Heavy Rain Notes

After I insert the disc I have a 14 minute 226mb download. Not impressive at all 5 days after a games launch.
Choose language subtitles etc.
Adjust Brightness.
The game is installed.
Saturday 11:22
A man likes sleeping in his Ikea catalogue bedroom.
I am told to move the right stick up to make him get up.
He does as he is told.
We can now walk around the apartment. Using R2 to walk and the left stick to change direction.
I can interact with objects. There is a picture on the chest of drawers.
The wardrobe is opened by the flick of the right stick.
We are told to hold L2 to see what our character is thinking. He wants a shower before getting dressed.
I explore the room and find I can open the balcony.
I go out and we can see the garden and a childs room next door.
A note has been left by Grace to say she has gone shopping. She says she will be back to help get ready fo Jason's birthday party.
I find a bird in the landing to look at then the bathroom and have a shower.
We have to dry our character by waggling the controller. Then brush his teeth and shave with an electric razor.
Seems a bit obsessive, however I realise this is the tutorial.
Oh look I can make him pee and flush. Now wash your hands.
Oh you can't wash your hands, what are they thinking, he is going to walk around the whole game with pee on his hands!
I go downstairs and the character pauses and thinks to himself that he should get dressed. Good idea.
I go into Jason's room and find some juggling balls. To juggle we have to do some quicktime.
I go back to the characters bedroom and get dressed.
Downstairs it is decorated for a kids party.
we are told to check out characters thoughts often.
When I do I get a swirl of thoughts. One is coffee and a series of stick movements in time gets him to drink a coffee.
I walk into a living area and turn on the tv.
As I go into another room a cut scene starts and Grace and the kids come in.
We have to help Grace with the shopping.
Then we have to get plates from a cupboard and set them out on the table. Movements indicated by symbols have to be done slowly.
I go back to Grace and Ethan gets amorous.
We have to go through some conversation options with Grace about Jason and the party.
I go through to the workroom and find that Ethan is an Architect. I sit at this desk and we have some quicktime which makes him draw a sketch of a building.
I go out into the garden.
I can lie on the grass, or throw around a flying bug toy.
When I go towards the children I play with them. I have to do a helicopter by circling the right stick.
Then lift another boy onto my shoulders and run around the garden, steering with the controller tilt.
We are called inside for dinner. We are asked to fetch shaun. I go upstairs and find him by the bird.
The bird is dead and Shaun is upset. Ethan consoles him.

We switch scenes to a shopping Mall
Grace Ethan and the two kids are out shopping. Grace takes Shaun to get some shoes. Jason wanders off and we have to go and find him. He is by a balloon seller. We buy him a balloon and while we are rooting in our pocket looking for change Jason wanders off again. Grace comes out and asks where he is. Ethan goes out looking for him. We have to walk through the mall looking for jason, we can shout his name by pressing X. We come to a large crowd and have to fight our way through. The red balloon that Jason was holding can be seen by pressing up on the right stick.
We go to it and it's another kid, not Jason. We then follow a red balloon out of the mall and a cut scene starts.
Jason is across a busy road. Ethan sees him and shouts for him to stop. Jason sees his dad and runs towards him across the road.
Ethan dives to prevent a car hitting Jason but must be too late as we see Grace come out and start sobbing. The scene fades to black.

We now get a scene of rain soaked streets and people as the credits roll.
It is two years since the mall accident.
We pick up Sean from school in our car and drive home. We only have to interact with our seatbelt and the car keys and gears to get home.
Once inside we find a much cheaper looking home than the last one.
There is no sign of Grace.
We have a schedule to keep, giving Shaun a snack. Doing his homework. dinner etc.
I make Shaun do his homework, Ethan sits and stares at him as he does and it looks fairly depressive.
We then have to make him dinner which is microwave pizza.
Then we have to send him to bed.
I go upstairs and tuck Shaun in and give him a kiss. There is a childs drawing of the accident scene on his table.
As Ethan goes outside in the hall and closes the door he has some sort of breakdown.
He faints and suddenly wakes standing outside on the street in the rain holding an origami animal of some kind.

We are now in control of a different character. A burly man in a large overcoat.
We go into a hotel and bribe the desk clerk to tell us where someone called Lauren Winter is staying.
We knock on her door and she tells us that she is by appointment only.
We have to push up on the stick quick to put our foot in the door.
She then tells us that she is a prostitute and we need 50 bucks.
I go into her room and tell her that we are actually a private eye working for families of the origami killer victims.
We now have some converstation options. We ask about Johnny the victim. Then about suspects.
We are asked to leave and leave a card on the table.
As we go down the hall a man comes and knocks on the door. He forces his way inside when Lauren tells him that she told him not to come back.
We hear screams from inside.
I go back to the door and knock. The thug comes out and tried to intimidate us. We have a long quicktime fight scene and eventually he runs off, though both of the fighters are bruised.
Lauren thanks us and shelby tells her that he will be back and she should be careful.

We are now an FBI man named Jaden.
We are approaching a crimes scene. Seems Jaden might have a habit, he is shaking badly and has a vial of something in his pocket.
We go to a police officers and show our badge to get in. We ask about Blake who is in charge.
I go into the crime scene and there are lots of officers going about their business. I go to the covered body and look inside the tent that has been errected over it. Blake comes to me and shoos me away. Jaden and him chat. Seems that Origami killer drowns his victims.
We have a special pair of glasses that increased the light and show up clues like footprints.
The glasses link to a vr glove. We can press R1 to shine a light and reveal clues.
I find Orchid pollen which is contaminating the body.
I examine the body, there is a mark on his leg, which occurred after death.
His face is covered in mud, he has an orchid on his chest.
He holds an origami in his hand.
I find the victims blood on the train tracks and a set of footprints that could be the killers.
We have to climb up the side of the railway line to investiagate using a sequence of button holds.
We find tyre tracks at the top which show that killer came this way, we have his footprint and tyre brand now at least.
I go back to the car as I am told that this is all we can gather here.

We are back with Ethan, he is getting therapy or a checkout at a place named Ego. A doctor is showing us association pictures.
He tells us that physically we are ok after the accident, it seems Ethan was hurt fairly badly after the crash. Ethan's state of mind is terrible however, he is depressed and suicidal.
We get a chance to talk about the blackout we had previously but the session ends with a buzzer before  we can get a chance to.
We change scene to Shaun and Ethan in the park. Shaun looks bored and Ethan asks about school. Seems if Shaun is late again he will be sent home. Looks like it might be Ethan's fault.
We get up and can use the playground things like see saws and merry go rounds to try and entertain shaun.
I take him on the swing and buy him some candy.
It rains and we leave, before we go we take Shaun on a carousel ride.
As Ethan watches he has another blackout.
He wakes up in the rain about to be hit by a truck.
Shouting for Shaun all the way we run back to the park. Shaun's bag is by the carousel but no sign of him.
Ethan runs home but Shaun isn't their either.
Ethan breaks down crying in the street, he has an origami in his hand.

Jaden sits outside an office in the police station.
He is being made to wait. we can put on his Ari and play virtual toss ball while he waits.
captain Perry comes out and we have to tie his neck tie for him.
We then follow him to a press conference.
We then have to go to Captain Perry's secretary who shows us to our office.
Our office is rubbish. Bare brick walls and in need of a good clean.
Jaden turns on Ari and we can choose from a range of virtual environments.
We can then interact with our clues.
The tyre tracks show that the car he drove is a chevy Malibou 83.
The orchid is a funeral flower and symbol of innocence.
We can see files on the victims.
9 victims, all young boys, drowned in rainwater.
Bodies are found only 6 hours dead, which means they are kidnapped and kept alive for several days.
This seems to be about all we can learn so far. We are prompted to leave the ari.
jaden gets the shakes and feels weird. He tries to go and wash his face but can only get to the door, we are prompted to take tripto, whatever that is.

