SWERY FILES #1 - The History of Deadly Premonition & Its God Awful Ports kzfaq.info/get/bejne/a893d6SBnd28Z3U.html SWERY FILES # 2 - Deadly Premonition 2: Feature Analysis and Comparison to the Original: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/e7CEoayD1sqzmn0.html SWERY FILES # 3 - The Devastating Drama of D4: Dark Dreams Don't Die kzfaq.info/get/bejne/r7tod6Zmzb-VmZs.html
@denzelromero47963 жыл бұрын
I’d love to be in a alternate universe where D4 was just a consistent on going series like Swery wanted .
@HikikomoriMedia3 жыл бұрын
^
@typorter81053 жыл бұрын
Me too
@spaceowl59573 жыл бұрын
The style and atmosphere were AMAZING and the mystery was incredibly promising especially knowing how interesting and thought-through the mysteries are in other swery games
@futtbuckerson4832 жыл бұрын
Danzel... do you think the past.... can be changed...?
@Acesahn Жыл бұрын
He didn't want it that badly, he refuses to even entertain finishing it.
@TechnoSyndro3 жыл бұрын
It's kind of ironic that a video detailing the cancelation and likely ideas for season two of D4 is what finally gave me a sense of closure for this game. You knocked it out of the park with this one, I learned a ton.
@jacksonjacob77912 жыл бұрын
I wasn't sure anyone else cared I'm glad there are.
@yrin8653 жыл бұрын
David: I gonna find D and Change The past Teddy: You can't change the past , We have no Budget for continuing with our investigation David: FUCK This is canon now , we just had to admit it
@HikikomoriMedia3 жыл бұрын
I want to be fired out of a cannon into another dimension
@denzelromero47963 жыл бұрын
This was a extremely cathartic video , D4 is one of those games that hit every beloved fictional storytelling techniques that I see in all of my favorite works of art . This definitely made the “D4 season 2 may never come out “ pill easier to swallow even when we saw something like Deadly Premonition 2 exist .
@HikikomoriMedia3 жыл бұрын
That's why I made this one. I needed the closure and figured there were others looking for it too!
@jacksonjacob77913 жыл бұрын
I dont understand why they don't put this on game pass. It would help it reach a wider audience. It's such a tragedy that more people didn't play this gem.
@denzelromero47963 жыл бұрын
@@jacksonjacob7791 It’s a depressing thought to put a unfinished game onto the game pass . I think all the DLC should be free at the minimum first
@jacksonjacob77913 жыл бұрын
@@denzelromero4796 it's been proven that game pass will get more eyes on a game than it would have otherwise. If more people play this they can experience how good it is and demand for another game will pick up. Doesn't seem like Microsoft has any desire to do anything with this IP unfortunately. I wish it had ended up on Playstation instead. Then maybe we could have had a continuation.
@denzelromero47963 жыл бұрын
@@jacksonjacob7791 The creator himself expressed that he doesn’t want to continue it . It wouldn’t be the same if he wasn’t involved . PlayStation closed off its Japan studio division so they probably don’t care too much about picking something like D4 . D4 is one of those games that will get a eventual resurgence in the years to come so I’ll just wait till that happens .
@Rihcterwilker3 жыл бұрын
I forgot this game existed, please, let this wound stay closed. This game is, in my opinion, swery's true magnum opus, that never really had the chance of achieving it's full potential. Everything about this game oozes with style and charm, and i hate that it will never be finished.
@HikikomoriMedia3 жыл бұрын
If a wider net was cast for D4, it could have tapped into the Telltale/Life Is Strange audience. The market existed, but the awareness of product couldn't catch up.
@cloudtx3 жыл бұрын
That beginning quote is so damn powerful. As someone who has coped with depression after personal failures, I can't imagine living through those in Japan. Swery sounds like a really cool guy for going against those negative traditions. Great stuff Hikiko!
@HikikomoriMedia3 жыл бұрын
He's navigated some rough waters to produce his dreams and carve out a niche.
