

Occasionally you can wander around freely, and the environments are beautifully detailed. That means a lot of button-tapping and stick-waggling, whether it's one character shaking a carton of orange juice before taking a swig or another swinging a fist in a punch-up. What exactly is Heavy Rain? Well, it's an adventure game of sorts, with a heavy focus on Shenmue-style QTEs.

This has a certain offbeat charm, but all too often makes lines that are supposed to be deadly serious come across as funny, which sits uncomfortably with the bleak story of a child-murdering serial killer.īut I'm getting ahead of myself. The game is set in America, but very few of the cast is American, making the already peculiar dialogue sound even more uncanny. And while Heavy Rain does have a great premise, and is dripping with a dark, occasionally beguiling atmosphere, the script is more akin to a Tommy Wiseau first draft. This sounds pretty intriguing and evocative, right? Like some lost David Fincher film.
