Of course, then it got a little better, but then it got worse than anything I could’ve imagined. There was not *one* thing about the AI that wasn’t seven kinds of wrong. And the secret war between color-themed clans made me think of disgruntled Teletubbies, each one out to take on the world for themselves.

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By forcing you to play against yourself from the first scenario, it encourages you take part by actually role-playing the characters, pushing you out of the comfortable rut of Normal Gaming Behaviour (grabbing every object, reloading, doing each bit as skilfully as possible to gain an advantage).

It’s hard to reconcile this material, both fun to play and structurally ground-breaking, with the random broken nonsense-narrative and QTE-heavy gameplay that comes later. The creepy-as-hell non-optional corpse-sex is doubly a betrayal when you’ve invested in those characters by role-playing them through the game and you know they Just Wouldn’t Do That!

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The trilogy would evidently have followed the Matrix’s brilliant > okay > shite progression, but at least we’d have had that first instalment as a discrete package.

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Characters have remarked before that he is icy cold to the touch. Also he doesn’t have a cloud breath in front of him when he speaks outdoors.

So she is having sex with a cold walking corpse (who manages to get it up without having a pulse)… in an abandoned train carriage, in a cold, damp cave! She must have some very odd fetichises that lady, to find that situation a turn on.

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I thought it was an amazing game, and very well told but it became a pile of crap near the end. As the graph states.

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Actually, this is something I’ve mentioned before, but there’s a moment in Fahrenheit where it just missed the chance to be truly great. When you’re playing as the cops (incidentally, I love the switch between cops and killer in the early stages) and you burst into Lucas’ apartment. At that moment you find, instead of the swish bachelor pad you’ve been playing in, a twisted murder den full of insane scrawls. At that moment I briefly thought “My God, what if it’s always been like this and he’s too crazy to tell?” Sadly that didn’t turn out to be true, and the game peaked about there, it’s a real shame they didn’t go that way.

I still love Fahrenheit though, because it is so daringly different in places, it’s full of lovely scenes that exist only to build character, and the cops/killer split gameplay is great. I have a lot of hope for Heavy Rain, which seems to be trying to fix Fahrenheit’s mistakes, here’s hoping it doesn’t remain a PS3 exclusive.

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I’m trying to put my finger on exactly where the game became awful.

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