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November 14, 2024

Heavy Rain game review: Press X to Jason

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So praised. So weird. So melancholic.

My biggest problem with Heavy Rain: Move Edition was that my neck couldn't handle playing it. When I played it for the first time in April 2015, I got terrible neck pain and headache for several days. It was just that my body couldn't stand the constant swinging of the controller. After that, I didn't dare to play this game for a long time.

I just don't understand these "movie-like" games where you can hardly play yourself at all. And is Heavy Rain trying to be a Sims game when you have to e.g. take a shower, take a shit and shake a juice can? It makes zero sense, it's just insanely ridiculous. Why not other games like Resident Evil have these stupid things? And just shaking the damn juice was the worst thing for my neck!

It wasn't until the end of the game that I was shocked. It was a real jaw-dropping moment. There are probably 17 possible endings, and of course I got the worst option: All the characters died. I didn't get to save the little boy. :( I killed one of the playable characters on purpose, the others died only because I'm so bad at playing. So who I hated so much that I wanted them dead? Take a wild guess.




 

I thought should I sacrifice my neck and replay the game just to get a better ending? Or even just to be able to rescue the kidnapped child?






 

So after a long break I returned to the game Heavy Rain. Like I said, back then my biggest problem was that my neck couldn't stand playing the Move version of this game. This second time, however, my neck, which was already completely shit, held up surprisingly well. Maybe it's because I didn't shake the juice can this time? It turns out that it's not mandatory in the game at all!

Life felt quite empty and purposeless after for a few days I focused solely on Heavy Rain. I played through the last chapters of the game so many times, because I wanted to see all the possible different endings (there are about 17 of them in the game).

About a million different things annoy me in the game, especially the gaps in the plot. No explanation was given for Ethan's memory lapses, origami, and why he saw people drowning. Why wasn't Ethan held accountable for the murder of the drug dealer he committed? At least you can't claim that he didn't leave evidence of himself at the murder scene... How did Shaun or the other victims survive for days in the cold rainwater without dying of hypothermia? Why was the killer chasing the Kramers?





Song: Press X to Jason

 


 

Heavy Rain: Who is the killer?

 

Heavy Rain game spoilers below!!

 

Be warned!

 

The killer in Heavy Rain is the private investigator who is investigating the case, Scott Shelby. As a child he had a brother who died by getting stuck to cold water. Their asshole father wouldn't help the poor boy.

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