Why is Kim Kitsuragi so cool?

November 4, 2021 12:00 PM

Code 31 - Emergency on the Dance Floor feat. STORMZY - VOSSI BOP
posted by OverlappingElvis (5 comments total)

(Kim Kitsuragi is the deuteragonist from the video game "Disco Elysium." A 3D model of him appears dancing in this video.)
posted by one for the books at 12:30 PM on November 4, 2021 [2 favorites]

I couldn't remember his last name but the title still made me think of the one Kim I hold in highest* regard and it was in fact the same Kim.

*this regard has a pretty low ceiling given his occupation, even fictionally
posted by GoblinHoney at 12:34 PM on November 4, 2021 [1 favorite]

Now this is the kind of super specific content I can get behind.

Also as a super specific aside: Disco Elysium does a really good job of encouraging you to roll with failures (pun intended), and avoid save-scumming. The one big exception to this is exactly this sequence in the game (Spoilers: Code 31), which requires you to succeed at a sequence of very difficult skill checks. Yet if you pass, it rewards you with one of the most sublime sequences in video game history.
posted by Alex404 at 1:07 PM on November 4, 2021 [5 favorites]

is this the metaverse?
posted by gwint at 1:51 PM on November 4, 2021 [2 favorites]

I am *super* disco.

You probably have heard some games are incredible. They might be, but this one is *super* incredible. You want to navigate these dialogue trees, you need it.
posted by OnTheLastCastle at 8:59 PM on November 4, 2021 [1 favorite]