Disco Elysium | Story Explained
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- Опубліковано 27 тра 2024
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The Disco Elysium Story Explained video is HERE and it is LARGE. A game as deep as this one deserves nothing less. Even though this story explainer is the length of a feature-length film, there is still so much of Disco Elysium's lore and characters and world that I am yet to discuss. Do not fear, we will reach those dizzying heights in good time.
As for this video -- expect a complete breakdown of Disco Elysium's core storyline: a murder mystery, retrograde amnesia, lost loves, stick insects, and the end of the world. As well as some finer explaining of the politics, geography, and history of Disco Elysium. There might even be some jokes in there too.
Thank you to all those that joined me while I streamed this game. Honestly, I can't believe this video has been three months in the making. I need a lie down.
Enjoy!
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0:00 - No Truce With the Furies
1:28 - Disco Elysium Story Explained (Day 1)
16:48 - Modern-Day Martinaise
23:22 - Disco Elysium Story Explained (Day 2)
36:47 - Inter-isolary Discovery & Conflict
45:18 - Disco Elysium Story Explained (Day 3)
52:07 - Ancient History of Elysium
1:01:51 - Disco Elysium Story Explained (Day 3.5)
1:05:04 - Retroactive Analysis of the Pale
1:13:06 - Disco Elysium Story Explained (Day 4)
1:24:01 - Disco Elysium Story Explained (Day 6)
1:38:50 - Disco Elysium Explained - Ігри
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My favorite thing about this game is how, if you fail to convincingly lie about your name, you say it is “Raphaël Ambrosius Costeau”. Then you can spend the rest of the game insisting that really is your name, much to Kim’s annoyance.
And at a certain point you can complete a thought that does make it your name. It also gives you bonuses to the skills with the French names because they "sound fancy".
Yeah that ended up being my in-game name lol
That’s your favourite thing about this game? I doubt it.
Obsessed with how pedantic this is @pleebianmusk
Obsessed? I doubt you’re actually “obsessed” with how pedantic I can be.
Harry? No no no Disco Elysium is about Raphaël Ambrosius Costeau finding his long lost love and true self
One little thing that broke my heart on a second go through the story is that, if you decide you don't want to question Klaasje further in your first conversation with her, you get a line of dialogue that says, "You're a cop, Harry. It would be weird of you to not want to ask any questions."
Like he really does know who he is from the first moment he woke up, but the alcohol-poisoned, amnesiac mess he's been is preferable.
He doesn't want to be that kind of animal anymore.
I’m still shocked I got a successful roll on pulling the bullet out of the victim’s mouth, with a 4% chance. Loved the game, loved how much of a slow burner it was, and just how much world building went into it. My only complaint is the game wasn’t long enough, I starved for more at the end.
that's amazing - I managed to increase that check to 97% and still failed. we were polar opposites 😅
I definitely think it was on purpose
It feels like the game is just beginning, and then it ends.
Harrys new life is starting, we got him trough his purgatory, now he has to live and navigate trough martineise politics and the upcoming corporate/union conflict on his own.
I finished this game countless times and still don't have two achievements - racist worldview ending and reaching the worst relationship with Kim possible. Both of those require being a dick towards one of the greatest characters in any video game. I just can't force myself.
I feel you
I accidentally got the “worst relationship with Kim possible” like earliest on in the game and then I ended it with the best relationship with Kim lol.
On my first play through.
The fascist vision quest is great though. You don't have to be an ass to Kim, and he deflates Nationalist Harry immediately as well.
Look up "icebreaker" if you want to see the scene. It's great.
Right!? I played this game so many times, and I cannot do both either. It is just so not me that it isn't possible.
It's a testament on how great a detective harry is that he immediately figured out there was an eight person on the crime scene
Without that detail most people would assume that the hardy boys were telling the truth since there would be nothing to go on, sure he got shot but they could claim they shot him
If I remember, they have no firearms.
@@arditlika9388 they most definitely do have guns, old man and Titus almost brandish them at points
@@stanislav_skorobogatov tbh, based on the dialogue, they only seem to go for some kinda weapon, but it's never confirmed - can't go on speculation and conjecture, detective.
