Well.. I like fighting games. You know, games where you have to be on your feet, and look out, and punish properly when someone does something stupid/risky.
Sure, I'm not a perfect player. But, button mashing is never a strategy I'd consider using. Play the game enough to know the match-ups, and be on your feet.
Beyond... is the complete opposite of a fighting game. Everything is slow. It tells you exactly what to press, when to press it, etc. You are watching a QTE movie done with PS3's native-rendering techniques, etc.
I never played heavy rain. I played the demo. I hated it. What was I supposed to be doing? The colors were so dark. I knew very well that Beyond was more of the same. But, for some odd reason, despite not liking what I tried from Heavy Rain, and despite this game being the complete opposite of games I like, which are all fast paced, and etc.
... I wanted Beyond. I don't know why, I just did. So, when it came out, I got the steel book, at 60 bucks. The last disc based game I've bought to date. And, after the three year install period... It began, and it looked amazing, to say the least.
I enjoyed the game so much. I didn't play Marvel Vs. Capcom 2, Tekken Tag Tournament 2, or any other game. When I turned my PS3 on, it was just to play Beyond. I beat it 5 times in a row, without playing anything else. Then, the next five times I beat the game, I had other stuff in-between.
I can't say that it was a change from what I'm used to. I don't exclusively play any game genre. I hate first person shooters, yet, even though I stay away from CoD, Halo, Killzone and a bunch of others, I still enjoyed bioshock infinite.
For me, at least, Beyond's story kept the game together. It may not have been perfect, and there may have been some issues while playing the game, if that interest to see what happens next wasn't there, the entire game would have fallen apart.
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