November 2016 Community Playthrough - Heavy Rain (GAME #100)

[singlebanana]

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Yes, that's right!  This is November marks our 100th game playthrough.  This is of course counts the very first playthough of The Last Story in December of 2012, the multiple games we played several months, and up to November's pick!  It's really hard to believe that we've made it this far and we want to thank all of you in our community who have participated and made the playthroughs a huge, communal success.  The game announcement is this Friday the 7th and we hope that we can max out participation for this grand feat.  Stay tuned!

PARTICIPANTS:
Crabmaster2000
douglie007
Fleach
GrayGhost81
MetalFRO
Pam
singlebanana

CHECKPOINTS:
*Please note that Chapters are not officially numbered, so a brief description of each final chapter will be provided*
Checkpoint #1 (November 1st - 7th) - Chapters 1 -13 *investigate the locker at the train station
Checkpoint #2 (November 8th - 14th) - Chapters 14 - 26 *interrogate the shrink
Checkpoint #3 (November 15th - 21st) - Chapters 27 - 39 *listen to the gravedigger's story
Checkpoint #4 (November 22nd - 30th) - Chapters 40 - 52 (or 53 if you have DLC) - finish the game

[douglie007]

It's on, I will dust off my copy

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[singlebanana]

It's on, I will dust off my copy

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Cool!

[Pam]

I think I've been convinced to play along this month.

[SirPsycho]

This is the only game I know where you can fail to lean against a wall.

[singlebanana]

I think I've been convinced to play along this month.

Right on!

[Duke.Togo]

I just played through the game. Not impressed.

Spoiler (hover to show)

http://www.kongregate.com...orjensen/press-x-to-jason

[GrayGhost81]

I just played through the game. Not impressed.

Spoiler (hover to show)

http://www.kongregate.com...orjensen/press-x-to-jason

Classic, but contains major spoilers.  

[Duke.Togo]

Ah, having never played the game, I didn't know. Very familiar with Press X to Jason though.

Spoiler (hover to show)

[singlebanana]

Time to get started ladies and germs.  Fire up those PS3s!

[singlebanana]

Weekly checkpoints are up!  Play ahead if you want, but please limit discussion until checkpoints are passed. Thanks!

[Pam]

I started playing today, went through 5 chapters so far. I have played this before and I remember liking it quite a lot - I've always liked cinematic and QTE-heavy games.

A few thoughts I've had going through again:
- The intro chapter to the game is soooo mundane. Almost an hour of wandering around a house or playing with kids. It doesn't do a whole lot to draw me into the story and makes me wonder what the initial draw was? I guess that it looked so good and was a rather unique game, especially if you hadn't already played Indigo Prophecy.
- The R2 to move thing initially sounds odd, but I found I got used to it really quickly.
- Jason... what a dumb kid.
- I like how all the voice actors sound slightly French, especially the kids.
- It's amazing how much Until Dawn seems to be influenced by this, from the extreme closeups on loading screens (or in the menu in UD) to the controls and action sequences.
- This is one of the only games where I don't hate the motion controls.

Another thing I thought about was how success and failure is handled in this game. Since most actions have a corresponding button to press, you can fail at a lot of things.  I'm generally pretty good at QTEs so I don't see many of the failures but at one point, when I was holding down two buttons to carry some groceries for Grace, I thought - what would happen if I let go? Would the groceries fall on the floor? It's interesting when failure can result in something not as severe as a game over but can impact what your character does or how characters react to them. But I still probably would never fail on purpose.

[MetalFRO]

I'm still working on Castlevania SotN, but count me in on this.  I have the PS3 GH version, and from what I understand, it's not an overly long game, so I should be able to get through it this month.  I hope that's the case!

[Pam]

Finished the first checkpoint. I forget why Madison is a character in this game other than to run around in her underwear and be a love interest. It's strange that she was introduced so late, she (so far) doesn't seem to really have a stake in the story.

[singlebanana]

Sad to admit that I have not even started this game yet. Soccer has been on a rampage as of late; only two more weeks left thank God. However, the wife and I have planned to load it up tonight and get started, so I will report back shortly.  Thanks for playing guys, looking forward to discussing the first 13 chapters starting tomorrow.