Deadly Premonition 2: A Blessing in Disguise
Many of the successful video games that have a second part are games
that have achieved commercial or at least critical success to have
a loyal group of audiences willing to support the second part,
but there are some rare cases, these cases are games that enjoy
uneven media and commercial reception, but the players who
tried them liked In one of its aspects, which made it obtain
a small but very loyal group of players, and our game today
is one of the examples, which is Deadly Premonition 2: A Blessing in Disguise,
the sequel to the horror game Deadly Premonition released in 2010,
which enjoyed that loyal fan base despite its many flaws.
Deadly Premonition 2: A Blessing in Disguise
The game was released in 2020 on Nintendo Switch It recently arrived
on PC and we had the opportunity to try it out and provide this review.
So, did you learn the second part of the first’s mistakes?
The events take place in 2019, ten years after the events of the first part,
in which you are investigating the Federal Investigator Francis Zach Morgan
in the events of the case from the first part and his subsequent case,
which took place in the fictional town of “Lo Caria” in Louisiana,
and here the events begin to move between the future And the past,
that is, between the investigation session with Morgan’s work and living
the events of the Lou Carria case.
As we know, the game comes to us from the Japanese director
Hidetaka Suehiro known as SWERY65, who loves to tell stories in
a way full of exaggerations and strange characters, as in the first part
of Deadly Premonition and his other game D4, and the same applies
to Deadly Premonition 2, but compared to the first part, this part
is less coherent in terms of The events and you will find the story full
of loopholes and jumps that fail to explain many details. The cast of
characters in the game is very limited compared to the first part,
and many of the characters do not have a large share of dialogues,
most of which are limited to dialogues between Agent Morgan and
his alternate character and his clever little helper. Patricia.
Deadly Premonition 2 is an open world game that tries to provide
a relatively large map of the town of Le Carya, but the game fails to apply
the various elements of open world games and has not learned from any
of the mistakes of its predecessor, nor did it benefit from any ideas or
developments for games of this category, the game map is relatively large
But it is empty and there are only a few places to visit.
It is possible to navigate this map through a skateboard, which is a relatively
slow ease of movement, but with your visit to the different areas, you will be able
to activate the taxi station, which will make it easier for you to move around
and save you a lot of time. We do not know frankly why Presenting such
a large and blank map without learning from the many experiences
we have had in the past two generations that have fallen into the same error.
When focusing on investigations and roaming the world of the game,
the process is limited to moving from one place to another and talking
with the characters and nothing more. There are very limited and
even rare options for managing dialogues and they do not provide
any actual consequences and allow you to make all the wrong choices
until you get hit! Many of the tasks are also a desperate attempt to
increase the life of the game such as asking to collect some ingredients
for a particular meal without giving hints about the location of many
of those ingredients which means having to wander randomly in
the hope of finding those resources or asking you to return to the place
where it will be Inquiry later in the day and with no actual activities to
do you will return to the hotel to sleep and waste time.
The game offers many mini-games such as shooting at targets while riding
a boat or throwing stones at the water and trying to make them jump from
the surface several times or even playing bowling and doing such side
activities allows you to get certain resources depending on the points
you have collected, but there is no reason to do So, these games are not
fun designed and are very rudimentary, and getting resources in the game
is very easy, bullet packs have enough bullets to kill the whole town and
the money you get for the most trivial reason allows you to buy resources
as you like, and your weapon is strong enough to not You need to develop
it or take care of the entire development process.
The second part of the experience is moving to a trench in the other world
in which you will fight monsters and try to reach its end to discover
the circumstances of the case. Each trench ends with confronting
the criminal in the form of a monster. This part is frustrating and
presents the same broken shooting mechanism from the previous version.
Also, these battles are very easy and almost no You have no difficulty in finishing the trenches.
The large number of dialogues in the game and the need to return
to some areas later in the day and the like, clearly prolong the life
of the experience. We finished the game within 20 hours while
avoiding most of the side missions, the strange and funny dialogues
in the game and the frequent reference to bad films and praising
them in a serious funny way that gives The game has its own fun
but that fun doesn’t justify going through the long agony of broken
gameplay elements and poor content, Deadly Premonition 2 not only
failed to correct the first part but added additional bugs to come out
with a complete waste of time.
Deadly Premonition 2: A Blessing in Disguise
