Hidetaka Suehiro, better known under his nickname “SWERY,” is now the face of Access Games thanks to Deadly Premonition. An amalgamation of members from DeepSPACE ( Extermination, Hungry Ghosts) and Whoopee Camp ( Tomba!, Tomba! 2), Access Games first venture was Spy Fiction which received middling reviews, but is now garnering some belated attention for itself due to two characters in Deadly Premonition having appeared in it first. While the developer, Access Games was (and still is) relatively unknown, their lineage can be traced back to two now defunct development studios. During this period a great deal, if not all of the dialogue was re-recorded while a few characters, most notably the protagonist, had their character designs changed. This was undoubtedly due to the unashamed Twin Peaks references littered all over the trailer, although Access Games has never touched further on this. After this the game disappeared for some time. Those who did pay attention to it dismissed it as a poor Twin Peaks imitation. This footage received little coverage from the press. Japanese text comes up at the end and reads “the more it rains, the crazier this town becomes.” The trailer ends with the David character saying “I finally got to see the real Rainy Woods” while a sultry female lounge singer singing over piano cuts in with a clear “Coming 2008” message emblazoned across the screen. Glimpses are shown of a dark, axe-wielding figure with glowing red eyes in a long, red coat. Two creepy, elderly twin dwarves chant while making jerky, jarring marionette-like movements in a red room. The body of a young woman named Anna is shown laid out in a morgue while another woman is shown tangled up in a grisly death-trap. The trailer showed glimpses of the odd happenings in the town. The protagonist was introduced as baby-faced FBI Agent David Young Henning. Previously unannounced, the game trailer showed a moody, atmospheric albeit graphically unimpressive town by the name of “Rainy Woods” – the game’s name at the time. Deadly Premonition, in its first form, was unveiled during Tokyo Game Show 2007.
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