic is so much harder to came back to. Real hardcore 😢
One of the best analysis of DE ive seen !! Didnt even see the 3 hours pass, thank you !
Beautiful video! I love the game and this is probably the most thorough and understanding of the game. Almost everything said is something I know and compared to other TH-camrs there is enough care to be as accurate as possible with all the knowledge in the game. I’ve had to stop other videos about disco elysium because they’re either surface level, missing out on some important concepts, or they just don’t love the game as much as we do. They always miss something, but this video is terrific! It’s something to be proud of! Thank you for the great video!
Last Minute Essays is helping me find understanding and love for characters I never though I would
For the best Disco Elysium video essay out there you have my money and my love
I wish you all the best brother
This was such a good watch. Thank you so much for putting all this time into it!
As somebody who might be about to write his Bachelor's Thesis about this game this was fascinating as it showed me narrative options I haven't seen discussed anywere yet.
Good luck with the thesis!
Thank you!
This is a beautiful essay - there is so much in here that I had no idea about, or missed out on during my playthroughs. Thank you so much for your work on this - it is as magnificent as the game it analyses.
This is a masterpiece. Your essay brims with honesty and care. It's inspiring
This is the one. This is the best analysis on DE. So glad I found your channel.
thank you for captioning this. I thought it wouldnt be because of length
It was amazing. I saw pretty much every disco elysium video essay ever created (because I have no one to talk to about this game...) And i fucking love this video. Thanks
This is the most complete analysis of Disco I've ever seen, you can really feel the love and passion you put into it! Thank you so much :D
Wow this was GOOD. As someone who played since the first few months the game launched, has bought the vinyl soundtrack twice and even bough Kim’s jacket: This is the best video essay about DE I’ve ever seen. Extremely eloquent, well thought out and well written. I was pleasantly surprised by the level of depth in analysis of each section. Chef’s kiss. You’ve earned a sub, wishing you success with future projects, you’ve got things to say :)
id wager that since this videos release ive watched it at minimum 10 times. ive played the game over and over countless times yet somehow this video keeps showing me new things to appreciate not just in the game, but also in the world itself. brilliant, brilliant video ❤
so refreshing to see an actual critical analysis instead of just a plot summary that points out a couple major themes and like *one* piece of subtext or foreshadowing.
Thank you for this video. Despite the fact that I liked the creation of ZA/UM (at least the ZA/UM that created Disco Elysium) and I understood that it was deeper than it is, although I could not fully realize and express it, and despite the fact that I went through it and returned several times, I cannot say that I have progressed to the neighboring shore after several attempts to complete the game again.
But your video has revealed more deeply my understanding of the events taking place in the world of the game. But more importantly, you made me think about myself more than once (not a bad start to the year)
During these almost three hours, I almost cried several times and several times found myself just staring at the monitor, no longer hearing anything, completely immersed in myself.
You rekindled the idea in me to start writing something. The idea that flares up and goes out several times a day and who knows, maybe it will fade out again by the time I finish this comment.
And despite the fact that several of your phrases expressed and reflected more meaning in me than I will ever be able to write in my pathetic attempts to express at least some kind of holistic thought (as I am doing now)
But I will try. Not only because the very idea of expressing at least a little of my thoughts through text, in order to let them be read and give, if not temporary confidence in a better future, then at least a smile, at the same time scares me with the thought that I will not be able to express it, but excites me so much that I cannot sleep.
Maybe it's because for today's me in my early twenties, the idea of creating at least something distracts me enough not to pay attention to how empty and repetitive my life is, but it doesn't distract enough to finally start doing at least something.
But I'm going to try, because what can we do but try?
Thanks a lot again.
Disco Elysium
Best of luck, from someone with several binned book scripts of his own
Instant subscribe. Incredible essay and obviously, incredible game.
This video is a masterpiece and each section pushes me towards so many directions of thought and even action in my personal life, it feels bigger than my memory and attention can muster up.
I feel like I'll have to rewatch it and comment and think about each part separately.
The Pathologic music kicking in near the start and the Capella quote near the end both brought a smile to my face. Fantastic video - absolutely need to go and replay.
this was everything i ever wanted from a video essay on disco elysium, absolutely amazing work !
this was such a great video, thank you for making it :)
A 2+ hour essay of a game I finished today and loved? Yes please.
I crushed through the game multiple times in just a couple weeks during this winter sale and found myself similarly in love with the story. I also found myself like your scrounging around for content that was a comprehensive and satisfying analysis. After hours and hours of disappointment and/or the desire for more- this is the one. THANK YOU
this is truly the best disco elysium video essay I've seen, I've been looking for something like this since I finished the game. loved specially your comparison to the tree of life!
To quote the wire, Harrier Dubois is Natural Police.
Many thanks for this great watch
I just finished watching the video. This is definitely the best analysis I’ve seen of this game.
