small town psycho-noir detective story with lots of atmosphere. the jank serves the narrative.

This is a godawful game. If you like this, I love you.

I'm convinced there's a Bethesda bug that accidentally launches the .exe file of this game instead of Starfield, hence all of the boiling hate. Either that, or when you double click on "Dragon Age: The Veilguard," this abomination pops up.

This is by far the worst game I've ever played, but it moved me tremendously and actually made me cry.

Zach, we should probably tell them to literally restart their computer to successfully beat the hospital level in Chapter 3, eh?

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Notes to my past-self:

* You will momentarily quit playing the game because of computer crashes. Eventually, you'll figure out that you need to save A LOT. Every chance you can. If a cutscene freezes, just restart your computer and you'll be able to continue. There are a lot of save points, so you won't ever lose much progress.

* The beginning will be really off-putting. Some kinda funny, juvenile things. But you will really start to like the game once it opens up. You get a cop car and get to drive around Greenvale, and you'll really love doing that.

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I feel bad for anyone who wants to play this but can't due to hardware/software issues. Luckily, my computer was able to run it, albeit with several hard crashes/freezes.

The game can be very gruesome and perverted and clunky, and so there's no way I would ever recommend it. But I'm compelled to someday make my own "Let's Play" series on this so more people can experience this game. I would honestly use this as an example of "video games as art". Only 6.1% of all players on Steam have reached the ending, and I'm SHOCKED the number is that high. But I'm really glad I contributed to that statistic.

You've already heard it, its time to hear it again. The NO recommendation isn't for the game, deadly premonition is AMAZING. The no is for this port.
This port is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ atrocious, probably one of the sloppiest most nonfunctional PC ports I've ever played. Constant crashing, weird bugs, and issues that are so confusing they have to be seen to be believed. No fault to the people who made this port, they tried to fix it.
The menus don't work, theres random crashes, and throughout my playthrough I had to deal with swapping between multiple different compatibility modes just to make it through certain damn portions of the game. Not in windows xp or lower? your item menu is unusable! Although if you swap to windows xp or lower... you can't aim up or down at all really! also no matter what you do, the darts minigame is messed up, anything that uses physics bugs the ♥♥♥♥ out. I still got that side quests and the weapon bag, take that game! Apparently swapping to windows 98 compatibility solves both of those issues, but I wouldn't know because trying to use that crashes the game without fail on windows 11. Does it work on windows 10? Who knows!
Other people have experienced save file corruptions on crashes, something I avoided. A few crashes in a few chapters were only avoidable by driving certain paths and using the cigarettes to change the time. It makes no sense.
Add that all on top of the port by default only runs at 720 with limited options, and I had to install a fanmade patch to make it not do that. Deadly premonition is a good game and I highly reccomend it, but try to find a way to play the xbox 360 version of directors cut, or buy the switch version. If you can stomach the issues, this port does go on sale for a literal dollar quite often though, so if you really want to put up with it for achievements and that sweet sweet deal, be my guest. theres a guide somebody made, and if youre on windows 10 you can probably have a better time than me since your windows 98 compatibility will work.

THIS VERSION NOT RECOMMENDED - The game is derpy and jank but brilliant hence the good review. The port is not and will need lots of additional work to get the game to run and not crash at certain points. Get it very cheap or elsewhere

so weird.

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