Outside Jaden's office Ethan is telling Blake what happened.
We have some question to answer which make us look like a flake as Ethan does not want to reveal the blackout.
Ethan is told to go home. On the way out he speaks to Grace who essentially blames him for losing Shaun as well as Ethan.

We are back with Scott Shelby in a convenience store. The clerk is the father of a victim and Shelby asks him for information.
He is not forthcoming. Shelby asks for an inhaler and the clerk directs him to the back of the store. I go there and pick up the inhaler. As we do a man comes into the shop.
The man holds up the clerk. We sneak up on him and that does not work as i don't get the quicktime right. We then have the gun waved in our face. We have to try and calm the man down by asking him his name and about his family. We get close and then we have a fight with qucktime which I get right. The man is knocked out. The clerk is now more inclined to help.
The clerk gives us a box that was sent to him by the killer, it contains an origami lizard.
Shelby leaves.

We meet a new character a woman. She wakes in her apartment and we can wander around and interact with things in her very nice loft apartment.
There are weird noises and flashes of movement which increase in tempo until we are attacked by a masked figure. There is a quicktime fight scene and we find that there are two figures. The woman eventually fights her way into the bathroom and thinks she has gained some respite. The masked man is behind her and cuts her throat, that is when she wakes again in her apartment.

Back with Ethan again.
He sits in his run down apartment. The letter that he got earlier is there, it is a weird passage from something about children being gone.
There is a key to a locker inside that he didn't see earlier. This is the same as given to the clerk. A clue from the origami killer that previous victims families haven't got maybe.
Ethan wants to go and check it out but reporters are filling the street outside.
I go out the back door and get to the car without being seen.
We arrive at Lexington station where Ethan has issues with crowds, obviously going back to the crowd at the mall where he lost Jason.
As we walk into the crowd Ethan has a full on psychotic episode. He thinks everything freezes but him and he runs around knocking people over and shouting for Jason's ghost which he sees walking around with it's red balloon.
The episode ends and we are at the luggage lockers. We have to find the right locker and open it.
A shoebox is inside, the scene switches to a hotel room where Ethan is looking meaningfully at the box.
Inside the box is a lot of things. A gun, a phone, and several numbered origami shapes.
I unfold one of the Origami shapes and there is a message.
Are you prepared to show courage and save your son. Joes Garage and parking lot.
There is a memory stick, which I insert into the phone. The phone shows a video of Shaun in a pit which is filling with water, he is caged in this pit. He pleads for help.
A message flashes up and asks how far are you prepared to go for someone you love.
There are to be five trials. Once they are done Ethan will receive the address of where he can find Shaun.
We hide the box under the bed and leave the hotel.
Looks like we are off to Joes's garage.

Back to Jaden.
Who is briefing Perry and Blake amongst others Blake is needling Jaden about his lack of experinece and bringing his fancy ideas to the table. They argue openly and aggressively.
We go to an address. Blake bursts the door in and goes in.
Inside there are an awful lot of crosses.
This is the house of Nathaniel, an local crazy who Blake has had dealings with before.
We explore the house which is full of religious props and loads of drug bottles.
It is also very dirty and dank.
Nathaniel comes in and starts to argue with Blake who is openly hostile.
Eventually Nathaniel pulls a gun on Blake and we have to try and talk him down. I mange to do this. We also have the option to pull the trigger.
As Nathaniel is being cuffed he whirls round and appears to be going to knife or hurt Blake R1 pops up and I am sure I pulled the trigger, however the  game doesn't register it and Nathaniel pulls out a cross and tries to exorcise Blake. He is taken away and we get a thanks from Blake.

Back to Shelby at another victims house.
We knock and get no answer, the door is open and we go inside calling the name Mrs. Bowles. There is a baby in it's pram crying. A note on the floor of the living room tells us to look after the baby as she can't take any more. Looks like Mrs. Bowles has decided to end it all.
We explore the house and find  her in the bath with slit wrists.
She is still alive, we have to get her out of the bath and lie her down on the bed. She asks us not to call the ambulance. We have to get something to dress her wounds with.
In the bathroom cabinet are some bandages and plasters. We go back and dress the wounds. Mrs. Bowles tries to go to the baby, we tell her to sit back and that Shelby will take care of her, she is called Emily. We have to wash our hands before we can pick her up as they are covered in blood.
Then we have the change her nappy and feed her, her bottle.
We go back through to Mrs. Bowles. seems Emily's dad ditched after Jeremy was killed by the Origami killer.
Mrs. Bowles tells us about a cellphone she found in Jeremy's fathers drawer after he died.
I find the cellphone which does not appear to be working.
I leave and watch as Shelby gets in his car and goes.

back with Ethan at the garage indicated on the first origami note.
We give a card to the garage owner, seems they have been keeping a car for someone for two years.
We get the keys and go down in a lift.
the car can be found by pressing it's open door button which flashes it's lights.
Inside we find a gps unit which gives us directions to another destination.
When we arrive we are told to drive for five miles into oncoming traffic on the motorway. This is a wild ride where we have lots of quicktime to do to get through. Eventually the car crashes just on the five mile mark and we have to do some more quicktime inside the car. Pressing the screen on the gps gives us a message. There is a key to the glove compartment inside the gps. I smash it and open the glove box, there is another memory stick.
Escaping the burning car we play it and it gives us another video showing Shaun alive and part of the address.

We are back to the woman.
She rides and expensive looking motorbike.
We go inside the motel lobby and ask for a room. We find out as she fills in the register that her name is Madison Page.
Her room is 201, on the way there we encounter Ethan hurt on the stairs. We help him to his room.
Inside the room Ethan has some broken ribs and a head wound.
We get to disinfect his wounds, then give him some pain killers. Ethan takes more than the recommended dose so he can get moving again.
Ethan takes a shower and they chat. Madison reveals that she is a photographer and has chronic insomnia. She can sleep in hotels, so when things get really bad she comes to a hotel for a good nights sleep.
She leaves and we open the box and get the next clue location.

Blake and Jaden are in a car. They get out and go up to man and ask him to stop and answer his questions. Blake gets coffee in his face and Jaden gives chase through a supermarket, much qucktime ensues.
In the back butchers area of the shop we have a fight with the man.
I beat him down and Blake comes in and tells us that it looks like we have the origami killer.

We see Shelby wake in his office, looks like he has been drinking.
We get to rifle through his desk drawers, a gun a detectives badge, an asthma inhaler.
Looking around the apartment we get the impression that Shelby was a good cop in his day.
the doorbell rings and Lauren Winter is outside claiming she has remembered something.
She comes in and tells us that Johnny's father got a letter the day he vanished.
She gives us the enveloper that the letter came in. Shelby examines it and tells her that the address was typed on an old typewriter.
She asks to help him with the investigation. Shelby is reluctant but allows her to come with him. we see them drive to a large mansion. Security at the gate lets them in. Shelby tells Lauren that they are here to see a man named Kramer who owns a construction business.
Inside there is a large party going on. We get to mill around the guests. A very drunken man talks to us and we can interact in various ways. There are two guards on the stairs that won't let us pass. We have to find a way past them. The drunken man is easily made to start a fight which the guards bust up.
Upstairs we find Gordi Kramer watching a cartoon while two women kiss beside him on the couch. He  ignores us and when we ask about joseph Brown he gets angry, he tells the women to leave.
Seems that Joseph was last seen getting into Gordi's limo. Seems his father pulled strings to get him off.
We push him a little and he confesses to being the Origami killer. The goons come back and we have a quicktime fight. Shelby is overpowered and kicked out of the house.

