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[kradeelav]

disco elysium loveblog part 2 ~

• god this game is gorgeous. I hear the soundtrack's banging too - personally have a thing about playing games with the volume off (don't have a lot of privacy for the past year due to covid weirdness with living arrangements) but I can't wait to give that a whirl separately when I do my next drawing sprint break.

• my only real "video game rating system" is how many times the game shows up in my dreams, majora's mask being the extreme winner here - but damn I've been dreaming of DE pretty much every other night for the past week, even if it's just the cool user interface / gameplay accents.  incredibly well done "system" overall, and i loved watching this interview by one of the game makers going into the mechanics of it and how they did the trial-and-error process. definitely a high quality enough interview i'm sorely tempted to rip and save it for long term (in fact i think i will.) 

• pretty sure one of you tried to sell me on the game years ago when it first launched with an, ahhh, memorable and irreverent gun kink dialogue exchange XD i found it, yes, and nearly wholesale snorted coffee out my nose at putting two and two together. morbid as hell context but hey, what is gun kink without the morbidity? part and parcel.

• i have a crack theory that Klassje is/was actually in a relationship with Joyce. :v there's no specific proof i have for that, but between Klassje's inclination to women and .... this sounds a bit dweeby but there's a lot of myself and T I see in those two, heh. after the game i wanna raid the fics to see if there's anything there.

• speaking of Klassje, looooving her characterization. don't normally like her archetype, but DE as a game reminds me of Ousama Ranking in that it intentionally creates the "film" of a character stereotype to immediately use that as a tool to get into the good oozy gushiness of messy fucked up characters who are just trying to make do with tender hearts, and don't pretend to be rational. i mean, the lady digs women, and digs her kinky time with the mildly chauvinist merc dude who knows away around a gun and violence.  fuck, *I* get that. there's a space to be uncomfortably, lewdly, humanly messy here that's a satisfying breath of fresh air.