The more stressed a character is, the more scrambled and hard to read the choices are, adding to the suspense of these scenes.Īnother element used in Heavy Rain to create tension and suspense is the pacing of the story. The character's surroundings and stress level also have an impact on their thoughts, dialog and action choices. You'll have just one or two words that describe the available options. The QTEs are also used for thoughts and dialog. These thoughts can also provide hints for what to do next. You can hear the characters' thoughts at the push of a button. Heavy Rain uses its characters to drive the story. There is nothing boring or simple about any of the action sequences in Heavy Rain. Playing through this chapter was one of the most suspenseful and heart-racing moments of all my gaming experiences! The entire time I was just trying to focus on the action prompts and on timing them correctly while watching what was happening around the Ethan.
In the chapter called "The Bear", you control Ethan Mars as he drives full speed the wrong way down a five-mile stretch of highway. These QTE sequences keep you in the moment and add limitations to what you can do as the character while upping the emotional impact. If your character is in danger, there is no checking your inventory or equipping a weapon. The QTE sequences are one element of the game and actually add to the tension of the high-action scenes. There have been some criticisms that the whole game is one big simple, boring Quick Time Event (QTE) sequence, but that's not really true. The controls take some getting used to, but the game uses its opening chapter as a tutorial for learning the movement prompts and commands. The majority of the settings in the game lack the texture and shading detail given to the character designs. Sadly, while the main characters look great, it doesn't seem that the environments got the same attention. Quantic Dream used motion capture for each character's body and facial movements and they seem really fluid and natural most of the time. The eye movements, texture and detail of the face are incredible. You can really appreciate this in the loading screens which use close-ups of the main characters. Heavy Rain is a beautiful game and Quantic Dream's character design is top-notch. For example, when playing as Norman Jayden, how you question a suspect or which clues you pick up will guide you in certain directions that may or may not help you find the 'Origami Killer'. What seems like insignificant choices can have big effects on the ending of game. Spilt-second decisions will have to be made throughout the game.
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