In disco Elysium you live in a nation some time after a failed socialist revolution. Said revolution was sparked off, in part, due to an infectious Prion virus-disease-thing. I never really understood it, neither in game nor metatextually.
Was there actually a virus? Why did it make people socialist?
And metatextually: why make it part of the story? DE has a lot of esoteric stuff going on - the insulidian phasmid, the actual presence of divinity and weird holes in the world. But that stuff usually, to me at least, serves some sort of clear parallel to the real world and a way to critique it - Wonders and loss of nature, climate change, spirituality getting coopted by the state, so on and so forth. Or not exactly clear purposes, but it doesn’t strike me as something that’s coming completely out of the blue.
The prion disease kind of is. I can see how a plague could lead to social unrest, the game however makes an effort to make it clear it was the disease itself. And also, why make it prion if it was just regular old “plague makes people angry”? Even if that’s part of the explanation, there must be more to it.
So whats your take?
How can you post on hexbear without having played Disco Elysium? @mods please kill this user with hammers
i’ve never finished the game… i started it like 500 times, and never made it through all the way
runs for my life
adding you to the list
Of people who should finish the game
But did u get the communism achievement?
answer carefully
umm a prion destroyed my computer before i got that far!
Because I’m old and work two jobs.