Silk kimono, fishnet tanktop, cowboy hat, bow tie, booze and cigarettes. Man looks like he's been partying for 5 days solid, smells of death, is a walking disaster in every sense of the word, gets up on stage and sings _this._ Personally, I think it's perfect.
That does appear to be your actual speaking voice, as it appears in a couple other cutscenes where you speak out loud. That probably says something, but in a game like this, who can tell?
One of the only games where “you just don’t get it” is a genuine response to folks not enjoying it. It clicks or it doesn’t. But if it does, it stays with you. The game is a wonderful experience.
I used to be confused by this game. I can't get past day 1 without dropping the game. But then, I played it again and Everything just clicks and I am fully immersed in the game. It left a giant impression in me and I felt a bit depressed when the game ends. I can't even convey properly how this game speaks to me on a deep level. It's like all my pain and loneliness was finally acknowledged and validated. One of the moments that really stuck with me is when I fail an authority check with acele. It's like a cathartic thing and how others can understand you. Oh and right after that I succeed an empathy check and tell her how her dream and passion is real. I cried on that moment.
Got halfway through the Phasmid conversation before I realised I was crying...it clicked. " The arthropods are in silent and meaningless awe of you. Know that we are watching - when you're tired, when the visions spin out of control. The insects will be looking on. Rooting for you. And when you fall we will come to raise you up, bud from you, banner-like, blossom from you and carry you apart in a sky funeral. In honour of your passing." "Of all the creatures I've met, you are the most beautiful" Remember, friends "Communism doesn't dangle any promises of eternal bliss or reward. The only promise it offers is that the future can be better than the past, if we're willing to work and fight and die for it." "...it replaces faith in the divine with faith in humanity's future..." "In dark times, should the stars also go out?"
I played through the game several times by now. And no matter how hard I try, I can't bring myself to play a "bad" version of Harry. I always feel sorry for him and I try to get the best out of it. His tragedy is too gripping for me to let him or Kim down
I was going to go for 100% achievements but when I read the anti-Kim ones on the list I couldn't do it. Fascist Harry I could handle, but one who isn't friends with Kim... no way.
I did it, it was super fun, such absurd situations. But it was so damn hard to be an asshole towards some characters, they are so well written that you actually feel bad for them. Like being mean to the lady, whose husband died drunk on the pier? God damn.
@@Armaan8014 I replayed after loving Kim the first time, but this time I told Kim explicitly that I couldn't remember anything and he told me to shut up about my personal matters. bitch I was SERIOUSLY brain damaged and asking for help and he was like naw, I never truly forgave him after that...
You know, it struck me, listening to this again. Your Reptile Brain and Limbic System - they DO love you. They come through for you during the karaoke. All they want is for you to stop hurting, but they’ve come to the conclusion that the only way for that to happen is to, in essence, save you from yourself.
@@mirrta4598 By commiting suicide. They want Harry to not suffer anymore, to stop hurting and longing. They want the best for him and that is to stop suffering. However, killing himself wouldn't solve anything. Harry needs to suffer to be happy once again -- Actually happy. Stopping existing wouldn't achieve that.
Fun fact: Saint-Saëns was one of the most prolific composers during the Romanticism. His name it is associated with melancholic, sad, romantic moments. Like Harry...
Commenting on this thread because I loved Disco Elysium and I played it 2 or so years ago and I just wanted to point it out that contact mike was a 5000-1 rank outsider! No one saw it coming. People underestimated his heart. He had the drive to push his body past its peak and then some. He knew what it took to win, he just wanted it *more*.
I would often go there To the tiny church there The smallest church in Saint-Saëns Though it once was larger How the rill may rest there Down through the mist there Toward the Seven Sisters Toward those pale cliffs there I would often stay there In that tiny yard there I have been so glad here Looking forward to the past here But now you are all alone None of this matters at all.
@@sashaley4595, "No reply. There is silence now in the deep where the voice came from. It has receded into you, to return only in dreams and nightmares."
Inland Empire - "You should totally sing karaoke here, the first chance you get. Your emotions need to be expressed. People need to know of your vast, oceanic soul." "My soul is immense." "Utterly. And it needs to be heard. Through a PA system. By other people."
The universe has thrown almost everything it can throw at Harry, and at the end of it all, he's still standing by dint of simply being too stubborn to quit. Hell, that's as close to winning at life as some people get. Mad respect to Mr. Du Bois.
I made some friends in town, got shot, solved crimes and still the damn police asshole was calling me an alcoholic and a failure. But he won't fire me at least. And Kim will still work with me after wards! I donno, Ending was not bad I think, wish less people would die...I need to restart the game!
