Cage: Heavy Rain is PS3’s “most important title for next year”

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reask said:

thekitchensink said:

BenKenobi88 said:
Someone please tell me why this game is so great, because I'd love to stop hating it.

 

 Dude, you SERIOUSLY need to play Indigo Prophecy.  Now!.  It's backwards-compatible on both PS3 and 360 (though you shouldn't play it on PS3 cuz it has a huge glitch on that console) and you can dl it on Xbox Originals for $15.

Why should you get it?  It is prettymuch the antithesis to Metal Gear Solid 4 in the story department--it's a game based around an incredibly engrossing story, but it keeps you inolved at ALL times.  Think Shenmue, with multiple endings, FANTASTIC writing, a cool, and a cool, mass-effect-style conversation system.

Every character has a sanity meter, and different things you do can affect it.  For example, right at the beginning of the game, your main character (Lucas) wakes from a trance to find that he's killed a man in a diner bathroom.  Obviously, he starts off really low.  You can leave the bathroom and the restaurant, but you'll get in DEEP trouble when the cop at the diner goes to use the bathroom.  However, if you wash your face and hands, move the body into a stall, mop up the blood, AND pay for your meal before leaving the restaurant, although the cop will still find the body, they won't be as suspicious of you and your mood will rise.  It's INCREDIBLY engrossing, storywise--rivalling the best RPGs without having to suffer through annoying combat systems or spiky-haired kids.

So, yeah, play the game for $15 and you'll realize why you need to be excited for Heavy Rain.

Is it a bit like hitman?

 

 

 No--that's just one scene that I described.  You pick up the body, and then there's an analog-rotating minigame where he drags the body.  Same with using the mop.  There's a short cutscene for him washing his face.

Another example: During scenes where Lucas is at his apartment, you can watch a little TV to make him feel better, play a guitar minigame, drink something from the fridge, etc.  Conversely, you might unwittingly do something that makes him feel worse, as well.  Later on, something I won't spoil allows you to do ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE things in the Shenmue-style action sequences, too.

There are actually three playable characters, the other two being the cops that are trying to find and arrest whoever perpetrated the crime.  The better you do at the beginning of the game, the harder it is for them to find out who he is and where he is (and they have their own sanity metres, too).  So, something that you do may help one of your characters, but it might have bad ramifications for the others down the road.  The thing is, you want good things for ALL of these characters, so it's an INCREDIBLY emotional and fantastic experience through and through.

I will warn that the last bit drags a bit and loses a little bit of the lustre, but it's because they were forced at the last minute to make it a disc-based game instead of the downloadable-episode-style thing they were going for.