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"Look for D," she says, and I giggle. Internet culture has ruined the fourth letter of the alphabet, and D4: Dark Dreams Don't Die is drowning in D-driven dialogue. "I must find D," he says, and I become a puerile manchild; every line becomes a double entendre, and I can barely contain my laughter.

Perhaps you don't know why nine-year-old me is so tickled; you've never heard the lewd interpretation of the letter D, and that's OK. I suspect that D4 creator Swery 65 didn't intend for his lines to take on such sexual meaning, so feel free to disregard the naughty undercurrent. But I also suspect that Swery would approve of my salacious laughter. D4 is insanity distilled into adventure-game form, more self-consciously wacky than another Swery game, . No--D4 is both the game you are playing and your cooperative partner. I was never not aware of its 'game-ness,' I was never swept away into its world, I was never not aware of the real world around me. I do not mean those statements, however, to serve as a criticism. On the contrary, D4 and I laughed together at its own absurdities. How could we not? The game gamifies its own mechanics, for heaven's sake, awarding you points for thoroughly examining your surroundings, and taking them away when you interact with people and objects. There are even online leaderboards that somehow rank you against other players, an absurd and unnecessary feature in an absurd game that doesn't benefit from it in any meaningful way. No, I believe D4 understands itself, and I understand it too. It speaks an unusual language, certainly, and I couldn't blame anyone for finding it nigh incomprehensible, or just plain barmy. But if you're foolhardy enough to buy what it's selling, then welcome to the D4 Appreciation Society. There are worse clubs to belong to.

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Is D4 One Of The Weirdest Games Ever Made? Yes. Dark Dreams Don't Die When Colin Checks Out The First Hour Of Sweary's D4 On The Xbox One!

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D4 stars the young, eccentric, and hip David Young, whose wife was killed two years prior, and whose killer hasn’t yet been brought to justice. D4 stands for Dark Dreams Don't Die and also serves as a reference to the fourth dimension.

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From the creators of Spy Fiction and Deadly Premonition, D4 can be played using either a controller or Kinect

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D4 (Dark Dreams Don't Die) is a cinematic point-and-click game for the Xbox One that follows the story of a man trying to track down his wife's killer. At the booth, I found out that its worldwide release date is September 19, so ah, a few hours from this writing. Urgency burning, I gave it a try.

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The new screenshots continue to showcase just how weird this game is.

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Deadly Premonition creator's latest game receives surprise launch.
D4: Dark Dreams Don't Die, the latest game from Deadly Premonition creator Hidetaka 'Swery65' Suehiro, will be released worldwide on Xbox One on Friday.