Not unexpectedly, considering that it's being made by the same man who brought Deadly Premonition into the world, D4 is absolutely nuts. Standing for Dark Dreams Don't Die, it's an episodic adventure game by Access Games and Hidetaka Suehiro – Swery, to his friends. It's an Xbox One exclusive that sits rather awkwardly next to all the other games announced from the platform, almost all of which are Western and, well, not clearly insane.
D4 stars a very pretty detective called David, who can dive into and relive the past by touching people's mementoes. This, as you might imagine, makes him a pretty damned good detective. His appearance is very different from Swery's other hero, Agent Francis York Morgan – instead of close-cropped hair, a far-off gaze and a facial scar, he's got shoulder-length, lustrous-looking brown hair, a cute beard and and eyes of different colours, David Bowie-style. But he does seem to share some odd mannerisms like the contemplative chin-stroke and habitual self-talk, with a bubblegum-chewing habit in place of York's fondness for a cigarette.
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