8 Times YOU Were More Of A Threat To Society Than The Gaming Villain

Ahhh good old Harry Dubois, a man with absolutely no clue how to do anything right and a master of failing upwards.

As you've probably gathered from the many, many positive inclusions of Disco Elysium in lists of ours, it's a game well worth your time and one that manages to hone in on the painful hypocrisy that is the human condition in a manner entirely it's own. In this game you're not playing as a hero, you're playing as a !*$% loser who bumbles through situations and has to fight his very brain just to get a coherent sentence out, and it lets you the player decide what jumbled mess of ideas he's going to spew forth.

You can play this game in so many ways that it's mind-boggling, and yet there's one common thread tying everything together, that despite all your best efforts you are but one man and not a very good one at that.

You'll bungle interrogations, stick up for your beliefs in a manner that alienates others, and attempt to intimidate those who simply laugh in your face. You're trying your best to make the world better by removing a murderer from the streets but everywhere you turn you're just making things worse. It's deliciously painful.

As is the ending of the game which basically just says "it was just some dude", some dude with a motive that's unsatisfying and almost alien to your theories of a wider intermingling conspiracy. This is real life, it doesn't have a "whodunnit" late-game twist (outside of an alien controlling the minds of all around them but that's another story) and as such your quest to solve one man's murder while leaving a whole swathe of broken lives behind you feels like a redemption arc just out of reach.