It’s been a few years since this review, and all I’d like to mention is if you want to play this game, don’t buy it. Pirate it. If you haven’t heard, an estonian businessman seized control of ZA/UM and kicked the creators out of the company. It’s being puppeted by scum. Which, is incredibly ironic given the content of this game.

@ScrapTakes

Жыл бұрын

Pinning this for the time being. As far as I know there's still some lawsuits to happen that might change things but I don't know when that would be

@sosyalism_baraaye_hame

Жыл бұрын

I don't buy any game

@Cakeses

Жыл бұрын

CRAP I BOUGHT IT

@ScrapTakes

Жыл бұрын

@@Cakeses It's ok haha, I'm addicted to sugar so I'm making multiple unethical purchases on a daily basis. I think you get a pass

@Cakeses

Жыл бұрын

@@ScrapTakes it still sucks ;-;

My only ideology was protecting Kim at all costs because he is precious and innocent and deserves good things

@ForbiddenSlurp

Жыл бұрын

As much as I agree with you, something magical can happen if Kim gets shot and youve built up a relationship with a certain fowl mouthed child

@Gloss613

Жыл бұрын

Funny part is, he's not, he's just Some Guy™, but he's OUR Guy™

@ColossalRay

Жыл бұрын

Literally the only time I save scummed was to save Kim (I had a 95% chance to save him too, I just rolled a critical failure.) I could not let that happen to him.

@ForbiddenSlurp

Жыл бұрын

@@ColossalRay if youve been going for 100% i recommend trying just once. i was stunned by how much that specific ending tugged my heartstrings (also kim can get shot and still live)

@maxlap7855

10 ай бұрын

Based ideology.

Also my personal highlight was dancing with the kiddos and Kim... in a strange, holy place. The Shivers activation in that moment brought me near to tears. I love DE.

@ScrapTakes

2 жыл бұрын

Such a great moment, Kim is the best! I failed the skill check on the playthroughs I recorded for this video unfortunately :(

@jamesj6426

2 жыл бұрын

Yes!!! Mine too. I had to reload after a bad dice roll hurt me and Kim.

@renaigh

2 жыл бұрын

Young Adults more like.

@shnaix

Жыл бұрын

dudeeee the shivers check in that moment for me was especial it got me suddenly I undertood what was all about

@LtSprinkulz

10 ай бұрын

@@ScrapTakes I hate to derail, but this is the only comment I can directly reply to. Where can I find the covers of the DE OST you used in this video?

You hitting that 3% check at 9:54 gave me second hand satisfaction

Your calling Kim a twink icon made my hand click the like button of its own volition before I'd even finished the video. Love your description of The Pale as discourse. I have heard The Pale described as a world built upon something other than power and capital, a world we cannot imagine because we accept the world around us (Martinaise) as the natural state. Anything other than this is spooky scary sci-fi to be afraid of. What a great video, I cannot personally be mean to Kim as it hurts me in the feels and gives me the big sad and kills my vibes. You are a trooper for even getting halfway through that playthrough.

@SuperHipsterGamer

Жыл бұрын

> I have heard The Pale described as a world built upon something other than power and capital, a world we cannot imagine because we accept the world around us (Martinaise) as the natural state. That twist is tickling my funny bone and wrinkling my brain. It's a beautiful, poetic and very funny satirical jab towards people like me, and is only partly dismissed by me because it feels slightly more on the nose than what Disco Elysium usually throws around.

@tara2611

Жыл бұрын

@@SuperHipsterGamer more on the nose than a giant sympathetic stick bug? Or building 0.00001% of communism?

although the pacing is a little slow, the editing , jokes and style and absolutely sublime and its one of the best videos ive seen all year

Another part of the *vibes* that goes underapprecited (except by jacob geller) is the shivers skill. Just really leaning into the vague sense of this cold dying world around you and the other people trying to live in it. 20/10 extremely disco.

@sunriseparrabellum5505

Жыл бұрын

Shivers has some of the best skill checks in the entire game, except maybe my boy inland empire

One of the greatest moments was when I was fangasming to the guy with a cigarette and Kim could barely keep his laughter. Also when I had internalized Wompty Dompty thought with high Encyclopedia stat. Since then I was swimming in money and XP.

