Deadly Premonition (PS3) - Chapter 9 at night
6If you break into Muses Gallery with glitches and complete Chapter 8 at night, afterwards Chapter 9 will begin at night as well, causing some unintended and semi-serious side effects.
0:00 - the first thing you'll notice is that NPCs seemingly cannot spawn to the overworld at night. Therefore, the level's intro cutscene features York all by himself, talking to some disembodied voices.
1:00 - afterwards, you're supposed to go to the A&G Diner with Emily. Although Emily is not present, the game is currently inside an escort section where she (or at least her disembodied voice) will complain to York if he tries to wander off by himself.
Entering a car will cause another slightly buggy cutscene to play. Afterwards, the escort section is essentially over, with Emily gone and the game acting as if she was never even there. This means you can't drive all the way to A&G Diner with invisible Emily accompanying you.
(Not on the video: if you smoke until it's morning, then enter the car, Emily will magically appear inside this cutscene, allowing the escort section to progress like normal.)
2:15 - trying to leave the escort zone by walking creates an interesting side effect. As mentioned, Emily's disembodied voice will complain to York for a bit, after which you can choose to either stay with her or go separate ways. Going separate ways ends the escort section like usual. However, choosing to stay with her has a buggy effect. Since Emily is not present, York will not turn to face her during this cutscene, and therefore his auto-walk will continue moving him to his previous direction. York is immune to collision during an auto-walk like this, so you can freely go out of bounds at the boundaries of the escort zone.
The most obvious use for this is reaching the shed behind Muses Gallery early. Unfortunately, since this is only Chapter 9, nothing very interesting happens at the shed. There are no cutscene triggers, the ladder leading underground has no prompt and you can't break the padlock of the nearby gate to open it for later either.
(Not on the vid: immediately after loading the Chapter, no enemies can spawn near Muses Gallery. If you want to test things with enemies, you either need to sleep or smoke for 24 hours for a new night to begin.)
3:47 - in the faint hope of there possibly being a loading zone around the shed's underground passage, I tried clipping into the shed to see what would happen. The ladder leading down is protected from most sides by collision, though, so this didn't result in anything too helpful.
4:53 - also tried clipping the porch... yeah.
(Not on the vid: theoretically, if you pushed the box 7 times and got it all the way around the porch, you could try clipping the wall from a new location, potentially allowing you to go around these invisible walls and attempt reaching the underground passage from behind. However, to do this you'd need to be able to leave the shed after getting there early, hit some loading zone, then return to shed from out of bounds a second time to finish pushing the box 7 times... but this kind of a sequence is so far impossible.)
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