gurl dis is sum boolsheet

ko-fi request: "Harry DuBois and Kim Kitsuragi from Disco Elysium playing Twister but Harry started crying at some point cuz he remembered his dead mother or something so now it's really awkward"

kim is such a real one cuz if you fail a check to pick your nose and instead piss yourself in front of a random stranger he'll be like no no my partner is just messing with you, it's a prank, etc. he never sells you out, but afterwards he will take you aside and be like look. if you need to go potty just tell me. and throw those trousers out while you're at it they do not help your complexion.

— I’d like to dedicate this song to my partner, Kim Kitsuragi. 

i was always bothered by the lack of like official concept art for kim kitsuragi that's available. there's like, three total pictures? which made no sense to me given how he's a main character, he's there with you for most of the game, how can this be all of it. where's the early iterations. alternate designs. turns out it's because they apparently drew him once and were like "oh this is perfect. we can't improve on this. we nailed it" and just moved on

i once joked that given how little insight there is into his creation and how little concept art there was of him, he probably just appeared fully formed in the game one day. apparently i wasn't far off. his portrait is literally from pre-production just with colours slapped on it. "a slam dunk from the get-go". character of all fucking time

they actually comment on this on the very next description on the artbook too

Like most old-school RPGs with unguided character creation, Disco Elysium makes it possible to softlock yourself very early by building a character who mathematically cannot survive the tutorial mission. However, unlike most old-school RPGs with unguided character creation, every way in which you can do this is objectively hilarious.

come on, you can’t just say this without giving examples lol

Without giving too much away, there’s an NPC you must meet in their office who offers you a chair to sit down; refusing to sit in the chair requires passing a Volition skill check. If you do sit down, the chair proves to be so incredibly uncomfortable that you have to make a Pain Threshold saving throw or suffer a single point of damage.

It’s completely possible – albeit very unlikely – to put yourself in a position where your Volition is too low to refuse to sit down, your Pain Threshold is too low to avoid taking damage from doing so, you have only a single point of Health remaining, and you’ve already exhausted every source of healing that’s accessible to you at that point.

If all of those factors line up, you cannot proceed because you lack the confidence to refuse to sit in a chair that’s so uncomfortable it kills you.