Shivers: you feel a nice warm feeling on your chest. It raises your hair on the back of you're head. Revachol calls Empathy: there's passion on his words. He means it Suggestion: you should consider subscribing Authority: No, you should subscribe Logic: it's the obvious choice. Limbic system: subscribes*

@ScrapTakes

2 жыл бұрын

This comment is so good I'm tweeting it out

@tyrisiustyroniusrex8322

2 жыл бұрын

@@ScrapTakes Healed Morale 1+ Empathy [legendary:success]: He means it. It was a true genuine compliment Shivers[low:passed]: A warm comfy feeling is taking over your body. you feel a sense of gratitude while reading his response. Conceptualization [medium:fail]: I got nothing witty to say. You could just thank him for his video and response? Volition [medium:passed]: that would be better response Logic: make it short Ancient Reptilian Brain: you put the Disco in my Elysium baby

@MILOPETIT

11 ай бұрын

Electrochemistry : Oh yeah, feel that sweet dopamine rush from hitting that subscribe button! You should donate too, that'll *really* get you going!

This is my favourite game of all time. I am on my 5th play through, 160+ hours into the game and still discovering new dialogue options. I have consumed every bit of disco elysium content on KZread and your video essay is a great addition. I love your take on the game and the editing is superb. Thank you for your contribution sir! The day that ZAUM announce a new game or DLC in this incredible fictional universe cannot come soon enough! Liked and subscribed!

@ScrapTakes

2 жыл бұрын

Much appreciated, means a lot from someone who obviously knows a lot about the game 😁

@user-rk8ur2in5z

Жыл бұрын

Agreed

Funny to hear someone else’s story recap when it’s different from mine! I found out that Klassje was on the run from our conversation and let Ruby go so she never killed herself. DE is so great at choices impacting the rest of the story without the “Everyone will remember that” type handholding

This channel is criminally underrated. The quality of these videos exceeds most of KZread's heavy hitters, and I hope this channel blows up some day

@ScrapTakes

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks very much! Yeah I'm trying to enjoy the perks of being a small channel and focus purely on production quality so its really nice to see people appreciate that 😁

On my playthrough of getting the achievment "Get to the lowest point with Kim" I had to stop because, when he gave me an ace's high, I declined and felt so bad I stopped playing.

@ScrapTakes

Жыл бұрын

I will literally mow people down without remorse in GTA, but Kim being disappointed in me is way too far

This was great. I've watched a dozen video essays, because I just can't get enough of Disco Elysium but you are the first one to go at it with actual humor and normal observation. Love it.

@ScrapTakes

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! I tried not to go too deep into dense academics without dumbing it down too much, so hopefully it's a good middle ground 😁

@Cibershadow2

2 жыл бұрын

@@ScrapTakes Perfect middle ground! Not focusing solely on the emotional aspect, not bringing out the Theory Bible(tm) to explain a blown up statue, but talking about the game's politics and how they made you feel

You begin to forget yourself the more you argue about who you are. What you believe becomes murky and confused. It's a sort of loss, who you are now, is not who were or who you will be. You are thousands of forgotten selves. Poetry is how those first expeditions staved off the forgetting of selves, long enough to see the Insulindian Miracle. Art, Poetry, music and passion are how humans beat away the Pale, how we remember that we are more than what we believe. More than an ideology.

related to the final part: the devs, especially one of the main devs robert kurvitz is a huge communist, lenin bust on his work desk kind of thing, and it's really interesting to see how he characterizes his own ideology in the game. Like you said the ideologies do not give happiness to the people who espouse them, and you can clearly see that through how communism is described in the game, one quote that stuck with me is "communism is about abject failure", not because of any flaw with the economic theory (marxist economic theory of value and labour is still used today by capitalists even) but it's more about how it gave hope, only to watch that hope get stamped out, bombarded by artillary fire, crushed by the personification of the status quo, the moralintern. The "solution" description for communism itself talks about how you realize the enormous impossibility of a communist revolution under the oppressive moralintern, and how the dreams that kraz mazov gave you now create nothing but pain, as you can see a better world that is impossible to reach. At the same time though, another quote that really stuck out to me was the one by the communist student Steban in the communist political vision sidequest, "In the dark times, should the stars also go out?". where Ioseph stands for regret, hopelessness and the glorifying of a past revolution so much so that it attains a golden untouchable status, to the point that theres no more chances for another revolution, Steban instead is the opposite: there's still hope out there as long as there are stars, and the stars will always shine.

