Deadly Premonition Origins

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User Score
7.8

Generally favorable reviews- based on 75 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 55 out of 75
  2. Mixed: 9 out of 75
  3. Negative: 11 out of 75
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  1. Steyraus
    Jan 22, 2020
    4
    Deadly Premonition is definitely an interesting game. It nails Atmosphere and your sense of place in this creepy small town , excellently. And that is no small feet as we have seen many other games fail completely to do atmosphere from this time, like every American Silent Hill game released.
    Deadly Premonition is full of interesting people and their stories and the ability to drive    Deadly Premonition is definitely an interesting game. It nails Atmosphere and your sense of place in this creepy small town , excellently. And that is no small feet as we have seen many other games fail completely to do atmosphere from this time, like every American Silent Hill game released.
    Deadly Premonition is full of interesting people and their stories and the ability to drive around and explore the town is a really interesting thing. There many side missions and mini games to discover while you chip away at the main plot and everything in this game is weird, weird in a good way.

    Unfortunately for everything that is good about this game there is something very very bad. the framerate slides between 5 and 55 FPS, there is constant jank. Sometimes the audio cuts out, sometimes the music and background noises play so loud you can't hear the characters, sometimes the sound crashes the game, sometimes the game just crashes. Ive had saves disappear, ive had freezes, ive seen more bugs and stability issues in this game than Fall Out 76, I wont even start with pop in and vanishing assets .. So!! much as I like the good parts of this game there's no way it deserves a high score , when the fundamentals of game creation has been failed so hard here.    … Expand

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#76 Most Discussed Switch Game of 2019

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Metascore
70

Mixed or average reviews - based on 15 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 15
  2. Mixed: 9 out of 15
  3. Negative: 0 out of 15
  1. Cubed3
    Jul 24, 2020
    70
    Every technical issue is worth the hassle, because no other game offers a world as alive or as charming with as much conceptual depth. Deadly Premonition is nothing short of brilliant.
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  2. Switch Player
    Jan 21, 2020
    80
    Just like a terrible movie you can’t stop laughing at, Deadly Premonition is entertaining in all the ways it was not intended to be. Most of its elements are poor, but the culmination of all those terrible elements makes for a surprisingly entertaining experience.
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  3. Digital Chumps
    Jan 13, 2020
    80
    The general clunkiness of the controls is honestly kind of disappointing to re-experience so many years later, but just as was the case all those years ago, DPO is still a heck of a fun time that out does itself in as far as the overall experience is better than the sum of the parts. That’s a cliche maybe, but it so fittingly applies here I can’t help but call upon it. Bottomline, if your only console option right now is a Switch, you can’t go wrong with DPO, just as long as you go in expecting a dated, but nonetheless very much worthwhile, experience. Otherwise, I’d highly recommend playing the Director’s Cut release from 2013 on the PS3.
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