@TheSentryIsDown3 жыл бұрын
After playing through this again recently, I really do miss all of the characters in the game. Each one is filled with so much charm and character that's hard to find. Here's to hoping that some day we get a new episode and maybe some closure on the series.
@jacksonjacob77912 жыл бұрын
I am replaying it again as well. Looking to also get all the achievements unlocked. That's about all I can do with this gem.
@Gaming_Legend2 Жыл бұрын
its crazy to see that this first 3 chapters had so much packed into it that there is this much of the mistery that can be unveiled when you start looking closer into it, I never even noticed it
@HikikomoriMedia Жыл бұрын
I think about D4 still to this day. That OST sticks with you
@GamingKick3 жыл бұрын
I played D4 with gamepass. And was blown away. Interesting to learn more about its troubled development
@jacksonjacob77913 жыл бұрын
I played D4 a couple years ago and wasnt expecting much but I really loved the game. I know I'm pretty late to watching this video. But hopefully someone reads this. D4 is really near and dear to my heart. It's incredibly sad that we don't get to see an end to this story. 😥
@Acesahn Жыл бұрын
This was the most attractive, functional and polished Swery65 game ever made and its just as insane and quirky as Deadly Premonition... and it ends on a sequel bate and Swery himself said he'll never work on it again. GD it...
@HikikomoriMedia Жыл бұрын
It was the closest he came to making a title with mass appeal. zero marketing and bad timing killed it
@JustinDoesntLookAt3 жыл бұрын
Watched it twice now, legit this one of the best vidya game retrospective videos I've ever seen. Legit impressive man
@attackofthecopyrightbots2 жыл бұрын
if i could live in the universe where d4 was completed instead of deadly prem 2 coming out i would
@ericleiva34303 жыл бұрын
the all around effort put on this whole video is such a gift Hikiko GG
@HikikomoriMedia3 жыл бұрын
Thanks Eric! It was a rough edit for sure
@RiderWithTheScarf8 ай бұрын
PS two years later : I never noticed it before but in the flashback with Amanda, Lil' Peggy appears to be pregnant. Amanda being a cat is evident from various ways, the most obvious being the QTE freeze frame of Amanda with a rat in her mouth, trying to scratch David, her eyes are flashing yellow like Jackson's in the Thriller MV but it's also how cat's eyes "flash" against sunlight or other light sources when obscured in shadow. But that's not allm beyond her heterochromia as a cat, Amanda looks like a mix of Peggy and David, as if David projects the visage of what he imagines his unborn child would be like.
@HikikomoriMedia7 ай бұрын
The unborn child is left as one of those unknowns. She's clearly pregnant, but the baby/pregnancy is not listed in the autopsy. There's some coping on David's behalf, either projecting his unborn daughter onto his cat or blocking out something more terrible. Part of me wonders if something went wrong due to real blood exposure. I wouldn't put a crack baby demon past Swery.
@12ealDealOfficial3 жыл бұрын
Your best video yet. Bittersweet ending that's made me genuinely regret this series has ended prematurely.
@WaveyDavey645 Жыл бұрын
1:00:13 Did anybody work out what Swery was saying here? It sounds like 'アクセスゲーム割に違う答えしたくない答え' which could mean something like 'I don't want to give the wrong answer with Access Games in mind' but I'm not confident in my translation of the second half of that sentence. He definitely says Access Games at the start though. What interview/livestream is this from and do they mention Access Games anywhere else in the video? EDIT: Found video, it's "The Good Life Last 2 hours Celebrate With SWERY" on the White Owls official channel. Access Games are mentioned earlier on in the context of a Spy Fiction question and D4 is brought up a couple times. When asked if he could make a sequel to any of the games he has made, D4 is his first answer (as well as a third The Last Blade game). Overall it really seems like Access Games is the major obstacle, and (in 2018 at least) he hadn't lost interest in D4.