@DepressedHandsomeSpaceCop

Жыл бұрын

Bang on. This is exactly what the game is about. It's about failure - both grand and personal. What a masterpiece.

@bigwheelfromspidamahn1037

Жыл бұрын

The game also outright tells you it’s theme if you ask rethoric if communism is love when you get the thought. Communism and love share one thing, they have both horribly failed in Martinaise, but that doesn’t mean that we should give up

@rangergxi

Жыл бұрын

At the same time, the hopeless idealism of the communists has lead them to believe in crazy things like them basically accumulating communism mana to become Saiyans. Idealism that makes those Mazovians kinda irrelevant (or effectively backing the Samarans - North Korea) as the Social-Democratic unions actually do stuff for workers.

@PristianoPenaldoSUIIII

Жыл бұрын

There's a lot of focus on what could have been. The sheer weight of the bright future that was stamped out in its crib. But in the end I think that future can never be killed, only returned to its slumber over and over. But the misery that will awaken it will never go away while it sleeps. Sooner or later it will awaken for good. Maybe in our lifetime, maybe long after. But at some point.

@Distruct10

Жыл бұрын

@@PristianoPenaldoSUIIII throughout history, the one thing that has always been true, is that things always change. For that we're lucky, inevitably one day something better will arise

I can’t exactly explain why, but this game gave me a new perspective on love. Harry spends the game stressed about people leaving, about things changing. I’ve spent a good portion of my life not experiencing things because I know it will end one day. This game sort of put a good spin on that “everything ends eventually” mindset. If Harry and Dora had stayed together, one of them would’ve died eventually. Everyone ends up alone, somehow. And that’s ok. What matters is if you cherished the time you ere together or not. Then you can find new people in your life- like Kim. Idk if this makes any sense but that’s just how I feel. As a person with an anxiety disorder, this depressing game somehow made me not as scared of change, and I commend it for that. You’ll probably never see the speed freaks, Cuno, Lena, or any of the other people you helped again. But at least you got to bond with them.

I feel that Disco Elysium is like reading a book, a really good one that you can see the imagines exactly like your imagination point on and this is something that i never experienced in anything, this is something powerful and extremely rich, vivid to the core of it's creation, it's magic, what Disco Elysium did was magic and everybody should at least once in your life as enjoyer of video game should try it because will got you good.

GOD tier editing and AMAZING video. I'll be sending this to all my friends, hope you get the views you very much deserve

@ScrapTakes

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much 😁

I've only managed to play it once. It was so powerful an experience I think it gave me Stendhal Syndrome, and now hearing a single tidbit of the soundtrack is enough to overwhelm me.

Brilliant. I teared up at the last part about human connection being the only time you feel like you've affected the world in any meaningful way. I also *loved* your metaphor about being born into this world, and quickly being told that you must discover what to believe. Thank you for a Disco Elysium video essay that says something new and profound. :)

disco is my favorite game of all time and i loved how u interpreted the pale! its hard to encapsulate what disco means to me and what its about through words (as its so much more of a 'feeling'), and this video was the perfect balance of vibes and also "big brain" thought moments, lol. also the music in the background was lovely!

1:42 Brain mediocrity, baby you are a centrist of the two polars

This video was a joy to watch! The editing is really funny, and I found myself nodding a lot, but also smiling and laughing while I listened. Thank you so much for your work!

Came up twice in recommended, tried it the second time. You capture an excellent confluence of school of life and game reviewers like mandalore and Seth. Quality vid, great writing.

This was a pleasure to watch! Loved the text, delivery and visual humor. I hadn't exactly watched many DE essays yet, just a few reviews, which mostly described how choosing stuff is fun and the crazy variability (or a disappointing lack of it). It was immensly satisfying to hear how you highlighted the role that Kim as a character and the choice between disappointing him and making him trust the detective played in the experience. Because damn it played a huge role for me. I really enjoyed your take on how the ideologies were presented in the game and on *what was the point*. And the cherry on top is the beatiful versions of the DE ost on the background. Thank you for making this video!

Defintely the best DE video essay i’ve watched so far! Snappy and fun editing with a super tight, well paced script. Just awesome job!

The quality of this writing/editing is insane considering your sub count. I wish i was making videos this well at 2k subs!!! Keep up the great work, fantastic video!

Man, this video is on another scale of effort that was put in its creation, this is insane, you deserve a million subscribers.

