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[DeVeAn]

Man I remember playing this 2009 ish. I stayed up all night playing it. The game is so quirky and curious I was hooked. I need to go through again on Series X. Hope they don't delist it before I do.

 

[Krathoon]

What cracks me up about this game is that the Director's Cut is the worse version.

That is so ass backwards.

 

[dolabla]

Nice.

How's it going? Is it still working well for you?

I haven't played it anymore since that post. Been on Indiana Jones this week. But it did not crash on me yet. I'll hop on it again soon and see what it does.

 

[Donald mac Ronald]

I tried once to play this. But got instantly turned off after the intro section and it dumps you in the town

 

[adamsapple]

I tried once to play this. But got instantly turned off after the intro section and it dumps you in the town

I don' know if you still have the game but I would suggest give it another try. If nothing else, it'll be a refreshing change of pace compared to the recent Ubislop style glut of map vomit games.

 

[Deerock71]

I tried once to play this. But got instantly turned off after the intro section and it dumps you in the town

Oh, man. Don't quit on it. You can really tell Swery was flying his little budget ship apart at the seams making this game. They gave him $20 and said,"make us a budget platformer," and he went off the rails and made a budget open world X-Files/Twin Peaks/GTA.

 

[adamsapple]

Oh, man. Don't quit on it. You can really tell Swery was flying his little budget ship apart at the seams making this game. They gave him $20 and said,"make us a budget platformer," and he went off the rails and made a budget open world X-Files/Twin Peaks/GTA.

It's a great example of when high ambition clashes with a very limited budget. They did their best and the game has things that many modern games don't do now, like a fully realized city with NPC's who all have their own daily schedules and routines they do with or without your involvement.

 

[adamsapple]

Bumping this thread for some very important new discoveries.

For those who followed the creator's commentary post game, he had said that the publishers made him tone down some of the gore in the game, specifically one named characters death scene.

Looks like someone was able to find a work in progress version of that uncut scene, it's so old it still uses the 2007 original character models, before the game got the overhaul, new title and characters.

Putting the videos under spoiler tags just in case.

Spoiler

Original, uncut version:




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The death as they made it in the final game:

The death in the final game is kinda weird, a bunch of curtains swirl down and snap the character's neck / choke her to death.

In the un-cut version, looks like the killer has some fish hooks or something sewed onto the girl and cutting the rope makes them pull her intestines out. Pretty gnarly, unfortunately the quality of the footage is dogshit, it's also WIP so probably doesn't have the final intended gore effects.

 

[Harlock]

DP Endurance Run was peak Giant Bomb.

 

[RedC]

 

[SamuraiEdge]

Late to replying, but incredible topic highlighting one of my favourite games of all time (thanks for the bump above!).

Deadly Premonition is just that awesome, thanks to those rich characters making that world even more special, while the gameplay weirdly worked well enough, given the quality being all over the place haha.

Awesome game, and I'm glad it was created. Even 2 had some decent enough charm to appreciate we got one more Morgan adventure, all thanks to the community support.