Proper, hiya. Bear in mind the Disco Elysium spin-off recreation codenamed Challenge X7, which was within the works at ZA/UM earlier than it was canned early last year – on the identical time people engaged on it have been let go as a part of some layoffs?
Nicely, what seems to be like an inner presentation discussing and demoing a number of parts of that cancelled recreation has now allegedly leaked, and it claims that what we would possible have been in for if the sport had launched was a single-player journey starring Cuno and Cunoesse as twin protagonists. Oh, and a field of locusts.
The alleged presentation was uploaded to YouTube by Disco Elysium content material creator/group member Jamrock Hobo on April 1, although it would not look like a joke. “Inner presentation of ZA/UMs Disco Elysium sequel ‘Locust Metropolis – An Elysium Story’,” they wrote within the description, “It was made 9 months earlier than the challenge was cancelled. This was despatched to me with the request to add it, so I assume that’s what I’ll be doing. The stuff you discover in your inbox huh.”
Thus far, so very in-line with the bizarre and regarding collection of messes each involving ZA/UM and would-be Disco successor studios that’ve sadly been a daily occurence because the unique recreation got here out all these years in the past. This allegedly leaked presentation runs for quarter-hour and judging by the date on the pc display screen within the video, was seemingly given on Might 10, 2023.
Assuming it does grow to be reliable, we get an image of how numerous parts of the sport have been coming togetherat that time in growth, with numerous devs chatting by means of stuff just like the narrative – that half seems to be delivered by ex-ZA/UM author and current Summer Eternal member Dora Klindžić -, the artwork, and a vertical slice the staff has put collectively.
The cliff notes are that you simply’d be taking part in as each Cuno and Cunoesse, the 2 youngsters Harry and Kim famously meet in a sure yard containing a lifeless physique, with the power to change between the 2 and oversee their separate units of ideas, however a shared stock and activity listing. Every part seems to be rather a lot like the unique Disco, together with the thought cupboard, which seems to be to have been cut up in half between the 2 characters, with some new expertise particular to Cuno and Cunoesse swapped in.
As for the plot, it seems to be like we would have been in for 5 acts, with issues kicking into gear in act two through the 2 making an attempt to flee by prepare following the opening act homicide of Cuno’s father, and 4 or 5 completely different endings you would find yourself with. Throught all of this, Cuno carries round a cardboard field of locusts – the titular Locust Metropolis – which might have served as a really Animal Farm-sounding allegory for his private journey, because the state of the locust civilisation modified to match Cuno’s state of affairs and decisions.
VG247 has reached out to ZA/UM for touch upon this story.
Do you suppose operating round with a field of locusts as Martinaise’s foremost swearing retailers would have made a enjoyable Disco spin-off? Tell us under.