10 Video Games That Are Flawed Masterpieces
3. Deadly Premonition (2010)
The video game industry has increasingly become a serious place, where developers, critics and fans are constantly up in arms demanding perfection from one another. So sometimes it's refreshing to have a game that just does whatever the hell it wants.
Step forward, Deadly Premonition. Perhaps the greatest example of a game where the handbrake wasn't even installed to begin with, let alone applied, this homage to the noir genre is a complete mess. From different fonts being used, awful controls, beyond-corny dialogue and a painful frame rate that struggles to even justify this being an actually published title, it's one of the most polarising moments in gaming's history.
And yet, there is a magic about Deadly Premonition you just can't help but give your heart to.
Players have to navigate the gloomy world of Greenvale, solve the mystery of a serial killer at large, and also manage psychic detective Frances York Morgan as he tackles everything from refuelling a car to eating a sandwich.
It's a game that has earned its stripes as the most polarising horror game ever made, but it's so unapologetically itself that those who do get to grips with its flaws always end up having a brilliant time.