Turns out, Dontnod’s small-town thriller Twin Mirror does certainly have a good bit in widespread with Deadly Premonition. I’d prevented mentioning my suspicions when the Life Is Strange studio announced their subsequent game earlier this yr, as a result of I recognise I’ve an issue of shouting “THAT’S LIKE DEADLY PREMONITION!” any time I see e.g. a automotive, a merchandising machine, a tree, or a person in a swimsuit. But our mystery-investigating man goes inside his head to organise his ideas and has an imaginary buddy serving to out, like Deadly Premonition. Except as an alternative of boy like Deadly Premonition’s Zach, Twin Mirror’s man shares his head with a complete jeb finish. Come meet him on this new trailer.
Our man Sam has returned to his residence city in West Virginia for a buddy’s funeral solely to get up with a bloody shirt and an empty reminiscence. Helpfully, he can slip inside his head to revisit recollections in his Mind Palace, reliving them or twiddling with them to discover totally different potentialities. All of which jogs my memory of Dontnod’s debut game, the memory-hacking Remember Me. And a little bit of Francis York Morgan’s trippy lounge inside his head.
And like good man York, Sam has an imaginary chum serving to him out, named the Double. Publishers Bandai Namco say the Double is a “classy yet sarcastic version” of Sam and that he’s “quirky”; I say he’s a dickhead. Wouldn’t wish to discuss punk rock and Richard Donner films with that fella.
Look, it’s a must to perceive: I’m taking part in an extended game right here. My aim is that by 2025, I’ll have seeded sufficient references to Deadly Premonition as a seminal game influencing all who got here after that Wikipedia will point out it in the identical breath as Super Mario, Pong, and Devil Daggers. We could make this occur, collectively. And if Wikipedia says it, actuality will quickly comply with its course. 2026, the yr of Zachlikes Yorklikes.
Twin Mirror is coming in three episodes. The first, named Lost On Arrival, is due in “early 2019”.
