PS+ July 2018

Next month's big hitters are… drumroll

Heavy Rain and Absolver.

At least Absolver looks interesting, though I'm not sure I'll not get much out of an online martial arts beat-em-up.

Absolver? I hardly knew 'er! (Never heard of it)

Heavy Rain will never see the insides of my hard drive.

This is all you need to see for Heavy Rain, I laughed so hard at this video I hurt and had tears in my eyes.

Earlier this month, I considered grabbing Heavy Rain in the sale. As such, I suspect I'm to blame for it being in PS+ this month.

I'm so, so sorry.

My son has been watching trailers for Detroit, he thinks it looks amazing. I think I spent twenty minutes telling him all the things I could remember being wrong with Heavy Rain.

Presumably Heavy Train is in this to drum up interest in Detroit, but I'd've thought most people who've played any David Cage game are unlikely to play another.

I will confess to quite "enjoying" Heavy Rain (up until the killer reveal), but thinking that it felt very much like an early draft which, with revisions, could be a really interesting direction for adventure games to take. But every subsequent game from Cage seems to just make the same mistakes, and I've already played one overwrought, self-important and clunky cinematic effort too many.

If he ever learns to rein it in with the ALLEGORY, maybe I'd give him another shot.

My son has been watching trailers for Detroit, he thinks it looks amazing. I think I spent twenty minutes telling him all the things I could remember being wrong with Heavy Rain.

Properly preparing him for disappointment – prime British parenting technique.

My son has been watching trailers for Detroit, he thinks it looks amazing. I think I spent twenty minutes telling him all the things I could remember being wrong with Heavy Rain.

Properly preparing him for disappointment – prime British parenting technique.

It was more about explaining why I am not going to be buying it for him.

I have to admit it's very tempting to go dig through the old Society and find all the "I liked it despite it's flaws" comments when I tried to tell you all how bad it was.

For a more positive spin; I think Telltale does well, what David Cage is trying to do.

Heavy Rain is listed as unavailable because I already own Beyond: Two Souls.

Which I got through PS+.

This seems like an oversight somewhere..?

EDIT: it works if you download via the PS4 itself, just not the store website. I don't know why I keep getting these things, though, even for free; it can only be encouraging him.

There are apparently two versions up on the PSN web store - one's part of the bundle with Beyond, the other is standalone. I only know this because when the game was in a recent sale, they put the bundle one up instead of the standalone… and most people couldn't buy it. Also, the standalone version was cheaper outside of the sale than the one that was in.

You couldn't write more of a fuck-up if you were David Cage.