Studio boss David Cage is apparently considering a Director’s Cut, to include some of the removed or altered content. Sony had some concerns.
It was in an interview with UPSBlogIt that Roche spoke about some things the development team went through with Heavy Rain. It’s best you don’t read them if you want a totally unspoilt time of the Quantic Dream PS3 exclusive.
Here’s the dirt, courtesy of VG247:
- It contains more than 20,000 body animations resulting from the Mo-Cap acting, which has a team of 10 animators working on that portion.
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Sony asked the team to hide some of the nudity during the showers or the love scene to avoid and AO rating.
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Sony asked the team to hide the death of Jason Mars, because after the car accident, Jason started rolling on the road for a while, which was quite violent considering that he was a child.
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During the latest development period, Cage was thinking about publishing a Director’s Cut edition of Heavy Rain but, for now, nothing has evolved from this idea but the possibility of one in the future could happen.
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Originally, Madison’s was blonde with a pony tail at the beginning. Jayden is now a bit more “junky” than he was at the beginning.
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The introduction and the second floor of Ethan’s house didn’t exist two years ago.
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The Piano animation was one of the hardest things to render, according to Roche, due to Jayden’s fingers playing the instrument.
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Another hard bit for Roche was “Madison’s pee animation… I had to take off her panties, in a realistic way: with the level of detail we got in HR that was such a mess….and taking off some underwear from a gorgeous lady”.
Looks like it didn’t do the game any harm to have some censorship here and there as Heavy Rain has now sold over one million copies worldwide and should manage 1.5 million sold by the end of the year. Have you enjoyed Heavy Rain for PS3?
