*SPOILERS!* Heavy Rain ending thoughts/feelings

[Unknown Entity]

Well, I just finished Heavy Rain.

Spoiler: I got to the warehouse in the end with all my characters still alive. Madison escaped the house, but that was the last I saw of her until the end scene. Ethan saved his son, while Jayden and Shelby fought atop the conveyor belt. I saved Shelby from falling, but the dumbass thought he'd have the final punch and so I got Jaydon to resist him, leaving Shelby to fall into the slicer. Lovely.

Final cut scene:

Spoiler: I got the ending when Ethan, Shaun and Madison get their own place, and seem happy and ready to put everything behind them. Jayden appears on a talk show being cheered for being a hero, and throws the drugs down a toilet. Lauren is at Shelby's grave, which she spits on.

My thoughts:

Spoiler: I certainly enjoyed this game, and would never have guessed who the killer was, although that scene in the antique shop confused me a little because it seemed too quick for someone to have popped in through the window silently to kill the guy and run out again. Now I know the ending, I know why. Even so, I doubt the sound of a typewriter hitting a skull, with a possible yell would go unnoticed. >>; There were many things you see at the start of the game which could have led you straight to the killer before it became made known. For example, when you're in Shelby's home for the first time, there's a photograph in his desk which is identical to that of the one in the hospital. I'm sure there are more, and on my next play-through, I'm sure I'll discover/remember more. I'm curious as to if you can see Shelby at the beginning, standing in the crowd when the first son dies too. I wasn't too happy at the quick development of the relationship between Ethan and Madison. She patched him up a few times, and then they had sex as if they'd known each other longer. I guess maybe the idea was that they had fling as some sort of emotional release, but I don't get how Madison can talk about wanting a relationship with him afterwards if that was the case. There just wasn't enough scenes with them together for "love" to build between them. Trust, maybe. But if my son had been kidnapped, sex would be the last thing on my mind.

I can't wait to get back and find the other endings. There are so many things I want to do differently, and the more I think about the different possibilities, the more endings I think I'll find. There's got to be loads.

[Priscilla]

I just recently finished my first playthrough.

Spoiler: I got the ending where Ethan, Madison and Shaun get a house together. I thought their relationship bloomed fairly fast. But I guess maybe they connected because they went through a very traumatic experience together? I killed Jayden in the car yard. That was a silly mistake on my behalf and I wish I didn't. So at the end Shelby was chasing Madison and Ethan killed him. I got to see Carter put on the ARI glasses. Oh, I left Lauren to die in the car when it was under water as well. So I had nothing with her after that. I think they are my main differences.