Back with Ethan now.
We find ourself outside a factory, we get in by climbing the wall as the door won't open.
We have to go round the side through a fence to get in the back door.
Inside is a room with a tube inside a metal door. We open the door and climb inside, the door shuts behind us.
Now we are clambering through a set of tunnels which are filled with broken glass.
We have to use matches to find our way using the direction of wind to negotiate the maze. There is a body of one not so fortunate in the maze with us.
I find my way and then have to slide down a tube. Ethan comes out at an electricity sub station, there is arcs of electricity everywhere.
We have to progress through the gaps using trial and error. We have to hold buttons in order which can tie your fingers in knots. Eventually I get through the gaps and we get another memory stick. This one gives us anothter video of Shaun and more address.

Madison is outside her hotel room and notices Ethan's door open. She goes in and finds Ethan lying unconscious on the floor.
We have to pick him up and put him on the bed.
We examine him and  find him cut to pieces and with large burns on his chest.
We then clean and bandage his wounds. Also giving him some painkillers, anti-biotics and anti-fever drugs.
She waits until he sleeps, then we have a chat, Madison wants to know what is going on and help, however, Ethan pushes her away.
The next origami asks if we are ready to make a sacrifice, along with an address.

Now back to Jaden and Blake questioning their suspect.
Seems he has an alibi and is a dead end.
Grace comes to Blake and tells them of Ethan having a blackout and acting weird. She suggests he could be the killer.
Blake and jaden go to Ego to speak with Ethan's doctor.
Blake gets rough and we have to argue with him. The doctor eventually tells us that Ethan is haunted by visions of drowned bodies and left an origami in his office on one visit.
Blake thinks he has the killer and mobilises everything to look for him.

Shelby goes to see a wealthy looking older man who is playing golf in a driving range.
The man asks him to join him.
We take a shot, this is Mr Kramer.
kramer tries to bribe Shelby. Then threatens him when he won't accept.

Ethan at the next trial.
Inside an old building porcelain lizards lie around, smashing on gives us a key.
The door it opens is nearby.
Inside is a very run down room. There is a desk with a new tablet device sitting on it. Ethan turns it on and a female robotic voice tells him to cut of the end of one of his fingers in front of the device in under five minutes. There is a camera and Ethan can see himself on the screen.
There is a knife sticking in the wall of the kitchen. I take it and doing the sequence cut off the finger.
The voice tells us to look under the desk. There is a loose floorboard. Another memory stick, another video and more address.

Outside Blake and Jaden are waiting for Ethan to come out of the building. There are also a lot of backup police officers. Seems Ethan's car was seen parked outside by traffic cops.
Madison arrives on her motorbike. And goes inside the building. Why is she following Ethan? Her interest in trouble is disconcerting if she doesn't have an ulterior motive to be following someone she only just met and has spent all her time patching up.
Madison goes inside and finds Ethan bleeding again. She tells him the police are outside, and that they need to find an alternative escape route.
We pull planks off a window and open it.
Then we get both characters out of the window. We have to cross the alley and street and get into the subway. Once there we run through the crowds and cross the line and get away on the subway train.

Back at the hotel Madison and Ethan eat. Ethan accuses her of following him. She asks if he is the origami killer. I confide to her that Ethan is having blackouts.
He tells her that the only thing he remembers after the blackouts are bodies in water.
Which seems to me to be confirmation enough of his guilt, why doesn't see just go to the police?
Ethan confesses that he thinks he is schizophrenic and his alter ego is the killer. He think that he is testing himself with these trials, or his other personality is testing him anyway. He knows he should tell the police this but knows they would stop him from doing the trials and Shaun might die. Ethan believes that he must stay free and complete the trials t save shaun.
Again Ethan tells Madison to leave. I don't get her motivation.
The next trial is to go and kill someone called Brad and take a picture of him and send it to the Origami killer.

Back to Jaden who seems to be drowning his sorrow in a bar. We get to play the piano badly using quicktime.
A barman brings him a vodka. He asks about the origami killer. Jaden tells him that he doesn't think it is Ethan. The barman suggests reviewing the evidence. He also tells him to lay off whatever drug it is he is taking.
We go to the clue analysis in Ari and find that the killers make of car passed the park where Shaun was abducted twice in the video footage. We also see that the car was stolen and fenced by a known criminal.
Jaden has another breakdown, it seems that the ari virtual world is leaking into reality. Is this a symptom of his use of the machine. The tripto knocks him out on the bed this time.

Back to Shelby who goes into a clock shop looking for someone called Manfred.
We are in a antique clock and typewriter shop.
We speak to the owner Manfred. Lauren is with us.
Manfred is quite old and frail. We answer his phone for him then have a drink with him.
We show him the letter and he tells us that a royal 5 was used.
seems Manfred bought all the stock of these typewriters to prevent them from being dumped.
He has a list of the people who bought them.
Manfred goes to get the list and is gone a while. I go through the back to find him dead, possibly hit over the head with one of his own typewriters. The killer seems to have came in through the window. However they have also called the police and they are on their way. Lauren comes in and is horrified. She goes to call the police, Shelby tells her they are on their way and if they want to save Shaun they should leave as they can't afford the time spent explaining what has happened. We have to wipe all the prints off everything we have touched. The phone, the window, the glasses of whisky, the glass cases. A music box that lauren touched. As I go I am reminded of the one thing I missed, the phone that Lauren touched in the office, oops. Looks like Lauren is in  trouble.
The next scene sees Lauren and Shelby in the police station explaining what happened.
Blake sees Shelby and tells him that he will take care of it.
We are driving away from the police station and Shelby tries to get Lauren to back off as it is getting too dangerous. She takes a strop and leaves the car and cries. Shelby comes out after her and consoles her. Deciding that he has to keep going and if she is with him at least she won't go getting herself killed by herself.

Ethan goes to the apartment of the man he has to kill. Seems he is adrug dealer.
We get into a fight with him and he pulls a shotgun. We have a quicktime fight through his apartment firing guns all the time. He runs out of bullets and Ethan has the gun trained on him. He starts to pull at Ethan's heart strings, showing pictures of his kids.
We have a choice here, to kill or save. This seems like the first real game shifting choice. The implications are clear, take ethan on an even darker path than he is on now or risk screwing up the trials.
I like to think this will be the right thing and decide to lower the gun.
Ethan knocks him out with the gun and leaves.

Madison is on her own little investigation. She has found out who owns the apartments where Ethan went to cut off his finger. Seems it is a struck off surgeon.
She arrives there on her bike. Someone called Sam is getting this information for her.
She knocks on the door and asks for a drug calle Betropen or something like that. The doctor is reluctant at first but warms up and seems to be eyeing up Madison.
He pours her a drink and asks who told her about him. We make something up. We then ask about the apartment he has for rent.
The drink is drugged and Madison passes out.
She wakes tied up in the doctors cellar. He is about to do some surgery for old times sake. He seems to be about to drill her vagina when the doorbell rings. He goes to it and we see in split screen a religious nut trying to ask him about God. We get to use quicktime to use the drill to free ourself. We then have a big quicktime fight with powertools and eventually end up drilling the doctor through the heart. Madison finds a card for Paco who was the one that the doctor was renting out the apartment on madison street.

