I don’t know if I’m participating in the joke, or if I’m the butt of it.

I’m wrestling with the game and the concept of the game simultaneously. I spend several hours over the next several days thinking that this confusion must be deliberate, but also that this can’t be on purpose, that there’s a joke and I’m in on it, that there’s a joke that just isn’t funny, that I’m seeing things clearly, and that I’m hopelessly dense. This is the first conversation between the two of them (us?) that I’ve heard. “Zach?” York asks again, in voice and in text.įor the first time - and for sure not the last - I wonder if maybe I’m Zach. A few seconds later, just as I wonder if something’s gone wrong with the game, subtitles appear as someone begins to speak. There’s a three-second pause as absolutely nothing happens.īlood-red leaves flit across my TV screen, lazily backflipping against an infinite black void. He’s our hero, but you can just call him York. “Zach?” FBI Special Agent Francis York Morgan asks. A few seconds later, subtitles appear as someone begins to speak. I’ve been playing Deadly Premonition 2: A Blessing in Disguise on Nintendo Switch for what feels like an hour when the screen fades out, and blood-red leaves flit across my TV screen, lazily backflipping against an infinite black void. Here in 2020, I’m certain of only one thing: This franchise is infinitely weirder than I remember.

It’s been more than seven years since I played and reviewed Deadly Premonition: The Director’s Cut.

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