EDGE, a magazine with it's head so far up it's ass it can see out of it's own belly button, has decided that Deadly Premonition is not the janky monstrosity that we all know it is, and has given the game 7 bananas out of whatever the fuck bullshit scoring context they use. The score isn't really the most pressing concern, however, rather the language they use to justify it. Here are some choice quotes: 

"[Deadly Premonition is] A thriller with subversive style" 

"The beauty of Deadly Premonition is that it's a straightforward whodunnit viewed through the cracked prism of an unreliable narrator, conjuring an atmosphere of suspicion and confusion throughout."

"There's a distinct sense that all the ideas thrown at Deadly Premonition were deliberately picked rather than scrambled together." 

"...it [the driving] feels consciously designed rather than accidentally banal."

"None of it would work without accomplished voice acting, and Deadly Premonition is a triumph of both timing and delivery." 

  "Inevitable points of comparison will be this years double-whammy of Heavy Rain and Alan Wake, titles with a similarly strong emphasis on storytelling. The difference is that Deadly Premonition has more ideas, and ambition, than both. Though far less polished, it's just as engrossing, too." 

Inevitable?

 Really? 

Similarly strong?

 Really?

More ideas, and ambition?

 Really? 

Far less polished?

 ...fair enough. 

It's taking physical restraint not to respond to you with a meme.

There's a sense... it feels like... So this entire review is based on assumptions that they could have made it better a better game, but decided against it? 
Genius.

I think what they mean is that Deadly Premonition is trying to accomplish a hell of a lot more than they were, and as a crazy open world murder mystery I have to agree. The scope of the ideas seems quite big but they are all executed in a very poor way that is detrimental to each individual part of the game. Alan Wake and Heavy rain are very direct and linear, but amazing in what they do. As for the similarly strong, what's the issue there? Deadly Premonition has it's best moments in it's story and the telling of that story. The quality of that isn't mentioned, it says 'similarly strong emphasis', which deadly premonition does do. You aren't playing that game for it's industry leading gameplay systems.

Probably higher than I would rate it.

" @HaltIamReptar: Which one, out of interest? "

" It's taking physical restraint not to respond to you with a meme. "

I think that's a pretty good score for it honestly. The gameplay sucks, but it was still entertaining from start to finish.
 
I think it's bullshit that the terrible design flaws were done on purpose though.

Sounds about right.

Jeff said on formspring that he would have given it a 3 out of 5, so this is really just par for the course.

" @HaltIamReptar: No, go ahead. I'm intrigued :D "

DP has a much better plot than Heavy Rain, so I don't see why you are "reallying".

You know what? 
I hated this game for a long time. A very, very long time. It looked like absolute garbage, played even worse at times, and seemed to have too much ambition (plus, made by SWERY 65? Really? Pretentious name is pretentious!). 
But watching the quick look, I can see where they're coming from. It's a case of the story and characters being so damn good that it just doesn't matter. It overcomes its downfalls with the parts that games don't tend to do as well and that's weirdly impressive.

to be fair, Deadly Premonition is more of a game that Heavy Rain, and at the end of it, I was more involved with that game than with Heavy Rain,  
 
Heavy Rain was a major disappointment to me.   
 
So Yeah, if you look at the game with a point of view to look past it's gameplay flaws, I would give it a 7 as well.
 
But I would give it a five if gameplay had to be addressed in the score, But, I don't care about scores so, yeah... 

It seems like a fair score. I can see the comparison between Alan Wake and Deadly Premonition only because they're both heavily influenced by Twin Peaks and similar from a gameplay perspective - I've never understood comparing either of them to Heavy Rain, which is a really hard game to compare to others (except maybe Fahrenheit, since it's practically the same thing.)

 But I should have realized that everyone enjoyed the Quick Looks so much they would automatically defend the game despite it's obvious flaws.  "

" @mutha3: Ha, I never said it's wrong, I just think it's fucking questionable. To be fair I have always had ridiculously high expectations of voice acting in games and i'm usually disappointed. Maybe it's because i'm British and most american voice actors sound weird to me :S "

I'm pretty amazed at how many people seemed to really enjoy this game. We were all playing the same game, right? Deadly Premonition? The one with the women zombies who crawl down the walls at you for ages and take dozens of shots to kill? The one with the stunningly awkward QTE chase sequences? That game with the worst texturing I have ever seen in an Xbox 360 game? People liked that? 
 
Man, i'm out of touch :S

Subversive crime mystery videogames with schizophrenic main protagonists and plot twists are like a religion and Deadly Premonition is THE SHIT.

...God I'm so excited for this game come the 29th!

generous score. the game is awful. 

We all know that Edge sucks, what else is not new at all?

" generous score. the game is awful.  "

" generous score. the game is awful.  "

Sweep, The gameplay is shit, I don't think anyone can dispute that,  
  
But dude, it was made for peanuts, and is $20 and for $20 you get a lot of good stuff, I only watched a bit of the ER, I played the game with a mates Xbox. 

" I'm pretty amazed at how many people seemed to really enjoy this game. We were all playing the same game, right? Deadly Premonition? The one with the women zombies who crawl down the walls at you for ages and take dozens of shots to kill? The one with the stunningly awkward QTE chase sequences? That game with the worst texturing I have ever seen in an Xbox 360 game? People liked that?  Man, i'm out of touch :S "

" generous score. the game is awful.  "

Hold thy tongue, lest it be held for you.

Also, are you Indian??

" I'm pretty amazed at how many people seemed to really enjoy this game. We were all playing the same game, right? Deadly Premonition? The one with the women zombies who crawl down the walls at you for ages and take dozens of shots to kill? The one with the stunningly awkward QTE chase sequences? That game with the worst texturing I have ever seen in an Xbox 360 game? People liked that?  Man, i'm out of touch :S "

I feel a 7 is justifiable, nothing more 
The game had a lot of charm to it, and the music was pretty damn good 
I also like the characters and how over the top they were and the story was decent 
However the gameplay was pretty crap and the game was janky, therefore nothing above a 7 is reasonable

Trying to advocate a kind of discussion like this on GB, the site where "Endurance runs" live is a brave, yet foolhardy attempt. Good luck, brother. You're in bat country

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10/10 from Destructoid. "

" I think that's a pretty good score for it honestly. The gameplay sucks, but it was still entertaining from start to finish.  I think it's bullshit that the terrible design flaws were done on purpose though. "

" Trying to advocate a kind of discussion like this on GB, the site where "Endurance runs" live is a brave, yet foolhardy attempt. Good luck, brother. You're in bat country "

Meh. I agree that the story-telling is a notch above what a lot of games put in, and I'd almost use the same language they did to describe it. Almost. That said, I'd also point very strongly at the very broken game the spectacular narrative lays on.

EDGE giving a 7 is a big thing. They're really, really nitpicky and I'm surprised it didn't get like, a 2.

Oh man even the scores given to this game are pretty weird. As if the game itself wasn't such a clusterfuck. On the other hand I've stopped caring for review scores anyway since it's the actual review itself is what matters. But this is still confusing me a great deal. Ah whatever, I'll admit that it's interesting in a few places and I certainly won't deny the many faults that this game has but having said that I'm pretty interested in playing the game myself just to see what's it like. 
 
Also, that Destructoid score on the cover? Humorous but also very misleading to anyone who doesn't know what Destructoid is.

" EDGE, a magazine with it's head so far up it's ass it can see out of it's own belly button, has decided that Deadly Premonition is not the janky monstrosity that we all know it is, and has given the game 7 bananas out of whatever the fuck bullshit scoring context they use.