/vr/ - Retro Games

More than his value as a character, what I really love about K is the way he is employed storytelling-wise:

He's sort of the first villain figure in the story, and you see him quite a lot, so you eventually start to outgrow his menace; you obviously have it in for him for all the moustache-curling shit he pulls, but you sort of meta-label him as a stepping stone, someone who's there to get his ass kicked until you get to the real thing.

Then, by the moment shit hits the fan and you realize he's actually the Big Bad (because nobody who played the game back then, NOBODY, saw it coming), the game doesn't really need characters or cutscenes discussing how much of a ruthless evil guy he is, or how is he driven by unstoppable hatred and insanity. You know the guy; you know EXACTLY what he is capable of as a villain; it all clicks together, and you realize it's you who's the butt of the joke now, and you're thousands of miles away from being in any position to stop him.