@HikikomoriMedia Жыл бұрын
I've been waiting for so long for someone to crack this. thanks
@TheZbobcat10 ай бұрын
It's crazy because the opening theme of the episodes also straight up has the phrase "Don't look for D" flash before the title drop. Right in front of our eyes Swery you mad man
@bosscomplex6 ай бұрын
played this game a 7 years ago, the first year of gamepass. it was on there, i had redeemed the $1 for a month deal for GP. really liked this game, its really strange but in a good way. its like a telltale game with a really unique flair to it. i still randomly remember this game just because of how random it is, it pretty memorable to say the least.
@420HBKHHHDX83 жыл бұрын
Swery is a mad man. He put two German game journalists into the game as gangster/junkies because they made Deadly Premonition mainstream (kind of). They did a playthrough that was legendary and is now partially lost because of an show/company buyout. The whole thing happened like 2011. I found them random in the game and literally screamed. Swery is amazing.
@HikikomoriMedia3 жыл бұрын
Were they the "Real Blood" victims?
@420HBKHHHDX83 жыл бұрын
@@HikikomoriMedia Yes. The only two with the real photos. Their names are Wolf and Chris. And their playthrough was called "Knallhart durchgenommen Deadly Premonition". If you put that in the YT search you can see their faces. The videos had a facecam.
@DmitryChmelyov3 жыл бұрын
I love me some Squirty 65!
@GodSejeong3 ай бұрын
You know the feel when you started following a series, be it a movie/comic book/game, and it doesn't have an ending due to cancellation and the thing stuck with your mind for years like an unresolved guilt? Your analysis, the shout out from DP2 and Suehiro's statement on David and Olivia's future have brought an end to such feeling of mine that I have for D4.
@kevinh40423 жыл бұрын
This is exceptionally high quality content
@PseudoWounds7 ай бұрын
This video is a lot like D4 itself: a fantastic hidden gem. Congratulations, dude, like many others said before, you managed to bring closure to fans of an abandoned piece of media. Your research here was spectacular and it really shows how much you like D4. You certainly care more for it than anyone involved in it's production did, including our boy Swery himself.
@otrebla1710913 жыл бұрын
wow man, now that was a christmas gift for all D4 fans, thank you Hikiko.
@HikikomoriMedia3 жыл бұрын
ho ho ho!
@abuelaconresaca477311 ай бұрын
GREAT video. I'm not an English speaker so when the characters are talking I must pay special attention.I was very surprised by that very subtle "DON'T", since it changed everything
@prutikLive3 жыл бұрын
I bought a xbox one for Rare Replay and D4 back then.
@kanewilliams16532 жыл бұрын
You are an absolute madman, what a great video, thanks for taking the time to make it
@Nero14443 жыл бұрын
I stumbled upon the vid while looking for Roland's "Time is of the essence" clip. Man I appreciate you so much. This game's story is among my all time favorites and I love that you put the effort to put all this together for such an amazing piece of content. Watched it 2 times in the span of 24 hours already. Cheers!
@raintheory33902 жыл бұрын
Some strong links to the movie "Jacob's Ladder" as well...
@GentlemanNWAH3 жыл бұрын
honestly this video was great, you made sense of little evidence you had and it made sense. thank you for giving a feeling of closure to a fan who's still hung up on this game
@psylentknight Жыл бұрын
This was a fantastic review of the game. I've only ever heard of it in pieces, but this review really had me engaged in all that it could have been if Swery felt better about going back to it. Great video overall!!
@miguelangelucsanchez1833 жыл бұрын
I've been waiting for this!!!
@WildPotatoIndustries3 жыл бұрын
Finally finished this one and man, what a video! You aught to be real proud of this one! I think what makes D4 more depressing than most cancelations is that we actually did get a fairly big chunk of the story, but had it cut short due to a few unfortunate circumstances. Still, I'm glad Swery has been getting a lot of work recently, and this game wasn't the death nail in his career. While Deadly Premonition 2 might not have been super stellar, his work on The Missing and what I've seen of "The Good Life" (Its one of the three games I have actually backed on Kickstarter) gives me hope that there still a place for insane game auetors out there.
