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Heavy Rain is a mystery game that involves the disappearance of a child and the race against the clock to save the kid before something really bad happens to them. Of course to discuss this game without diving into the story of the game would be an incredible injustice, but I will try and do my best to avoid spoilers in case this is a game that people haven't played (11 years since it came out). If you haven't played Heavy Rain, and you are looking to get into it purely for the "gameplay" then you might as well sit this one out, because this is an 85% story and 15% gameplay kind of game. I think its easy to trash the controls, and I won't sit here and pretend that they are great, but as someone who has played a lot of adventure games, and someone who did in fact enjoy the first Shenmue, I got accustomed to the controls very quickly and was able to instead focus my attention on the story of the game, which is obviously the main draw in this game. However, the large swath of the game has you walking around in 3rd person interacting with items in the background, talking to characters, and doing QTE (quick time events) to progress through the story. You might have to pull the trigger, and pull the joystick back to open a door, or rotate the joystick in a circle to twist on a faucet. By that I mean that doing something as simple as trying to open a door or turn on a faucet, has you operating the controller like the item you are trying to interact with. It operates a lot like an adventure game, with controls that "try" their best to be as immersive as possible. Heavy Rain is a very heavy story based game. However, we should pause here to talk about how the game is played. I knew that death was on the table, and it meant that I took the events seriously, it made me less likely to "play" around, because I wanted to do a good job. Operating out of that belief, made my experience a better one.
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Any spoilers I learned around the release of the game were out of my head when I finally got around to playing it and in fact the only thing that stuck with me, was the knowledge that characters could die and that the game would continue without them. I thought it was ok, and knew that Heavy Rain is the game that allowed David Cage to keep pumping out future games. I had played Fahrenheit a long long time ago. Now, before I get to talking about the experience I need to set the stage.
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For every time he makes a somewhat competent film, and everyone thinks he is back, then he makes something like "The Happening." To tie the comparison together, Heavy Rain is like the movie "Signs." A relatively well reviewed game, but one where the more you poke at the seams it starts to unravel and each subsequent playthrough makes the enjoyment drop dramatically.
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However, you may feel about him, I think he most closely resembles the Director M. Saying David Cage's name probably brings up a set response in a lot of people who visit this site. As well as the general art style, the short focal length of the cityscapes and origami killer of episode 2, Sherlock makes frequent use of Heavy Rain's publishing of emotions and thoughts to the screen via text.This is an ongoing list where I attempt to do the following: Play, Complete, and Rank every video game in the known universe in order to finally answer the age old question "What is the greatest game of all time?" For previous entries find the links on the attached spreadsheet.
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But Sherlock puts Heavy Rain PS3 to excellent use.
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It's not often that TV copies a videogame for its aesthetic, in fact gamers are usually busy trying to claim that games are like TV and film.
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But then, while watching the BBC's excellent new Sherlock series I started noticing a whole range of similarities to Heavy Rain. This was enough to get me playing it all over again - not to mention featuring it on Game People's podcast ( iTunes/ rss). And it had become something of a favorite topic of the dinner table and we compared our different routes through the game. We really enjoyed the Heavy Rain PS3 experience in our family - the older members at least. After the announcement of Heavy Rain's Move edition-enabled re-release I had been revisiting what I'd made of the game when it was first released. It's funny how particular game seems to resurface at different times.