Jaden goes to see the crooked car dealer that sold the killer his stolen car.
We ask him who he sold the car to and make it clear that we only want the info and he is in the clear.
jackson is not forthcoming.
We get to look around his garage anyway.
Using Ari we sniff for clues.
we find tyre tracks and traces of pollen. traces of blue paint looks like the killers car was sprayed blue here.
There is also some blood and the traces lead to the acid bath. Looks like jackson has been shoving someone in. We are probably about to be next.
I look inside and can see a skull. Jackson of course is now right behind us with a gun. He takes our gun and tells us that it was another cop asking too many questions.
We have a quicktime fight and knock him down and get our gun back. After breaking his nose andd shooting right above his head he starts to talk. seems Paco is involved again, whoever Paco is. Jaden's drug issues hit at the wrong moment and Jackson has the upper hand again. Jackson knocks Jaden unconscious.
He wakes chained to the steering column of his car which is about to be put in the crusher. we have to escape the car and then fight jackson. He ends up crushed by his own digger.

Shelby and Lauren go back to Shelby's apartment. She takes a shower and we have to make her an omelette.
lauren notices that Shelby has a list of subscribers to an Origami magazine. She looks at Manfreds notebook, which shows who bought parts for a royal typewriter from him.
She suddenly realises that the killers name might be on both lists. She rushes to check.
They find a name, however the name is of a person who died when they were ten?
They go to the grave of John Sheppard. The grave has an origami and fresh flowers.
A man comes up to them who works at the cemetary and tells us the story. We get a flashback.
Two kids are chucked out of their caravan by a drunken father.
They go to play in the rain as they have no other choice.
We run around a construction site and I am waiting for the accident. It doesn't happen despite plenty of opportunities. The boys then play hide and seek. We count to 20 and when we go to find John he has fell into a water pipe that has collapsed under his weight.  He is trapped by the foot in the water and it is rising. The other boy his brother goes for help. Our guide in the present tells us that the boy drowned. The brother was taken away by social services and adopted and moved away.
Lauren and Shelby are about the leave the cemetry when Kramer arrives and lays flowers on Shepherds grave.

We are now back with Madison on the trail of Paco at the Blue lagoon which is a nightclub.
He likes his women to dance sexily and dress in as little as possible.
His bouncer won't let us see him.
So we  decide to go and rip a good tend inches off our skirt and open our blouse. A little make up also helps.
We have to go and dance near Paco and his bouncer calls us over.
We get to sit with him.
Paco is a sleaze and Madison plays straight into his hands and asks to go somewhere more private.
We are taken to Paco's room in the club, which has a huge fish tank and sleazy decor.
Paco wants us to dance and strip for him.
When we don't he pulls a gun. We have to strip a little and dance, when we get the chance we hit him with a lamp. With Paco tied up we question him by punching him and squeezing his balls.
We find out that he rented the apartment to a man named John Sheppard.
We have to get Madison out of the club.

Screen goes blank here and it appears to have crashed. It has crashed, reset time.

I reboot and there seems to be no harm done. I am back where I left off.

Jaden goes into the Blue lagoon. We ask the bodyguard of Paco where he is after some negotiating we are told to go upstairs. As we go through the crowd in split screen we see the Paco talking to the real Origami killer, of course we don't see his face. He is talking about the apartment and Madison coming to see him. The killer shoots him. Jaden gets up the stairs and into the office. The killer attacks him and there is a fight with samurai swords and of course the fish tank gets smashed.
Jaden is cut and left incapcitated. The killer leaves. Jaden gets up and we find some recipts from the killers pocket which got ripped in the fight.
I find the ari glasses and investiagte the room. We find Madisons prints and Ari flags up that she is a journalist. Now her interest in the story makes some sense.
In the apartment there are some bullets and a gun. Also more traces of Madison.
I go back out and speak to the bodyguard who tells us that the man who came before us was called John.

Back to Ethan, who is wallowing in self pity. Madison comes in and tells him that she can prove he isn't the origami killer. How can she do this, all she knows is that someone named john Sheppard rented the apartment?
She gets close to Ethan and they kiss and then make love.
This again seems to make little sense motivation wise. I had trouble with Madisons motivations earlier, now I understand that she is a journalist and was interested because  this looked like a huge story. Why the sexual interest in the broken ribbed missing fingered cut to hell Ethan?
Why would Ethan stop for sex when his son is in a cold pit drowning?
After the deed Madison is sleeping and we get up and dress. The last origami tells us to go to another address. As Ethan leaves he gets his coat and knocks madisons stuff down. Her phone hass pictures of Ethan and the butterflies at the power station.
Her notebook shows she is a journalist.
Here was me thinking that she has someone kidnapped and her trials were to help and have sex with Ethan.
Madison explains that at first she was interested in the story then became interested in Ethan.
we get the choice to reject or forgive, possibly the second game changer.
Madison goes to get something to eat.
As she does she finds Blake and the swat team arriving. We get to go and phone the room for Ethan to get out the balcony. We have a quicktime chase which ends with Ethan being caught.

Jaden and Blake interview Ethan. Ethan tells them that he kidnapped his son but can't remember where he is. Blake gets mad and we have a fight with him about police brutality. Jaden has a Tripto episode again and runs to his room where I make him not take it.
He recovers and has thoughts about getting Ethan out of the police station so that he can save his son.
I wander around here a bit lost as the direction to take isn't clear for the first time.
I turn off the camera and mic in the next door room to the interrogation cell.
I then go in and the guard in the room with Ethan can be made to go and stand outside.
I help Ethan up.
I get lost again but find out that I have to get the guard to go for a break. He tells us that the keys are in his drawer. I also can pick up a police cape.
I go to Ethan and uncuff him then tell him too put on the cape and go.
Jaden watches as Ethan walks out and clean away.

Back to Shelby and he comes home, lauren and Kramer and his goons are in the apartment.
Kramer tells him that his investigation is over for good. Shelby is knocked out and finds himself waking tied to a steering wheel in a car that is underwater.
Lauren is with him and unconscious and tied up also.
We have to break the glass of the dashboard and then use it to cut our rope. We then have to break the glass of the window, there doesn't seem to be a way to save Lauren.
Shelby escapes and vows revenge on Kramer.
We drive our car into the side of Kramers house and start shooting up his guards.
I don't know if we weren't meant to succeed or if I mucked up the quicktime. Shelby is shot and wounded and withdraws under heavy fire.

Madison comes to a hospital to interview Anne Sheppard about her son. Ann has Alzheimers and is more worried about a tv and pills than anything Madison wants to ask about.
There is book of origami on the table and we have to use quicktime to make a few which gets her to chat about how John liked to call the dogs Max.
we ask her nurse some questions. She tells us that objects can trigger memories.
I take the rather obviously placed orchid that I couldn't pick up earlier and take it to Anne.
This sets of a train of memories that get us the name. Anne Whispers it into Madison's ear and she is obviously shocked. Have qunatic dreams been taking clues from Lost in how to reveal but not reveal.

