What is the Twin Peaks of video games?
Hard mode: No Silent Hill, Deadly Premonition or Life is Strange
What is the Twin Peaks of video games? Hard mode: No Silent Hill, Deadly Premonition or Life is Strange
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Links Awakening. Also Shadows of Doubt
How is Shadows of Doubt anything like Twin Peaks?
I will not elaborate
I mean, there's only like one other game then.
still haven't played this
it's merciless, basically impossible to finish without a guide
there's a timer and you have to be everywhere at the right place and time in the right order (it is in no way clear), otherwise you miss something and are locked out from completing the game
Probably requires a cheat to slow down the timer at least
It's more like a roguelike experience, but the game forces you to note evens' schedule by yourself.
Alan Wake.
Red and Flint county in SA
Persona 4
Alan Wake and it's not even close.
Well there is a something called Kentucky Route Zero, which is obviously very similar to Twin Peaks, but it's barely a game.
Alternatively:
Pathologic 1/2 seems very different on superficial levels, but it is deeply related to it at core as it is a member of the same actual school of fiction, and unlike KRZ these are fully fleshed out games.
Alan Wake and Mizzurna Falls. If you want to play Mizzurna be sure to use the 2021 translation patch not the 2019 one.
disco elysium
You know I didn't think about it until you mentioned but I can see it
Inland Empire as a stat alone is 100% even in the literal sense.
Alan Wake
>No Deadly Premonition
You're an idiot
Deadly Premonition 2
>Life is Strange
Im not sure anyone would've said that in the first place
its the same people who CONSTANTLY recommended Stranger Things to me cause ItS ToTaLlY jUsT LiKe TwiN PeAks
Alan's Wake and Life Is Strage are games that are choke-full of extremely superifical references and analogies to Twin Peaks, so people who only see TP as a collection of aesthetic tropes and supernatual gimmicks, will naturally see them related.
In reality, they are extremely different on more fundamental level. But people see that LiS takes place in a small-town americana-heavy US mountains, it features high school studients, some degree of magical elements, and you know - that is enough for most people.
I don't really think there's any game that embodies twin peaks on a deeper level than that
>I don't really think there's any game that embodies twin peaks on a deeper level than that
I disagree, I can think of at least two, which I posted here:
Kentucky Route Zero is unfortunately, little more than a mildly interactive fiction. But it is quite damn good at understanding the source of TP and it's real inspirations, plus it also happens to explore the subject of americana in the process.
Pathologic 1/2 are games build around the same fundamental school of fiction - magical realism - but explored in a different cultural context - pre-revolutionary Russian colonial outskirts. But it is by far the most deep study of the magical realism concepts and I found that most people who have the patience to play these games agree.
After all, despite it's strong ties to Russian classics, Pathologic was most heavily inspired by authors such as Borges and Bradbury, themselves tied to american history.
I can't speak much for the other titles that get often recommended, the Japanese works like Mizuna Falls, Deadly Premonition or Flower, Sun and Rain, because I've never played them, but I can tell you one thing:
Japan is actually THE capital of magical realism in the world. It resonated there most strongly, becoming even a part of mainstream literature. Eastern Europe, South America and North America following in that order.
>choke-full
That's what I did to your mom last night fag
life is strange also has a missing girl, rachel amber
Harvester is probably the closest anyones gotten to a "lynchian" experience in a game
Deadly premonition is the only good one. It's a fucking disgrace it took like 300 replies for some anon to mention it, how far this board has fallen...
The fuck are you on about?
>right in the OP
>replies as though it isn't there
truly lynchian
>truly lynchian
did you rike it
Dude deadly premonition is in the games category of "so bad it's good"
Which you kinda could say about the original TwinPeaks.
I mean the whole idea was to make a fucking soap opera mixed with magical realism. Being bad was part of the pitch.
deadly premonition is jank but it does a lot of really ambitious and cool things.
if there are a sufficient number of recommendations I'll make a "Twin Peaks-core" infographic for easier posting in the future
Aside from the usual suspects:
>The Vanishing of Ethan Carter
>Oxenfree
>Thimbleweed Park
>Virginia
>The Evil Within
>The Darkside Detective
Link's Awakening
Majora's Mask
Disco Elysium
Hotel Dusk: Room 215
Last Window: The Secret of Cape West
Trace Memory
Season 3 of TP is my favorite, followed by Fire Walk With Me btw.
Aconcagua
the cube escape series
>what's 2+2? NO YOU CAN'T SAY 4!
Mizzurna Falls
yeah but it's a 1:1 ripoff of twin peaks, only without all the supernatural stuff
>yeah but it's a 1:1 ripoff of twin peaks, only without all the supernatural stuff
How the fuck do you make a rippoff of Twinpeaks if you DON'T include the supernatural stuff?
That is like saying "It's 1:1 rip-off of Kafka, except for the absurdity." You are removing what is defining for the story.