And during the tribunal, it's never stated that they fired any shots. Idk if you can save everyone because in my playthrough Fat Angus and Old Dude died, but guns for the boys is never mentioned.
I need you to know that I appreciate the lack of jump cuts during the lessons. Makes it feel very authentic
And the lack of “memes” 👨🍳 💋
I don't appreciate the gimmick at all, tbh. Idk why someone would try to mimic the most demonstrably failed form of education possible and further extending the video length for a joke that is insufferable and one-note.
@@LtSprinkulz You are, thankfully, the minority here. Found this genuinely entertaining.
@@viderevero1338 Glad you liked it.
Mate, I've only watched a few minutes (have only played the game for a few hours) but how do you bang out such quality research analysis and writing? I discovered you through your immortality video- you're doing great work!
I decided not to have a life for the past three months :)) thanks for watching!
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This was extremely well written and I love the presentation style especially with the cut away to the classroom.
I'm completely unfamiliar with your channel but a huge fan of Disco Elysium and so happy that I stumbled upon this.
On a personal note, I've struggled with some mental health stuff and my first play through of the final cut really helped me with some of that. That part that you said at the very end was very moving and reminded me of the message that I got the first time, about resilience and strength even when you hit rock bottom.
"Cleaning out the Rooms" is probably one of my favorite thoughts:
Someone's been walking around in your dreams lately, looking for something. Tidying up, rearranging. Storing away all the unrealized dreams, putting old pains in boxes. The worst nightmares have settled down for a while. A spot of light on the bedroom door after the dark. The fluttering of eyelids in the spring sun. A thought that arises, only to disappear again. And yet there's a pattern emerging…
What if you didn’t lose your memory? What if something in Martinaise came and stored it all away. For you to slowly open one box at a time. So you can *choose* which parts to keep. Keep almost none of it. Only the flowers on the windowsill. Only the distant sound of a radio. Lose all the actors, the dark shadows, leave only the still lifes, the blissful distant wash of waves. If everybody knew -- you never did. She’ll be coming soon. That is all.
1:25:10 "Land's End" is not the fortification, but the land that is comprised between the feld building and the lighthouse i believe
Arresting Klaasje for lying to the police is signing her death sentence; super brutal, dawg.
You need higher volition, shes got you under her spell.
@@MrGamingPsycho dawg, lying to the police shouldn't be punishable by death! ;o;
@@TY-oy9bp It's one of those things; she just got unlucky.
Noooo your skills are compromised. Trust your Volition!
Definitely. She’s a selfish person but she hasn’t done anything she deserves to die for. Harry has arguably done worse things in his past.
Kim died in my playthrough, I recruited Cuno as a junior police officer, the photo of the phasmid therefore never got taken, and they didn't believe me and it ended. I thought it was a terrible ending, so I came here to see what was supposed to happen. Never got the lady at the train station either so my past was unresolved too. Klassje fled and Ruby killed herself.
Didn't even get to follow up with the cryptid-zooologists in your or my endings. I was disappointed and expected much more.
Tried to start again, but there are too few differences in the early game to really hook me in to a second run.
I felt like it ended too soon for me too. I might replay it with a different set up but quickly blasting through dialogue instead of carefully listening/reading everything.
Damn… I don’t have much to say except that this video is a real masterpiece. I can’t imagine how much time you put into making it and gathering all the info about the Elysium. This might be the best DE video I’ve seen so far. Keep up the good work
this was absolutely amazing, very well written, edited and performed, I played Disco for about 350 hours and I still found out new things about it thanks to this video, great work
the lesson sections are honestly a brilliant way to give world-building and keep the video interesting
I just finished this game the other day (after having put it down for a few months). I’m excited to watch through this because your scripts and delivery are outstanding. Disco is one of the few games that I was genuinely excited to do a second play through with all new stats.
absolute joy seeing this up, nice work! lovely way to capture the story while adding in your specific experience of being Harry AND all the larger lore.
definitely going to add this to my list of essays with soothing voices to sleep to. HARDCORE.
hardcore to the mega! thanks for all the continued support, Shelbs 💙
You’re a great story teller, and a great story teller about stories. I feel like that’s a tough balance but you strike it. Thanks for all the hard work on this one, can’t wait to see what you do next.
