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 have 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. 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?
Deadly Premonition 2: A Blessing in Disguise
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.
Deadly Premonition 2: A Blessing in Disguise
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 You dont 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
