Cage: Describing Heavy Rain was a 'nightmare'

Found it very difficult getting across what exactly the game was.

Heavy Rain was released last month to much critical acclaim and moderate commercial success, but its creator David Cage has revealed that the years leading to that point were a nightmare.

"Describing in the experience that is Heavy Rain's been my nightmare for the past two years," said Cage in an interview with G4's Adam Sessler during GDC. "Because I've had to evangelise, I've had to talk about this game for two years just to make people aware what we were doing, etc, etc. I really got the feeling that no matter how hard I tried, people could not get what kind of experience it would be."

It's a situation players of the game are now finding themselves in when trying to explain the game to friends, says Cage.

"It's really funny to see players who played the game try to explain it to their friends and facing the same issues. Because if I ask you 'what do you do in Heavy Rain?' - you know, if I ask you 'what you do in any shooter?' you say 'I shoot and it was exciting because of this or that,' but if I ask you 'what you do in Heavy Rain?' it's a difficult question to answer."

Via G4