Special thanks again to Gwynnebell - twitch.tv/gwynnebell Pretentious Hipster - kzfaq.info And Yusef - kzfaq.info/love/Bwx7HP7aR3lpKCf9DiPgyQ I really appreciate the help and I really hope you enjoyed the video!

Honestly your reviews are always pleasant. Keep up the great work. I'm wondering do you know that the game has a sequel? Have you thought about checking it out?

New to the channel, but already am enjoying the voice over work. Might not get through the whole video right now, but so far from what I'm seeing/hearing is really good. Awesome stuff!

I don't think DP's 9s or 2s are solely based on how important the narrative is to you. Yes the narrative is awesome, but some of its gameplay "shortcomings" are sometimes misconstrued as that, when in fact they help altogether to craft, mechanically a whole 'nother genre rather than the survival horror part. The survival horror part is fine. It's serviceable. The Xbox 360 version had a more interesting take with Resident Evil 4 type tank controls and over the shoulder camera. Oh yeah, and difficulty settings actually, that made the easy combat more challenging, and that's good since like I said, it's actually serviceable. Making a game tougher highlights the strengths and weaknesses of the ruleset and implementation, since you're required to learn them to beat it. This isn't the case with DP as its still easy, but you can actually point to the big shortcomings and they aren't such a bother when you take into account your whole arsenal and that includes weapons with infinite ammo and some other cool stuff you get for doing the side quests. The sidequests which connect neatly and foreshadow main story events. In that version you actually have an incentive from the gameplay standpoint to go and do them. And that leads me to what I personally think is DP's strongpoint and its original genre. It's a survival horror on the face of it. But it's actually in the same vein that Yakuza is a brawler or beat em up at face value, but when you look at the whole picture is actually more like a Yakuza Simulator. You get to enjoy beating up people AND running business fronts with their own gameplay. Deadly Premonition is like that. It's for me a supernatural detective simulator basically. You're Agent Cooper but somehow even quirkier. Not as loveable maybe, but for sure an amazingly charming character that's well written within the context of the story. You get to experience that supernatural part through the survival horror and some story elements, but the detective simulator is the rest of the game. And you're basically in Twin Peaks. So that means the town's all spread out in the mountains and you have to drive everywhere. And you even unlock fast pretty early if you know what you're doing so not even that. But the long driving for me is awesome. It allowed me to take in the view (not great, but it's got good art direction. definitely the reflections got the long stick since they're actually pretty detailed for even today, rendering the whole scene twice, and stuff like texture work definitely got the short end) it allowed me to meet and get to know York and Emily and George better, it made me learn the layout of the map, which is also thanks to one of its "shortcomings" the limited map you get. Which my only two problems with is that you can't zoom far enough, and that it rotates with York. DP2's map is WAY better in that regard. But having no compass, no custom markers, no nothing, made me actually had to think about it like a real world map. I was saying to myself. Well, I need to go to the Sheriff's station, so I need to take the 2nd exit to the left along... Idk Muffer Road. The one next to the lake. Or I once had to go to Becky's house for a sidequest and I was like well where does Becky live? I used the function to shift between locations, and found it was at the end of the road that circles the lake, and right on the bifurcation. I ended up making my way there eventually, but I learned the layout whilst doing this simple task. Like I learned where Sigourney's house is from going there 5 times lol. That and the fact that NPCs have their own routines, and that you can trigger certain quests on certain time of day, made for a puzzle worthy of a detective. I had to track them, to follow them in their cars, to wait outside their houses having a smoke, to do specific actions on rainy nights, to talk to their relatives, to figure out their connection to other citizens, to help them with their stuff, and then I get actually worthy rewards! And the characters are actually fun to get to know too. It's the narrative yes, but tied to the gameplay, tied to the narrative, tied to the gameplay rewards, tied to the narrative again. It works so well I'm in awe that this game can flop basic game design principles but ABSOLUTELY NAIL others so well. Where it fails in its quality as a traditional game, it triumphs SO HARD in its immersive qualities as a supernatural detective simulator. And I loved every second of it because of that.

love the effort put into this. keep it up!

Anytime, Bro. This is a well done analysis. I dont play these games and i always wanted to know what the hell this game is about.

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Deadly Premonition is a masterpiece.

this was clearly a labor of love; awesome work! subbed for more of this