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Deadly Premonition 2: A Blessing in Disguise

Deadly Premonition 2: A Blessing in Disguise is a sequel to Deadly Premonition that takes place in present-day Boston. Through unique storytelling, venture back in time to Le Carré and uncover the mysteries…

69 10 July 2020 ESRB M

Deadly Premonition 2: A Blessing in Disguise is an adventure developed by ToyBox, released 10 July 2020 on Nintendo Switch and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Deadly Premonition 2: A Blessing in Disguise is

Deadly Premonition 2: A Blessing in Disguise is an adventure game developed by ToyBox and released in 2020. It was published by Rising Star Games. It is available on Nintendo Switch and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity. It carries an ESRB M age rating.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Boston, 2019. FBI Special Agents Aaliyah Davis and Simon Jones, looking into a case long-thought solved, find themselves on the doorstep of a person of interest. Reports of a few missing bodies wouldn’t normally interest the FBI, but something about this case just doesn’t add up. Despite having few leads to go on, the pair hope asking this person the right questions about the ‘red tree’ might get them somewhere. But as the saying goes, be careful what you wish for – some cases are best left closed… Louisiana, 2005. A series of strange murders has blighted the backwater town of Le Carré and the FBI sends one of its young recruits, Special Agent Francis York Morgan, to investigate. Befriended…
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How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, comedy, drama and horror. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

Deadly Premonition 2: A Blessing in Disguise holds a critic score of 69 out of 100. That places it above 32% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2020 averaged 73, so it scored 4 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Deadly Premonition 2: A Blessing in Disguise launched on 10 July 2020, within three weeks of The Last of Us Part II, Ghost of Tsushima, Fortnite and Carrion. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 3 years into the Nintendo Switch's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: The Last of Us Part II, Ghost of Tsushima, Fortnite, Carrion.

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When did Deadly Premonition 2: A Blessing in Disguise come out?
Deadly Premonition 2: A Blessing in Disguise was released on 10 July 2020 for Nintendo Switch and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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