History VideoGame / HeavyRain

* KickTheSonOfABitch: If [[spoiler:Ethan gets caught in "Fugitive"]], Blake will try to beat a confession out of him while Jayden is in the room. As Jayden, you can interfere, causing Blake to tell you to hit him. You can.

[[JustForFun/IThoughtThatWas Not related]] to the Hard Rain campaign in ''VideoGame/Left4Dead2.'' Also not to be confused with ''Film/HardRain.'' And certainly not [[Film/{{Bowfinger}} Chubby Rain.]]

''Heavy Rain'' is the SpiritualSuccessor to Creator/QuanticDream's ''VideoGame/{{Fahrenheit}}'' (a.k.a. ''Indigo Prophecy''), an AdventureGame for the seventh generation of consoles. ''Heavy Rain'' itself was a UsefulNotes/PlayStation exclusive, and has been described by the creators as an Interactive Movie as well as a standard adventure game. In fact, doesn't that image [[{{Retraux}} look like a movie poster?]]

Similar to how ''Heavy Rain'' started off with a tech demo, ''The Casting,'' ''Quantic Dream'' released a new tech demo ''WebVideo/{{Kara}}'' on March 7, 2012, hinting at their 2015 reveal of ''VideoGame/DetroitBecomeHuman''. Go [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0KTUysrwgQ watch it.]] At E3 2012, the spiritual successor to ''Heavy Rain'' was revealed as the supernatural drama ''Videogame/BeyondTwoSouls.'' Both games have received an UpdatedRerelease for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation4, although this port does not include the DLC chapter ''The Taxidermist.''

In March 2019, it was announced that the game would be coming to PC later that year, exclusively via the UsefulNotes/EpicGamesStore for the first 12 months. Quantic Dream is self-publishing this port. Like the [=PlayStation=] 4 release, the PC port does not include ''The Taxidermist.''

* BoringButPractical: Ethan decides to do the Origami Killer's exciting, deadly trials to track down his son instead of simply bringing the origami figures to the police; though to be fair, he does have a point in that he doesn't have much information to give them besides the figures themselves. Norman uses his psychology degree to slowly whittle down suspects, until he finally tracks down the killer's car after the former plan falls through. Madison...simply does her research and has an informant track down information on who was renting out the buildings for the Lizard trial, which anyone could easily see was deliberately set up for the sole purpose of housing said trial. Turns out that following the paper trail actually tends to be quick and efficient; accounting for the fact she starts chasing the killer well over halfway into the game, Madison ''very'' quickly catches up with everyone else trying to find out who the Origami Killer is despite not being a trained policeman like Jayden or being fed clues by the Killer.

* ComicallySmallBribe:
** Scott Shelby has the option of giving a five to the receptionist at a motel to tell him which room Lauren Winter's in. What's even funnier is that it ''works''.
** He can also attempt to bribe Gordi Kramer's guards with a hundred at the party. They don't budge.

* ConvenientlyTimedAttackFromBehind: Jayden can save Madison this way from the BigBad if she survives long enough.

* BoringButPractical: Ethan decides to do the Origami Killer's exciting, deadly trials to track down his son instead of simply bringing the origami figures to the police; though to be fair, he does have a point in that he doesn't have much information to give them besides the figures themselves. Norman uses his psychology degree to slowly whittle down suspects, until he finally tracks down the killer's car after the former plan falls through. Madison...simply does her research and has an informant track down information on who was renting out the buildings for the Lizard trial, which anyone could easily see was deliberately set up for the sole purpose of housing said trial. Turns out that following the paper trail actually tends to be quick and efficient; accounting for the fact she starts chasing the killer well over halfway into the game, Madison ''very'' quickly catches up with everyone else trying to find out who the Origami Killer is.

** Norman Jayden can do this if he fights the Origami Killer in the end. The alternative is to save him and then kill him.

%%* ShootTheShaggyDog

* TheCakeIsALie: [[spoiler:The Origami Killer puts Ethan through a series of brutal trials, all for the promise of saving his son if he can succeed. However, upon completion of all five trials, one ending has the killer preparing to shoot our protagonist in the back as he attempts to release his son from imprisonment.]]

* InSpiteOfANail: No matter how the story develops, [spoiler: someone WILL always die at the warehouse.]]

* BondVillainStupidity: [[spoiler:Shelby enters his apartment only to find Lauren helpless and have one of Kramer's goons put a gun right to his head. But rather than just blow his brains out, Kramer traps Shelby and Lauren in a car (with loose ropes the former can undo fairly easily), and pushes it into the lake.]]

