Heavy Rain has to be one of the most dissapointing experiences I have ever had in a video game. Playing as four characters whose paths cross at some point and whose actions have consequences in story and gameplay, specially in a murder mistery, is most definitely an interesting and attractive premise.
I remember enjoying the stress I felt in some sequences, for example, when I was playing as Ethan trying to avoid danger in a power plant.
However, both the game mechanics and story betray the game in one of the biggest, worst plot holes in a narrative I have ever seen.
Playing as Scott, the private detective, trying to figure out a case while him being the culprit was executed horribly. You mean we can literally see the characters thoughts and when we take a look at his brother´s grave his thoughts are "i wonder who this is" or something like that? Not once his thoughts were veridical, like the other characters were, which was lazy writing. Not to mention the sequence where you are controlling Scott and someone comes through a window in the other side of the room to eliminate evidence and later on you find out it was him. Ridiculous.
The game has many other gigantic flaws, but the experience of playing it could have been enjoyable if in the end it didn´t feel like a waste of time.
Quantic Dream made some improvements in installments like Detroit Become Human but still, this game was a sin and a joke and yet is still a cult classic (for some reason?).