![]() Since its release on Xbox 360 and subsequent ports, the game has become a meme-worthy cult classic as much for its unrefined gameplay as its absurd humor and delightfully eccentric Dale Cooper stand-in, Francis York Morgan. A David Lynch megafan, Swery released Deadly Premonition in 2010, an open-ish world survival-horror adventure that starts out as an unapologetic homage to Twin Peaks before veering off in its own wonderful and strange directions. Advertisementįurther Reading Twin Peaks is back and somehow as strange and beautiful as ever Uh, what did I just read?įor players who have never heard of director Swery65 (actually Hidetaka Suehiro, or just Swery to his fans) this combo of narrative lunacy and often endearingly rough-around-the-edges technical presentation is nothing new. Coupled with some dated design choices, it's an awkward way to start a game. Each of these by-turns-loopier developments are dumped rapidly and unceremoniously into Naomi's lap, a less-than-ideal method for getting you used to The Good Life's goofy concepts. In the next hour, she learns everyone in the town (except the woman) turns into dogs or cats at night-and that it's not the million GBP scoop she thinks it is.įinally, she gets her own feline-canine transformation powers, allowing her to sniff out scents as a pup or climb up walls as a kitty. Each is worth mere pence on the British pound, a mechanism used to slooowly pay down Naomi's debt. Not long after, the Bell has her uploading pictures of the town to an Instagram-esque site, Flamingo, to earn "emokes" (likes). Regardless, in the game's first five minutes, an enigmatic woman in an electric wheelchair gives Naomi a house. ![]() The place supposedly has an earth-shattering secret that her employers at the Morning Bell want her to uncover-though because she's drowning in debt it's less of a request than a mandate. ![]() The Good Life throws you into its offbeat little tale without much preamble.Īfter a cute storybook introduction, New Yorker and photojournalist Naomi Hayward is dropped off in an Untitled Goose Game-caliber sleepy British hamlet called Rainy Woods, the self-proclaimed "happiest town in the world." Why is it the happiest town in the world? Nobody knows, but that's what Naomi is there to find out. Links: Steam | Nintendo eShop | Microsoft Store | PlayStation Store Platform: PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, PC (tested)
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