Deadly Premonition: Difference between revisions
no edit summary
m (removed Category:Play Station 3; added Category:PlayStation 3 using HotCat) |
No edit summary |
||
Line 75:
* [[Creator Cameo]]: Sort of. A bar is named after him, the "SWERY '65". {{spoiler|He also appears in a trading card}}.
* [[Creepy Twins]]: Isaach and Isaiah.
* [[Cruel and Unusual Death]]: The murder that brought York here.
* [[Cutscene Incompetence]]: Both York and the Raincoat Killer, who seem to have more fun playing with each other than actually wanting to take each other out.
* [[Dark World]]: The nightmare world sections. Whether or not they take place in "reality" or are some sort of illusion or hallucination is left murky for quite a while.
Line 96:
* [[Drop-Dead Gorgeous]]: Anna. Lampshaded by people remarking on how beautiful she looked, and possibly subverted by Isaach and Isaiah [[Creepy Twins|practically worshiping her in death]].
** {{spoiler|Emily}} isn't too bad on the eyes. Definitely worth going primal over.
* [[Eccentric Townsfolk]]: Not that the outsider isn't just as eccentric.
* [[Eldritch Abomination]]: {{spoiler|Forrest Kaysen}}.
* [[Emergency Weapon]]: The pistol York starts out with that cannot ever be dropped.
* [[Everyone Is a Suspect]]: York says this to Emily and George in front of the Lumbermill, stating that he considers everyone a potential suspect, until he can honestly clear someone.
* [[Evidence Scavenger Hunt]]: As part of the profiling game mechanic.
* [[Expy]]: York bears more than a passing resemblance to [[Twin Peaks|Agent Dale Cooper]], quirky mannerisms and all.
Line 206:
* [[Necro Cam]]: Starts off terribly blurry. Finding more clues allows York to get a "clearer picture" of what really happened.
* [[Nerves of Steel]]: York most '''definitely''' has these. Milder situations include waking up from what seems, by all accounts, to be a standard [[Catapult Nightmare]] with nothing more than a small sigh and staring down crowds of monsters with a wry grin. Truly [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|amazing]] examples include chatting idly with Zach when he is [[Dude in Distress|captured]] by {{spoiler|Thomas}} after he knocks him out, and shrugging off the penultimate boss's [[Freudian Excuse]] with [[Deadpan Snarker|a few well-placed wisecracks]]. {{spoiler|Which, being Zach's alter ego created to protect him from harm, [[Fridge Brilliance|makes perfect sense]]}}.
* [[Never One Murder]]: Anna's murder is the only murder to happen for the first third of the game. Then you get more victims.
* [[New Game+]]: You can replay any completed chapter with all your current inventory items intact. Considering certain sidequest givers die at certain points in the game, this kind of backtracking is vital.
* [[Nightmare Face]]: The Shadows of course have their vile grins ([[Nightmare Retardant|which are the only things vaguely frightening about them]]), but the real show stealer is York with the [[The Un-Smile|hilariously terrifying wide grin he pulls at bizarre moments]].
Line 222:
* [[Optional Traffic Laws]]: While you can get penalized for mowing down too many lampposts or driving too close to any townsfolk on foot, it barely dents your wallet. That said, the only non-monetary penalty for hitting other drivers is that your vehicle gets damaged.
* [[Orifice Invasion]]: Some of the enemies like to shove their hands down York's mouth. Given the chance, these enemies will shove their ''entire bodies'' down York's mouth, which will definitely kill him.
* [[Parental Abandonment]]: A recurrent theme throughout the game.
* [[Phony Veteran]]: York makes out Lysander to be one of these, noting that the old man wears a sergeant's uniform despite calling himself The General. {{spoiler|Inverted, as it turns out that Lysander actually was promoted to general but out of guilt during the Vietnam War continues to think of himself as a sergeant}}.
* [[Photo Psychic]]: Played straight with York's profiling.
Line 230:
* [[Quirky Town]]: Part of what causes the [[Mood Whiplash]] is how goofy some of the folks are in town.
* [[Railroading]]: While you have a generally lax schedule (see [[Take Your Time]] below) for much of the game, there are points where you ''immediately'' have to go to a target, usually by car, which won't allow you to get out of them, and even give you unlimited gas and make your car completely invulnerable, almost as if they wanted to make sure you don't try anything funny. After {{spoiler|discovering Thomas is likely a criminal}}, the game becomes much more linear, with red vines stopping you from fully exploring.
* [[Rain of Blood]]: A cutscene halfway through the game in the Red World has an aged tree crack apart and shower the camera with blood.
* [[Red Herring]]:
** During the very beginning of the game, York casually mentions being scratched by a hysterical woman. This is to cause you to assume that the townsfolk are simply spreading rumors over the little mark on your cheek, when in fact they're talking about {{spoiler|the much more dramatic scar sported by Zach}}.
| |||