Kim being mostly opposed to the teleportation plan for good and valid reasons, but also because teleportation would *clearly* require some sort of a device which you don't have on you, is just one of the many reasons to love him.
I fully believe he actually teleported, based on the reactions of the father and son onlookers and that Harry tapped into some connection with the Pale in order to do so.
at first in my playthrough i didnt realize this was about them not having the budget to animate it, i think i missed that line, and i just thought "oh raphael just being raphael i guess"
It's because it's an impossible passive rhetoric check I'm not sure exactly how many points you need to past impossible passive checks but I think it's something like 8-12 points invested in any specific skill could be more though and honestly who invests that much into rhetoric anyway the point of this being such a hard check I would assume is because it's a secret message probably left in by one of the writers after the animators couldn't do it.
@@pisstacheio3800 nono, i had the rhetoric, i was all in on logic and rhetoric and encyclopedia, i just missed the line about animations cause i was up very late playing disco elysium
@@pisstacheio3800honestly, I think it's just one of the Final passive checks. Culmination of a skill. Right before the culmination of the game. I don't really remember these, honestly, but I remember impossible empathy check with Ruby, it even says only a truly empathetic cop would see this.
Limitations breeding creativity. Can't afford a basic ladder-climbing animation? Just do something even more impressive and write the shit out of that scene. Beautiful.
Kim would probably say some real copium about how he is just shocked that you would climb up a partially destroyed ladder on the side of crumbling building like a maniac.
I fucking *love* the idea of Harry just sitting there in silence for a good few minutes before turning to Kim and saying "I need to teleport to this roof." And somehow Kim responds to that *seriously and with logic*
Not if the voice actors are family or otherwise coders/programmers in the studio already.... In the old days thats how most game voice acting was done by people in the office not professional talent. Hell I think I played a few games where they got their kids to do a few lines of dialog.
@@MarcusDarkstar they aren't, though. These were paid professionals for The Final Cut. They wrote the scene before deciding every last line was going to be voice acted.
Honestly this game does 4th wall breaks and out of character banter between the skills perfectly. Seeing Kim baffled at my constant running and how my erratic movement is referred to as the "jamrock shuffle" made me giggle.
@@screamingcactus1753 there's a line later in the game that described Harry as a "human tin opener" in reference to his people skills, makes me wonder if that line changes based on what archetypes/skills you choose.
honestly i prefer the ambiguity of harry closing his eyes, blacking out, and coming back to awareness on top of the roof *somehow* sometimes constraints actually improve the text
You know how sometimes you'll see a funny clip of a game online and decide to play it, only to be disappointed when it the rest of the game isn't nearly as good as the one part you saw? This is not one of those cases lol. The whole game is like this. It's incredible
My god. Play this game. If your brain tingled a little at that dialogue, you are going to mainline this game and be left gasping in the dark. I don't hesitate to say it's the best-written game I've ever seen. To say it's worth the price of admission and the play time, is an understatement so lavish they had to pass a sumptuary law just for it.
I love that there is a plot reason why Harry was able to easily climb the ladder with his eyes closed, even though it's just a random case of "we don't want to make an animation just for this scene"
Honestly I feel like "forget how to fall", while not inaccurate, does a bit of a disservice to Douglas Adams' writing. To quote directly; "There is an art, it says, or rather, a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss." As well as a couple more paragraphs of wonderfully unique prose, but ultimately the funniest part in my opinion is how you have to intentionally try to miss the ground, but on accident. Trying with full intent to miss the ground ends up with you hitting the ground, and it takes much skill and luck to be able to be distracted appropriately to fail to hit the ground.
@@JacklynBurn thankyou for the full bit, I didn't try and be accurate as the full prose is beautiful and I wouldn't remember. It's been 15 years since I read that book but I've never forgotten how I felt reading it.
Kim might be my favorite vidya sidekick ever. Dude is genuinely supportive even though all the shit Harry pulled, he never judges you, even though he knows how much you screw up. Broest of bros.
@@kalibos He's judging your actions, but when you screw up big time (like losing your gun or crashing your car) he's not a douche about it and he sticks with you.
The best part to me is that this gag works particularly great in this game given that many of the laws of physics in this universe **are** different from ours - things like the Pale, or the light distortion field spontaneously generated by the Ultra-High Net Worth Individual you can find at some point in the game. So you could still build up some anticipation that this would work for Harry. But he’s also a goof who makes shit up along the way :) Disco Elysium is beautiful.
Hate to break it to you but the light distortion field spontaneously generated by the Ultra-High Net Worth Individual is Harry *IMAGINATION*, when you tell Evrart about him Kim says "there is a guy in that empty container... minus light bending"
@@essa8557 I don't think that's the case, or at least the game doesn't make it explicit that this is all in Harry's mind (which wouldn't even make much sense to me since you see this before even talking him). There's even a dialogue between Harry and the man where he mentions this is an effect caused by the "Weiss-Wiesemann coefficient". But of course, you're entitled to your own interpretation of a game that leaves a lot of things open to it.
I've been hesitant on playing for various reasons such as lack of focus and general hesitancy not to save scum if I get bad rolls, but videos like this definitely push me more towards "just roll with it", "try it out in earnest", etc.
just rolling with it is definitely the right way to go. I also save scum a lot because I hate missing out on things, what you find out with this game it's often more fun failing in the most spectacular way possible rather than simply succeeding.
Wow, I played this game in so many different ways but I had no idea there's an impossible rhetoric check that basically directly tells you the reason of this whole scene :D
@@steampunkerella i don't know about you, but for me it shows a glitched picture, so i assumed it was wrong. Also first time seeing Disco Elysium, i have only heard about it.
Oh my god I cometely forgot this was a thing. And in the fsareeell lrettrer from the devs, they mentioned how MAGIC WAS A REAL THING in the DE universe. I remember they said dancing and stepping weirdly let you tug at reality.
I once told someone Disco Elysium made me feel stupid because I had trouble following the narrator. Someone else responded Disco Elysium was esoteric, but not hard to understand. Esoteric means hard to understand.
@@Iknowtoomuchable You literally sound just like this guy after I pointed that out: Obscure: adjective: difficult to understand No matter how many layers deep you go "esoteric" is a word that means "hard to understand" because at it's core that's what it _means._ Saying it's easy to understand if you have certain pieces of knowledge, like a certain environment, certain education, or certain friends is just splitting hairs. Something is difficult to understand specifically because you don't have the knowledge to piece it together, that's how knowledge works. So sure, if you say something is esoteric to people who aren't fans of women's basketball, frequenters of fan fiction forums, or competative cheesetasters then sure you've got a point, in that there is perhaps a much lower threshold for what makes a statement confusing. In _theory_ it could be explained easily to an outsider, but that fact doesn't make encountering it in the wild simpler and easier to process. More importantly, if detached from any other context you choose to use the word "esoteric" and only the word "esoteric" to describe something you have chosen to emphasize the depth of its opacity. You don't get to act all haughty about how "funny," or "weird," or "random" it is that anyone wouldn't get it
[Logic/Encyclopedia/Inland Empire] With things like the Pale, and that world being more like a "broken lens" rather then a sphere, then teleporting shouldn't be off the table. [Conceptualization] Maybe something like X-Men's Nightcrawler's power, and his teleporting sends him to another dimension (In Harry's case it could be The Pale) really fast then gets sent back some distance away.
