The new Heavy Rain walkthrough video that hit YouTube today shows off some new gameplay footage with two previously unseen sections.
The beginning of the video is a little confusing. Guillaume de Fondaumière,, the executive producer of Heavy Rain, explains how Ethan (one of the game’s four playable characters) lives a happy life with his son and wife before his son Jason is killed in an accident. Guillaume then shows a little clip where it looks like a kid is hit by a car. But when the gameplay part of the video picks up, Ethan is tending to his son but his wife is gone. Did the wife die in the car accident? She seemed fine at the end of the car accident clip. Did she leave Ethan when he decided to bury Jason in the Pet Sematary?
I don't think apples are going to bring that kid's soul back, Ethan.
But that’s not the problem I have with Heavy Rain. The problem I have is with the negative portrayal of beards in the video. Before Ethan’s life falls apart, he’s a happy, clean-shaven architect. As soon as life throws him a few lemons, mainly half his family dying in a car accident, he grows a beard and starts forcing his kid to eat apples.
Ahhhh, the sun is shining, my face doesn't itch.
FUCK EVERYTHING
Look, Heavy Rain team, people can be successful architects with beards. Maybe beards aren’t popular over there in France where cheeks are left clean to absorb perfume and guide tear runoff, but over here in America people aren’t even allowed near a set of blue prints without at least a goatee.
I grew my beard after a conscious decision to stop taking care of myself. And me and Ethan are nothing alike unless he also eats cookies for two out of three meals and refuses to go outside unless it’s sufficiently cloudy.
Heavy Rain hits next year and is billing itself as an “interactive drama.” I don’t know what that means, but it sounds like watching that movie Traffic with the ability to shoot Mexicans.