@SianaGearz3 жыл бұрын
Well there were plenty of reasons why DP2 would never happen, since Access held that property. And now they don't anymore and it did happen. Maybe there are people who can facilitate the transaction. Money may be a big problem, but then D4 seems much more focused in scope than DP games so it shouldn't be extremely expensive. I personally don't particularly care about spoilers, and i think SWERY has it in him to surprise anyone regardless of anything that you've seen, heard or thought. But also my spoiler memory lasts approximately 10 minutes. And when it comes back to me, it seems to me like it was my own thoughts all along. Makes me feel smarter than i really am. And also it's about the journey more so than the destination. I only played D2 on PC with an Xbox360 gamepad, and i though the QTE sequences were the most fun and best designed i have ever seen. They just have that particular FLOW to them. And it was shaping up into something really interesting, and then it just died with no immediate hope of being finished. I would never blame SWERY, it's a victim of circumstances - he was doing an excellent job as a writer/director. Ultimately i'm just as much excited to see something new from him rather than resurrecting an old unfinished business. One other game that came out half-finished and i would like to see finished would be Anachronox. There's a story of its failure too, and the key word there is Daikatana. The current owners of the property are Square Enix Global, via acquisition of EIDOS, and they don't want to part with it, but they don't want to produce anything either. I'd say a giant faceless corporate entity to which it occurs that selling off a dead property and having someone ELSE potentially make money with it would be a loss, while letting it rot at least doesn't seem lose them money on paper, is much more of an obstacle than a bunch of people who have personal gripes with each other. Hey Hikiko, have you played Shadow of Memories (aka Shadow of Destiny in US/Canada)? Might be your thing. Came to me while thinking of The Good Life, for no reason whatsoever, no similarity.
@Nov-50623 жыл бұрын
Technically, Swery claimed that the publisher Rising Star held 100% of Deadly Premonition's rights. So he'd rather work hard for digging the rights out of them rather than D4's rights from AG, which treated him like trash.
@SianaGearz3 жыл бұрын
@@Nov-5062 I see.
@HikikomoriMedia3 жыл бұрын
@@Nov-5062 ^ this is pretty much the comment I was going to leave. AG developed D4 with IP ownership in mind, since they had only been contractors for other companies. SWERY gave a presentation about it on AG's channel.
@darklsn3 жыл бұрын
Excellent Sleuthing Hikiko! This video is incredible; Fantastic work!
@Nov-50623 жыл бұрын
After finally having the time to watch this entire great video, I think you've missed one little thing: Deborah talked about Dr. Johnson all the time. Doctor Johnson is probably Doctor Usha Johnson, Greenvale's hospital manager and senior surgeon from Deadly premonition. Again, what a fantastic video. Enjoyed every moment of it.
@HikikomoriMedia3 жыл бұрын
I noticed it, but Swery had stated in interviews (at the time of release) that D4 and Deadly Premonition were not related and the references were just nods. DP 2 retrofitted the plot to involve D4 after the fact. Swery also tends to repurpose names in his games (i.e. Forrest Kaysen) as a motif sort of deal.
@ScottishDuck174 ай бұрын
I started D4 a couple of days ago and got to the end of Episode one (it's been on my bucket list for yeras). Despite being a fan of SWERY, I somehow missed that the game was never actually finished! It really put a damper on my playthrough as I was really getting into. But thus video has filled that void a bit, great work 👍
@danielscott70x73 жыл бұрын
I love when you do these types of retrospective-history of videos on lesser known games. The length of the video is 👌🏼. It’s informing and downright enjoyable to listen to.
@HikikomoriMedia3 жыл бұрын
Glad I could be of service
@_xolga2 жыл бұрын
thank u for being one of the few people to care about this game after 2016💚
@bobross93333 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the christmas gift Hikiko.
@wildonionchase39343 жыл бұрын
You’re telling me (spoilers) David Young raised his own wife via time travel nonsense?!
