ZERO PARADES: For Dead Spies

I bet making this game was hard, with all the backlash coming from all sides, and still continue coming. Yet they prevailed, and it's an amazing game. As you can guess it has a lot of common things with Disco Elysium, the same painty vibrant art, another completely made-up world with its own politics, economics, technology, nations and religion, the same amount of heavy text, where everyone is a philosopher and a poet: a tailor, a drunkard on the floor, a harmless door and your 15 skills, all contradicting yourself. Disco Elysium is of course a unique novelty, an impossible project somehow manifesting and surviving, full of dreams and romanticized concepts. But I liked Zero Parades more, it's less ambiguous, more concrete, more fleshed-out somehow. Besides the idea of a retro sci-fi spy detective flick is just way cooler in my mind. It was probably just more of my vibe. I absolutely loved the voice acting, even though it had many issues on release, loved the weird, eccentric and loveable characters, with Dr. Gonza probably being the craziest and freakiest one. I loved the episodes of espionage action, even though it was still text and turn based. But I do feel that the game lacks any sort of memorable soundtrack, apart from some written tracks like Cover The Moon. That is a shame. It also runs really poorly on Steam Deck, which is strange, considering how simple the game looks. The skill checks could me logical or less punishing. Juggling clothes around like a clown feels off a second time around. I guess I got a semi-okay ending, although it could be better, or not - who know. But I'm really interested in replaying as a more cold-hearted calculating and sacrificing spy next time. I also want to revisit Disco Elysium now.

Loved Disco Elysium and saw the 'same studio' made another game along the same vein as Disco. However the charm is not there and makes sense because a man convicted of fraud for building a pyramid scheme, illegally tookover the studio and axed the people who made Disco Elysium what it is. This game isn't bad but had I known ZA/UM's baggage and that the current owner is a fraudulent scumbag I never would have purchased

In the point and click RPG/Adventure genre, this is another top tier addition from ZA/UM. I can't help but feel that many of the themes and ideas within the game are somewhat of an allegory for the studio and development of the game. The backbone and foundation that Disco Elysium created is there, with pros and cons compared to DE. Updates to Zero Parades have brought a more streamlined system for optimizing skills with clothing and a still excellent thought and skill system. And the inclusion of the new status system with Fatigue, Anxiety and Delirium have brought about a really nice gameplay element. One that encourages the use of substances to manage and a more rewarding reason for sleep. Along with the removal of the day limit that Disco implemented. The game is familiar but different. Where Disco shines over Zero are in its soundtrack, and for me, the writing. Compared to Disco's soundtrack, Zero feels a bit hollow. While there are a number of great songs that pop up, they don't fill the game space as completely as Disco did. Disco decidedly had much much more time to flesh out and perfect the story. 10+ years of writing went into Disco and it's apparent. The depth that Disco's writing had I don't think has ever been matched in a game since, or before Disco. And, while Zero touches on some very critical ideas, it's apparent that the writing does not reach the same level that Disco achieved. But how could it? It's still a decidedly great game, with lots of replayability to explore different choices and results. It just does not have the same impact that Disco did for me. I spent a long time after playing Disco thinking about what Disco had to say, and feel that it had an impact on my own thinking. I don't think Zero will have that same level of impact. More likely, I'll just be thinking about some interesting characters and themes that have some unanswered questions. I'm not quite done with the game, but even here I can absolutely recommend picking up Zero Parades if you enjoyed DE or other games within the genre. Luck and skill, operant.

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剧情太差了，文案故弄玄虚。