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#96 Heavy Rain (Playstation 4, 2016)



"Jay-son!" "JASON!" "Shaaaaaaaauuuun!" If you played Heavy Rain, then protagonist Ethan's repetitive cries of anguish while searching for his sons are familiar (and hopefully dear) to you. This is the textbook Quantic Dream game: plotholes galore, silly quicktime events, inappropriate accents, and nonsensical dialogue. For me, all these things really just add to the sort of "B-movie" charm.

Heavy Rain is more or less an adventure game in which you play as multiple characters who are involved in the case of a serial killer whose M.O. is abducting and drowning young boys. There are plenty of action sequences but most are controlled through simple quick-time events. As the story progresses in an increasingly ridiculous and dramatic fashion, there are points where characters might die if you fail enough button prompts, which affects what scenes you experience later on. The better you play, the more characters are alive to participate in the climax, and the happier the ending is. Unless you don't want these people to have a happy ending, then by all means kill them off!

I did not play this game until a couple years ago, so I know I am late to the party. But I don't know if any game since has really done what Heavy Rain did, for better or worse. It's a unique experience that I really enjoyed because of what it is.

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