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Heavy Rain Unofficial Guide SuperCheats.com Unoffical Heavy Rain Guide http://www.supercheats.com/guides/heavy-rain Check back for updates, videos and comments for this guide. Table of Contents Introduction 2 Arc and Divergence 3 Bug Note 4 01: Prologue 5 02: The Mall 7 03: Father and Son 8 04: Sleazy Place 11 05: Crime Scene 13 06: The Shrink 15 07: The Park 17 08: Where's Shaun? 18 09: Welcome, Norman! 19 10: Hassan's Shop 21 11: Sleepless Night 23 12: Paparazzi 24 13: Lexington Station 25 14: The Motel 26 15: ick Off Meeting 27 16: Nathaniel 28 17: Suicide Baby 29 18: The Bear 30 19: First Encounter 32 20: Covered Market 33 21: A Visitor 34 22: ramer's Party 35 23: The Butterfly 36 24: The Nurse 38 25: Police News 39 26: Shrink and Punches 40 27: The Golf Club 41 28: The Lizard 42 29: Fugitive 44 30: Jayden Blues 45 31: Under Arrest 46 32: Manfred 47 33: The Shark 48 34: The Doc 49 35: Mad Jack 50 36: Eureka 52 37: The Cemetery 53 38: Twins 54 page pnb / nb SuperCheats.com Unoffical Heavy Rain Guide http://www.supercheats.com/guides/heavy-rain Check back for updates, videos and comments for this guide. 39: Flowers on the Grave 56 40: Sexy Girl 57 41: Fish Tank 59 42: On the Loose 61 43: Trapped 63 44: Face-to-Face 64 45: Ann Sheppard 65 46: The Rat 66 47: Solving the Puzzle 67 48: Goodbye Lauren 68 49: Hold My Hand 69 50: Origami iller 70 51: iller's Place 71 52: The Old Warehouse 72 53: Epilogue - News Report 74 Ethan Mars Epilogue 75 Madison Paige Epilogue 76 Norman Jayden Epilogue 77 Scott Shelby Epilogue 78 Trophy Collection 79 page 2 / 84 SuperCheats.com Unoffical Heavy Rain Guide http://www.supercheats.com/guides/heavy-rain Check back for updates, videos and comments for this guide. SuperCheats.com's Unoffical Guide to Heavy Rain by Chris Boots-Faubert This is an unofficial game guide for Heavy Rain, it is not official, or endorsed by or connected to the game developer or publisher. All characters, locations, images and video game content are copyright to their respective owners. Any trademarks displayed in the guides are exclusive property of their respective owners. Images and videos used in this game guide have only been inserted to illustrate our words more effectively. This guide may be not be reproduced under any circumstances except for personal, private use. It may not be placed on any web site or otherwise distributed publicly without advance written permission. Use of this guide on any other web site or as a part of any public display is strictly prohibited, and a violation of copyright. page 3 / 84 SuperCheats.com Unoffical Heavy Rain Guide http://www.supercheats.com/guides/heavy-rain Check back for updates, videos and comments for this guide. Heavy Rain Guide Unoffical Heavy Rain Guide by Chris Boots-Faubert for SuperCheats.com Heavy Rain starts off slow - very slow - and it could be easy to give up on it early before it starts to both get interesting and earn your attention. It is not an exaggeration to say that you have to play through several hours of weak game before the tension and excitement ramp up to the point that you finally understand why you have been playing this game for the past few hours! Honestly it is worth the slow run-up, and once you get into the game it is very hard to stop playing. This title is a departure from the normal gaming experience for most players in many ways, starting with the unique control interface in the game. At points early on the game has you doing things that you will probably resent or even feel insulted by - like shaving or brushing your character's teeth - but there is a reason why you are doing those things! The point is not to bore you or make you feel like you are playing a game that too closely mimics the mundane chores of life, but rather the point is to illustrate the control system, and get you used to the various different ways that the game has you using the controller so that you become adept at it. The control system - called interactive cinema technology - uses the Havok Engine and takes advantage of the motion sensors in the PS3 controller in a way that few other games do, and in addition to getting you accustomed to doing odd things with the controller, you also need to get used to making quick decisions in the game. The difficulty settings that you select at the start of the game are almost entirely related to the timing for controller input rather than elements of the game itself, something to keep in mind. There are some control-related bugs in this game so please read the Bugs Section so that you are aware of what can happen and what the solution is to fix a given bug if it crops up! You should also be aware that failure to make a decision and issue a command in a relatively short period of time can have unintended consequences, which is why you have to pay attention intently to what is happening on the screen and reply to dialogue prompts and actions. Failing to reply or make a decision in the allotted time either causes the character you are playing to do nothing, or worse, the game picks a response form the available commands at random, which can send the game in a direction you did not intend it to go in! As you play the game, remind yourself to pay attention to what is going on, and be aware that the characters you play CAN die. And if they do die, it will alter the game ending in significant ways! In fact how you play the game really turns this into more than a dozen different games, but that is part of the attraction for this title. Note: I have tried not to add information to a chapter that could spoil the game for you, so that you can use this guide on a chapter-to-chapter basis in case you get stuck, but every now and then I end up giving more away than I intended. Sorry about that! page 4 / 84 SuperCheats.com Unoffical Heavy Rain Guide http://www.supercheats.com/guides/heavy-rain Check back for updates, videos and comments for this guide. Arc and Divergence The decisions you make in the game often cause the story arc to head in a different direction, and because of that this walkthrough is really just a general guide to the play - it will address many of the key points in the story, plot, and play, but your experience and conversations will differ from those I experienced by playing due to the huge number of divergence points. Because of that I try to be very general in my descriptions when it comes to dialogue, only going into detail when those details are plot factors that you should have to reference as you play. In addition, I cover each split on a chapter by chapter basis but I do not try to include speculation on which ending a divergence necessarily leads to because, and I know this may be a bit frustrating, the decisions that you make in later chapters can and often does derail your plans to arrive at a specific ending. If you plan to see all of the endings in this game, you are going to be replaying it from key chapters but that is not as hard as you might thing, since saving a replay when you begin it only impacts the chapters that follow it. Let me stress that - when you select a chapter from the chapter menu and choose to save the results of play those results only change the chapters that follow - so you can start at the chapter nearest the end to try a different outcome and only have to play till the end to get it, so that should be the strategy that you use when you go for the different endings. page 5 / 84 SuperCheats.com Unoffical Heavy Rain Guide http://www.supercheats.com/guides/heavy-rain Check back for updates, videos and comments for this guide. Bug Note There are quite a few areas in the game that are affected by bugs - mostly movement bugs - that may or may not be connected to the patch that they released on the same day that the game was published. The jury is still out on that - but you should be aware that the following bugs can (probably will) happen to you at some point in the game - I have experienced each one myself. (1) Movement Bug - you will walk to a certain part of the area - for instance on the Crime Scene if you walk too close to the fence to the left of the body - and you will no longer be able to walk. You hold down R2 and move the JS and nothing happens. Fix: Reboot your console, replay the section of the chapter you already played since the save, and do not go into that area again. (2) Post-CS Movement Bug - every now and then when you come out of a CS you cannot walk. This appears to be purely random - as far as anyone can tell it just happens, and it is not something that you are doing or can do anything to prevent.
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