History VideoGame / DeadlyPremonition

A Platform/{{Nintendo Switch}} port was released in 2019 (under the name "''Deadly Premonition: Origins''"), alongside the announcement of a sequel titled ''[[VideoGame/{{DeadlyPremonition2}} Deadly Premonition 2: A Blessing In Disguise]]'', which sees Swery returning as writer and director.

* BeardOfSorrow: Grow your own, or shave it off!
** PermaStubble: Not too much of it, though.

--> [[spoiler:'''George:''' It's almost as if [Becky and Diane] died because of me...]]\\

** York mentions that his investigation technique involves dividing people into three categories: investigators, victims and suspects. Everyone else is just "vegetables known as 'other people'". This matches neatly game's division between important individuals and background characters you can't interact with. Until you learn a person's name, they are all labeled simply as "suspect".

** Thomas is easily one of the better chefs in the game, but when me messes up, he messes up HARD. No, seriously, who mistakes peanut butter for ''mustard''?

* NiceGuy: Forrest Kayson, a jolly, fat man who cares for the Ingram twins, is good friends everybody entire town, and serves as the quirky comic relief. [[spoiler:Majorly subverted in Episode 6, where he's not only a possible rapist and the main villain, but is also a sadistic monster from another dimension who committed his crimes out of nothing but sheer boredom.]]

''Deadly Premonition'' is a game by Creator/AccessGames, written and directed by Creator/Swery65, originally for the UsefulNotes/{{Xbox 360}} (and UsefulNotes/PlayStation3 in Japan, called ''Red Seeds Profile'') released in 2010. An UpdatedRerelease ''Deadly Premonition: The Director's Cut'' for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation3 (in all regions) was released in 2013, with MultipleEndings and other bonuses. It received a PC port via Steam later in 2013.

A UsefulNotes/{{Nintendo Switch}} port was released in 2019 (under the name "''Deadly Premonition: Origins''"), alongside the announcement of a sequel titled ''[[VideoGame/{{DeadlyPremonition2}} Deadly Premonition 2: A Blessing In Disguise]]'', which sees Swery returning as writer and director.

* JustForPun: The first victim is Anna Graham. [[spoiler:The last victim gets ''soiled''.]]

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** ''VideoGame/SpyFiction'', SWERY's directorial debut, is referenced via Keith's "Back in the Hole" jacket and Emily's vanity plate.

''Deadly Premonition'' is a game by Creator/AccessGames, written and directed by Creator/Swery65, originally for the UsefulNotes/{{Xbox 360}} (and UsefulNotes/PlayStation3 in Japan, called ''Red Seeds Profile'') released in 2010. An UpdatedRerelease "Deadly Premonition: The Directors Cut" for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation3 (in all regions) was released in 2013, with MultipleEndings and other bonuses. It received a PC port via Steam later in 2013.

* Blipvert: Each and every profiling sequence.

* TheStinger: After the credits, you see [[spoiler: York and Emily, [[TheyDo holding hands and kissing]], in a spectral version of the diner while [[DiedHappilyEverAfter hanging out with all of the other victims]]]].

* DeathBySex: [[spoiler: The sex itself is not what kills, but if a woman is given the red seeds to eat and then has sex, it leads to the red seeds growing into a red tree sapling and slowly draining the woman from the inside out.]]

** On some PCs the Director's Cut has a bug which limits how far up and down you can aim your gun. Frustratingly, this isn't really a problem until the ''very end of the game'' where you won't be able to aim down far enough to hit [[spoiler:Kaysen's doll in his breast pocket while standing on his shoulder]].

* GameBreakingBug: Replaying chapters before completing the game can cause important keys to disappear from your inventory, making it impossible to progress past certain points (such as in chapter 9 and chapter 23), as there's no way to get the keys again without restarting the game.

* AnAxeToGrind: Everyone's favorite psycho in a red raincoat, of course. [[spoiler:Both the original and the new one, in fact.]]
** AxeBeforeEntering: Even when the door he's chopping is the one he left through not one minute ago.
** [[SwordDrag Axe Drag]]: Which sends up sparks even across softer ground!
** [[ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks Throwing Your Axe Never Works]]: So long as York [[PressXToNotDie remembers to dodge first]].

** [[spoiler:Right from the start, we are told the initials of the one behind it all: "F.K... in the coffee!"]]

** [[spoiler: The non-Japanese title to the game, referring to the fact that the coffee tells York the initials of the killer, hence, a deadly premonition.]]

* AttackItsWeakPoint: [[spoiler:George can only be hurt by attacking the scars on his back; Kaysen's third phase can only be hurt by attacking the doll of himself]].
** It's harder to hit than the one previously mentioned, but [[spoiler:George's facial scar is also a usable weak spot to damage him through.]]

* HereWeGoAgain: At the end of [[spoiler:the remake; York asks Zach if he wants to go [[TheyFightCrime solve mysteries with him again]]]].

[[DescribeTopicHere I'll let you describe Deadly Premonition here, Zach.]]

That's the basic gist of it. What that doesn't cover is the towns [[WorldOfWeirdness incredibly quirky citizens, and the mostly funny, always weird situations York finds himself in]].

** The game also forces you to hold it during [[spoiler: your visit to the graveyard, if you go before the plot forces you to. York simply refuses to comment on the large amount of red seeds and red trees you can find there, mostly because investigating this properly would make the case a lot shorter.]]

** You can explore the graveyard pretty early in the game, long before it becomes relevant to the plot. [[spoiler: It contains a large number of red trees that bear a striking resemblance to the saplings that Kaysen carries around, and the red seeds all over the ground are the same ones found on all the murder victims, not just in Greenvale but in cases all around the United States.]] However, York will not comment on or acknowledge this until you make your plot-mandated visit to the graveyard. He even lampshades it once you do finally get there, saying that it was right under his nose the whole time.