Deadly Premonition 2 was announced for Switch last September, and then promptly dropped off the radar. This week though, Rising Star Games and Toybox shared a release date, confirming the game’s launch for July 10.
This week on COG Considers, we tackle one of the most tired and unpleasant tropes in horror games: why games--and every other pop culture avenue--are so determined to paint people with Dissociative Identity Disorder as murderers.
Killer7 was mentioned, but only for one sentence because it's the central premise of the game. There wasn't really a need to go into detail.
Are they? You are fixed on Japanese games that are anime based/fashioned. Perhaps if you were not playing games that are similar to the animes that inspired them you would have more/different experiences.
When Cliche and Troupes are the building blocks, you can’t expect much. Just like you cannot expect good case study when the tester/observer has practically no variance in test subjects.
Sooooo many horror games out there... you really gotta explore some more.
I am aware! But games like Outlast or Remothered aren't really doing anything different, either--the most you could say is that Outlast hammers in that not all mental patients are dangerous. Just some of them. It really isn't just anime-inspired games that are doing this, even if you're counting Deadly Premonition among them. Bendy and the Ink Machine did it with Alice Angel, Krieg from the Borderlands games is this but played for laughs, and Dog/God from Fallout: New Vegas' Dead Money DLC is another example of both murder and weird, unrealistically rapid closure. This article was inspired after seeing one too many indie games on Steam with the premise 'discover the inner world of this tormented killer with DID.' Trust me when I say I'm exploring all kinds of horror games, and even outside those boundaries, because this is a really wide-reaching pattern.
That said, if you have any recs for more interesting/less stereotypical usage of characters with DID, hit me up.
This month’s EDGE review scores include Paper Mario: The Origami King, Deadly Premonition 2, and more.
Paper Mario: The Origami King – 8
Really Edge? I've seen you call better games out for the smallest things
Totally, Ghost of Tsushima got a 6/10, and with this I'm not saying GoT is a perfect game, but compared to THIS Paper Mario, it definitely doesn't deserve to have 2 points less.
Nintendo games unfortunately are judged on a different scale.
Literally...
It's a bad Paper Mario game where Nintendo hasn't learnt AGAIN
Sticker Star, Colour Splash, and this...
Yet "Ah it's okay here's an 8...you little cuties"
Or maybe, and this is just a wild thought, they actually liked the game? Just because you don’t like it doesn’t mean that everyone else shouldn’t or can’t like it, too.
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People don’t realise that a review is just somebody’s subjective opinion! They need their 9s and 10s to justify their purchase instead of just making their own minds up!
Or maybe it is actually a good game? Let not pretend like Paper Mario got only 50% or 60% on Metacritic.
Edge is one of the very few reviers that I trust, they don't give away high scores cause why not. They are strict with their grades and hence why I trust them.
Another patch for Deadly Premonition 2 went live today, and the game is now at version 1.0.3.
Have you seen the digital foundry video about the frame rate? The game running at 5fps lots of times, and most of the time at 15~20, damm, this is a 1/10.
If you think this is the worst game this gen then you must have played around 8 games this gen
Worst? Are you saying Fast and Furious Crossroad, The Quiet Man, and Life of Black Tiger are all better than this game?
They have not got the bad frame rate this one has, so yet, this is worst.
That frame rate makes the game unplayeble.
"They have not got the bad frame rate this one has, so yet, this is worst."
I see. Your criteria for bad game is framerate, not gameplay, story, or graphic. Alright.
Lmao, there are frame drops that are tolerable, like a game is 30fs, but drops to 25, if the game drops below 20 all the time that's very bad, if a game that goes 15 and below, holy shit that shoud have never been lanched for the console, that's crap not worth the plastic. This one its 5fps a couple of times.
Bad frame rate = bad gameplay in all it's manners, if you have frame drops you have input lag increase, the same happens with shuttering that cause more input lag.
Bad gameplay > broken gameplay (this game and many others).
Damn. How much I wish this was coming to PC or PS4 lol
Wish the would give part one a switch port
Super excited for this one.
Can't believe they made this game I wondered if it would ever happen lol good coffee Zack
I need a sequel to shadows of the damned the world needs more of Garcias boner lol
I just bought the first one again on my switch. I had it on ps3 before. Im a little nervous for the sequel. You never know what you're going to get with Swery. It probably wont be that great of game like the first, but I hope it has the same charm as the first. As excited as i am for this, Im gonna wait for some reviews on this one.