Very well made video. I think I have high standards for videos about the story of a game, and Disco Elysium holds such a special place that most other videos about it never did the trick.
You did. The bit where you're a teacher made me want to understand history better and you helped me see the vastness of Elisyum's worldbuilding, thank you.
Dude you fucking killed it! Looking forward to more deep dive content. As a teacher myself, I absolutely loved the "teaching" scenes... had me in stiches
fantastic breakdown and editing, the switches between humor and misery is very disco ;)
top notch stuff son! smashed it
thanks for joining me boi! better brush up on your Star Wars knowledge for the next batch of duo-streams 👀
@@samg0 sweet I'll start by kissing my sister! (thats what happens right?)
bro i spent an hour and 40 minutes of my time watching this and it was one the best things i have ever seen, the effort put into this is insane
The dream sequence during your furst night as Harry..... it broke my heart
I have been waiting for this for so long. Nice work mate!
now THIS is how u do a game story summary!! bravo!
I truly hope that this video as well as your channel absolutely explode. Excellent work, sir!
Necktie is by far the best character
This game will be away the first time I played it and still continues to do so with every playthrough. The amount of just overall flexibility and how you get from the beginning to the end of the journey is unlike anything else I have ever experienced. No other game has given us this much freedom of choice in role-playing where choice and consequences truly matter from beginning to end. Disco Elysium is an absolute masterpiece and it makes me sad to think that we may never get another one.
What an undereated channel. This was a masterpiece. Thank you!
Sam, I'm excited for possible new content coming on the channel, you've done a fantastic job with this video. I felt like I relived the game once again with its thrills and chills. Thank you. Hope you'll come back with more awesome content. Thanks again, for now ❤
this is probably my 3 or 4th video explaning disco elysium lore, and every time, some new info show up, what a game
I appreciate your hard work so much. Thanks for the excellent videos.
Just finished watching the video. It's sooo good, the lore class segments were my favourite
i just beat the game for the first time this last weekend and watching this, it's truly impressive how many different ways there are to approach each task and how well written i definitely did things way differently.
Woooo I've been anticipating this video! Subscribed not to miss it! Your videos are amazing and very insightful. I'm so excited! Thank you for your hard work!
Excellent video. It just breaks my heart that there will never be another game like this again
"liver mortis" cracked me tf up
Masterful video, great job!
Excellent video, love this game so much. The OST by Sea Power is my personal highlight of the whole game, but I'm biased because they're my fave band anyway.
Great work as ever Sam, did this brilliant game real justice 👍
Holy shit. My guy I've watched your bioshock videos and they are fantastic and to discover you've covered one of my favourite games im blessed
Amazing video dude!
Amazing video, you deserve more
absolute top notch content, thank you!
15:16 - As much as I adore how the game is, I would have utterly loved it if Encyclopedia could do little video examples like this, similar to how Visual Calculus superimposes images into the world.
Seriously, great editing there.
You have some talent dude keep up the videos
How is this video only 35k views? We need to get you up in the algorithm, good sire. This is video is a masterpiece.
One of the best videos to cover this fantastic game!
What a video mate, good job.
I'm gonna watch and cherish each minute of this video (I'm a big disco elysium fan)
Fascinating hiw my timing and order of actions was very different. Great video, great game
Super fun video to watch, loved the different ways the teachers taught. Haven't been in school for a while so it gave me a good laugh, Great job!!!!!!
Times been hard for BBno$ having to come give video game lectures
The long awaited video! I‘m sure it‘s gonna be wild, thank you for your videos, mate. Love you :))
thank you, Serg! it's been a long time coming but I've made up for it by making it outrageously long 😅 thanks for your support as always 💙
Amazing video. Incredible how much I missed in my playthrough
First off, I love this video. It was a lovely revisit and well written/well spoken. Thank you for it.
I mean no offense, but it was hard to listen to as the audio mix was a bit all over the place. Different scenes the vocals would gain or lose a lot, and the closing remarks were nearly drowned out by music.
I'm subbing anyway haha 🙈 My mixes are no better, I get it. Nice work over all!
