The worst that can be said of it is that it is outdated. Compared to your average budget game, Deadly Premonition is a new gold standard.
The controls are decent enough, the combat is relatively balanced, and the action can scare when it needs to. However, for a budget title, everything is surprisingly competent and tight. The horror is also ramped up by a particular enemy, who seems taken straight from the Clock Tower book of “shit your pants” scary - The Raincoat Killer.Īs far as the gameplay itself goes, Deadly Premonition won’t be beating any of your AAA games on the market. Despite the lack of enemy variety, the game manages to stay interesting thanks to this tactical use of holding one’s breath. However, he has a pulse rate that increases when running or holding his breath, so he cannot be invisible forever. By holding his breath, York can slip past enemies and move to a more advantageous position.
York has one trick up his sleeve - the zombies detect breath. At first the game is very easy, but later becomes quite tense as zombies grow tougher and spaces grow tighter. York stands to fire, and has access to a growing cache of weapons that include your average videogame mainstays - pistols, machine guns, shotguns and the like. As with Resident Evil 4, the enemies mostly stay the same (although there is some variety and a few insane boss fights toward the end) and combat is quite simple. The horror sections of the game are more straightforward, and involve York solving various simple puzzles while routinely shooting at zombies. Very much like Agent York, Deadly Premonition is a game with a split personality - equal parts atmospheric horror and farcical comedy. However, once the prologue has been completed and York arrives in Greenvale, the game throws a complete curveball and becomes a ludicrous pantomime of pop culture references, shamelessly contrived humor, and the kind of dialog that leaves you both scratching your head and laughing your face off. When Deadly Premonition starts, you’d be forgiven for thinking it would be a derivative, po-faced survival horror that simply rips off Silent Hill or Siren. However, as soon as York arrives, he realizes this won’t just be any other case, not least for the fact that Greenvale is crawling with undead horrors that bend over backwards and like thrusting their arms into his mouth. York is on his way to Greenvale, where a young woman has been cut open and hung from a red tree. Other people never question this particular quirk. He’s also got a split personality called Zach, whom he talks to frequently and openly in front of other people. Special Agent Francis York Morgan (just call him York, everybody else does) is an FBI criminal profiler with an interest in the murder of young girls.
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