The screams man, the screams… But these trials are also an example of a bigger flaw in the game. Most memorable is the third trial were you have to cut off a section of your finger, which still gives me chills to this day. Ethan will receive parts of an address if he successfully completes a trial. The killer gives Ethan a chance to find his son because he set up five insane trials for Ethan to follow. But bad luck is part of Ethan’s life because his son became the latest victim of the Origami Killer. Now in a depressed mood he tries to cope and to take care of his other son, Shaun. However, Ethan has recently lost his son in a car accident and his wife divorced him shortly afterwards. The first playable character is Ethan Mars, who once had a picture-perfect life.
Afterwards he leaves them on a deserted piece of wasteland with an origami figure in the victim’s hand and an orchid on the chest. The modus operandi of this killer is kidnapping children and drowning them in rainwater. In Heavy Rain you play as four characters who each try to save another victim of the notorious serial killer known as the Origami Killer.
I found that I still digged the game, but I also noticed that my opinion about many aspects of the game were tainted with nostalgia. Now it’s 2021 and I wanted to go back to that experience. I decided to pause the video, get on my bike, and race over to Game Mania to buy a second-hand copy of Heavy Rain. And the game was already released four years ago, what? I had played Fahrenheit (called Indigo Prophesy in North America) many years before that, but kind of forgot about David Cage and his crazy projects at his studio Quantic Dream after I had completed that game. I was very much intrigued by this thrilling game noir experience. Back then, when I still tuned in to PewDiePie on a regular basis, I watched a let’s play of Heavy Rain on his channel. Now I needed another excuse to procrastinate for the winter exams. It was a cold winter’s day in January 2014, and I had just completed my largely overdue first playthrough of Assassin’s Creed.
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