"Oh," she says again, "But he was just..." (art by /u/TheSmallestJay)

One of the most heart-wrenching scenes in the entire game. Makes me choke up just thinking about it

Coelacanth 7 points 7 months ago

It's so well written. One thing for me that's especially striking is how subtle the difference is between failing or succeeding the Empathy check. It's not like the failure is a huge dramatic meltdown or something eye catching and bizarre - it's just that every little interaction or advice is Harry taking the wrong decision. You would barely register it as a failure if you saw it in isolation, but when you see it after having seen the success first you're left with the constant feeling of "oh, oh no" at every turn.

Great writing.

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Marafon 2 points 7 months ago

Is this the last convo with the lady upstairs in the hotel before you go out to the place and solve the murder? It's been a few years since I played but I remember stumbling into the "good" ending, I think. I loved this game so much that I started playing Planescape Torment recently actually.

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Coelacanth 5 points 7 months ago

Well, the order you do things in can change but I don't think so. This is a side quest where you find the missing husband of the working class woman, who you end up finding dead on the boardwalk. The scene in question is Harry and Kim delivering the death notification to the working class woman.

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Marafon 2 points 7 months ago

Oh I see. I'm not sure I remember this side quest at all. Vaguely remember a dead guy either sitting on a bench in front of the haunted library or possibly at that abandoned market pier thing outside of the town proper. But I don't believe I ever made a death notification. I will have to go back and check things out, or watch a video lol because I was planning on checking out a new disco-like recommended to me called Esoteric Ebb after planescape torment.

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Coelacanth 4 points 7 months ago

Like much of the content in Disco Elysium it's completely missable. When you find the body on the boardwalk you have to decide to take the case, otherwise you miss it. It also hits harder if you already got the case to find the missing husband by harassing the working class woman by the book store.

From what I've seen of Esoteric Ebb hasn't landed with me personally. Every thing I've seen of it is just it trying to be Disco Elysium but not being as good. People seem to enjoy it though so I should give it another shot probably.

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Kolanaki 5 points 7 months ago

I really thought it was gonna be a go-nowhere "quest" the way Harry insists on solving this "case" until I actually found her husband. 🥺

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