Surprise, Deadly Premonition Creator's Next Game Hits Xbox One Friday

If you were one of the fans who helped make last-gen weirdo thriller Deadly Premonition a cult hit, then you’re going to have a very good weekend. That’s because D4: Dark Dreams Don’t Die—the next game from Deadly Premonition creator Swery—comes on Friday. https://kotaku.com/deadly-premonition-the-directors-cut-is-the-same-weird-5979537 In a surprise announcement coinciding with this year’s TGS, Microsoft revealed that D4 will be coming to the Xbox One exclusively at the end of this week as a $15 downloadable release. You can play D4 with or without Kinect and the adventure game puts players in the role of a time-traveling detective who’s trying to prevent the violent death of his wife.cnx.cmd.push(function(){cnx({"playerId":"e3616d04-4972-4839-a63a-c6975e2e9731","settings":{"advertising":{"macros":{"AD_UNIT":"/23178111854/od.kotaku.com/article","CHILD_UNIT":"article","POST_ID":"1636185383","POST_TYPE":"post","CHANNEL":"kotaku-east","SECTION":"","SUBSECTION":"","CATEGORIES":"kotaku-east","TAGS":"xbox","NOP":"0"},"timeBeforeFirstAd":0}}}).render("cnx-player-main")}); In an interview on Xbox Wire, Swery says that games like The Walking Dead helped convince him u31.com เข้าสู่ระบบ to make D4 an episodic release: Xbox Wire: The episodic approach to content has been becoming more common for games in recent years. Were you inspired by other successful titles, such as Telltale Games’ The Walking Dead? Swery65: I do, of course, play the games from Telltale Games. But at the beginning, I was purely enjoying them from the point-of-view of a player. However, after the various things happened that resulted in our decision u31 ทางเข้า to go episodic with D4, I went back to revisit the games from the beginning, this time from a game designer’s point-of-view. At that point, I discovered a lot of clever hooks and techniques being used that I didn’t notice when I had my regular “gamer” hat on. I took in and digested those u31 เข้าสู่ระบบ different points, and have applied them to D4 as a “Swery take” on the ideas.