Quantic Dream's, um, dream is to produce video games with stories on par with the best Hollywood has to offer. As such the titles they produce are the exception that prove the rule mentioned in the intro, since in trying to be like films they almost always fail as games, being nothing more than a series of cut scenes linked together with increasingly bizarre quick time events. Their latest, Beyond Two Souls, did a little better with the game side of things (whilst also starring movie actors Ellen Page and Willem Defoe). Their previous attempt, Heavy Rain, really didn't. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBZrrdCEMwM Heavy Rain clearly had pretensions to be like a gritty, David Fincher style crime drama. It had more in common with one of the darker episodes of CSI, with a similar calibre of dialogue and dramatic acting. One of the strangest things players have ever been asked to do in video games, period, is when one of the main characters loses sight of his son in a shopping centre after getting a balloon off of a creepy clown, then being instructed to press X to yell "Jason!" as you stumble through the crowds looking for him. Press X to Jason, inevitably, became a meme. Because it's stupid.
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