God fucking dammit, man. I did the karaoke thing on a whim, without Kim present. I expected cringe, instead I got hit with an absolute giant wave of feelings. Reloaded and did it again the next day with Kim, the Union guys and undercover precinct cops present. Whoever did the voice acting for Harry and the reptilian brain did an absolutely stellar job.
The voice actor is Mikee W. Goodman. He also voiced the limbic system, which I think is amazing. I was convinced that they had hired a woman for the limbic system. He’s also a singer in the progressive metal band SikTh.
"This is real Darkness. It's not death, or war, or child molestation. Real Darkness has love for a face, The first death is in the heart." This game is an artistic masterpiece. The writing, the characters, the atmosphere, everything is perfect, one of the best games I have ever experienced.
This entire scene man. "Every combination of words has been played out. The atoms don't form us anymore". "Real darkness has love for a face. The first death is in the heart". "This was not about failure or success. This was always going to be horror". Those lines must have been written by someone who went through the most broken of hearts, because someone who hasn't felt like their life was over would never be able to reach that deep. Shit hit me hard
This game made me feel so many things. It made me laugh, it made me cry, it made me feel uncomfortable, it made me feel lonely, it made me feel understood. It's just so loaded with emotions. A true masterpiece. It will be remembered for decades.
“See you tomorrow” always gets me. This isn’t a recurring dream he has every now and then; he has this same nightmare every. single. night. Except when he’s drunk himself unconscious, or high, or just chooses to forgo sleep because exhaustion is preferable. And it’s been this way for six years. Even the different parts of your brain (I think it’s Limbic System and ARB who say this) only let you sleep a few hours a night to try and protect you from the nightmare. The other voices, the stats you can level up, seem to want to protect you first and foremost from death and failure. But the Limbic System and ARB, the most primitive and vital parts of the brain, their first priority is to protect you from pain. Even if you might die. That’s how tragic the situation is, the animal parts of the brain are more focused on avoiding pain than surviving.
I bought the game and got infected with Covid just few days after. I will always remember those feverish dreams about this game and listening to this music late in the night whenever I regained enough strength to open my PC.
C I would often go there Am To the tiny church there Dm The smallest church in Saint-Saëns Em G Though it once was larger C How the rill may rest there Am Down through the mist there Dm Toward the Seven Sisters Em G Toward those pale cliffs there C I would often stay there Am In that tiny yard there Dm I have been so glad here Em G Looking forward to the past here C Am But now you are all alone Dm None of this matters Em G C Now, none of this matters at all.
Theres so many moments that hit me hard in how beautiful the writing and artistic expression was........but this moment holy shit. Im at a lost for words despite knowing that I cried with a mix of joy that this was even a thing in a video game, but also the solemness this performance was. Perfection is what this was.
Spoilers ahead... I hit this scene at the absolute perfect time. End of day 4 I had just done everything so I could enter the Shivers building, but decided to save it for the next day. Then I first danced the shit out of everything in the church and then came to sing karaoke in the Rags. Next morning went straight through to the end game. Just two weird, great moments before shit really popped off.
@@Santana105 man, that church got me good! Pulling off those sick moves, getting Kim to join in, even...and then the goddess! Still gives me all kind of feels, that was such an incredible high!
@@amy_grace The point isn't that those things aren't *in* the game, it's that what makes the game mature isn't those things. A game can f-words and edge and still *also* contain thought-provoking questions, the point is just that most games lay on lots of the former to the neglect of the latter. Disco Elysium uses both well.
This game is great. I can talk for hours about this game. its story, the plot, the puzzles, and the overlapping paths of the characters, which makes it truly one of the greatest video games in history. Perhaps the most important thing that can be said about this game is the intimate attachment to it, in one way or another you feel that something of it has got into you and something of you has gone into it. This exact moment is remembered by most of those involved in this wonderful magic. It deserves to be the greatest gift in the game to the feelings, to tears, and to the souls in which they find possible solace for a tortured soul. "Every school of thought and government has failed in this city, but I love it nonetheless. It belongs to me as much as it belongs to you."
Most of my friends seems to think this is bad, but frankly I love the song itself and the singing of it. It feels like all the time I'm tired. Weary. The world is not a good place and i wonder sometimes if sleeping would be the best way to cope. But weirdly this stupid shit song makes me feel...seen? Or at least maybe that there's a person out there as tired as I am...which is both sad, and so so encouraging.
