With Disco Elysium: The Final Cut's release, a launch trailer comes alongside it, showing off the new gameplay and features with the extended cut for one of the most unique RPGs on the market. Players assume the role of an amnesiac detective in the dystopian city of Martinaise, and the game exhibits influence from Dungeons and Dragons, where players must roll their skills and see if they pass difficult checks.
Players get to choose what kind of detective they want to be as they solve a murder and pick apart the strike going on at the other end of town. Disco Elysium's storyline presents itself via dialogue, and there are over one million words in the script that weren't fully voice acted for the sake of the original release. Full voice acting is just where The Final Cut begins.
Previously, Disco Elysium was only available on PC, but with The Final Cut, even more players can experience the wild world ZA/UM created. The Final Cut is presented as a patch in Steam and other platforms rather than a separate full release, meaning it's a free upgrade to those who already own a copy. Alongside the full launch, some platforms are selling Disco Elysium: The Final Cut at a discounted price for the next week.
One of the biggest things The Final Cut adds to Disco Elysium is its full voice acting: each line in the game is now voiced. However, the protagonist's thoughts are one of the most apparent voices missing from the original version of the game. Now, jazz musician Lenval Brown fills in these missing spaces, breathing new life into an already masterful game.
Disco Elysium: The Final Cut also adds Political Vision Quests, exclusive quests that are tied to the way the player leans politically during a playthrough. This means that per playthrough, players will only experience one of these four Political Vision Quests, but they each add about 30 minutes of new gameplay without changing the outcome of the main story.
Finally, players can expect smaller additions such as the ability to fast travel, 4K resolution for consoles and platforms that support it, enhanced graphics, and new characters in Disco Elysium: The Final Cut. Especially for console gamers, this is perhaps the perfect time to check out ZA/UM's widely renown isometric indie game.
Disco Elysium: The Final Cut is available now for PC, PS4, PS5, and Stadia, and is in development for Switch and Xbox Series X/S.