@HikikomoriMedia3 жыл бұрын
Yes
@benjulc92713 жыл бұрын
@@HikikomoriMedia ¿But who rescued Little Peggi en the OG timeline?
@raintheory33902 жыл бұрын
Oldman does the same thing with his fingers and his eyes sitting on the edge of the bathtub, that was the clue that first got me thinking they were the same person.
@Illuception Жыл бұрын
Thank you for this excellently done vid. I ended up here because I just now finished the game for the first time. I went to look into what happened and why there wasn’t another season. Such a shame, I was really into this games story and unique features. The worst part is it ends just when it starts to get crazy.
@usernamehandle3 жыл бұрын
Dude, I’m always so impressed by your dedication to recreating the aesthetics of these games in your transitions and title cards. Always wondering if you pulled animations from game footage or created them yourself. So impressive. Speaks to the dedication of your craft, and even though I’ve never played a Sweary game, your passion for them always reaches me. Awesome video!
@HikikomoriMedia3 жыл бұрын
For this one, I did it all from scratch. I wanted to honor the memory of D4.
@Nov-50623 жыл бұрын
What a great christmas present (even though I'm Jewish)! D4 is one of my favorite games, and learning more about it is always fun. Thank you!
@HikikomoriMedia3 жыл бұрын
Happy Hanukkah!
@misterc.livestreams57793 жыл бұрын
Knocked it out of the park as usual Hikiko. D4 deserved better treatment man, makes me sad. Also, your D4 shirt is sick
@FICTiVETRUiSM3 жыл бұрын
Fantastic video! You put a lot of work into it and it shows. Deepest dive I've seen of this game. D4 had potential, it's a shame we never got more episodes.
@HikikomoriMedia3 жыл бұрын
I have inadvertently cornered the D4: Deep Dive market and look at me now. Still obscure as heck
@krunkle51362 жыл бұрын
I started listening to this in the background at work, but then realized from the intro music that this is something to both see and hear.
@toolazytomakeaname77932 жыл бұрын
thank you THANK YOU for making this video, when i first played the game on my xbox one it felt sad when there was no season 2, and i searched on KZfaq if people were gonna talk about D4's season 2 and found nothing, years past and i see this channel, YOU talking about the game that had potential and of what happened to almost everything, i also thought this game was gonna be a massive hit if the story kept going but didn't knew why they stopped developing it, until now, so yeah thank you for this amazing video it was a blast!.
@ellya37753 жыл бұрын
Great video man, this game is literally trying to make you move on from it just like in the story. FUKKIN SWEEERYYYY
@HikikomoriMedia3 жыл бұрын
I'll never stop #looking4d
@dinna76803 жыл бұрын
Another great game from Swerty. Thanks for the perspective, DSP!
@angel.v393 жыл бұрын
Note: David hates drugs and chewing gum. He's seen blowing a bubble as he says that. Possible he's taken the stuff as well considering he was an undercover narc.
@angel.v393 жыл бұрын
Note: Roland tells David that Amanda's well-being is reflection of David's own well-being.
@angel.v393 жыл бұрын
Note: there are images of season two show a tied-up Olivia in an unknown location looking at someone out of shot, wielding a hockey stick. There are also images of a new antagonist that I can't find anymore but I remember seeing them.
@angel.v393 жыл бұрын
Note: Amanda also has the same heterochromia as David.
@angel.v393 жыл бұрын
Note: Amanda can also follow David back in time:
@JordanStar78 ай бұрын
Making my way through your Swery files series. You are such a great content creator I genuinely appreciate your time and efforts. I’ve learned so much already
@Lainbowie2 жыл бұрын
I don't know how I missed this video but holy shit am I glad I watched it. I love how you went through the textures to confirm the bullet wound on Oldmann's head. That's something I've wanted to do myself for ages but I had no idea how. Amazing work.
