Then to make it worse, the guy pretty much falls into a bleak depression due to incidents, and the controls reflect that. He is not strong, not active or proactive, very mundane and in no way a hero as we think of one in games. He is -not- a very likeable chap and imo, specifically designed that way to be an everyman. Given the chapters you’ve listed, you’ve been primarily playing as one of the more central characters Ethan Mars. Heavy Rain especially has a very slow start. If you’re not currently open to some suspension of disbelief while Quantic Dreams provides you with a game that isn’t a typical game as we understand it (rules, obstacle, challenge, combat, defeat or victory), but instead a game or “interactive experience” that is more about how can we make the player feel powerfully-moving or meaningful non-typical emotions that are less explored in traditonal game settings, you will probably not like any Quantic Dream games.īut if you are willing to give it a shot, then play on. The earlier the game, the more heavyhanded and clumsy this gets, story, plot, characters, QTE and all.
On a sidenote I would like to know if you've continued or not, and if you did how you liked the game!Ī bit late to the reply party, but I loved Heavy Rain so let me give you my thoughts too:Ī lot of David Cage’s games are about trying to set a mood, and to give the player an emotional experience. (The ''spoiler'' being that the game continues after effectively ''losing'' one of the characters!) I would not recommend such measure, but it could be a way to shorten the game/get rid of annoying characters I suppose!? Seems too harsh to me and breaks with the ''natural flow'' and story driven element, in my opinion. Thus he Googled a way to get rid of that particular character.
Possible harsh solution (very minor spoiler if you're somewhat unware about the nature of the game):Ī friend of mine liked the game, but didn't like one of the characters. I don't know how much you are annoyed by the controls, it didn't bother me at all back when I played it, so I did not take that in consideration! Keep in mind I'm a big fan of the game, so I'm very biased! I just looked the order of chapters up on the Heavy Rain wiki to see if I remembered the order properly (which I urge you not to do, obviously)! And I did, the very next chapter you will play is one of my favourite ones! From there on, there will be a few less interesting chapters but the game really takes off! I would strongly recommend you to keep playing if the characters themselves are even remotely interesting in your opinion or if you feel the least bit invested in the family Mars. The game takes it time setting up the characters so you will end up being more invested in 'em. I can see why you would be put off by the story so far. I remember wondering about when the story would get more interesting itself too, although I did like the characters and was very curious to see what was gonna happen. So my situation differed a bit from yours, keep that in mind in regards to my answer :-)!īut, yes, the starts off slowly. Of course, back then the game really stood out as something new, and I was quite hyped anyway. I finished it in two days and loved every minute of it. I haven't ever done a replay so it's a couple of years ago since I've last played it.
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