Working via metaphysical deduction, he picks apart the case by following mysterious voodoo omens, making Sherlockian leaps of logic and refusing to discount the impossible. To Deadly Premonition fans the older version will be something of a shock – he’s clearly dying and is an alarming shade of grey, that peppy demeanour replaced by low-key cynicism and drug-addled rambling about pus in his brain.īut ‘classic’ 2005 York is the exact same character that strolled the streets of Greenvale.
Jeff Kramer knocks it out of the park his twin performances as both York and Zach. The latter comprises the meat of the game with Francis York Morgan (I won’t get into the complicated and spoiler-y particulars of why one guy is two guys).
(Francis York Morgan)īest of all, we get two very different versions of him, as the game is split between a 2019 framing story with an elderly cancer-ridden Francis Zach Morgan and a 2005 murder investigation in Le Carré, Louisiana. Most of this is down to the story, writing and one of the greatest video game characters of all time, Francis York Morgan. Despite the (very) rough patches it puts a smile on my face and a song in my heart. There’s a painfully long sequence where you chase a Dalmatian with brutally unfair checkpointing, the game is full of ‘kill x amount of bees’ side missions and there are lengthy momentum-killing gunplay interludes in which you trudge through identical corridors shooting cut-and-paste zero-challenge monsters that for some reason yell “SNARF!” as they die. The game is not exactly a graphical powerhouse.Įven when it’s working as intended large swathes of the game outright suck. Even after a much-needed post-release patch the frame-rate is dire, the physics engine is all over the place and loading times are ‘put down the pad and browse the internet’ excessive. Its sequel never actually crashed on me, though it still felt like a game held together with sellotape and prayers.
I was a huge fan of Deadly Premonition, having played it via the PC port in which I ended up treating keeping the game running without crashing as an integral part of the gameplay experience. I’m prepared to put up with a lot when it comes to SWERY games, but Deadly Premonition 2 really tested me.
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