[Hilo Oficial] HEAVY RAIN™- Everything I did, I did for love

The game has changed.
Memories are flooding our mind. A quiet, gray afternoon in the park with our son. A knock-out, drag-out brawl in the kitchen of a hooker's seedy apartment. A panicked chase across the rooftops. A gunfight in an obscenely opulent mansion. A helpless child, trapped. A muddy crime scene with a body nestled under a makeshift tent. A dingy room with hundreds of crucifixes covering the walls. A bloody axe. A cemetery. An orchid A kiss.
We've just finished Heavy Rain, and we can't get it out of our head.

Wake up call
Lasting memories might be a strange legacy for a game whose most impressive accomplishment is getting us to forget-to that we're manipulating a piece of interactive fiction and, most amazing of all, to forget that we're playing a game.

Heavy Rain begins with revelation. We are Ethan Mars, a man who seemingly has it all. He's a successful architect-or so it's easy to assume, judging from his beautiful house. As Ethan rises, so do we. We awake to see the warm sun filtering in through his window. We get out of bed. We wander through the empty house (the wife and kids are out shopping). We peek into a birdcage to see the beloved family pet. We stop into our kids' room and look around. We brush our teeth, shave, shower. We dress, and go downstairs. Maybe we'll have a cup of coffee. Maybe we'll get some work in, or fiddle around the yard, or simply watch TV or listen to music....

All of this might be the most artful and subtle tutorial level we've ever enjoyed. When the game prompts us to gently push the Right-Analog stick to stand up, or asks us to hold down R2 to move our legs while swiveling our head with the Left-Analog stick to control our direction, we're immediately transfixed. The context-sensitive control scheme is unlike anything we've encountered in a game, and it quickly becomes clear that Heavy Rain makes a full commitment to it. Open a closet door with a appropriate half-circle motion. Juggle beanbags in our kids' room with a series of quick taps of the face buttons. Dry ourselves off after our shower by shaking the Sixaxis. Swing our child around by twirling the Right stick (and be rewarded with his infectious laughter). Everything makes sense, and-though it's not yet evident at this early stage-the variation in movements and button-presses is simply astounding, mirroring actual movements in wholly unexpected and mind-blowing ways.

Even more impressive: Within a few hours, the controller almost melts away, becoming an extension of our hands, helping us further forget that we're manipulating pixels and polygons on screen. Oh, sure, on occasion we had to look down at the DualShock when we flubbed a move, but for the most part the controller fades away, no longer a barrier to the game's world, instead a gateway to direct connection. This might be a third-person game with scripted(yet uniquely open-ended) narrative, but it's more immersive than any first-person game we can recall.

But back to Ethan's perfect day. Naturally, this early stage is merely a setup. After all, Heavy Rain isn't a joyous celebration of the mundane. Instead, it's a dark, dismal detective story, an interactive film noire in which we-through the eyes of four very different characters-unravel the mystery of the Origami Killer, a depraved serial killer who murders young boys, leaving their bodies in abandoned lots with an orchid and a piece of elegantly folded paper as the only clues.

Without spoiling anything, we'll simply say that before the opening credits finished rolling we quite literally had to pause the game and step away to catch our breath, such was the power of the first 20 minutes of Heavy Rain. We were taken from the heights of effortless bliss to the depths of total loss, all with an impact and emotional engagement that's rare from a game, rivaling the best movies and contemporary fiction. With Heavy Rain, gaming has matured.

Characters with character
Ethan isn't alone in Heavy Rain. The game also stars three other characters: private investigator Scott Shelby, FBI agent Norman Jayden, and investigative reporter Madison Paige. As each one moves onto center stage with the story constantly pingponging among them-we experience new and different gameplay moments.

With Scott, we survived our first fight. While it'd be easy to reduce the fight scenes to a series of quick-time events, that'd be like describing the best sushi as "a hunk of raw fish." Yes, we pushed buttons based on prompts, but somehow we were there. We were the ones throwing the punches, shoving our foe back against the kitchen table, stumbling to regain our balance. We deflected a broken bottle as it was being shoved toward us, the razor-sharp shards of glass coming perilously close to our face. We also took our fair share of blows-missing a prompt here or there-and marveled at how the brawl continued on, seamlessly adapting to the ever-evolving situation.

With Norman, we investigated a crime scene in a thrillingly inventive way. In what might be the only overtly game-like aspect of Heavy Rain, Norman sports a pair of futuristic glasses that lets him analyze his environment, spotting clues and processing the information on the fly. Later, he can analyze those clues while inside his virtual world, using an interface that makes the gesture-based computing from the film Minority Report look positively dated.

With Madison, we experienced the game from a different angle. Even after she gets tangled up with Ethan, Madison's involvement in the story is largely an enigma until later in the game. She plays a key role in the story, but her biggest thrills come from the choices we make while we control her. Someone is in trouble: Do we help him or walk away? Someone holds the key to the game's biggest mystery: How do we unlock that information?

And that brings us to the game's crowing achievement. Even more than the innovative control scheme, or the cinematic visuals, or the novel-like pacing, Heavy Rain impresses us because it's the first existential game. Yes, there've been heroes before-characters who are defined by the sum of their actions. But Heavy Rain offers us much more than that. The game itself has an astonishing ability to fill us with existential angst, because there is no right or wrong, just choices. Sometimes it's straightforward: react or not. Other time, like when Scott tries to defuse a convenience-store robbery, the choices are almost stultifying: Do we sneak up and attack the robber? Do we reason with him? Do we plead? Do we threaten? Each choice stretches the narrative in slightly different ways, but no one choice is correct. And it's precisely for that reason that our heart was literally thumping in our chest during that scene (and many others)-not just because it was a tense moment, but because anything could happen, and it was up to us to decide how it would all go down. And, at the end of it all, we genuinely felt responsible for the outcome.

The play's the thing
David Cage, the brilliant auteur who wrote and directed Heavy Rain, had said in interviews that Heavy Rain is not a game. We beg to differ. And not because we disagree that his latest creation stretches the boundaries of interactive entertainment. Heavy Rain is a game-if for no other reason-because we are proud to have this as a representative of our hobby, to claim it as ours and to call it one of our own. Yes, we often forgot that we were controlling various characters using our DualShock-and yet there we were, making choices, pushing buttons, directly moving the narrative along with our efforts. And yes, we experienced a story delivered with more poise and maturity than we often get from our games. But we also saw some of the coolest gaming moments of this consoles generation. An intense escape from a depraved torturer. A deadly maze that forced us to contort our fingers like a game of Twister to mimic our character's movements. These, along with all the subtler moments, all come together to remind that no matter what, we're still playing Heavy Rain and-despite the overwhelmingly dark story-enjoying it immensely.

So make no mistake, Heavy Rain is indeed a game. But it is a game like none other.

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