Deadly Premonition: Director's Cut

Since i'm starting to Speedrunning this game one year ago on PlayStation 3. I was hoping to run DP on PC. Finally with the GOG version, the game runs fine one my PC.

If you can get passed the graphics, some glitches, and some crashes be advised that this game is indeed a journey. I personally haven't had any crashes at all, I'm playing this game via wine within ArchLinux along with DPfix and goodness this game really captures how a town would be. This game has solid story and solid voice acting, It is also a weird mix of supernatural, horror,thriller, and somewhat of a simulator too, Once i beat the game i found myself missing the characters and the town of Greenvale itself. Quite the powerful experience. Also be warned that the controls are kind of awkward but thank goodness they are rebindable; also there are some technicalities which stand out... specifically the audio mix of the game. I'm an audio engineer and these things sticked like a sore thumb to me; I honestly felt sad because I could have done a way better job than whoever did that Lol. Anyhow, this is a great game despite its flaws, If you love story centric games this is your game! I would definitely recommend this to all my friends and enemies too :) such a great game.

I am so mad at the fact that this game crashes for no reason when booted up and it is basically pointless to buy!!!!

I had this game on my backlog for a long while. Finally I was able to play it. I almost ended up regretting it. I would if it weren't for the gripping story, bizarre characters and weird humor in this game. I want to say that I rarely enjoy horror games as I get really jumpy. Like the last horror game similar to this I played was Resident Evil 3: Biohazard on PlayStation and I didn't play it by myself. Anyway, the game draws some parallels with cult classic TV show called Twin Peaks. The soundtrack and sound design is amazing. I love it. There are about 40 side quests in the game most of which I couldn't bring myself to do because the game crashes randomly. I pretty much rushed through it. Combat is not the best but you get used to it. I dare say it's fun actually. Head shots is the way to go. Driving is worst at the start. It gets better if you do a couple related side quests. Also, you need to watch your gas while driving. There is also eating, sleeping, shaving, changing clothes in the game. They have all related bonuses to gameplay. The inventory and save systems are similar to that of Silent Hill games. Level design is fine. Graphics are ok. I have to say I have used a couple of mods to beautify the game though. The colors look so washed up in this game. I used a shader mod for this. It was fine at first, actually it made the game look so much better, but later in the game at least in two instances it made the game so dark it literally became unplayable. I couldn't see anything and passed those places by luck. I couldn't reverse it since I didn't back up the original files, so I don't recommend messing with the shaders. The biggest problem with this game is the map. It has a zoom in/out function but it can't zoom out to be of any help to you. I had to use a map I opened up on my phone in the web to check the directions often. Also, there is supposedly a fast travel function tied to a side quest which I couldn't do because the window to do it is very small.

Deadly Premonition has nice character models and somewhat nice environments. But it has truly awful controls and makes playing the game very unpleasant. The story is crazy and just feels very passable. Thanks to DPfix this game now runs a lot better PC but it still is a truly awful game and I wouldn't suggest it to anyone.