Game Musings: You don't need to play a game to judge only its story.

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LordTheNightKnight said:

amp316 said:

Heavy Rain sounds like a fantastic Choose Your Own Adventure Book.  That or Law of the West which was available for the Commodore 64. 

I came up with this conclusion without actually playing the game.

I also noticed positive impressions of the story without playing it didn't get criticized, so the hypocricy of that annoyed me far more than anything about the game.

Plus I'd still like an answer about how a plot hole can not be a plot hole, or even vice versa, whether I'm playing a game or not.

What they should have done is make all of Heavy Rain into one gigantic plot hole since it was an artsy game.  The entire story could have looked like an indecipherable mess, but later the developers would say that it was open to interpretation.  Fellini, Lynch, and several other film directors would have been proud.  Ebert would have eaten his words sooner.  Who says that games cannot be art?