Back to Ethan who is after  the last letters at rainbow lane.
We find him in a red corridor walking to wards a white room.
There are a lot of computer monitors littering the room in a square shape, there is a desk and each monitor is linked to a camera which is showing views of the area inside the square near the desk.
There is a bottle of something, a watch and a device on the desk.
On pressing the device the female robotic voice tells Ethan that he must die to save his son. The bottle contains a poison that will kill Ethan in 60 minutes. He will get the address and have time to save his son before he dies.
I make Ethan drink as I don't  believe he will actually be poisoned. The specifics of a drug like that are hard for an amateur or even a pharmceutical company to make.
After drinking the details are sent to his phone.
Ethan only has a partial address. Using his GPS he finds three that fit.
Using the phone he listens to the sounds behind the video I presume. There are birds and ship horns. I set the gps to go to the one near the coast.

Game locked on a black screen at the loading screen with the faces yet again.

Jaden is in his office frantically looking through the data. Blake comes in and taunts him then leaves. Jaden takes more Tripto and goes back into the data.
We watch the video that Ari took from the floor during the fight with the killer. We can analyse it at any time.
I find that the killer is wearing a watch, it is the same one that they give out on retiral this leads Jaden to believe the killer is a cop.
The gun has history it was impounded and is still meant to be under police care.
We now know that the killer is a cop, but who. jaden gets a flash that it might be Blake. I reject this notion as just his hate speaking.
Jaden eventually collapses with blood coming from his nose and eyes. Is it Ari that is killing him or the use of Tripto?

We are now back in time with the Sheppard boys at the building site. John is in the water.
We run to the father who is drunk and does not listen. Back at John the brother watches as he drowns. Before John drowns he tells Scott not to forget about him.

back to Shelby in the present. He is in his office burning things. The cellphone he took from Mrs. Bowles's house. The envelope from Lauren. The box from the clerk.
manfred's notebook. It is revealed here that Shelby killed him. Finally the picture from his mothers room.
If Shelby is the brother and the killer then where does Kramer and Gordi fit in. Kramer owns a construction firm does he feel guilt about John's death. Where does Madison fit in, how does she know Scott Shelby for the name to make her react with shock?

Madison comes to Shelby's apartment looking for a clue as to Shaun's whereabouts.
She finds a cops uniform in his wardrobe and a secret room behind it.
In the secret room is some orchids. A video monitor shows Shaun treading water. Shelby's computer needs a password, it is Max the name that John gave his origami dogs.
The computer reveals the address.
Also in the room are origami and the typewriter.
As Madison leaves she comes face to face with Shelby's gun.
she tells him that all those children didn't need to die just to find a father capable of saving his son. She tells him that he can save Shaun and do what his father couldn't. Shelby locks her in the room.
We try and get out by trying the door and knocking on the walls. Smoke starts to come in under the door. Shelby must have set fire to the apartment.
I manage to find a hollow point on the wall oppsite the computer and smash it with a piece of electronic equipment we can pick up. This gets us into the next room and we have a lot of quicktime too escape the apartment before a large gas cannister explodes.
Outside we get a choice. call Ethan or Jaden. I call Jaden as it seems that Ethan is already on his way to the location anyway.
There is no answer from Jaden.
Madison gets on her bike and leaves.

Ethan arrives at Shaun's location.
We have to find him and then prise of a padlock and fish him out of the water.
We them perform quicktime CPR. It does not seem to work and Ethan sobs heavily over his son. Just when it looks like all is lost Shaun Cough's and opens his eyes. Someone needs to tell creatives types a little about medicine. That only happens in the Abyss.
Madison arrives and tells Ethan she can clear him, as she knows who the real killer is.
Shelby arrives and congratualtes Ethan. He also tells them that since Madison has spoiled his games then he will have to kill them all.
We have a lot of quicktime fighting.
Ethan is shot in the gut by Shelby and he then chases madison through the shipyard up onto a large crane. At the top just as Shelby is about to kill Madison Ethan appears and shoots him. Shelby falls into the water.
Ethan and Madison collapse and the scene fades.

A news reporter tells us that Shaun was saved and in part by the actions of his father. Jaden has died. Still no explantion of Tripto or Ari given.
Nor how Madison knew Scott Shelby.
No explanation of Madison's night terrors.

We see Madison, Ethan and Shaun looking at a spacious apartment for them all to live in together happily ever after.

Perry and Blake talk about Jaden. Perry give Blake Ari and he puts it on and in the virtual world sees Jaden.

Now the credits roll.
The credits include some scenes that I missed. Possibly through errors in the quicktime or just through choices.
Maybe I don't get to know the answers to my questions because i missed things.
Seems to be the end of the first playthrough. About ten hours at a guess. 34% of the trophies.
Ethan's blackouts are not explained.

Could Lauren have been saved by us saying to Kramer that we would back off, as Gordi was a red herring?
Lots of questions at the end of the game, don't know if that is good or bad.

Gameplay mechanics. Holding lots of buttons at once.
Rapidly tapping buttons, strings of following set patterns.
Moving the stick slowly in a pattern.

I start another playthrough. I notice a change with the fatherly routine bit with Shaun, doing a better job gets me a scene where I have to fetch his cuddly toy.
What were Ethan's blackout about and why did he have origami in his hand after them.

I manage to avoid taking tripto the first time after Ari use. Jaden goes to the toilet and washes his face instead, very shakily.
The first scene with Madison in her apartment seems to be leading to some reveal about her past and possible future, however it is never mentioned again.
The scene where Madison helps Ehtan the first time make more sense when you don't hide the box and let Madison look at it while Ethan is in the shower.
The problem with interactive drama is that the player doesn't know what to do and if the player has to tell the story then it's not going to work.

I played a little more after putting it down for Final Fantasy XIII. I was showing the game to a friend. I ended up playing long after he was gone and finishing the game again. I noticed a few deviations and was able to save Both Lauren Winter and Jayden.
Lauren kisses Scott goodbye when she goes off at the end to be safe from Kramer.
I got into Kramers room and found the Gordi was an origami killer wannabe and had killed the boy in imitation of the real killer.

I chose to do some alternatives for trophies like kill Nathanial and the junkie, resist taking the poison.
The final scene is very different with Jayden alive. Shelby arrives with Ethan at the scene of the well. Shelby give a monologue which is a little worse that having him silent about it all. Jayden stops him from shooting Ehtan and the two of them end up fighting on the rooftops.
Ethan then saves Shaun from the well. Madison arrives outside to find Blake and the swat team.
Jayden gets it in the head with a sledgehammer. and Ethan walks out with Madison and Shaun and is ok.
We see Shaun and Ethan in their loft together, no Madison as I didn't make them have sex this time.
I see Madison on tv about her book which is winning awards. Then we see her signing books in a  shop and a hint to the next game with a more ferocious serial killer giving her a little close encounter.
Then at last we see Lauren kill Shelby in cold blood.

Dante's Inferno Notes

I play on Zealot Mode.

Acre near Jerusalem
We see the hero in a forest sewing a cross into his chest. Good that this is a fantasy as he would be dead from the infection in a week if this was real.
The contrast from the high quality rendered cut scene to the cartoonish battle scenes is marked.
We see battles and innocents being slaughtered.
Prisoners are being kept in the city, we see their hands pressing between bars in the square courtyard we start in. Fireballs are falling from the sky.
We get control for the first time. We have a pike like weapon. X for light attack and Y for heavy attack.
Left analogue stick moves the hero and the right makes him dodge in the direction pressed.
A bunch of enemies attack us, five or six at a time.
Once we kill them all a boat crashes into the dock and we can use it to jump to the next area.
We can jump using A, pressing it again whilst in the air double jumps.
As we move to the next area a sneaky little enemy comes in behind us in cut scene and slides a knife between our shoulder blades.
The light changes and Death rises from the ground in a smokey cloud.
Death tells Dante that he is damned for his sins, which is news to Dante as he thought he was on the good side.
We resist Death and start a fight with him. He is a hard boss to kill so early on in the game. Left trigger is block. You need to use is here as death attacks often and ferociously. I wear him down by blocking most of his attacks and timing my attacks with the end of his. Occasionally he grabs you and you must mash the B button to get out of his grip. When Death's health is low you press Right trigger and steal his scythe. You then bash him with it until his health is down. You then have a quicktime sequence to get through to finish him off.

