Partly that's due to the original's wonderful sense of place its small-town murder mystery might have borrowed liberally from Twin Peaks, but its open-world setting - the perpetually grey, pine-scented highways and byways of Greenvale, Washington - felt both distinctive and positively alive as its sprawling cast of wonderfully realised oddball inhabitants went about their daily schedules in real-time, revealing their secrets to anyone with the curiosity to follow and observe.
Enough of us would argue though - unironically and with absolute earnestness - that it's also brilliant, a masterpiece of form bold, ambitious, fiercely heartfelt, and a game that aims so, so high, and succeeds not because of, but in spite of its flaws. On a fundamental level, it's a mess - a groaning slab of technical shortcomings and design deficiencies that would usually be enough to sink a game without a trace - and it's a game that's often dismissed, unfairly I think, as bit of a joke, a so-bad-it's-good experience worthy of a chuckle on YouTube and nothing more.
Trying to talk about the original Deadly Premonition is complicated. A characterful, frequently charming sequel that doesn't quite match up to the original - and somehow performs worse.
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