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Why Am I Dead: Rebirth

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Why Am I Dead: Rebirth is a mystery/adventure game where you are trying to solve a murder. Specifically, your murder. You play as a ghost that can jump into peoples' bodies and use them to investigate your death.


The controls have two schemes for righties and lefties, and the keys are rebindable through the options menu. I plan to include medals soon.


Narrator: He did not include medals.


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This is actually a remake of a game I released two years ago, called Why Am I Dead.


What's different between this game and the original? Almost everything. The graphics have been redone from the ground up, with brand new sprites for every character and object. There has been a lot of dialogue added to the game, with old writing often being reworked or scrapped for something new entirely. Technically, there is even an additional character you can possess! Characters also have an AI and are able to move around on their own. Lastly and most significantly, there is more content in this version, by which I mean there are more endings to this game than the last one.


There's also a sequel to this game available on Steam, with a new cast, story, lots of new features and complete soundtrack! Check it out!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/359400/Why_Am_I_Dead_At_Sea/

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That was pretty good! got 4 endings (guess that's all the endings?)
I played the sequel first so it's kinda funny to see some people I recognized "smug", but also kinda spoiled me.
The soundtrack was really compared to "at sea" and the ghost is really underutilized and don't really add to the story.
I really like this concept and it would look like it was planned to be a serie?
If so it kinda sad that they were nothing else, because there a lot of remaining questions hanguing aroung

PeltastDesign responds:

hey thanks! glad you liked it. and yup sounds like you got all the endings. it's definitely a smaller and simpler game than the sequel, and the original 2012 upload was even simpler. it went from one ending, to two, to four. i guess the next game i make will have to have 8 endings!

it was never planned as a series. however, when I made this "Rebirth" version, I was also working on the sequel (and had been for some time) so I added more things that connected the two together. I didn't really have any more plans than that - I had already ended up working on these games much more than expected :p

thanks for the review!

Games work fine. It's cause Flash got taken down, use the Newgrounds player and you'll be fine.

still waiting on those medals

PeltastDesign responds:

ummmmmm oops

ironic title

The original game was pretty amazing, and I like the depth added to the story, but I don't think it has enough replay value for me to try for two new endings. Even with the changes made, I had absolutely no motivation to play the same game I've already beaten twice two more times just for some new dialogue and such.

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