Crazy how at the last minute you decided to make the best fucking analysis of the game of the year *every year* I take my hat off.
this video essay is beautiful. you are fantastically articulate, your script was touching, moving, and exceptionally humane to the nuanced, flawed and compelling bunch of characters in this utter masterpiece of a game. the way you concluded your analysis threatened to bring tears to my eyes. this is, without a doubt in my mind, the most HARDCORE analysis of Disco Elysium, and you bet i’m going to share this video til my dying breath
What a piece of art of a video. Will rewatch many, many times. Thank you.
Thanks!
Great analysis video, absolutely loved every bit of it. One of the best content available on TH-cam discussing Disco Elysium!!
The level of brainrot (affectionate) brimming from the "I can't escape" section is just... chef's kiss. This was beautiful and vast like Harry's soul, I've watched it twice already. Thank you!
god, my hyper fixation on DE has just started and this video comes out, Im only 2 minutes in but I can't wait to watch this in full
You used your voice to resonate quite masterfully. Thank you so incredibly much for this video!
Probably one of my favourite video essays I’ve seen in a while. Really well done! ❤
Finaly a worthy analysis of this one of kind game! Loved it, will check out the rest of your videos.
This is incredibly comprehensive, love it! Dziękuję, bracie ❤
This is a really great video. You give us everything in the game and add a lot of personality between the analysis.
I came here after playing the game, and didn’t expect Kabbalistic analysis to pop up, but now I’m subbed to your channel and can’t wait for more analysis with that esoterica
this has gotta be my fav disco elysium video on this site… so thorough and well written!! thank you for uploading!!
This is my favorite video. I have watched on Disco Elysium so far! You’ve added so much insight to this text for me. Thank you so much. ❤️
This is the best video on the topic out there 👏🏻
Well, I know what I'm gonna be listening at work. Man, what an escalation from 20 - 40min videos to 2 hours.
Also I'm very glad to see a comprehensive look at DE since as you mentioned, it's such a rarity.
hey man, this is the kind of video that just commands I leave a comment, truly stellar stuff; I mean it. thank you for making this, my appreciation for the world of elysium grows knowing no bounds. I look forward to your future work.
Thank you so much for summarizing the plot in less than one minute
I hate being 20 minutes into a video and it dawns on me that I'm being told a chronological order of events peppered with sponsor segments
Fantastic job! Thank you for your hard work!
ideas permeating the air, the pale, the phasmid changing the air, revachol/shivers communicating to harry thru wind (thus the air) - this thread of imagery in Disco Elysium somehow completely escaped my notice and it changes how I look at a lot of things!! Its an insanely beautiful and interesting way at looking at it, thank you for pointing it out. Awesome video
Not me starting the video over as soon as it's finished...
Thank you for your insight, and your obvious hard work. You are a fantastic writer.
This is exactly what I've been waiting for. Thank you.
Just commenting for the algorithm because this essay is TREMENDOUS and very well-researched & presented!
Amazing script, concise despite being ~3h long, non-intrusive tasteful humour, fully subtitled, insightful, non-american PoV.
Honest to Dei, well done. You really are allowed to pat yourself on the back for this. I'm gonna check out the rest of your catalogue in due time as I've experienced most of what's covered there.
Great job.
Great to see a fellow Pole having the best video on YT about this 2019 narrative masterpiece of a game. Thank You for your work.
Cheers!
Beautiful essay! Watched it in one breath. Genuinely impressed by how fresh your analysis of one of my favourite games feels after countless "essays" talking about same mundane things about DE over and over and you going into more philosophical dimension. I really enjoyed your "story beat from character to character" progression, and your thoughts about the God, the Pale and the Air felt like you put in words what I personally couldn't connect because I couldn't find the glue to put between the pieces myself. Thank you for your work, Happy New years, and greetings from Ukraine
10/10 only note is not mentioning the womptydompty dom center
This is the best video about Disco Elysium I have ever seen. Thank you for creating this, and for sharing it with us.
Been waiting for something like this since my 3rd playthrough early last year. Thank you for making this!
Beautiful analysis, thank you for making it. I genuinely appreciate your work in helping me deepen my understanding of this once in a lifetime work even further.
You missed one of the music groups: DMX.
WHERE THE HOOD WHERE THE HOOD WHERE THE HOOD AT?
HAVE A BROTHER IN THE CUT. WHERE THE WOOD AT?
Hardcore to the MEGA!
Being Polish and having this analysis in the background while working and suddenly hearing the words "Poland as a Christ of nation" was like getting shot in the head 🤣 Amazing work, though.
Such a great and high quality video! Thank you.
Great essay, thank you very much! I wish you the best of luck with your videos. It was as entertaining as it was meaningful.
Phenomenal analysis with some Polish lore sprinkled here and there, and I'm all here for it!
This is one of my most favorite videos now. I didnt know half the storylines you talked about
I just finished this and I wanna write a longer comment to commend you on it but this changed my life as much as the game no one has gotten it the way you do thank you so so much for this
This is THE Disco Elysium essay. Ive watched them all, and this is the one. Excellent.
Finally someone on TH-cam made a video about disco elysium!
Just found this and thank you for going over everything. I love this game so much.