⚠️ Content warning: this video discusses addiction, mental health, psychosis, and suicidal ideation, and contains some strong language. Please take care of yourself.

I can't recommend Disco Elysium — and that's not because it's bad. It's a masterpiece. It's because recommending it means assuming an enormous amount about the person I'm handing it to, and if I'm wrong, this game teaches the opposite of what it means to. In this one I get into why: the media-literacy problem (a game about nuance can't hand you nuance you don't already have), the sheer density of it, what it's actually saying about who society fails and why, and the personal reason I can't look away from it — as someone with schizoaffective disorder, Harry's chorus of inner voices is one of the most accurate depictions of that experience I've encountered. Plus the clearest way I know to explain what the game demands of you, via Caesar's Legion in New Vegas. This isn't a "you should play." It's a "should you? — and here's what you'd be signing up for."

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