Florence Italy
Dante goes home to his wife Beatrice he posesses Death's scythe. When he gets there Death is everywhere, a dead bird outside a priest with a cross jammed in his eye and outside his house he finds Beatrice dead with a sword in her belly.
He touches her lips and a white smoke appears, this takes Beatrice's form and she tells Dante that she must go with him as she promised she would. A dark mist envelopes her and a dark figure can be seen grabbing her and taking her away. Dante follows.
We stand in a cemetry and the undead rise from their graves to attack.
We get a new ability here to grab enemies with right trigger.
As we kill the enemies we collect their souls.
I am told that I have enough to get an upgrade and am taken to the upgrades screen.
This is a skill tree type affair. There are two trees, holy and unholy.
I can get impaler Pressing YY initiates a fierce attack that hits enemies multiple times.
The fire blocking my exit from the graveyard vanishes and I can move on.
I run through some road with a dodgy camera angle and then come to a church.
At a statue of Beatrice I can save my game by Pressing Right bumper at the statue.
There are green fountains that give us health, You have to press Right bumper and mash B to get the health out of them.
I have to press right bumper at the door of the church to open it.
Inside I find Beatrice looking rather weird lying on the Altar naked.
Beatrice asks us why we broke our promise. We see a cut scene of Dante promising Beatrice to be faithful while he is away reclaiming the holy land. A priest promises the troops that they will be rewarded in Heaven for fighting to reclaim the holy land.
We now have the power of Beatrices holy cross which we find on the altar.
Pressing B shoots out blasts of cross shaped white light. We get  some flying bat like enemies to try it out on.
The church collapses into hell and we are fighting more enemies rising from the ground.
We have to be careful of collapsing gorund here.
Eventually the cross falls from the other side and we climb along it to get to the next area.
We can now punish or absolve enemies after we grab them.
We have to mash B or X to do either.
I come to a pole seemingly made out of spinal column. We get on ti by pressing right bumper and can slide down it and jump off by pressing A.
I now have to avoide a huge rolling wheel that is slowly coming towards me. When I kill all the enemies in the area the escape route opens and I can avoid the huge deadly wheel.

