Disco Elysium: The Final Cut, an incredibly well-received RPG, has made its way onto the Nintendo Switch. Disco Elysium is the tale of an amnesiac detective who wakes up in his hotel room after a long night of drugs and drinking. A man is found dead outside, hanging from a tree just behind the hotel. Being struck with amnesia, players will have to solve the mysterious murder case, as well as the basics about the detective himself. Even the detective’s name is a puzzle to be solved during this 20+ hour adventure.

Disco Elysium was originally released in 2019 on PC, and has since received multiple awards including best music, best narrative game, and best independent debut. With the release of Disco Elysium: The Final Cut in 2021, developer ZA/UM added a large amount of new content, as well as complete voice acting throughout the game. With such a dialog-heavy experience, full voice acting really enhances some of the more subtle, and extreme, tones that Disco Elysium strives for.

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Disco Elysium focuses all of its gameplay on dialog choices and random skill-based dice rolls, which makes it feel more like a modern narrative tabletop game than an actual video game RPG. Utilizing a skill tree, players will add points into categories that increase, or decrease, the probability of success in a conversation. Most skills will also open up dialog choices and new ways to handle certain situations. With 24 skills available in 4 distinct categories (Intellect, Psyche, Physique, and Motorics), players can craft a character that fits the most specific styles of gameplay. Even combat is handled through dialog options and available skills.

What Makes Disco Elysium Different on The Nintendo Switch

The Nintendo Switch version of Disco Elysium: The Final Cut isn’t just a simple port of the game, which has been re-assembled for playability. The user interface has been retooled for use with a controller-based portable device, options for font scaling to enhance legibility on a smaller screen have been added, and all of the previous quality-of-life additions to the game have been kept intact. The voice acting shines through exceptionally and sounds great even coming from the Switch’s smaller speakers. There were no noticeable bugs or glitches throughout the entire playthrough and everything felt right for a portable version of this game.

The most glaring issue in the prerelease version of Disco Elysium is the load times. They come often, and last longer than people might expect from an isometric game like this. Every movement into a new area of the game will start a loading screen. With an open-world game that requires backtracking and constant searching for clues, this can be an issue. The developers are aware of the loading issues though, and continued performance and optimization patches after launch are expected.

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The constant ebb and flow of Disco Elysium‘s storyline makes for one amazing adventure that can easily be replayed, tackling problems in different ways each time. The Nintendo Switch is a great fit for this kind of game, and the adjustment of the controls was handled well by the team at ZA/UM. This is a perfect rendition of Disco Elysium for new players who are interested in the game, or returning players who want to relive the fever dream on a portable console.

Disco Elysium: The Final Cut is available for Nintendo Switch on October 12, 2021, and is available now on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Stadia, and PC. A digital Nintendo Switch copy was provided to Screen Rant for purposes of review.

Our Rating:

4 out of 5 (Excellent)
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