It's so sad what happened to D4 because if this game had sustained enough money to keep going and Swery didn't unfortunately fall ill of health during development of then I really feel like we could've had something special here.
The production and presentation is the best any of Swery's games have ever been. A smooth and punchy cel shaded look, dynamic and well presented cutscenes, all topped off with a quality selection of tracks made by a variety of artists. The OST goes from Massive Attack to Drunken Pirate Bar Fight Metal, it's great!
You have all of this on top of a mystery. David, the detective you play, finds his wife dead. Her last words point towards finding someone (something?) to do with the letter D and her body had a drug called Real Blood in it. So as David you use this magical power you have to travel through time to solve the murder of your wife. There's not much else to say about the story since it'll never be told but it had an interesting premise! Also there's implied time travel loops and zero escape bullshit! Man!
Anyways, the real standout stuff though is the characters. The characters in this game are all peak Swery, the type of quirky, too big for real life characters you want to see in a game like his. The amount of personality each one is given is fantastic and it's all carried even further by the quality of voice acting. You can tell that Swery was able to get the best voice actors for this one. There's a crazy lady on a airplane who makes notes of everything, there's a glamour model who carries his mannequin wife around with him and your cat who is not a cat but a human girl pretending to be a cat but maybe it actually is your cat???...idk.
And the game is controlled by a pretty basic but easy to use point and click interface. Like for real, everything about Season 1 of D4 is pure quality. The only thing I could really complain about is how there's actually only like...four areas in the entire season but even then I don't care that much when they're filled with as many interactables and characters as they are! This was going to be Swery's big chance at making a proper full quality game!
But alas.
The production and presentation is the best any of Swery's games have ever been. A smooth and punchy cel shaded look, dynamic and well presented cutscenes, all topped off with a quality selection of tracks made by a variety of artists. The OST goes from Massive Attack to Drunken Pirate Bar Fight Metal, it's great!
You have all of this on top of a mystery. David, the detective you play, finds his wife dead. Her last words point towards finding someone (something?) to do with the letter D and her body had a drug called Real Blood in it. So as David you use this magical power you have to travel through time to solve the murder of your wife. There's not much else to say about the story since it'll never be told but it had an interesting premise! Also there's implied time travel loops and zero escape bullshit! Man!
Anyways, the real standout stuff though is the characters. The characters in this game are all peak Swery, the type of quirky, too big for real life characters you want to see in a game like his. The amount of personality each one is given is fantastic and it's all carried even further by the quality of voice acting. You can tell that Swery was able to get the best voice actors for this one. There's a crazy lady on a airplane who makes notes of everything, there's a glamour model who carries his mannequin wife around with him and your cat who is not a cat but a human girl pretending to be a cat but maybe it actually is your cat???...idk.
And the game is controlled by a pretty basic but easy to use point and click interface. Like for real, everything about Season 1 of D4 is pure quality. The only thing I could really complain about is how there's actually only like...four areas in the entire season but even then I don't care that much when they're filled with as many interactables and characters as they are! This was going to be Swery's big chance at making a proper full quality game!
But alas.