So I'm 30 minutes into the PC version of Deadly Premonition, playing for the first time, and already this game owes some serious money in likeness royalties. I'm sure other people have noticed this and I'm just late to a party that started in 2010. But seriously, they had to be using these actors for their facial models, right? The resemblance is so strong it's almost distracting. Anyway, loving the game so far, but I had to see if anyone else had noticed.

Yeah, I immediately thought of Naomi when seeing Emily.

And Nintendo for Life is Beautiful.

Modeling characters on actors without their likeness rights is semi common in Japanese games. Metal Gear does it a lot too.

I knew I found Emily attractive for some reason!

@taku128 said:

Same with Resident Evil: Outbreak. Some more than others, but Mark for example is straight-up video game Ving Rhames... or, the other video game Ving Rhames. Kevin, however, is probably the closest we'll ever get to a video game Tom Cruise, for better or worse. They're not all Hollywood A-listers, though, as Cindy I would think is based on Sammy Winward, who's just a soap actress.

Or they're all just coincidences! But some are simply too uncanny for me to believe that.

If you guys need straws I have a box right here.

I could post other character comparisons with actors, but it would unfortunately be spoilers.

Have fun! Make sure to do the side ghost missions!

And to think they had to redo the characters to avoid them looking too much like the Twin Peaks cast... they just up and copy a bunch of other people!