I had a very complicated relationship with this game, I was so excited to revisit the world of Deadly Premonition, and there's so much I genuinely am in love with here, the framing story in the present is a bold and shocking follow up to the first game, I love those sections, I love the town and characters of Le Carré, I thought Patti was going to be super annoying, but she turned out to be a great character, just spending time with York and Zach again is a delight.

However, there's so much holding this back, the otherworld sections suuuuck, it's just the same thing over and over, it's got no personality, it isn't fun. The voodoo upgrade system is cool, but there's just not a good game there to utilize it in. The stampbook achievement system kinda wrecked my life, I wanted to get all the suits and committed way too much time grinding pointless tasks around town before finally cutting my losses realizing it would take hundreds more hours of pointless gameplay to complete some of the ludicrous tasks they lay out for you. The main questline is just not interesting, the story is, but the actual investigation just doesn't have much too it, it's kinda just a series of go here or do this dumb fetch quest, the pacing is so weird too that once the town really feels like it's opening up with all the side activities available to you, you're barreling towards the end of the plot already.

The best part of the town is probably the photo albums that they took from BotW, where you have to find a specific location from just a photo.

I have some great memories from this, but it's sadly half-baked even by DP standards, not in the fun way like the first.