@HikikomoriMedia2 жыл бұрын
thank you lain. Some dark dreams never die
@takitamkana94033 жыл бұрын
Great video, I'll never let go as well. Wish all the best for you and D4
@doctorace43083 жыл бұрын
Little Peggy: My two great dads Me: Aw she has two gay dads The Game: No, her biological dad died and then her husband time traveled back in time to when her real dad died and then raised her.
@HikikomoriMedia3 жыл бұрын
SOMEONE SPOILER TAG THIS
@Lusacrisis Жыл бұрын
The ending absolutely killed me, amazing video o7
@BlackWolf207 Жыл бұрын
I got this game when I first got my Xbox one and Kinect, and I somehow found out about it and got it. This game is actually so fascinating and weird but I absolutely loved it. SOOOO disappointed when it was canceled and realized we will never get an ending. Years later and I’m still disappointed.
@HYDEinallcaps Жыл бұрын
"I've got the good stuff for you this time!" - Hikiko when uploading this, probably
@Zelmarked3 жыл бұрын
Yellow $ appears on your video. "This wasn't the D I was looking for."
@BoyGameBeats3 жыл бұрын
A new swery files for Christmas thanks!!
@paull4858 Жыл бұрын
TotallyPointlessTv's new video on Deadly Premonition lead me down this road to discovering Swery and I found your channel. I already love Suda51 and am champing at the bit to learn more about Swery so your channel will seems to be right up my alley.
@HikikomoriMedia Жыл бұрын
Welcome!
@chaoranchen3 жыл бұрын
Wow thanks so much for this! Great work, research and presentation!!
@nickgreene9456 Жыл бұрын
I'd love to see Swery do another game like D4, doesn't even have to be connected or continue the story just something similar. I really loved what he did w D4
@HikikomoriMedia Жыл бұрын
Check out The Missing if you haven't. It's short on the gameplay, but story heavy. It's the last great game he's made.
@wormrose40943 жыл бұрын
Excellent video. In my view, a perfect game and Swery's best.
@wormrose40943 жыл бұрын
It feels good with keyboard and mouse too.
@HikikomoriMedia3 жыл бұрын
@@wormrose4094 PC version is an EXCELLENT port.
@senecadideverythingwrong2 жыл бұрын
How is this at only 12k views? Great video, great take on the events of season two, my first exposure to Peggy's episode 2 line too (it really did shock me). I will link this to anyone who bothers to read my messages, whether they know of the game or not
@spaceowl59573 жыл бұрын
Thanks so much for making this, fantastic video!
@HikikomoriMedia3 жыл бұрын
thanks Space. It's my personal favorite "dead franchise." I think about what could have been a lot.
@SebbyZero3 жыл бұрын
I noticed David has cat scratch marks in the peggy death scene!!
@vikinggamer77272 жыл бұрын
Okay, i might know another small hint as to what season 2 could have added. That being a Memento, Antonios eye. This does make sense, otherwise why would they show the eye rolling and touching Davids hand? Antonio wasn't able to "vanish" or "move" anywhere because he was beat up too the point of passing out and its even said that the eyes was evidence (i think). Also it was also shown that there would have been a new character if season 2 existed, you probably know him, Douglas Lysander, a person working for the DEA.
@absymarsi28922 жыл бұрын
Coming back to the video after playing the game , love your.game analysis
@HikikomoriMedia2 жыл бұрын
hope it helped understand S2
@Kapendev3 жыл бұрын
I love Swerty
@HikikomoriMedia3 жыл бұрын
Swerty51 FILES
@JimyCalzone3 жыл бұрын
Fantastic episode. Thanks.
