The truth is that No Truce With the Furies was always intended to just be a project name. People hate changes, and they especially hate such giant name changes,” writer and designer Robert Kurvitz said. “Changing something’s name, it’s a very uncomfortable process. ZA/UM’s detective RPG was widely known by that title up until 2018, when the team started to call it Disco Elysium.
In Disco Elysium, identity is both flimsy and malleable, and is hewn from internal and external chaos.įittingly, the game opens with the first stanza of “Reflections,” a poem published in a 1995 collection titled No Truce With The Furies. It is the first of many opportunities for your detective, while in the throes of amnesia, to have an existential meltdown that prematurely ends the game. If you do so, you might be tempted to step into the home of the furies and greet them.
Within the opening minutes of Disco Elysium, you can slip out of a brawl between warring factions of your own booze-addled cognitive functions and drag your carcass to the bathroom. Even the clearest water, if deep enough can drown.” “The furies are at home in the mirror it is their address. Thomas uses the central motif of mirrors-a theme recurrent in Thomas’ works-to probe the constructed nature of self-identity and the discord between our imagined selves and our true selves.
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