History VideoGame / DeadlyPremonition

* BittersweetEnding: The case is finally resolved, but several characters are still dead [[spoiler:including Emily and York]]. On the other hand, [[spoiler:Zach is finally freed from the Red Room]].

An UpdatedRerelease "Deadly Premonition: The Directors Cut" for the {{Playstation 3}} was released on April 30th; with MultipleEndings and other bonuses.

An UpdatedRerelease "Deadly Premonition: The Directors Cut" for the {{Playstation 3}} has been scheduled for April 30th; with MultipleEndings and other bonuses.

* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: 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".

** One of the Directors Cut trailers uses dialogue and footage from much later in the game, such as [[spoiler:Thomas wearing a dress and acting as the villain and Zach's mother telling her husband to shoot him]].

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* JackTheRipoff: Subverted. [[spoiler:The new Raincoat Killer]] is nothing like [[spoiler:the original Raincoat Killer]], despite aping his appearance.

** Another big one would be The General. He asks you to visit him so he can tell you about the story of the Raincoat Killer, and he's one of the few people in town who's old enough to have been around during [[spoiler:the incident. In fact, being a solider, he was likely standing on that clock tower gassing the town with the others]]. Instead, when you get to him, he just tells you war stories from 'nam.

* GameBreakingBug: Replaying chapters before completing the game can cause important keys to dissapear 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.

* GameBreakingBug: Replaying chapters before completing the game can cause important keys to dissapear from your inventory, making it impossible to progress past certain points(chapter 9 when you have to mere Olivia at the back of the diner and chapter 23)
as there's no way to get the keys again without restarting the game.

* MisaimedRealism: Your car can actually run out of gas and you have to fill it back up, yet during certain missions(chapter 5) and checkpoint races, your car becomes invincible and has unlimited fuel, which makes you wonder why the developers bothered implementing such a pointless mechanic.

* MisplacedRealism: Your car can actually run out of gas and you have to fill it back up, yet during certain missions(chapter 5) and checkpoint races, your car becomes invincible and has unlimited fuel, which makes you wonder why the developers bothered implementing such a pointless mechanic.

* AmericanKirbyIsHardcore: While the [[http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kw03i8aShm1qzqgkn.jpg Japanese version]] gives you an honest idea of what to expect with a clear shot of York and a preview of the Profiling mechanic, [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c5/Deadly_Premonition_cover_art.jpg the American boxart]] is more suggestive of some horrible gore-obsessed game from the nineties trying too hard to be cool. Considering how much York adores old B-movies, this is unintentionally fitting. See CoversAlwaysLie.

** [[spoiler:Emily]] isn't too bad on the eyes. Definitely worth going primal over.

* AttackItsWeakPoint: [[spoiler:George can only be hurt by attacking the scars on his back.]]

* AnAxeToGrind: Everyone's favorite psycho in a red raincoat, of course

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