@@larsthedude1984 it's truly a beautiful day and a wondrous moment when you pick up a game thinking it's gonna be "Fine" and it turns out to be just hit after hit of feeling understood. Almost enough to give one hope for the future
Got a successful check this morning and was expecting to clap and smile through Harry’s performance and instead I felt more lonely (yet connected to him) than I thought I could feel and weeped for a good 10 minutes after seeing it. Mr Du Bois, no one does it like you and thank you for a happy valentines.
I’m being real btw. It was the greatest valentines gift to get a song from Harrier. I’ve felt so lonely and have been dealing with alcoholism, so this song... idk it does something to me.
Never heard of Disco Elysium before finding this song. Beautifully dark and sad. I will definitely play Disco Elysium, I was sold on it by this song, didn't even need to read the heaps of praise for it in the comments. Disco Elysium and Planescape: Torment are the next on my playlist, I've heard nothing but great things about each story.
I like both. But I am more of Ancient Reptilian Brain. Limbic sounds like what Kim said, a tragic stories of RCM officers. They tried their best but nobody gives a shit. I like this version more because it portrays Harry's mental state. He sounded so freakin done here, there is no emotion or anything yet he pour out his soul into this song, but it all came out sounded like a singing death rattle. And that emphasis on "You are all alone..." gives me goosebump.
Я часто приходил туда. В крошечную церковь. Самая маленькая церковь в Сен-Сансе. А ведь когда-то она казалась больше. Как речка может покоиться там Спускаться сквозь туман К Семи Сестрам К тем белым утесам. Я часто оставался там. В крошечном дворике. Я был так рад здесь. С надеждой смотря на прошлое Но теперь ты совсем один. Все это не имеет никакого значения.
After it mentioned 'Seven Sisters', I figured out that this is a reference to the county Sussex in the UK. I also then noticed that British Sea Power(who did the OST) have a song called 'The Smallest Church in Sussex'. So this is a gentle redo of one of their own original songs
It's not the only one either. "Instrument of Surrender", or "those goddamn horns that stay in your head forever after you finish the game", comes from "Red Rock Riviera", for example. "Disco Inferno", the song that plays during the boat ride, comes from "Want To Be Free" (although it's significantly more melancholic, and features Robert Kurvitz, Disco Elysium's writer, in the vocals). If I recall correctly there are other examples but I don't really remember right now
"... [it] has brought me here, to this place, where i choose to look back, and see myself. and in the act of seeing, I am reborn." here's to this dimly lit shining star of the greatest game i've ever played
"Сент-Сансская крошка-церковь" Я там часто бывал, У крошки-церкви гулял. Она стоит, мельчает, Кротко Сент-Санс смеряет. Там ручей так спокоен, Течёт, туманом напоен, Струясь к Севен-Систерс, Струясь к утёсам мглистым. Там я часто стоял, Дворик там очень мал. Там я был так счастлив, Там мысли о прошлом погрязли. Но теперь ты один и всё равно всё бессмысленно.
Love this song and game, few games have made me cry and even fewer have made me look at why I believe the things I believe. Really pulled apart my beliefs and left with me with a single, simple truth to grip onto.
I bawled at this part in the game not teared up but legit tears streaming down my face sniffling. I heard it at the right time in my life to illicit that
I would often go there To the tiny church there The smallest church in Saint-Saëns Though it once was larger How the rill may rest there Down through the mist there Toward the Seven Sisters Toward those white cliffs there I would often stay there In the tiny yard there I have been so glad here Looking forward to the past here
the instrumental in this version is better than the original "the smallest church in sussex", wish there was a instrumental version of this one available
I would often go there To the tiny church there The smallest church in Sussex Though it once was larger How the rill may rest there Down through the mist there Toward the Seven Sisters Toward those white cliffs there I would ofter stay there In there tiny yard there I have been so glad here Looking forward to the past here But now you are alone None of this matters at all
Harry can be comical most the time but I genuinely feel sorry for him and the hole he's dug himself into and the pain he suffers. Felt bittersweet moments of the date I took him on that would not lead to a second even though it went well and the moment he sang this well
Whoa! This is the 3rd version I've heard of this song! :O (I got the "Fail" version in the game, listened to Sea Power's original and just now realized this was the "Success" version in the game...though I love the Fail version)
It's not one-to-one symbolism like that. The song is just about yearning for something you no longer have, and the idea that it's meaningless without human connection anyway.
for me standing there with my kim on my side and everyone there uni guys undercover guys to hear my harry sing his soul out like that made my eye tear up and reminded me of how life bombarded me and yet I'm standing like a lighthouse for the tired souls thanx kim for telling me I'm the greatest detective you layid your eyes on
