In Deadly Premonition 2 you get your standard incest plot with a side of transphobia since the brother in question here is actually a trans woman. The game came out in 2019 but feels like it was written in 2005 with how the character’s gender is handled

The game is just all over the place. Swery wrote an incestuous perverted trans murderer and constantly misgenders her but also has several scenes where Francis York Morgan chastises small town hicks for their transphobia

Obviously Swery didn’t consult anyone while writing the game and it’s interesting no one in the localisation/translation team flagged these issues in the script either. Swery got predictably pilloried on Twitter when the game came out on Switch and they scrambled to patch the game to make the dialogue less offensive. Yes, the PC version you see here is the patched version of the game michael-laugh

Aside from all the transphobia, there’s plenty of other iffy shit going on with the game’s writing. The main villain is building up to be a black guy and his monstrous, morbidly obese blonde wife which feels a bit weird with how many of the game’s black characters are written, like the black lady who starts every sentence with OH LAWD. There’s also a running theme of older male characters being in love with much younger female characters, the most extreme example being a 16-year-old girl dating an adult man that looks to be in his thirties which is NEVER REMARKED UPON and treated as completely normal. York also has a 10-year-old girl sidekick in this game and some of the shit he says to her just comes off as really fucking weird sometimes

Francis Discord Mod Morgan

I’m nearing the end of the game and it’s just shocking how bad Deadly Premonition 2 is compared to the original. The graphics and gameplay being absolute dogshit could be explained by the game having basically no budget but how the fuck is the writing so awful when that was the glue holding Swery’s previous games together

  • doublepepperoni [none/use name]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
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    7 days ago

    I noticed that every character is almost always doing a bad impression when quoting another character so it’s probably just incredibly misguided voice direction. It’s absolutely incredible no one in the production pointed out how offensive it would come across in a 2019 title. Maybe they tried but Swery or whomever was directing them insisted they do it his way michael-laugh

    You’d expect shit like this from a game from the 90s or early 2000s that was recorded in Japan with voice actors that were just the first five gaijins they could grab off the street, directed by a Japanese dude that speaks no English