I encounter a creature named Virgil. It claims to have spoken to Beatrice and she has asked it to help us. Virgil gives us magic powers. Our first magic power is righteous path.
Holding down the left bumper and pressing a face button gives us access to magic.
Righteous path performs a dash attack and leaves a trail of icy shard in our wake.
Purple Mana fountains give us more magic power.
After a wave of bats and skeltons a new monster appears by bursting in through the walls of the cave like chamber.
It is a minotaur like beast with a man atop it's head steering it.
Once we wear down it's health we have a quicktime sequence to get on top of it and kill it's rider. We then get to control the beast.
It can pound the ground, breathe fire and stomp.
We get some enemies to kill with it then a door behind us glows with a light.
I go to it and have to press right bumper then mash B to open it.
A cut scene shows Dante falling down a large shaft with other damned falling around him.
We land in a new area.
Here we get a save point and find what is called a damned climb. There are areas of wall where we can cling onto and clamber around. Only instead of the usual vines we have people encased in the walls to cling onto.
Virgil gives us a location report. We are entering the blind world.
We see souls going towards a boat and are told that this is the shores of Ascheron.
I fight through some enemies near a moving bridge. I have to clear most of them and then hit the switch that moves the bridge and then get across it quick avoiding enemies before it retracts.
Now we slide down into a cylinder.
At the bottom we fight a larger horned nubian.
Then another and he has some skeleton friends.
Once this is down a control opens up in the middle of the circle. Holding right bumber and moving the left stick rotates the wheel and lifts it up the shaft of the cylinder.
A shiny door can be burst open and we go through.
Now we come to a long cliff edge where we fight some more skeletons nubians and bats.
Now we come to a soul lying on the gorund wailing. It is Pontious pilate we get to punish or absolve him.
I absolve him and there is a little mini-game. Lights flow towards a central wheel with the face buttons. When the light hits the face button you have to press it. This gets faster and faster until I muck it up.
I unlock holy level one here. My cross is now more powerful.
I open a door and a cut scene starts.
I am reminded of my vow to be faithful on my crusade. Seems that Dante wasn't though what he did isn't explained yet.
The devil taunts us and takes Beatrice further into hell.
We fight some more nubians, three at a time here, along with skeletons.
Then we get a save point and a little trip along a gory zip line to the boat of the damned. The rope is cut halfway along and we fall against the boat side. We have to climb along the damned and inside the boat.
Here is a puzzle. We have to move a sliding block around so that it is on the opposite side of a sliding platform, once on the other side we can use it to reach higher areas.
A cut scene plays he talking of someone called Francessca.
We find Orpheus and absolve him.
Now I climb out onto the deck of the ship. We have to fight some more skeletons, nubians and bats. Then a mintoaur arrives. Killing it gets us to ride it and we get another wave to beat up with ease. Now we go to the head on the prow of the ship and rip it off. The boat crashes into some gates and we get the minotaur to jump of and climb the walls.
The beast must jump from gap to gap as the walls crumble. Then a quicktime sequence sees the beast fall and dante jump off onto the walls. We have to run as they collapse and jump to safety.
A save point.
I climb down and inside some corridors.
There seems to be a few ways to go here, so not entirely linear, though I am not sure.
I find a room where there are unbaptised babies. They have hooks for hands and attack me. I have to kill them all.
I absolve Electra
Virgil tells us that he once was alive in ancient Rome.
I get a relic which can be equipped to add value to other powers.
I get some more babies and a nubian to kill.
I come to a chasm and use a scythe swing to get across.
Here we come to a huge humanoid creature which is picking up souls and sniffing them. It then judges them and sticking them on a wheel sends them to the appropriate level of hell.
It sniff us and calls us a glutton and a plunderer.
Dante asks it to judge again and it gets all offended.
This is a rather spectacular boss fight. The judge shows itself waist height in a gap in a circular arena. It sends spiked tentacles up out of the ground at us. Once we dodge those we have to use right bumper to get up high onto orbs we can  cling to, in order to avoide a breath attack it uses.
Once this is done it looks for us, the judge is blind and we can now get in close and give it's face a bashing. We have to be careful here as getting grabbed by it's tongue loses us our chance of hitting the boss and hurts a lot.
The boss brings out two waves of babies, skeletons and nubians.
It then starts slamming the ground and sweeping the area with it's arm.
When it has done a few slams it rests it's hand on the ground. We can then press right trigger to grab onto it and a quicktime sequence shows us hurting the boss.
When it's energy is down we press Right trigger over it's slummped head and drag it by it's tongue to the wheel. We then have to mash B to get it's head pulled into the wheel and minced.
I get tail of minos relic as a reward. Which needs level three unholy to equip, so I can't use it yet.
I come to a rappel line.
These are ropes of gut hanging on the sides of cliffs. We use momentum to swing back and forth on them to reach the next. We can also fight using X and Y on the rappel.
We have to break down a barrier in our way and also fight some bats.
A  cut scene shows Dante angry that King richard wanted the crusaders to babysit the prisoners in Acre. It looks like Francessca was a prisoner who seduced Dante to get her brother freed.
It seems that I need to get some of the unholy levels unlocked as well.
I decide to punish the next victim I come to. I get unholy level 1 as a result.
We are now entering lust. A naked female demon climbs a huge phallus and triggers a storm around it.
Here the is a little puzzle. A blast of lightning comes down the alley that leads to the storm. We have some circles that hold the lightning for a few seconds before letting it pass. Turning a lever turns one of these circles and if you time it correctly you can catch the lightning and turns it back towards the storm. This opens a way through which we have to run for before the door closes.
Once across we fight some naked ladies who errupt tentacles from their abdomens.
Then we have a little puzzle with a snake head. This snake head needs opened with a pully and it's teeth broken before it closes again. With the teeth broken it then opens all the way the next time you use the pully.
Now we get up to a dias. Beatrice is here and she is now dressed at least, though in an Elvira costume.
She vanishes into the roof of the dias.
We have a puzzle here to work out. The dias can be raised and lifted into the next area by the use of two levers, only we have to block the dias' movement after the first lever or we don't have time to get onto it. There is a handy block which can be pulled out of the wall and placed on the dias, this blocks it so we can get on and pull the second lever.
Now we are rising up the shaft of the penis. The huge demon woman is still climbing up the outside. We get waves of nubians, skeletons, babies and women. With also some smash and grabs by the large demon.
I just grabbed one of the women by her vaginal prolapse and tried to pull out her womb. Who thinks this stuff up?
This is a ahrd fight here, makes me fear for my choice of difficulty level.
We have to knock the large demon womans hand from the dias by hitting it. This makes it rise a little making two platforms accessible. The platforms have switches on them. hitting one turns snakes towards the demon woman and the other makes fire come out.
You have to hit her hand off the dias, hit the switch to turn the snakes then knock her hand off again and reach the fire control to hit her with the fire. Babies and women run interference. The time is very tight before the snake heads go back to their original position.
When you get it right the demon woman gets blowtorched and retreats.
I find Paolo Malatesta who was killed by his brother for adultery.
I absolve him.
We now have to climb around on the damned avoiding lightning blasts.
I find Semiramis the Queen of Assyria and absolve her.
I find Arrow of paris relic which increases my grab attack damage.
I climb up to the top of the tower of lust. Beatrice sit on the edge of a bed decked out in her spiky dress. Lucifer arrives and tells us that we betrayed Beatrice. He shows us the scene where we have sex with the slave girl and free her and her brother from the prison in Acre.
Now Beatrice belongs to lucifer and we see them recline on the bed as it vanishes leaving Dante alone.
The demon woman appears and tells dante that he should forget Bratrice. Dante knows now that Beatrice has seen his infidelity but still rails against the injustice that his sin has damned her as well.
The demon women vomits up Marc Anthony to do battle with Dante.
He is a hard fight but I managed it second time around. Using the cross at a distance seemed the best option.
I get a shield relic from him.
Cleopatra comes at us now as a normal sized figure. She advances towards us and seems to be trying to have sex with Dante. If we get the stick movement quicktime right we progress and kill her with our blade.
This give us lust storm magic.
We now fall down the shaft which is no longer being held up for some reason and the shaft seems to be falling apart. Lots of skeletons and nubians to fight while the dias plummets down the shaft. Huge chunks of rock break up the dias until it is very small and eventually totally gone, we wall and have to grab onto a nearby swing point to escape death at the bottom of the shaft.
We now swing along a line of female statues and into a new circle of hell.
Virgil tells us that we will find Helen here.
There are firey orifices here and things are starting to take on an organic look.
Virgil tells us that we are in gluttony.
I slide down a long slide and come face to face with a large monster, three sets of snake like tongue with huge sets of teeth at the end come out of it.
This is Cerberus.
And it is an impressive boss fight. We have three heads to deal with, they snap at you and fire lumps of green goo at you. There are four lumps on the ground that when you get close prompt you to press RB and then mash B to open them up, they spew fire up into the air. The heads are trapped by this fire and knocked down where you can give them a sound pounding, I found that triggering a lust storm and mashing the cross took them out. When you have their energy down a RT appears above them and you do a quicktime sequence to lop off a head. Rinse and repeat until only one head is left. This head needs to be knocked into the fires four times and then it's time for an RT trigger. You get a quicktime sequence where you are eaten by the beast and use the cross inside it to blow up the head and escape.
You get Azraels apprentice after this which gives you a chance to stun an ememy you successfuly block.
We are now fully into gluttony, and it's all human organs and rains of yellow liquid.
Tubes with teeth come out of the ground and try and eat you.
We have a fight with lots of skeletons and tubes in a small room, fire stops you leaving until you have killed them all.
I find ciacco and absolve him.
I find Clodia a gambler seducer and drunkard of Rome.
I come to a room with a large doorway filled with flowing silver.
We have a fight here with Nubians, skeltons and tubes.
I go through the door and we come to a room where gluttons are eating the damned.
Lucier appears and shows us that we followed the gluttons in the shape of the Bishop.
