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I cant be mean to Kim, I tried.
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I like how Kim's patience and faith are both his biggest strength and his biggest weakness as a character. He's an exceptionally loyal person who's able to handle a thoroughly broken individual with just the right touch...And also a person who, through his true believer tendencies, is still able to overlook genuinely despicable behavior on The Detective's part because he feels a bad cop is still better than no cop. It's possible to play the game in such a way that Harry is a gigantic fascist piece of shit, yet Kim still vouches for him in the ending as much as he would if Harrier were a total saint.
Reflects the fundamental complexities of interpersonal relationships. A person's strongest talent can also be their single biggest flaw; This also interacts nicely on a thematic level with the way the game penalizes stat dumping.
Speaking of, I totally love Evrart. He feels contentious in the way a lot of real-world revolutionaries are. Bulldozing the Fishing Village is objectively a dick move, sure, but the guy walks the walk enough in other contexts that I can't help but think he might be getting at something.
Is his bulldozing of the fishing village actually dickish? Because the village is objectively dying, there's like one and a half families left, and they will all be given brand spanking new homes. And it's not secret, he's not a landlord pushing out people through secret means, he's open about what he's doing.
Does he do that before you call him on this ending up with no fishing village? Because if you do that is when he tells you about how he's building apartments for everyone. That's part of how you get him to launch into his rant about his anger at the moralintern, which is his one hinest moment.
You do. And you can tell them. And he tells you how part of the point of the building project was housing for the fishing village.
But like. The point of the building project is tearing down the fishing village to build something else there. The fact that you ha e to pass a skill check to find out that means no fishing village is more of an indictment of Harry than anything else.
Like there was clearly a moral issue that they approached here. But they just make Evret too nice about it.
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Fascist run Kim does outright say he never wants to work with Harry again. In that argument the two have outside of the church after Harry kept saying racial slurs, Kim will explode at Harry. He essentially says he's only there for the job at that point and doesn't wanna talk with Harry. It doesn't effect further gameplay though, but I wish it would. It feels like a real break moment. Kim should only reply in curt yes or no after that point and refuse to talk about anything other than the case.