Heavy Rain – Blackouts
Massive Gaming Plot holes
David Cage’s Heavy Rain is a game that any fan of story or narrative-driven games must play, simply because it tells a brilliant story in an almost movie style, something not often achieved in games. This game has a few plot holes, but there’s one pretty major plot hole that never gets explained. The entire game is centered around finding out and thwarting the ‘Origami Killer;’ a serial killer who leaves a piece of origami with their victims hands after murdering them.
Early on in Heavy Rain, the main protagonist, Ethan, loses one of his sons to the Origami Killer. From this point on, until you find out the killer’s identity, Ethan consistently has blackouts at random intervals, and wakes up later in an unspecified location while holding a piece of origami. This is pretty damning evidence for the player to believe that Ethan is the killer, but once you find out their true identity, the blackouts cease completely.
These blackouts, which were a very prominent part of the game until this point, are never explained or even mentioned again, leading us to believe that the writers decided to write out this explanation, inadvertently causing a major plot contrivance. Of course, this doesn’t ruin the entire experience for the player, and we still highly recommend you give this game a try if you haven’t already.
