This game freezes when you go to a sprint, dips to single-digit frames on the skateboard, crashes after cutscenes, locks up when going into over-the-shoulder aiming, mysteriously clones characters in cutscenes, refuses to recognize button inputs at random, and so much more. The gameplay itself is compounded by technical issues too numerous to count. It’s like the developers looked at Quantic Dream games and found a way to make them suck even worse, which is really a feat.
It’s genuinely painful to progress dialogue and examine crime scenes in this game, due to an agonizing mix of bad dialogue, slow text box progression, and molasses exploration mechanics. Which is to say nothing of the David Cage-like present-day sections.
Even characters that I enjoyed, such as York’s junior sidekick Patricia, couldn’t keep me engaged throughout the plodding, dry story. Whatever interest I had in the plot gave way to tedium, as it fails to make the central story even remotely engaging after the first few hours. Players are either forced to trudge through repetitious fetch quests or kill time until something happens, or scroll through literal hours of flat dialogue until they’re permitted to proceed.
But the way it’s carried out is nothing short of slipshod, dull, and infuriating. That core mystery is interesting, admittedly. As the game goes back and forth between time periods, the mystery unravels and we start getting a clearer picture of the sinister truth. In the present, he’s under suspicion of being involved with them. In 2005, he’s investigating the murder, which takes up the bulk of the game. In both, series protagonist Frances York Morgan is embroiled in a mystery involving the ritual slaughter of a young woman who’s cut into pieces. Deadly Premonition 2 is split between two time periods and locales – contemporary Boston and 2005 New Orleans.
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