Deadly Premonition: The Director's Cut

port is beyond unplayable

1.4hours trying to set up a videogame from 2010 must be a sing of that i have to get my life in order

hardlocked because the game immediately crashes after loading my last save, great game tho

Famous for being one of the best examples of a "cult game", Deadly Premonition is one I was very ready and keen to hate because, let's sumarize: Visuals are trash. Sound design is broken. Presentation in general is lazy. Gameplay is awful. Mechanics are broken, but… I played it, I carried on and... even though I didnt finished I really respect what it tried to do and made me very interested in the story. So, what's happening here? Well, the setting, atmosphere and writing are so, so good, so top notch that they single handedly carry this ♥♥♥♥♥♥ game on their shoulders. Characters are amazing, script is great and York is a FANTASTIC protagonist, completely crazy but very likeable, love him! And the story, even though it's wacky, has a lot of heart and genuinly touching moments. The thing is... gameplay it's a damn slog, it's simply not fun enough, it's actually frustrating. I feel like if I carried on playing I would have started to hate the game itself, I know I was already starting to with that damn QTE double cam chase scene, jesus christ. But, like I said, the story is so fun I actually followed the rest of it on a playthrough on youtube. Man, it was really worth it! I'm a huge Lynch and Twin Peaks fan, but I was not really a fan of how closely it tries to mimic it. When it does, it almost always feels like the quirkyness and wierdness of it all is forced and not genuine. Game works better when it does its own thing. It works "well" on the Deck, but has a lots of bugs and crashes. A ♥♥♥♥♥♥ port for a "♥♥♥♥♥♥" game I guess. :D

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I am very tolerant of games with technical limitations, especially when those games are running on systems that did not exist at the time they were developed. I am willing to scour the internet for patches and forum posts. If it's a cult game from 10+ years ago that I am interested in reviving to work on my current computer this comes with the territory. I have a very good jank tolerance and I am proud of it, however, this game must be ruled unplayable in its current state. It is basically free, I paid very little for it but I am still mad. Even on a good day it runs very very poorly. Odd sounds, odd behavior in-game, crashes, freezes, it doesn't want to be played. It needs a serious overhaul or it needs to be put out of its misery. Furthermore, it seems to be getting worse with time. I lost my mind and tried to give it another go recently, It looks terrible, much worse than before, not sure why. It's basically a computer virus. Cannot recommend.

Mr. Steam Player A charming game it seems Full of glitches and memes One of the finest of the batch Did you hear that, Zach? So says Mr. Stewart