@BioPhoenixReviews3 жыл бұрын
hey i hope you have a great holiday. i never knew the stuff with this game was so deep i just thought it was a simple "game did not sell well so he could not continue making the rest of them" so this was a very flavorful video to watch. also it felt strangely nostalgic when talking about the launch of the xbox one crazy to think it was that long ago now
@HikikomoriMedia3 жыл бұрын
Thanks Bio! I zonked out for a couple of days after I released this, but a good holiday nonetheless
@BioPhoenixReviews3 жыл бұрын
@@HikikomoriMedia great to hear
@hazardrider83173 жыл бұрын
Time to make enough money to buy D4's rights then sell it to SWERY for a dollar, it's my new goal in life
@HikikomoriMedia3 жыл бұрын
same
@malwre_android16173 жыл бұрын
This is super well done
@JustinDoesntLookAt3 жыл бұрын
Hypeeee
@jai2493 жыл бұрын
hey happy christmas hikikoko
@HikikomoriMedia3 жыл бұрын
HAPPIEST THE JAI
@Gyakutan3 жыл бұрын
Cheers to Hikiko for the great vid and Swery, the only famous person who follows me on Twitter. I really hope the dp2 experience didn’t sour his love for making games and we get more from this guy. D4 continued with knockoff characters with different names plz
@HikikomoriMedia3 жыл бұрын
To be ContinueD (in the Good Life)
@typorter81053 жыл бұрын
If I had David young's time traveling powers I would back in time to try and prevent this game's cancellation
@Saninsince9923 жыл бұрын
The difficult life choices between watching the new Hiki video or waiting to play D4 first. Why must you do this god?
@GenesHand3 жыл бұрын
D4 is short, play it and come back in a week.
@HikikomoriMedia3 жыл бұрын
5 hours if your rush. 20ish if you go for them cheevos
@Saninsince9923 жыл бұрын
@@HikikomoriMedia The problem is the game actually ever going on a good sale on Steam. The base game gets to abour 15$, but the complete collection with all DLC is always at 30$ or so even on sale.
@HikikomoriMedia3 жыл бұрын
I will keep my eye out. I believe I got my key for 7.50 for the complete version on a sale. It was in a humble bundle once too.
@Saninsince9923 жыл бұрын
@@HikikomoriMedia Good stuff. Hope I get that lucky. Will pay more attention to it from now.
@TheBeird3 жыл бұрын
Though I liked Deadly Premonition 2, I’d have much preferred D4 to have been his true follow-up. For his sake if anything. But if we can get Shenmue 3, and a new Half-Life after so many years, then who knows? Weirder shit has happened
@HikikomoriMedia3 жыл бұрын
I think the window of opportunity has closed on this one, my friend. Hope I'm wrong
@BIDLEVICH3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for this beautiful video!
@cantbejawsome7 ай бұрын
I WANT D4 BACK
@_xkikix_4 ай бұрын
this is lovely, but I'd like to propose something: he DID change the past already. it's proven by there being several versions of him. there was a version of peggy that died in that lake, and one that was saved by david travelling back in time. one version of him stayed and raised her like his own, but another version of him, one that does not know this chain of events, meets adult peggy and falls in love with her. a bit convoluted, but with a film geek like swery, and oldboy-esque twist seems just in the realm of possibilities. i had also just assumed from the start that "D" was none other than David himself. just... an alternate version of him that knew the truth. so maybe peggy found out and shot him in order to save him from the pain of realizing.
@fayezfawzi32552 жыл бұрын
this is a great video! Thanks for the effort and the information :)
@PaidLead3333 Жыл бұрын
This could've been a hit I just came back to this video this game has a place in my heart no matter what swery suda games and Kenji eno they got a place in my heart and nobody can tell me shit about oh this is weird oh killer7 doesn't make sense who wants to play on rails I don't care they got a place in my heart and all of it deserved better!
@HikikomoriMedia Жыл бұрын
I think people are starting to come around to niche/artsy games, since the medium has grown significantly over the past decade. Awareness is the largest issue these beautiful games are up against.
@PaidLead3333 Жыл бұрын
@@HikikomoriMedia that's good news
@vikinggamer77272 жыл бұрын
I just realised that this only has 10k views, we need more poeple watching this
@HikikomoriMedia2 жыл бұрын
Share it
@vikinggamer77272 жыл бұрын
@@HikikomoriMedia yessir!