Brilliant, that is all I can say. Thank you for this video.
i started the game two days ago, it's incredible, i cannot wait to play it again this evening
Everybody around Harry may think he is an alcoholic and drug addict but in reality he is indeed one of the best detective ever. He figured out the murder in just few days. It's his unmatched power of imagination. Disco Elysium is one the best rpgs.
Wow! Gonna watch it this weekend.
As soon as the video cuts from the game to your face, with that haircut and moustache... I probably injured myself laughing. Good one, dude!😊
Amazing work
i've watched about 20+ video essays on Disco Elysium (im obcessed) yours are one of the most informative on lore, i just think you should've been clearer about the fact that this is based on your particular gamerun and there are many ways to experience the game (ex.: you can go the whole game without examinating the body) but, overall, great work man!
This was great!
For awhile when watching I was thinking to myself "why is he taking the incompetent route you're missing sooooo much evidence at the start".
Little did I know you could put the body......into the bear freezer.....I think i might need to play my 3rd playthrough now.
What an awesome high effort video
what a fantastic, in depth video on this great game! amazing work
Never finished the game, gave up in frustration four years ago after the shootout with the mercs, thought I'd missed a lead or something. Tried restarting but I couldn't just go over the same ground again. Now I've got some closure, both for plot and thematic depth
Underrated video!
I loved the teaching style bit, I hope I passed the quiz 😆
Amazing stuff
I love that my playtrought was totally different. :D
finally a video essay that just sounds right
just raise up your volume but everything is real peachy
I didn't know you could go into day 6 with Kim. It was nice to give The Cuno a redemption arc though.
Will I watch every single video essay about this game? I’m sure gonna try!
Nice! Now do This is the Police, I havent seen anyone cover that game in a meaningful way
Very well done
While she was untrustworthy in nearly every way, I knew a small amount of the ending to the game so I knew that arresting her would not help the case in any way and i couldn’t bring myself to do it anyway. She hadn’t done anything worth an arrest at that point either. Despite the fact that she runs before the tribunal and I dont know if what she told about herself is actually true, I just couldn’t do it
love the Alan Rickman-ism of the geography teacher😂 (and love the rest of the video ofc)
he was very much an inspiration
Well, that's a good summary on the plot. And a great job on explaining the game universe basics. However, you seem to ignore some things:
A. Dros previous connection to Evrart. At least one job he actually confesses to, if you press him: a murder of former Union leader. And I personally find it hard to believe that it was a single occassion after which Evrart bros simply forgot about his existence and live on with their lives.
B. Evrart's standing on a conflict with Wild Pines. If you dig deeper and press onto him, he "levels" with you and admits that he is actually trying to provoke the conflict and win it. Yeah, he does it intentionally, knowing that you relay this information to Joyce, but his motives do not really make any difference. His union is about to go full-scale mafia as it seems.
Taking A and B into account there is a distinct possibility that the murder was initially ordered by Union. And all this story about past eating a person - although itself is an important aspect - but actually is a sort of cover-up detectives should take as the Dros' motive. The "tribunal" which you and Joyce were meaning to prevent - that was exactly what Evrart wanted. He does not need the murder to be solved as fast as possible. I'd say he used some connections in RCM to specifically put Harry on this case, to make sure this would never be solved - who would've expected an absolutely mad drunk to suddenly have a life-changing moment. To be even more sure no one talks to you, he spreads a rumor that you are Puta Madre agent. Why would Ruby think that some insane drunk works for mafia? If that information would have come from a person she trusts. After Harry suddenly comes to his senses Evrart tries to find any leverage on him: blackmail with his lost gun (I suspect if that information reached RCM, Harry would be fired immediately), bribes, incriminating him in some shady deals. Everything he can use to discredit Harry should he solve the case implicating Evrart or to send him on the false track, delaying the investigation, for instance by presenting him non-guilty persons to run after. So, Evrart wants to start the war. Is it just a coincidence that at this very moment Mr.Dros finally looses his marbles and decides to shot whoever he pleases and the first (and only) person just happen to be the Krenel mercenary sent by the Pines and his murder sends the whole war business in motion? I doubt that.
