Review: Zero Parades: Director's Cut (Switch 2) - ZA/UM Returns With Another Atmospheric, Cerebral Yet Overly Familiar RPG
For Dead Spies. How does a studio follow an era-defining masterpiece without the original creative forces behind said masterpiece? The answer, for better or worse, is to emulate the experience almost completely. ZA/UM emerges from a controversy far too storied to cover here with a follow-up to existential crisis simulator Disco Elysium. Zero Parades is once again about a lone figure of questionable authority and skill, wandering a political melting pot of a city and trying to find salvation or oblivion. It’s achingly beautiful and constantly thought-provoking, but also very familiar for fans o
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For Dead Spies. How does a studio follow an era-defining masterpiece without the original creative forces behind said masterpiece? The answer, for better or worse, is to emulate the experience almost completely. ZA/UM emerges from a controversy far too storied to cover here with a follow-up to existential crisis simulator Disco Elysium. Zero Parades is once again about a lone figure of questionable authority and skill, wandering a political melting pot of a city and trying to find salvation or oblivion. It’s achingly beautiful and constantly thought-provoking, but also very familiar for fans o
