00:00In a rented room above a 24 hour photoshop, your partner is slumped in his chair,
00:06now just a shell missing the gooey human feeling that makes a body a person.
00:12These opening minutes of Zero Parades contains plenty of mysteries to pull you forward into its story,
00:18but they also hark back in a way that threatens to pull me out of it.
00:22The RPG features a more malleable protagonist and some of the richest writing in gaming,
00:28along with a compelling spy story that takes some weird turns.
00:32However, it never quite escapes the shadow of Disco Elysium.
00:36There's a clumsiness that's harder to forgive the second time around,
00:40and some of the voice direction can grate throughout its incredibly dense script.
00:45As a successor to Disco Elysium, Zorm's Spy-Fi RPG is a little too fearful to roll the dice on
00:51something new.
00:52But if the systems and themes are a little too familiar in Zero Parades for Dead Spies,
00:57that does mean some of the old charm persists.
01:00And if you can look past the odd irritation,
01:03you'll find an NPC crew worth getting to know in Porto Fero.
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