@Saiyef962 жыл бұрын
Surprised you didn’t talk about that Little Peggy was pregnant before her death. She talks about her pregnancy in her letters, like the one in 1:09:03, and you can see Peggy’s baby bump in multiple flashbacks throughout the game, including her death and the flashback with Amanda in 1:02:50. This was a big shock for me as I never even noticed Peggy’s baby bump throughout the game and brings up the question of why David himself doesn’t seem to bring up his unborn child. Perhaps David possibly forgot his unborn child’s existence due to his amnesia and/or your own theory that David had Little Peggy take Real Blood possibly causing the child’s death in utero before Peggy’s own death (also tying into your theory that Peggy was the one who shot David in the head, doing so out of anger that David caused their child’s death) and David made himself forget about Peggy’s pregnancy due to the trauma and guilt. Or, a darker take, the reason David doesn’t bring up Little Peggy’s pregnancy was that he didn’t care about his unborn child’s death.
@vabvaab3 жыл бұрын
every time I hear SWERTY it's dealing me psychic damage oh my god
@KillerDarkrai240693 жыл бұрын
This was a good video. I did enjoy this a lot.
@hemangchauhan28643 жыл бұрын
I'm glad this video is doing well. D4 is a very interesting story that every Japanese media liker should watch.
@HikikomoriMedia3 жыл бұрын
Thank you for sharing it on r/gaming. I SEE YOU APPLE!
@rastxia3 жыл бұрын
Sucks how we will never get a season two of D4 and The wolf among us.
@BlackWolf207 Жыл бұрын
Well, one of those are happening now…
@RiderWithTheScarf3 жыл бұрын
I never noticed it before but the Hulked out dude looks a bit like DIO. As per usual, great analysis Hikiko. SWERY might not be my cup of tea, compared to the other games you cover in the channel but the SWERY files so far have been a blast. As for Olivia, she's eerily like Maria from SH2, she even has Peggy's three moles under her left eye. And her personality seems less demure and more assertive, more energetic. PS two years later : I never noticed it before but in the flashback with Amanda, Lil' Peggy appears to be pregnant. Amanda being a cat is evident from various ways, the most obvious being the QTE freeze frame of Amanda with a rat in her mouth, trying to scratch David, her eyes are flashing yellow like Jackson's in the Thriller MV but it's also how cat's eyes "flash" against sunlight or other light sources when obscured in shadow. But that's not allm beyond her heterochromia as a cat, Amanda looks like a mix of Peggy and David, as if David projects the visage of what he imagines his unborn child would be like.
@YungFalcon22463 жыл бұрын
LMAO the dsp reference had me rolling! excellent content my man! we def should colab sometime
@PaidLead33332 жыл бұрын
I like going back to this video to remember how much potential this game had
@HikikomoriMedia2 жыл бұрын
You and me both
@spaceowl59573 жыл бұрын
Maybe August Oldman killed the Peggy from David’s timeline to save the Peggy from his own timeline
@flotobro3 жыл бұрын
Wow, just started watching this channel because of the CBOMB stuff but I really love your Swery Files videos! I've only played Deadly Premonition 1 and 2, but I want more Swery weirdness, and this game looks really interesting. Would you say this is still worth playing on sale, even if I know the story isn't going anywhere? Can't wait for more!
@HikikomoriMedia3 жыл бұрын
yes it is worth it, but you may get heartbroken by its unfinished nature.
@jazzcappy Жыл бұрын
I think if we get enough engagement out there about D4 we can bring it back. that's a big if though. I discovered this series through memes of it on tiktok. If we can push engagement and sales maybe even do a petition we could see a breakthrough in SWERY being allowed to finish it. Hell just getting a big name streamer to play through it could be enough to bring it back if it sparks enough petitions to bring it back. This is all a very big if though and would require a ton of work from the community :/
@HikikomoriMedia Жыл бұрын
This has memes on tiktok?
@Nov-5062 Жыл бұрын
@@HikikomoriMedia Amanda's friendship dance have the potential to be a viral tiktok trend