Heavy Rain has a lengthy install right up front, much like Metal Gear Solid 4. Instead of taking the weird television show route, however, Quantic Dream went with a much more hands on time waster. They give you a little origami lesson. They even provide the paper. I thought it was genius.

The whole paper folding affair brought back memories Deadline, a text only adventure game from Infocom that was released in 1982. While I was too young to fully enjoy this game at launch, somehow a complete copy of it worked it’s way into my hands around 1990. The thing that I found most exciting about Deadline was that it was packaged with props. There was a photo of the crime scene, a coroner’s report, and several pages of interviews with suspects. There was even an evidence bag filled with what purported to be antidepressant pills. All of these items sucked me into the game’s story before I ever slid the 5.25″ floppy disk that contained it into our family’s 286.

So, yeah. It’s time to bring back feelies.