D4: Dark Dreams Don't Die

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D4: Dark Dreams Don't Die
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Developer(s) Access Games
Publisher(s) Xbox One
Microsoft Studios
Microsoft Windows
Playism
Director(s) Hidetaka Suehiro
Producer(s) Nobou Tomita
Artist(s) Hitoshi Okamoto
Writer(s) Hidetaka Suehiro
Hiroyuki Saegusa
Kenji Goda
Composer(s) Tomomi Teratani
Yuji Takenouchi
Rio Okano
Atsushi Yamaji
Engine Unreal Engine 3[1]
Platforms Xbox One, Microsoft Windows
Release date(s) Xbox One
19 September 2014
Microsoft Windows
5 June 2015
Genre(s) Adventure
Mode(s) Single-player[2]

D4: Dark Dreams Don't Die is an episodic video game developed by Access Games and originally published by Microsoft Studios for the Xbox One. The title represents the phrase "Dark Dreams Don't Die," as well as the fourth dimension (time).[3] The game is unrelated to the D video game series.[3][4] The initial release contains a prologue and two episodes that make up season one of the series. A PC version was released on 5 June 2015, published by Playism in partnership with Access Games.

Gameplay

The main character is David Young, a private investigator whose wife has been murdered.[3] The traumatic events surrounding her death left Young unable to recollect those memories, but has allowed him to travel through time.[3] Young travels through time to undo the murder.[3] The player cannot time travel arbitrarily, as the powers are activated upon finding certain objects that bring the player to specific points in time.[3]

D4 is an Xbox One title that uses Kinect controls with "simple gestures and voice" to uncover the mystery.[3] The game uses cel-shaded graphics similar to that of a graphic novel.[3] For the PC version, however, Kinect has been disabled in favor of mouse controls. Some improvements have also been implemented in the PC version, such as upgrading the frame rate to 60 fps, shortening load times, and fixing bugs that were present in the original version.[5]

Plot

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After the death of his wife, former Boston police narcotics officer turned private detective, David Young gains the supernatural ability to travel into the past by touching left-behind items referred to as "mementos". Two years earlier David's wife was murdered and David received a blow to the head which caused him to lose his memory of the event except for his wife's final words "Look for D". David with his newly gained ability uses it to uncover the unknown assailant by investigating everyone whose name starts with "D". With help from his former partner Young gets a lead about a man, whose boss's name starts with D, went missing on a plane after it was struck by lightning and David uses a memento to travel back into the past to investigate.

Reception

Reception
Aggregate scores
Aggregator Score
GameRankings (XONE) 75.80%[6]
(PC) 73.67%[7]
Metacritic (XONE) 76/100[8]
(PC) 67/100[9]
Review scores
Publication Score
Destructoid 9/10[10]
Game Informer 7.5/10[11]
Game Revolution 4/5 stars[12][13]
GameSpot 7/10[14]
Giant Bomb 4/5 stars[15]
IGN 7/10[16]
PC Gamer (US) 78/10[17]
Polygon 7/10[18]

D4: Dark Dreams Don't Die received positive reviews from critics, with praise directed towards the game's depth, attention to detail, and bizarreness, with many drawing comparison to Deadly Premonition. Aggregating review websites GameRankings and Metacritic gave the Xbox One version 75.80% based on 30 reviews and 76/100 based on 43 reviews[6][8] and the Microsoft Windows version 63.20% based on 9 reviews and 67/100 based on 14 reviews.[7][9]

D4: Dark Dreams Don't Die was nominated for "Destructoid's Best of E3 2014" as "Best Xbox Exclusive" at E3 in 2014.[19] It was also nominated for "TGS Awards 2014" in the category Xbox at TGS, and for "4Gamer Awards" as "Rookie Exclusive" on 1 October 2014.[20]

References

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External links

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