صداهای جدید در Disco Elysium – The Final Cut باعث می‌شود که این بازی بیشتر از همیشه شبیه به یک تجربه روی میز باشد.

The delightfully unusual detective role-playing game Disco Elysium is finally on console. The Final Cut version of the game arrived yesterday on PlayStation machines (4 and 5), the App Store, Stadia and PC (a free update if you already own the base game), and there’s an Xbox version due to follow this summer.

I’ve been playing it on PlayStation 5, and generally it works well. I haven’t noticed the frame-rate issues I’ve seen reported elsewhere, so presumably they really have been fixed. But I have come across the object interaction bug, which sometimes doesn’t register your interactions, or doesn’t quite trigger them. Pressing the button again usually rectifies the issue, so it’s sometimes annoying but rarely more. Loading times seem fine on PS5, though I wonder what they’re like on PS4, and I haven’t seen any other bugs, though I’m only early in the game (code arrived late).

اما قابل توجه ترین اضافه شده جدید، صداگذاری کامل است. Disco Elysium یک بازی پرمخاطب است و فقط تکه‌های آن در ابتدا صداگذاری می‌شد، به این معنی که بیشتر اوقات شما در حال خواندن یک جعبه متن در سمت راست صفحه بودید. و اگرچه کلمات لذت بخش بودند (و هستند) - Disco Elysium حس طنز ظالمانه ای دارد و روشی دوست داشتنی برای بیان افکاری که واقعاً باید در ذهن شما بمانند - مقدار زیادی از آنها می تواند خسته کننده باشد. این همچنین باعث شد تا بازی تا حدودی ساکت و بی حرکت شود، زیرا منتظر خواندن و پیگیری شما بود. اما افزودن صداهای قابل شنیدن تأثیر قدرتمندی در این امر دارد.

Disco Elysium now feels more like an actual tabletop role-playing experience. A kind of narrator describes scenes audibly to you, making it feel as though you’re in a live gaming session with a GM. This also frees you up to concentrate less on the words, which is a blessing now you’re probably sitting further away from them. And it means people in your house can be pulled into the experience too, should you want them to be – I don’t recommend letting your children spectate!

It’s also very welcome hearing the characters who you speak to. Their newly found voices give new life to the game, and they add a sense of clarity to the different characters you meet. The voices are generally good, too, with a nice range of accents and voice types. The only slight jarring element is when there isn’t a voiced line, for some reason, and when your player character speaks, or rather doesn’t speak, because you are not voiced.

بنابراین در حالی که صداگذاری کامل ممکن است به عنوان یک افزوده نمادین روی کاغذ به نظر برسد، در عمل تأثیر زیادی دارد.

There are other additions in the new Final Cut version of the game, including unseen areas and quality of life improvements, and added replayability, but I either haven’t noticed them or haven’t seen them yet.