This is one of my favorite DE video essays I've watched. Very nice!

Fantastic vid and hilarious editing! Stoked about your next playthroughs. Also my human harry highlight i think is when you, kim, and the bartender guy at the hotel are all just nodding at each other it cracked me up

@ScrapTakes

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! I am nodding my head reading your comment. So is Kim. So is the bartender. We are all nodding.

Great job mate, definitely sticking out to see your future projects.

Disco Elysium Political Compass alignment chart: Moralist: Lawful Neutral and successful Communist: Chaotic Good and depressed Ultraliberal: Chaotic Neutral and successful Fascist: Lawful Evil and depressed

@ScrapTakes

2 жыл бұрын

I can't believe you managed to get everything across without having to mumble for 30 minutes haha

Absolutely underrated this video & your whole channel is- spectacular editing & then some along with a great script

Brilliant video! Thank you for making it!

What a wonderful essay. Very creative editing. Thanks!

Great work this is really a work of passion on boths sides!

Incredible video I had done a playthrough back in 2019 Played it a second time in 2022, after Covid, during the war, I finished my studies. I have never feared death and the future as much as in the past few days playing this game. It is a masterpiece, but it can be hard on you. 11/10 would recommend. Your video really put words on what I was feeling. I felt miserable the past few days even though I was enjoying how masterful this game is. I might have underestimated the impact it was having on me. A game I will probably never forget. Even more after a second playthrough.

I love the editing and narrative you made for the video

the formatting and editing is a++. love the variety between the different sections. commenting so hopefully the algae-rhythms smile upon you ^^

@ScrapTakes

2 жыл бұрын

Awesome, thank you! :D

Best one I've seen so far. Great work

so so excellent, would love to see this channel pop off !!!

This video is a piece of art. Well done dude!

this was by far the best video about disco elysium i've seen, good job! You're going places if you make more content like this!

@ScrapTakes

2 жыл бұрын

You're very kind, thanks :)

One of the best video i have seen this year, well done friend !

Loved the covers!

loved you video. the theories, analysis and the overall production quality. thanks for your fantastic work.

Great video man, the editing was really good

I just found your youtube channel and I gotta say, you're doing a great job. Keep it on.

The editing and writing is top notch man, nice work

Great video. I enjoyed hearing your personal take on what was presented and appreciated that you stated your personal leanings beforehand so we could better understand the lense that you viewed the game through. Was legitimately surprised to see your subs and only a few videos as the quality standard of this video was so high I expected to see you'd been at it a lot longer. Keep it up.

Holy shit, I love this video. It needs more views, I love the editing and all the references!

"apocalypse technique" insta-like edit: Kitsuragism is now my ideology

Hell yeah, I'm glad I got to see this video in my recommended. Cheers mate.

This was a really well made video and probably one of the more interesting videos in regards to Disco Elysium, Good work bro.

Great video. Loved the creativity

Such a good edited video! Very nice

@ScrapTakes

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks very much 😁

I’ve seen so many Disco Elysium essays and yet I’m still coming across new ones I love, like this one.

spectacular editing, humor, and commentary :)

Editing is brilliant. Keep going, you've got something good here.

Am astonisted about how underated this video is . Keep up the good work !

@ScrapTakes

2 жыл бұрын

That's very kind, thank you 😊

AMAZING VIDEO! Perfectly conveys my feelings on the game as well as presented some new experiences I appreciate! Love your delivery and humor too keep up the great work!

LOVED THIS! Best take on the game I've seen so far. This game is so hard to pin down, but your commentary along with your editing has done it the best from all the DE analysis videos I've watched. Just the right amount of intellectualizing + Vibes™. What a fantastic game, I wish everyone would pick it up.

I’m so grateful to have found your video, your final summary is magnificent describing how the history of mankind is unknown until the moment we’re born and the push to “pick a side” is forced upon us within such a sliver of time our lives inhabit. You have a wonderful sense of humour and your even-handed interpretation was very much needed for a hefty game like this. Subscribed!

@Hepticus

2 жыл бұрын

Also very lovely visual editing. I look forward to seeing what else you upload in the future

incredible video! subscribed as soon as it was done

Amazing editing! :D

Didn't even finish the video and had to sub, your editing style is immaculate and hilarious hope you grow as a channel because you definitely deserve it!

