History VideoGame / DeadlyPremonition

** [[spoiler: There's a jolly fat man amongst the soldiers in Harry's flashback story. His mask doesn't cover enough of his face if you look carefully. This is before he's properly revealed during the original Raincoat Killer sequence.]]

* JackTheRipoff: [[spoiler:The new Raincoat Killer]] is nothing like [[spoiler:the original Raincoat Killer]].

* {{Foreshadowing}}:

** Being based on Twin Peaks, this game is chock full of it. Perhaps the most damning piece of foreshadowing, that is probably the most easily overlooked, are the [[spoiler: red raincoats you can find in the police station storage room]].

** In the lumber mill, failing to solve the tree-of-hands puzzle will lead to York going LaughingMad.

** York's very first profiling sequence rapidly flashes forward throughout the entire game and contains some images that are quite significant and spoilertastic when you know to look out for them, including [[spoiler:shots of both Becky and Diane's deaths, Zach's dead mother with the sprout growing out of her belly, and the scene where Emily is united with the other victims]].
** Also, if you look closely, you'll notice that [[spoiler:George's scar]] gradually becomes more open and featured with each murder.
** The foreshadowing begins in the very first chapter, in the very first room, where you have to examine a number items to proceed. All of them are appear irrelevant... until you begin the final boss fight and recall that one was [[spoiler:a doll of a fat man]].

** [[spoiler: When York was talking about the Sinner's Sandwich, he said that Mr. Stewart was atoning for his past sins... See the Atoner above.]]

** Both of these are actually [[spoiler: {{Red Herring}}s, believe it or not. The poses the victims are in and the signs are supposed to be ''trees.'']]
** The usage of AmazingFreakingGrace in the infamous scene near the end. When you go by the original religious intent of the song (that no one is beyond redemption, regardless of their sins in life, and that we all are able to do the right thing) and what the character is trying to do: [[spoiler: get to the clocktower and stop the gas, according to the director]].

* WildWilderness: The outskirts of town near the railroad tracks, the two large empty forest trails, and the random location of the town it's self count.

* NonStandardGameOver: If you decide to [[spoiler: [[DrivenToSuicide have Zach kill himself]] or shoot Forrest Kaysen rather than (attempt) to MercyKill a begging Emily]], you're treated to [[spoiler: York telling you that you made the wrong choice with a shriveled up Emily with parts of the red tree that Kaysen planted sticking out from her]].

* HannibalLecture: [[spoiler:George]] lectures York on power before his boss fight.

** Ignoring the species, it could be [[spoiler: Willie]].

An UpdatedRerelease "Deadly Premonition: The Directors Cut" has been scheduled for April 30th; with MultipleEndings and other bonuses.

* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: York explains at one point 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".

* [[spoiler: DecoyProtagonist]]: [[spoiler: York. Well for 90% of the game that is. Afterwards Zach is a parmenant PlayerCharacter.]]