ZA/UM's sophomore effort, after the phenomenal breakout Disco Elysium, is certainly still feeling the tremors of everything that happened in Elysium's wake. From the ousting of several major creative leads , ensuing lawsuits , and a crossfire of allegations and controversy , there's been no shortage of furor over Zero Parades: For Dead Spies, a new project from the current team under the ZA/UM banner. And for all the ways in which Zero Parades differentiates itself from Disco Elysium – a new setting and a Le Carré spy thriller bend rather than detective noir – it still rekindles the wick of ZA/UM's debut with voices in your head, die rolls, and a striking, gritty atmosphere weighing down the town of Portofiro. Your job as decommissioned espionage agent and possibly irredeemable screw-up Hershel Wilk (codename CASCADE), goes to absolute crap in about five seconds flat.…