Deadly Premonition 2: A Blessing in Disguise

Boston, 2019. FBI Special Agents Aaliyah Davis and Simon Jones, looking into a case long-thought solved, find themselves on the doorstep of a person of interest. Reports of a few missing bodies wouldn’t normally interest the FBI, but something about this case just doesn’t add up. Despite having few leads to go on, the pair hope asking this person the right questions about the ‘red tree’ might get them somewhere. But as the saying goes, be careful what you wish for – some cases are best left closed… Louisiana, 2005. A series of strange murders has blighted the backwater town of Le Carré and the FBI sends one of its young recruits, Special Agent Francis York Morgan, to investigate. Befriended by the sheriff’s daughter, who seems older than her years, the two soon set out together to find the truth. On the surface, the peaceful town and its kind residents seem harmless enough. But a darkness grows beneath and, as casualties mount up, Special Agent Morgan must find those responsible before it swallows him too…

Platforms

• PC
• Nintendo Switch

Game modes

• Single player

Themes

• Action
• Horror
• Survival
• Comedy
• Drama
• Open world
• Mystery

70% of 553 Steam reviews are positive. Valve labels that “Mixed”.

7 languages in the interface, 1 of them with full voice acting. English is supported, with full voice acting.

Publisher's content notice

Deadly Premonition 2 is for the larger part an investigative adventure title - there are also action parts interspersed. There is what can be considered (unrealistic) violence against enemies, be it fantasy creatures or sometimes animals. There are horror elements in a fantasy setting and the main character (a detective) uses a gun as well as a fantasy weapon against enemies. In the earliest stages of the game there is In the earliest minutes of the game you see: A naked body of a woman, preserved in an ice block, not realistically or explicitly shown. Soon after, a man is shown sitting in a chair smoking marijuana in the first circa 10 minutes, described as being for medicinal use, and legal in Boston (the sequence of smoking is not controlled by the player). There is a bar in the game, where alcohol is served, and the investigation (in the past) centers around a murder case - but the violence is rarely realistic. When violent acts are shown in the adventure sections, it's often in service of the story - and the violent acts are often more alluded to (shown with phantom figures or camera angles disguising the details).

Nintendo Switch

10 July 2020

PC (Microsoft Windows)

11 June 2022

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