#DE playthrough

[kimkatsu]

[caramel-mousse]

Playing Disco Elysium and I adote how Kim will just follow you everywhere even when youre doing plainly illegal things. Like yeah he disapproves of all my breaking-and-enterings but by god he's going to follow me right inside

[doctormage]

played d*sco elys*um all morning btw and i think im pretty bad at it. im having a great time tho bc instead of trying to be Right All The Time im just picking the funniest and/or most unhinged option

[daturanerium]

omg forgot to update u all on the disco elysium progress. fucked around for another hour and had a blast. made zero progress. i literally spent twenty minutes in the bookshop it was great! thank u to the moots for helping me get my bearings :)

[regicidal-defenestration]

Not Harry being a PE teacher,,,

[bemp0]

Short visit on Tabernacle Road

[faoluoo]

my form of apology to her for getting [REDACTED] in my first playthrough

[meinqiwu]

this is somewhere to be

[disco-elysium-sideblog]

I’m sure this has been talked about before but the health system in Disco Elysium is so good at portraying Harry’s physical and emotional state. Like yeah, looking at bullet holes in a wall can give you a heart attack. Someone not liking you poem can cause a complete mental break. None of these things on their own will kill you, but your mental and physical state is so fragile that any one of them can be the final straw. The health system and the story convey what a mess Harry is in complimentary ways and it’s fucking awesome

And if something would actually kill or seriously maim you? The health system doesn’t get involved. You just die or get seriously maimed. You antagonize someone until they shoot you? Doesn’t matter how much medicine you have. Get shot in the leg? Yeah that’s gonna stick no matter how high your health is.

And of course the way that both low morale and low health can kill you- and the way that their mechanics are basically the same- shows Harry’s state as well. His mental and physical health are separate, but both can end his career and both are endangered every time he talks to someone or does anything even slightly dangerous.

In most video games, health functions to give you a second chance. Instead of dying outright from a bullet, you just lose health. Disco Elysium is the opposite. You will die outright from things that would kill you, and also if you aren’t keeping an eye on things you can die from the embarrassment of failing to make a jump! The health system is a way of emphasizing your fragility, not your strength. It’s super coo!!

[juniesfairies]

The first time I got to this part it was without Kim, and found out about my motor carriage all by myself and felt bad about it, I wanted Kim to be with me for this. So I went to my previous save and did a bunch of dialogue again and avoided looking at the MC until day 4. And so I did, I sat on the swing discussing how physical phenotypes emerge while the tide itself recedes. With way more dialogue options and feedback from your partner, I started crying. Because this moment is extremely real. I have an extremely bad and dangerous habit of loosing every object that I own, or ones that I don’t. I have a good memory but will forget to take my backpack home. Stupid blips like that really make you feel useless. So to hear Harry say “first my badge, then my gun, now this, and another, worse fourth thing” made me realize why I connected with this character so much. Why I bought this game after hearing about it for months specifically after I relapsed. And before all this even happens with you, Kim whistles with you, he goes along with you through these few hours because while *you* make mountains out of molehills (a teacher used to say I did that) someone who doesn’t will be by your side, and you remember that.

[nobigneil]

Bow'ee dangling the tadpole above her mouth, Bow'ee: I might just have a little snack Asra: what? what are you doing? WHAT? NO! Bow'ee: ohhh alright >:[ Astarion: *picking up the tadpole and dramatically consuming it to annoy Asra*: AMNAMNAMNAMNAM

[kimkatsu]

ok time to start 2nd playthrough of de, this time with the goal of being as homosexual underground as possible. i missed a bunch of things the first time cuz i rushed to the island ahhhhh

[caramel-mousse]

broke bastards club

[doctormage]

sorry for the shitty pics of my tv but. my growing collection of fav lines in this game

[daturanerium]

help gay people….kim kitsuragi who are you to me indeed

[regicidal-defenestration]

Finished the tribunal again I'm okay (lying)