happydolphin on 13 March 2012
Of course point and click adventures have always existed (King's Quest, 7th Guest), as have cinematic games (Space Ace, Dragon's Lair), but this part of Koweniki's repost of another of Jim Sterling's reviews is very important:
"If anything, Heavy Rain deserves to be played simply to see the potential of games in this style. In the hands of better writers and the throats of better voice actors, a game like Heavy Rain could be absolutely amazing. This particular game is good in many ways, and is truly a trailblazer, but it falls short of its own ambitions, possibly because it thought it was so clever that it didn't try harder."
And what are its own ambitions? To be as solid as a top movie in terms of story and production.
