EDIT: kind of figured this out on my own. My advice to anyone else is in white
I started playing Dead Rising a couple days ago, and I can't help but feel like I suck at it. Right now, I'm just going with doing the cases and ignoring everything else.
Does anyone have any first time tips I can use? I'm talking just general things, really.
Ignore the cases during your first playthrough, and go for the zombie genocider achievement. Pick up the horror novel (for extra PP) from Bachman Books in Paradise Plaza, then go to the parking lot in Leisure Park. Pick up the red car and drive around the maintenence tunnels running over zombies. You'll get a ton of PP and level up a lot, helping your health, attack, speed and stock. The red car will eventually break, but there's a truck in the tunnels underneath Seon's store, and a white car beneath paradise plaza
Also wondering about the following:
-how do you get that Kent guy (the other photographer) to leave you alone? I take the first two pictures like he says, but then he won't go away and doesn't seem to tell you to do anything else.
The first photo you need to take is of Kent taking a picture. The second is when he does his fist pump. He'll disappear for 24 hrs after this
-I noticed on the map there seem to be a number of restrooms that are behind doors requiring a 'maintenance key'. Where can you find this key?
It's in the maintenence tunnels. When entering the tunnels from Leisure Park, take the first right, then the first left, then the first right. It's in the room at the end of this tunnel.