The game even confused me at times and I've been playing games all my life. I did an experiment with non-gamers playing Heavy Rain and most people couldn't get through the first door due to awkward control and bad instructions.

If Heavy Rain is trying to draw in new audiences to gaming then it sorely fails.

And it frustrates me once more that the game poses as a masterpiece when it fails to be a good film or a good game, unless you are trying to impress children. Someone in one of the world's biggest games companies once asked me 'don't you admire that they tried to do something different?' and I replied 'Yes I absolutely do, but they already had Fahrenheit's mistakes to learn from, which was their own previous game, and storytelling is an ancient device so integrating it into an interactive game just requires someone capable of it, which Mr Cage is not'. One person I used in a Heavy Rain experiment once said it is a game that lets you play the mundane and unimportant things and not the things that push the story, making you, as a player, redundant. Don't get me wrong, I am all up for games like Heavy Rain trying to push the medium forward and incorporate storytelling (and there is nothing wrong with linear gameplay either), but this was a horrendous effort in terms of writing, direction, and design, despite most people being hypnotized by the production values and pretentiousness, leading them into thinking it knows what it's doing.

Games like heavy rain