C. You can get what seems to me as an EXTREMELY important bits of information about game universe if you contact Coalition warship. They give you insights on how Coalition government operates and what it plans are regarding Revachol. Of course it's impossible to tell whether writers mean it all literally or it all is just a bunch of lies, a story for the gullible fools and in reality Moralintern is just a bureaucratic conglomerate interested exclusively in its own survival. We don't have enough information to make a conclusion. Any way it's important knowledge about the world.
D. When you talk to Klaasje (about her passport I believe), notice what Shivers tell you... When you first play the game it definitely wouldn't make any sense to you. On the second run - it makes all the sense in the world. At the same very moment you talk to her, phasmid opens the buoy and removes her passport. Why? Well, maybe to prevent her fleeing, maybe to prevent us from identifying her. I don't know, but that could not be coincidence. Why did phasmid stole Dros' scope after he shot the mercenary? To prevent him from murdering Harry? To prevent him from murdering anyone, so that it would become clear that those are the actions of a madman not a Union lynching? Whatever the answer is it brings us to the next question - why does phasmid do it? And I have a strong feeling that answering these questions will make it clear what phasmid really is and what this story is all about.
dude thanks for the comment! i really did enjoy it just as this essay itself. i also pressured evrart into telling about his plans for the union and yeah, in the end it all clicks.
Dialectical Materialism? Based
The entire story explained and I feel just as confused as when I started.
This was great
I love this guy’s voice
Mr Evrart is helping me find my gun
Great video. Amazing to say the least.
I'm playing this game for the first time now and finding it incredible, but also incredibly hard to play at times! Learning about Harry's past has kind of clarified why. The whole objective of the game is to solve the case - but police work is also incredibly corruptive to Harry. He used to be a better man before he became a detective, and you can tell how much the misery and detachment and necessary cruelty of the job have twisted who he became. There is no way to solve the case while helping the people you meet. Eventually you run up against someone you have to intimidate, someone you have to turn in, and regardless of how much the world has been set against them, there's nothing else you can do to advance the investigation further.
My Harry has enthusiastically latched onto the idea of becoming a cryptozoologist and, tbh, I'll have to see how far I get before I softlock and just stop playing lol. At least this playthrough. I could see this game being divisive just because there's no real way to play a "good guy" while running it. The political messages and everything aside, it's a really great portrait of how the best of intentions can lead us astray once we get too deep into our own idea of "good".
We miss you Sam! Where are you?
The ending was a lackluster. I was expecting a final gathering in Whirling In Rags with Harry dancing disco and everyone finally acknowledging him, be happy with him, be happy for him. I was hoping to see Klaasje there. I was expecting a scene with Lilienne, hinting at a potential future relationship.
Nothing of that. Just a drawn out conversation between Harry and his colleagues where Harry (& Kim) has to convince them he deserves to be a detective.
On my first playthrough, i managed to get onto the harbour by knocking out Measurehead, shot down the corpse and found the bullet during the first day.
I got super lucky
I played through this multiple times and had no idea that Ruby could just run she died on every one of my playthroughs.
Beautiful video for a beautiful game
Great video! Keep going on, tequila sunset!
the people in this game sounds like sissyphus from ultrakill
I've never played disco, and likely wont. the drama with the devs took the time when i was most likely to buy it and filled it with doubt and hesitation. so I'm glad to have seen this video.
I am 24, by most older than me's standards, young. and yet I've spent the last year frozen, clutching to the past. a past that has already left me behind. regretting what I didn't do, what I couldn't, what I failed. who I wasn't, who I am not.
this story has been a sobering reminder that I am alive. and that I am letting my days go to terrible waste. I leave this comment as a monument, and a challenge to myself, to once again lace up my boots and take action.
I pirated the game. The devs even recommend pirating it. They still want people to enjoy the game but don’t want people to buy it.
New favorite follow.
I'm about to sit down and paint for a few hours. 2 hour video? sure!
well what else you gonna do, watch paint dry?
He fought his past with the present, he solved the case. Bam
YAY Sams not dead lol
I saw your comments and simply had to return!
“Put your phone away” *me watching on my phone