Heavy Rain

Life is fragile. You must muster the courage to make the difficult decisions while there's still time so you don't regret it later. This is the message that I received from this game, and the sudden demise of my father-in-law early this week makes it hit home. Cherish every moment with your family, because you never know if there will be a tomorrow. This game is overall an immersive experience with a good crime thriller movie. First run is intriguing as you try to figure out the identity of the serial killer. Subsequent runs provides more information and possible outcomes and gives a full picture of the story. Achievements are mostly fine. The most difficult one is to see all endings as there are many possible combinations. Chapter select with save and no save options are great to save a lot of re-run time. Steam deck is not suitable for this game. For QTEs to shake your mouse horizontally or vertically, you will need to shake the whole deck like crazy. It just doesn't work. Not to mention the difficult QTEs like making the tie which I couldn't even complete reliably with the mouse.

"It's an underappreciated classic video game. Yeah, it's not perfect—especially the first hour, which was boring as hell—but after the first hour, specifically after a certain event, it gets intriguing."

[code]Casual playthrough ~10 hours No major spoilers in this review! Due to weird unchangeable keybinds, this game is unplayable on the Steamdeck! [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/45534557/]@MatureContent[/url][/code] I'm pleasantly surprised with this game, I honestly didn't have the best expectations going into it after playing Fahrenheit, which is another older and similar title from the same creators. Heavy Rain was thankfully much better. When this game came out, over 16 years ago, it was advertised more as a revolutionary title in terms of graphics and animations, than a game with a deep and captivating story. While the game still looks good for that old a title, it definitely isn't the selling point anymore and I'll therefore only rate it based on the story telling and how it feels to play. You play as Ethan Mars, a father battling life after the tragic loss of his first-born son Jason and the divorce with his ex-wife Grace Mars. Ethans grief has led him down a path of depression and he also suffers from these weird blackouts which leads to memory loss, but Ethans life is about to take another big toll, when his younger son Shaun disappears after a trip to the park. At the same time the successful origami killer is active and regularly on the news. This is where the story begins. The story in this game is told through multiple stories all running simultaneously and all trying to solve the same thing, though in very different ways. There are quite a few different playable characters and I actually like all of them except for Madison. Madison is so clearly just a character made to add a romantic spin to the story and it makes her end up looking kinda crazy. Spoiler warning: In my game, she falls in love with Ethan after she finds out he cut off his own finger and shot a man dead because of tiny origami pieces telling him to do so to save his son. Ethan himself also told her he isn't even entirely sure whether or not he himself might be the killer, yet she just trusts him, helps him escape from the police multiple times and later sleeps with him. The rest of the characters are well written though. I had first installed this game on my Steam Deck to play it on that, but it was unfortunately impossible due to the game being mapped to the DualShock controllers and therefore includes control segments that rely on controller angle movement and that isn't possible on the Steam Deck. This game took me about 10 hours to complete with only one character dying near the end, but there is a total of 17ish different endings with many of them being very different from one another, at least from what I saw on YouTube. The controls on keyboard and mouse mostly just involve QTEs built of a mix of wasd, lmb, rmb and mouse movement combos and dialogue options are chosen by pressing either 1, 2, 3, 4 and so on. This works pretty well for the most part, no issues with the controls really, they are all pretty intuitive. This is a really slow game, even for a game in this genre, so if you don't like these "movie" games because of their pace, you most definitely won't like this game and the same goes for QTEs, if you don't like QTEs, you also won't like this game, because it is really heavy on those, it is like 90% of all the gameplay. I definitely recommend playing this game if you like games in this genre. The story is good and there are so many places within the story where your actions really have meaning. Like if you are too slow or forget about certain things it will change the ending of the story and there are multiple good and bad endings. It is also a cheap game, I think it sells for just a few bucks on sale. Definitely give it a try! ————————————————————————————— [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/45534557/]Help me out by following my Curator, I’d really appreciate it!![/url]

Lets get the few positives out of the way: this is a decent port, it runs well, looks good (as good as Heavy Rain can look), and all the controller prompts work even on my PS5 controller. Having said that, it crashes a LOT, and I cannot replay certain chapters (from the chapter select menu) because loading them just hard crashes to desktop. Now for everything else. Much like David Cage's other games quote "not made for ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥" this one is horribly written and extremely derivative of much better movies that Cage lacks the talent to emulate well. Of all his games this one has the most interesting premise, but between the horrid acting, choices that don't ultimately mean anything, unexplained plotlines (Ethan's blackouts to name one) that are in fact DUMBER once the original explanation is found out externally, laughable scenes that remove any seriousness, stereotypical character writing, character thoughts that LIE to you even though narratively they makes no sense (Shelby, its Shelby), certain prompts are jank af to get the game to respond to, slow and boring gameplay that makes me wish I was playing Until Dawn, Madison's entire character is pointless, Shelby as a character entirely (one of the worst twist villains I've seen)... I could go on with how this game fails spectacularly in every facet possible, but I think you get the point, it can only really be enjoyed as a "so bad it's good" game or if you have never seen a movie before. A good time with friends to laugh at it and do fail-throughs, but weed or alcohol is needed to drag you through the plodding pointless sections. Get it for $2 or less, the hack that is David Cage doesn't deserve anything for this trite, but hey, at least his company will probably be going under soon so at least there's that to look forward to :D

WOW! This story was something else. High-stakes, thrilling, and exhilarating. I wish this was a TV show too. It'll be great show, I'm telling you. The choices here have a lot of possibilities, I impressed with the chain of events that are happening. As for controls, I think the keyboard and mouse is fine. A controller is more comfortable obviously but I managed. I'm glad to get this game for free from a friend. It was amazing and I hope to play more of this game. I'll be replaying this again someday. Y'all give it a try and hopefully y'all would love it.

Won Sword Fight Agaisnt a Kid And Then Spammed His Name In Victory JASON JASON JASON JASON

É um dos jogos clássicos e uma verdadeira pérola do PS3, porém, esse é um PORT direto do PS3, que foi feito da forma mais terrível e preguiçosa possível. Otimização péssima, até para computadores mais parrudos e, possui um erro nos analógicos onde torna esse jogo inviável de ser jogado. Porém, a comunidade fez a configuração perfeita que corrige esse problema, demonstrando a total incopetência de quem fez esse port. São plataformas diferentes, hardwares diferentes, mas, a Quantic Dream nunca sequer cogitou em corrigir e fazer o mínimo para tornar um dos seus jogos mais memoráveis, jogável.

10/10 Game. I have no words to describe how amazing this game is. From character range, to story writing, to atmosphere and to range of emotions you will experience throughout the whole game... its just.. perfect. I've never seen a game like this that displays such a huge range of emotions and full of thrill and suspense. The plot-twist was... genuinely peak.. I did not see that one coming. I recommend that everyone plays this game. It's SO good.

После Fahrenheit - Heavy Rain прям Шедевр. Все персонажи отлично прописаны. Но особенно понравился Норман Джейден - Агент ФБР и его устройство УРС. И конечно же, милашка журналистка Мэдисон Пейдж. Игра очень атмосферная, люблю дождь. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3763323572

i clocked the origami killer within less than an hour and I thought it was so obvious that it must be a red herring, but then it gets revealed and the game treats the obvious tell I spotted as though it was some easily missed minor detail. the game also just outright lied to me about events that occurred hours ago about characters i was in control of the entire time, with no diagetic explanation. it felt like cage wrote himself into a corner and just cheated his way out of it lol i cant believe this game got praised for it's writing at the time, truly the bar for what counted as "good writing" for games was in the marianas trench compared to any other medium