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What I think happens is that as we interact in a videogame, there is feedback loop between us sending input to the game and us getting information back from the game (in the form of visuals, audio, etc), which builds the basis of us feeling present inside the game’s virtual world. When playing the game I never felt the need to make choices on the basis of seeing what would happen, instead I simply wanted the characters to act in certain ways in order to confirm to my expectations of how I thought they would (and should) be acting. Immersion as an essenceīy far, the most important realization I got when playing Heavy Rain is how interaction is not mainly about giving the player interesting choices. This is what truly makes Heavy Rain worth playing. Also, the game’s filmic nature and focus on a branching narrative makes it a virtual smorgasbord of game design theory to try out. Because of the way that QTE:s work, being a quite fragile system in terms of immersion, it sort of exposes your own usually hidden thought processes as you play the game. What really made the game interesting though was not the things that I liked, but the things that are slightly broke. The game also lets you be in situations that I have never seen outside of Interactive Fiction. The game also features great graphics, nice music and not too shabby acting (for most of the time anyway, and once you get used to the uncanny valley feel). For example the scene at the mall, while lame in many ways, managed to capture the protagonists sense of panic and that in an environment and setup I have never seen in a game before. There are some truly tense and disturbing moments in the game that work great. Sure, the quick-time-events (QTE:s) really got me worked up on more than one occasion and a lot of other issues bugged me, but on the whole it was quite an engaging experience. But if one only focuses on these areas, there is plenty of really interesting aspects that are missed.ĭespite all these flaws I really enjoyed playing Heavy Rain.

One can talk about this and other negative aspects of the game and I would fully agree. One can talk about the hole and cliche filled story and the weakly developed characters*.

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One can say it is just an interactive movie where you press buttons at certain key moments, in rare cases changing the outcome of the story. It is very easy to talk bad about Heavy Rain.

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