Longdue Games shared the first game image from Hopetown, their “spiritual successor” to the Elysium Dance School, about to launch Kickstarter.
First of all, no name teased in October last year as part of the great disco attack, then revealed last month, Hopetown was described as “Hoping the rough emotional depth and the psychological complexity of the Elysium dance hall with the philosophical richness and storytelling complex of Planescape: Torment.”
At that time, I hope this melody and tenor of trying too much Just a press release GUFF. There is no such luck, if the text shown below is any sign.
But first, back up for a while, because it Look Great. It was great that I had some difficulties to believe what this is what the game looks like, instead of just the conceptual art. It’s great. Purple and yellow board. Artist style, soft but sharp with details.
Then you start reading. “Let me introduce myself,” your character tells a sweet old woman for pigeons. “I don’t die in my own drinking water – although I think it’s not a dealer.”
In the Elysium dance hall, your character can find a leather jacket with “fuck the world” written on the back. If you have tried enough, you can even convince Kim’s partner to wear a free coat with the content “Pissf **** t”. Someone in Longdue clearly thought that those coats were a good basis for developing characters.
Admittedly, I am looking at this dialogue through my eyes that have been declared first by the description of Longdue about your character as “a chaotic provocative, self -destroying yourself, the person who considers humanity as selfish and cruel” and “not careless and dangerous”. Disco Elysium is often satisfied, show-offish and too skillful. But it never, you know, Nathan Barley on the bus.
The pigeon woman gives your character a loaf of bread. You have three answers to that, one of which is classified “NOblesse N’Oles”. I like that name. The conversation itself is “I would rather lick the barrel [knock the bread from her hands]” – A meaningful explanation of Jejune and it means why the chaotic comedy options in the dance hall are so interesting.
Your “Gonzo” option is: “Yes, feed the masses! So let it be done. Eat, Sky Rats! (Get bread)”. Have you ever seen a sentence like someone who wrote the accents first and worked back from there? The efforts in Philosophy thatdated felt uncommon: “They give the dirty on the ground a fighting opportunity to touch the sky. That is admirable.”
I don’t expect or even especially want a Carbon copy of the Elysium dance hall from Hopetown, but if you will strengthen the imagination of those who are considered to have been stolen their work from them you are successful.
However, bloody stunning art. And, look, obviously I am the cherry lines out of the context from a single screenshot. I am very happy to eat crow because I suspect the pigeon here. If not, there are always two others anyway.