Masterfully done. I am so glad to stumble on the video though it and the game are seemingly made for a niche audience. I admire the production value of the video and your analysis resonated with my experience. Thank you man! Keep the dream alive! 👍

Hey, I just wanted to drop in and say that I really, really enjoyed this review. I like your style so I subbed, hoping for more content. This video really just hit a perfect spot for me.

Great video, thank you! I like your editing and points of view. Also the interesting thing is - you kinda reminding me of Roy and Gart at the same time. This fact is making the whole DE vibe of this review even greater.

this is great. well done. thank you

loved your video. watched it the whole way through. it was really entertaining to watch, and yes disco elysium is one of my fav games of all time.

Bro this is S tier video editing wtf, what an underrated video and channel

thanks for your video, it's really touching me ))

Can’t wait to see what more you produce.

Your channel is so underrated. I hope that in near future you blow up. The quality of your presentation as well as very well thought of structure of your essay really deserves recognition

@ScrapTakes

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks very much! Yeah I'm taking a lot of time between videos to try and make them as slick as possible, which is slow but hopefully worth it 😁

@egon1545

2 жыл бұрын

@@ScrapTakes Quality over quantity

This is a great video! I love the brief shift from almost Pythonesque cutout animation to Bill Wurtz-flavoured history-telling, an the song-covers are amazing. Subscribed!

@ScrapTakes

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks very much 😁

Best disco vid imo. Great work!

I came across your video after I finished the game for the second time. It was the best review video not only for Disco Elysium but for any game, both in terms of text and visual-editing. I don't know what to say, great job, thanks, you should produce more content.

WHOA this animation and editing is out of this world... liked and subbed :D

Fantastic video

brilliant essay :)

Great job!

it's criminal the fact that you don't have at least 100k subs, seriously this video overall quality is stunning!

Considering the editing quality of this video, I look forward to seeing this channel blow up or, at the very least, watching it gain more success.

I am so surprised by how well made this video is!!!! keep it up!!!! you definitely have a new subscriber here

really great editing, also a really well done Bill Wurtz style history! I listen to your versions of the soundtrack almost every day, they're fantastic. You should really consider making more of those, you seem to have a knack for it.

@ScrapTakes

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much, I think you're the first one to catch the Bill Wurtz bit! Yeah, blown away by the response to the soundtrack, just a shame that no other game has a soundtrack as strong as Disco Elysium's

@slamduncan4794

2 жыл бұрын

@@ScrapTakes Hmm, maybe the soundtracks of Pyre or Transistor are up your alley, but those are just my suggestions. Have a good one, cheers!

This video is really well written. I had a great time watching it.

Great video.

Thank you so much for this video, added a whole new depth to a game that I had just finished and deeply adored. I don't think any other game could ever resonate with me as much and knowing the message and what to really take out of that resonation makes it all the more worth it.

@ScrapTakes

Жыл бұрын

Thanks very much ❤ agreed, no game has given me quite as many Feelings as this

Just finished my second playthrough and here I am. Great video!

Great stuff! One of the best video essays on DE I've seen. Earned yourself a sub mate!

@ScrapTakes

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks very much!

This video is so well made for how few views it has! Seriously, well done!

This game is savagely well written, especially the political quests. Even though the devs are socialists themselves it was really fun to see them poke fun and deride the short comings of their own politics as well as all the other possible factions in the game. I probably fall in the ultraliberal camp in my own politics and almost laughed a lung up when I found that shipping container. Especially when I realised I can bump the magical avatar of rampant capitalism for 100 real 😂 Disco Elysium is by far my favourite game of the last few years because of the writing. I really hope they expand the universe in some way. I’d love to play a sequel or another game in the universe but a book or anything in that world would be so awesome.

Excellent video! I subscribed :)

More people need to see this video dude, congrats. beautifully explained. I'm gonna recommend Disco with it. Keep it up!

@ScrapTakes

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Tbh I was just glad it didn't get stuck with 0 views, anything else is a bonus lol

I cannot stop watching this video, i love it

Greaat video and very well edited!!

2:58 bro that "two and a half times" sounded like Roy from the pawn shop. I think I've had too much Disco for one man...

What a great video. Thank you much!

@ScrapTakes

Жыл бұрын

You're very welcome ☺

@greatfiredragon

Жыл бұрын

Also, figured out it might be a good idea to tell you that I found your channel through Disco's Lofi beats. It's a shame you got only 3K subs.