Though the game ultimately performs best with a controller, the keyboard and mouse incorporation is better than what was offered through Kinect controls. This is a must-own for those without an Xbox One. Even with its proclivities and general narrative insanity, it’s one of the most unique experiences on the market right now. Amid an industry that has struggled with innovation for years now, it’s important that games like D4 are supported and made.
D4: Dark Dreams Don't Die
Access Games · Sep 19, 2014
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This is the story of a man with a very strange fate. His name is David Young. Two years ago, his wife was murdered by an unknown assailant, and Young suffered a blow to the head that cost him his memory. His wife's final words: “Look for D.
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- 7.8Expect to be entertained, but don’t expect satisfaction. Lower your demands, and enjoy jamming your tongue into Swery’s electric brain socket. ...As for a score, that feels like I’m reviewing a tree, based on a fascinating, half-eaten leaf that blew into my face. I mean, great leaf, really. This leaf is to be encouraged. But as a failed experiment in episodic delivery, it must be punished, in the same way we’d all retrospectively give Half-Life’s Episode 2 42%, if we could, for the cruelty of that cliffhanger.
- 8.0Once again, SWERY injects a detective story with his patented brand of weirdness, though this time he's finally free of the technical limitations that hampered his past work. D4 isn't a flawless experience, but, as with Deadly Premonition, it offers a world and set of characters you won't want to leave behind.
- D4 is a game that knows what it is. It’s quirky and odd with an outrageous story and over-the-top characters, and that may not sit well with some people, but that’s the kind of game Swery is known to make.
- 8.0D4 isn't what I'd easily call a good game, but it's a good enough one built around such magnificently strange material that I have zero qualms about recommending it to just about anyone. I guarantee half the people I'd recommend it to will find it impenetrably weird, but that other half will adore what Swery and his team have constructed, and hopefully will continue constructing, in D4.
- 9.1D4 is a fun and in depth Kinect Point and Click game for the Xbox One. This game has a fantastic story and a great sense of humor, really fun game to dive into for a couple of hours.
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