** When Blake is about to put handcuffs on Nathaniel, it looks like the latter is about to whip out a weapon [[ShootHimHeHasAWallet but it turns out to be a cross]]. In the final chapter, should Madison be absent, [[spoiler:Ethan steps out of the warehouse and greets the police, and later reaches to his side because of his physical pain. Blake notices this, thinking he's reaching for a gun, and orders his men to open fire.]]

-->'''Madison:''' [[spoiler:John is dead, do you understand

* InterfaceScrew: During particularly tense moments, the displayed buttons will shake wildly, with more shaking the more nervous your character is. After the car chase, the button displays will be upside down.
* KarmaHoudini: ''Any'' of the villains can become this, but the only one who can never be punished is Gordi Kramer. His fate after [[spoiler:Shelby might or might not kill his father]] is unknown.

* MyCarHatesMe: If Madison is followed from the house, her bike will stall. If Madison escapes unnoticed, or if she kills Leland with the chainsaw, it starts without a hitch.

* FiveSecondForeshadowing: Can potentially happen if both Madison and Jayden visit The Blue Lagoon. While investigating Paco’s office, Jayden can find Madison’s fingerprints and notes that she is a journalist; this is the first moment in the game where the player discovers Madison’s true occupation. In the very next scene, [[spoiler: Ethan will discover this for himself if he sleeps with Madison.]]

** Jayden, if everything is done correctly, gets one when he swoops in just in time to stop [[spoiler:Shelby]] from shooting Ethan or Madison.

* DarkReprise: [[spoiler: While playing as Shelby he has his own action theme in all of his action scenes. When you play Madison and get chased by him in "The Old Warehouse" it's not Madison's but his {{Leitmotif}} that's playing, emphasizing it's all about Shelby coming for you. This in stark contrast to the scenario of him and Jayden fighting which uses Jayden's action theme.]]

* {{Leitmotif}}: Each playable character (and Lauren) has one. Ethan's motif, Painful Memories, is probably the most memorable one as it also serves as the game's main theme and sees the most use. It also doubles as a LonelyPianoPiece, [[TheWoobie tellingly]].

* OedipusComplex: [[spoiler:The Origami Killer kidnaps young boys as a way to test their fathers, putting them through a series of bloody trials. If we accept the game's Freudian Excuse (see above) then the killer is acting out an Oedipal desire to punish his father (using the fathers of boys as young as he was when his brother died, hence people that remind him of his own father) by proxy and also surpass his father by looking for a 'worthy' dad that makes it through all of his trials. In a similar vein, the relationship he develops with the mother of one of his victims implies an Oedipal desire for his own mother.]]

** Scott Shelby has a similarly inconsistent age given. [[spoiler:Should he die, the date on his tombstone and the news report about his death both give different ages, either 44 or 48 respectively depending on which one you believe.]]

* ClimbingClimax: [[spoiler: Should Madison reach the warehouse while Ethan doesn't she will be hunted by the BigBad all the way up to a high crane.]]

** Madison doesn't make any great effort to avoid fire when she is escaping from the burning apartment but her clothing can ignite without directly touching the fire.

** [[spoiler: [[AssholeVictim Adrian Baker]] can be killed by Madison [[AttackOnTheHeart with an actvitated drill through his heart.]]]]

In March 2019, it was announced that the game would be coming to PC later that year, exclusively via the UsefulNotes/EpicGamesStore for the first 12 months. Quantic Dream is self-publishing this port. Like the PlayStation 4 release, the PC port does not include ''The Taxidermist.''

* ExploringTheEvilLair: Madison does this with a couple of Origami Killer suspects' locations.

** Fans of ''Franchise/SilentHill'' may compare Shelby to [[VideoGame/SilentHill3 Douglas]] and Ethan to [[VideoGame/SilentHill1 Harry Mason]].

** When Madison escapes from an apartment fire [[spoiler:set by Scott Shelby]], several people gather to see what happened. Despite Madison coming out limping, coughing and covered in soot, not a single person asks her what happened.
** During the scene where Madison and Ethan flee from the cops and escape into the underground subway station, they cross the tracks while everyone else at the station just ignores them.
** The only time this is averted where Norman is chasing a suspect down the street and into a supermarket where the bystanders complain and yell at the two of them for getting in the way.

** The Origami Killer and [[spoiler:Madison]] can have a gripping and elaborate one depending on who makes it to the Warehouse.