ZERO PARADES: For Dead Spies Reviews
ZERO PARADES: For Dead Spies is a fantastic RPG with great writing, a phenomenal cast of characters, and an interesting setting.
Zero Parades: For Dead Spies is a spectacular sophomore effort that takes the subgenre and grafts new and interesting mechanics onto it. Minor bugs do little to impact the consistent delight of narrative twists, beautiful prose, fully realised characters, and top-tier voice acting. Thematically deep and tonally diverse, CASCADE’s return to Portofiro and the fate of the Whole Sick Crew will be a story we’ll be dissecting for a long time.
Disco Elysium may be impossible to replicate, but Zero Parades: For Dead Spies successfully carries over some of its most compelling qualities and turns them into a genuinely strong experience of its own. At times, it can feel a little too trapped within the framework established by Disco Elysium, yet the sheer amount of high quality writing and a fairly engaging story are more than enough to make fans of this genre feel like they have finally been given something they have been starving for.
Review in Chinese | Read full review
Zero Parades: For Dead Spies is a pretty good and gripping experience, but there is no doubt that it fails to escape the long shadow of Disco Elysium. It’s not as funny or deep and comes across as a bit lightweight.
ZA/UM is back in style, and Zero Parades: For Dead Spies is here to show for it.
Zero Parades: For Dead Spies, with its incredibly exciting and engaging story and creative gameplay that fits and integrates with the story, is one of the works that I recommend you experience, even with its minor and major flaws in the visual and audio effects.
Review in Persian | Read full review
A stylish and gripping spy thriller in the form of an RPG, but suffocated under the pressure of great predecessor.
Review in Russian | Read full review
While not for everyone, those that carefully plan things out will enjoy their time as CASCADE in ZERO PARADES: For Dead Spies - just be mindful of that anxiety.
Zero Parades: For Dead Spies lives in the shadow of something bigger, and it never quite manages to escape it. Its biggest flaws come from a lack of confidence in itself, and when it speaks with its own voice, Zero Parades is truly special and memorable.
A game that obsessively attempts to emulate the glories of *Disco Elysium*, yet ultimately loses itself in an exhausting textual mannerism and unbalanced role-playing mechanics.
Review in Italian | Read full review
Zero Parades is a high-quality espionage RPG that truly puts the player's skills to the test. It doesn't rely on constant action to keep you engaged. The missions are well designed, the characters are compelling, and the story continually moves forward, delivering fresh and unexpected twists along the way.
Review in Slovak | Read full review
Zero Parades for Dead Spies offers, like its illustrious predecessor, of which he is not a sequel, a confusing experience on the background and form. An adventure that is not all public, whether in the vector (textual adventure), the means (alcohol, drugs, sex) or the themes (politics, philosophy). Even if it didn’t have a parade, we would have liked to feel a little more spy than a character questioning everything that moves. There remains a story that is solidly written, which I might have appreciated more in a novel.
Review in French | Read full review
A psychological agent thriller, that doesn't live up to it's full potential, but still manages to hook you up and offer excitement.
Review in Finnish | Read full review
Zero Parades: For Dead Spies is another proof of the talent and capability of ZA/UM studio, just as it previously presented to us Disco Elysium. This time, it presented to us a game characterized by a mysterious and exciting story, influential and good characters, to be completed with a narrative style perfectly suited to the game's story, in addition to the role-playing systems that the studio offers in new and distinctive ways. And just where the positive points appear, the negative points appeared as well; as the game offers a small world that does not encourage exploration, complexity of missions through waiting and not providing clear clues, and a drop in the story's pacing in some parts of the missions.
Review in Arabic | Read full review
They say that WWI exotic dancer and spy Mata Hari blew a kiss to her firing squad at her execution. That defiant energy runs through Zero Parades: For Dead Spies. Protagonist Hershel Wilk knows she is not up to the task, yet a sense of remorse pushes her forward. What she finds is a web of deceit that it alone warrants the price of entry. This is no Disco Elysium, but a thrilling beast of its own.
ZERO PARADES: For Dead Spies is a superb, story-driven role-playing game (RPG) that stands on its own. It has some of the most compelling political turmoil and worlds in recent gaming history.
Zero Parades: For Dead Spies is a great, character-driven narrative RPG. The city-state of Portofiro is a well-fleshed-out place offering deep characters and a plethora of interesting quest lines. The systems at play might seem complex, but if you play this game like a tabletop RPG, letting the dice and the story guide you, you’ll get lost in the story and become Cascade yourself. You will need to set aside plenty of time because there are so many people to talk to and places to explore, but if you can put aside hours for long gaming sessions, this might be the game for you.
Zero Parades: For Dead Spies is ultimately an engrossing and engaging experience, even if it might not move the needle as much as players might be hoping. How long it remains in the memory in the future remains to be seen, but its strong world-building and interactive mysteries keep players engaged in an ultimately very satisfying experience.
The feeling is that of being faced with a project that, had it been released by any other software house on the planet and under any other circumstances, would have easily become an instant cult.
Review in Italian | Read full review
ZERO PARADES is a truly memorable experience for people who are okay with slower stories and darker topics. There are some games that stick with you long after the credits roll. It's not because of big story twists or big spectacle, but because they make you think about tough issues.