Haven't played that yet! There was that leak of a Steam release scheduled for this year, I hope it happens eventually even if the game isn't as good as the first one :sadness:
Didn't Deadly Premonition 2 end up having some real, no-fooling offensive stuff in it though? I remember hearing discussions of both racism and transphobia
I can't speak for racism because I don't remember there being any beyond maybe some stereotypical depictions of Black people in Louisiana? Maybe? Then about the transphobia part, many characters are transphobic, but it's explicitly coded as a negative trait, and the main character is supportive. I believe in the original release of the game the main character misgendered a trans character tho, but SWERY went on record saying they made a mistake in translation, and I believe they corrected it. But overall I think it's not really a negative portrayal of trans people, just somewhat misguided here and there. However I'm cis so take that with a grain of salt.
Also to speak of the quality, I haven't played or watched the first one, but the second one had some really great moments, and did have a really nice post credit scene that I found pretty memorable and charming. For the most part the game's pretty clunky but AFAIK works much better than the first one.
From what I've seen of DP2 the game is a complete shambles technically in a way that the original Xbox 360 release of Deadly Premonition wasn't. It had clearly outdated PS2 graphics and was done on a threadbare budget, certainly, but it ran at a solid 30 fps, wasn't bugged out the ass and didn't crash constantly.
Now, the later ports of DP1 are a different story entirely, all breaking the game in various ways with the PC version being the absolute rock bottom. It's a shame those are the main way people can experience the original now, and an even greater shame the same fucking company behind them developed the sequel :agony-consuming:
There was incest in Deadly Premonition 2, it was actually like one of the main plot points.
Haven't played that yet! There was that leak of a Steam release scheduled for this year, I hope it happens eventually even if the game isn't as good as the first one :sadness:
Didn't Deadly Premonition 2 end up having some real, no-fooling offensive stuff in it though? I remember hearing discussions of both racism and transphobia
I can't speak for racism because I don't remember there being any beyond maybe some stereotypical depictions of Black people in Louisiana? Maybe? Then about the transphobia part, many characters are transphobic, but it's explicitly coded as a negative trait, and the main character is supportive. I believe in the original release of the game the main character misgendered a trans character tho, but SWERY went on record saying they made a mistake in translation, and I believe they corrected it. But overall I think it's not really a negative portrayal of trans people, just somewhat misguided here and there. However I'm cis so take that with a grain of salt.
Also to speak of the quality, I haven't played or watched the first one, but the second one had some really great moments, and did have a really nice post credit scene that I found pretty memorable and charming. For the most part the game's pretty clunky but AFAIK works much better than the first one.
From what I've seen of DP2 the game is a complete shambles technically in a way that the original Xbox 360 release of Deadly Premonition wasn't. It had clearly outdated PS2 graphics and was done on a threadbare budget, certainly, but it ran at a solid 30 fps, wasn't bugged out the ass and didn't crash constantly.
Now, the later ports of DP1 are a different story entirely, all breaking the game in various ways with the PC version being the absolute rock bottom. It's a shame those are the main way people can experience the original now, and an even greater shame the same fucking company behind them developed the sequel :agony-consuming:
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It was surprising to hear that was even an issue given his previous game was The Missing
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