ZERO PARADES: For Dead Spies

The reason I am giving this a bad review is because this is ZA/UM. Please pirate their games. The good parts : What an incredible game, didn't think that it would be such a mirror to our own world. Loved the lore and the story and how it is so confusing which forces us to theorize what any of it means, yet little by little you start to get more and more pieces which shows the larger painting of a whole different world, yet it could also be a picture of our own. The weirdness of the game, idk, in other games it might have been cringe or forced. But in N.P.F.D.S, it just makes sense. The story is good, at some times I was bored to death or it was simply confusing, but I liked it. Also, you have to understand that this is not Disco Elysium, it is two different settings in two different worlds, the tone for the script and the jokes are not the same. The meh part : The characters are not memorable nor do they really stick out. There is no Kim Kitsuragi or Harris Dubois memorable. The protagonist too, she is too much of a blank slate. A spy with no past whatsoever, nothing to guide us throught out the missions on a ''putting myself into the shoes of the character that I am playing'' way. It should have given us more on the protagonist like in D.E. You are a dectective, thus your actions and ways of thought are guided because you are thinking like a cop (or what you think that a video game alcoholic cop should act). Never cared for her or the lore we are given about her or the crew throught out the story or the internal thought. Simply another Steve in an everyday Minecraft. The bad parts : ZA/UM, yeah. The narrator, I hated it, she just read the lines and thats it, never voice acted. Just trying to be cool by forcing herself to do a deep voice and trying to sound mean. She heard the narrator in D.E, but that's it, she never went deeper into the idea of maybe doing it right or doing something else that could still work perfectly. They said : deep voice like D.E, and she simply nodded. No different tones for the major emotions nor any emotions in her words. ''Sees word, says word''. It is your average light main in The Finals who has done nothing but play Warzone since Covid. You see him dash a couple of times, but everyone with half a braincell knows that half a mag and and melee hit shuts him up. You are not impress by it, you know that he is only copying his famous homogenous full time FPS streamer. You are not scared nor are you angry that this is your never ending streak on dash/sword mains tangos. You are just annoyed by the fact that for the next 10 minutes you are stuck on a babysitting waste of time chore. He never tought of trying out anything else or simply trying to think, and this is why he is forever stuck in high silver/low gold. Forever chasing a dream at the end of a tunnel, not knowing that it is simply an old light bulb in an old bathroom hallway. BTW I'm a diamond player, heh heh. And for all of the reddit pseudo-intellectuals, yes I know that I can turn off the voice in the comments, but it still doesn't change the fact that what makes these games great is the narrator and the voices of these emotions. Yes, I can play MGSV full commando and go ballistics in every mission, but it simply doesn't work without the stealth. Nevertheless, it is a great game, it is not a successor of Disce Elysium, because it never was. You don't complain today that your apple pie isn't good because your ice cream from yesterday was good. You judge them separately, because even if the are desserts, they are two different things. And if you can't do it, there is a reason why we 3uth4niz3d people like you. Also, there should be a NewGame+ Pirate the game, never support ZA/UM. Luck and skill operant.