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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  1. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Links Awakening. Also Shadows of Doubt

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      How is Shadows of Doubt anything like Twin Peaks?

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        I will not elaborate

  2. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    I mean, there's only like one other game then.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      still haven't played this

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        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

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          Probably requires a cheat to slow down the timer at least

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          It's more like a roguelike experience, but the game forces you to note evens' schedule by yourself.

  3. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Alan Wake.

  4. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Red and Flint county in SA

  5. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Persona 4

  6. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Alan Wake and it's not even close.

  7. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    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.

  8. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Alan Wake and Mizzurna Falls. If you want to play Mizzurna be sure to use the 2021 translation patch not the 2019 one.

  9. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    disco elysium

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      You know I didn't think about it until you mentioned but I can see it

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        Inland Empire as a stat alone is 100% even in the literal sense.

  10. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Alan Wake

  11. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    >No Deadly Premonition
    You're an idiot

  12. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Deadly Premonition 2

  13. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Life is Strange
    Im not sure anyone would've said that in the first place

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      its the same people who CONSTANTLY recommended Stranger Things to me cause ItS ToTaLlY jUsT LiKe TwiN PeAks

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      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.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        I don't really think there's any game that embodies twin peaks on a deeper level than that

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          >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:

          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.

          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.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        >choke-full

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          That's what I did to your mom last night gay

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        life is strange also has a missing girl, rachel amber

  14. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Harvester is probably the closest anyones gotten to a "lynchian" experience in a game

  15. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Deadly premonition is the only good one. It's a fricking disgrace it took like 300 replies for some anon to mention it, how far this board has fallen...

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      The frick are you on about?

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      >right in the OP
      >replies as though it isn't there
      truly lynchian

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        >truly lynchian
        did you rike it

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      Dude deadly premonition is in the games category of "so bad it's good"

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        Which you kinda could say about the original TwinPeaks.
        I mean the whole idea was to make a fricking soap opera mixed with magical realism. Being bad was part of the pitch.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        deadly premonition is jank but it does a lot of really ambitious and cool things.

  16. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    if there are a sufficient number of recommendations I'll make a "Twin Peaks-core" infographic for easier posting in the future

  17. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Aside from the usual suspects:
    >The Vanishing of Ethan Carter
    >Oxenfree
    >Thimbleweed Park
    >Virginia
    >The Evil Within
    >The Darkside Detective

  18. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    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.

  19. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Aconcagua

  20. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    the cube escape series

  21. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    >what's 2+2? NO YOU CAN'T SAY 4!

  22. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Mizzurna Falls

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      yeah but it's a 1:1 ripoff of twin peaks, only without all the supernatural stuff

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        >yeah but it's a 1:1 ripoff of twin peaks, only without all the supernatural stuff
        How the frick 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.

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