9 Video Game Ideas We’re GLAD Got Cancelled

3. Ethan's Mind Is Connected To The Killer - Heavy Rain

David Cage is a treasure trove of brilliant unused concepts, hilarious or otherwise.

In Heavy Rain's case it's a popular talking point that Scott Shelby being the Origami Killer makes very little sense, as throughout the story we see Ethan Mars black out, only to wake up elsewhere with a paper origami model in his hand.

Turns out Cage did have an answer for this... it was just a deleted scene.

Now, you might immediately be thinking "Surely an answer to a prominent plot question is better included no matter what!", and you'd be right... if the explanation wasn't total out-of-place BS.

No, these deleted levels would've had you play Ethan's blackouts as underwater segments, the twist being that when Mars is unconscious, he forms a psychological link with the killer at the same time as one of the murders. Water then floods into the room because the killer's brother drowned when they were kids.

Injecting random supernatural insanity is what thoroughly killed Fahrenheit/Indigo Prophecy, and keeping the story more firmly in David Fincher territory is often thought of as the only saving grace in Cage's entire back catalogue.