And also fed on the spoils of war.
Dante asks why the muslim souls are not here in hell and Lucifer answers that this is his personal hell.
Lucier shows how Beatrice died. Dante's father tries it on with Beatrice. As she rejects him a muslim soldier burst in and kills dante's father in the fight. He then chases Beatrice and impales her.
Dantes asks Lucifer what more can he take from him. Lucifer tells him to keep fighting and find out.
We now get to fight a glutton monster.
Which tries to eat you, pukes and shits on you.
Now we have to escape the weird room we are in. There are silver teleporters and lots of switches and the perspective is all Escher.
Basically you have to move the switches until you get the teleporters aligned to get yourself dropped onto a floating platform which takes you out of the room.
In the next area we have some rope swings and climbs to negotiate with flaming orifices getting in the way of things much more.
We also have to push a block over some fires to put them out then rush to climb and swing before they light again. Holding B you can charge up a push to send the block flying.
We see Dante's father in cut scene, seems he was a Lord and a greedy one at that.
We are now in Greed.
Which so far is full of moving platforms.
There is a pit full of souls trapped in a yellow liquid,
When you pull a lever a boat comes across with nubians and bats. They start to fill the pool from the boat. You have to kill the enemies and some fire demons before the pool fills and kills you.
You then progress to an area full of moving cogs.
In a room you are trapped with some new enemies. Two headed skeletons with huge maces. They spin around like demented spinning tops and need to be avoided until they stop spinning.
You are trapped in this room which fills with a new type of more deadly skeleton as well as two of the spinners. The skeletons respawn until the spinners are downed. So it is wise to concentrate on the spinners.
Now we have a puzzle in this room. Pulling the lever that rises in the centre of the room makes grinders come down the wall and essentially grate the souls that are stuck on the walls. Another lever higher up makes a press trap open for a few seconds.
I really can't see what I am meant to do here for the first time.
I needed to look up some forum help here as I really couldn't see what to do.
You have to Pull the second lever, jump out to the first then jump quickly back into the ledge before the grater descends. Then and only then can you see a platform on top of the grater. Jump on it and run through the press to get past.
In the next area is a large wheel with spokes. The rim of the wheel goes around the walls of the cylindrical chamber grating souls. In the middle is a demon in a cage on the hub of the wheel. We see a large armoured figure turn on the wheel as we come into the room.
If we fall down into the base of the cylinder, knocked down by the spokes we can climb back up after we have fought a spinner. There are some bats as well.
At the end of a set of platform jumps there is a door and you have to time the button mashing to open the demon door with the spokes moving or you get mashed.
Inside the door is a room with a save point and some health and mana.
The next area is another trap. Buzzsaw blades move up and down the floor of the room. The walls start closing in and two nubians attack.
You have to move a pulley in the centre of the room to open the gate before you are crushed.
This is made hard by the interference of the demons.
Once into the next room you have a giant minotaur and some exploding skeletons to fight.
Then the minotaur opens up the slammed room you just came from.
You progress into a room with a dias and get a fight with a new shield and axe carrying demon.
A switch make a fence go up around the dias and it starts to move.
You haave two spinners and some bats while you are trapped on the dias with them
Then you have to jump to another dias and fight two female demons.
You jump down to a small area and have to fight several axe demons and bats.
There is a save point here. Looks like we are going to have to fight a boss.
We have a huge statue to Plutus the god of wealth.
We have to fight spinners, female demons and exploding skeletons before a puzzle opens up on the floor in front of plutus.
Using a pulley we move crumbling platforms until we can get a clear run at jumping up to the statue.
Behind the statue we have a large open area in front of the wheel of fortune where we fight gluttons, women and exploding skeletons.
Then on to some platforming.
I find Fluvia and absolve her.
Now we come to a save point.
We go down a lift to an area where one of the minotaurs is being driven to move large blocks.
We fight the minotaur and get control. Intrduced here is the chance for the demons to climb up the minotaur when you are controlling it and knock you off.
We move through the minotaurs corridor and come back to the statue of Plutus.
We have to fight some demons and then a block rises from the water. We have to move the block and place it's weight on a pedastal that moves the entire statue of Plutus downwards. With this done we can climb up the walls with the minotaur and make the jump across where the statue used to be and onwards. We move along the walls using the minotuar and end up back in the room with the wheel of fortune where we fight loads of demons with the minotaur.
Dante's father arrives and tells him to go back or he will have to kill him.
I knock over the wheel of fortune with the minotaur and jump down onto the dias it forms.
Here we fight Dante's dad. He uses his large cross as a club and a smaller one as a boomerang type melee weapon.
He also jams the cross into the ground which leaves an echo of it behind which emits a circular shockwave.
I manage to kill him afte a few deaths at his hands.
We get a green jewel from his corpse.
This is called sins of the father
We get a new relic called eye of Alighiero which allows us to abosrb some of the damage we take.
We go across a chasm on a dias ride with some bats. Then some spinners and skeletons.
There is some sliding and ropes and now we are into the anger circle of hell.
This is a rather dank and dreary place with forest like walls. There are souls sticking their hands out of the muddy water.
We get a fight with skeletons, tubes and bats.
Then we have to clamber along the walls. Another fight with fire demons and female demons.
I find boudica and absolve her.
We come to another dias and fight some demons and axe demons here.
I am now ascending up the outside of a ruined tower.
I find Hecuba the Queen of troy who watched her city fall in battle, I absolve her.
We are now inside the tower. There is a lift mechanism that needs a cog to be moved so that it is in the right place to lift the inner dias. The problem is that there is a flame tower in the middle that follows you up and sets fire to the dias if you  are too slow. Fire demons run interference and blocks must be knocked out of the way of the slot mechanism.
Once at the top of the tower a signal fire is lit.
Virgil tells us that we are going to the city of Dis.
I slide down the outside of the tower again.
I find Filippo Argenti a politician who was a rival to Dante's family, I absolve him.
We float across the styx marsh only being pestered by the odd bat. I was thinking that is was too quiet, when the raft which we were on suddenly lifted itself out of the water and revealed itself to be a gigantic demon.
There is some quicktime to survive the fall down it's back then we are on land and fighting demons with the larger monster in the background.
After the smaller stuff is done with we see Beatrice and Lucifer for the first time in a while. Lucifer strokes her breasts and she laments her fate.
We have to progress through some gates and lift a bridge all the while fighting an assortment of enemies and avoiding punches from the huge demon.
Once we have completed this long and arduous fight we pull a lever and go up in a lift.
A cut scene shows Beatrice looking increasingly evil looking. Lucifer tells us that she wagered her soul that he would be faithful. He gives her some pomegranite to eat and she catches fire and becomes even more demonic. Lucifer kisses her and looks Dante in the eye as he does.
Dante looks broken but continues onwards. Plunging his scythe into the brain of the huge demon he guides it onwards.
We walk forwards in control of the demon and the camera pans out to show that we are approaching a huge walled city of the damned. The city of Dis.
We enter the city by smashing in the gates. Then inside we wander like Godzilla in Tokyo wrecking the place.
We come to an impass and the only option seems to be to use fire, when I do the place we are standing on collapses and the demon falls. Dante jumps off and grabs onto the side of the cliff.
We are now in Heresy.
It seems to be made up of cubes.
I fight some demons in corridors with fire coming from the walls. The demons here will turn levers that turn on the fire, hopefully cooking you, you can knock them into the fire using your cross attack.
I find Emperor Frederick II
We progress through some wall clambering and switch pulling. Only new thing here are heretic demons which look like tall female egyptian mummies.
There is a puzzle where we have to put a block on a weight trigger then push it forwards so the we can neotiate a fire trap.
Now we are in a large area with a statue, I press various triggers and move the statue up towards a beam of light. However I get to a point where I find a lever which makes lava flow into an area that makes the statue rise, however it falls back down again.
There is a moveable block but I can't make sense of it.
I know I have to bring the block in somewhere to jam the mechanism but I don't know where to put it. I manage to finally jam it in the cup that you raise.
I am told to go back the way I came.
So I do.
I come back to the base of the statue and get a fair few fights with heretics. Then we go another way that has opened up. This leads us to more clambering around the large room of the statue until we reach another switch which eventually fills up enough lava for the statue to rise to the top and be burned up by the shaft of light.
We can now get up to the light. Which does not harm us.
Through the door behind the light the whole place is shaking as if in the throes of an earthquake.
We now have an annoying sequence where we have to jump for our lives as the place collapses. Stalagmites fall from the ceiling.
We are now into Violence.
There is a save point.
There an awful lot of zip wires crisscrossing the area.
I find atilla the hun and Absolve him.
I find the shoe of nessus relic.
Some annoying checkpointing here, if you know your game's perspective is crap with dodgy jumping between ropes, you should put a fucking checkpoint just before the jumps, every time I died here on a stupid jump I have to go and climb for a minute, absolve a soul and open a fountain and get a relic from a gargoyle. I got sick of doing it and just forgot the loot.
You pass a huge statue with an Axe.
at the bottom of a cliff with nowhere else to go you find a pulley encased in stone. Smashing the stone frees the pulley and it makes the statue move back and forth. You have to make it do this three times which makes the axe break and become a bridge to the next area.
Here virgil gives some chat about the violence circle and we can see huge statues of beasts with statues of people pulling them.
A winged demon attacks here with two swords, you must cut of his wings first before he dies.
I climb up the side of the beast statues and fight two winged demons on top of them.
Then climb down the other side. We have some platform jumping. Then we come to a save point and the wood of suicides. Virgil urges us that we are not ready for this, Dante seems confident that he can take anything hell can throw at him.
There are trees here which seem to have lethal blossoms. Shooting the tree stump nearest that glows seems to stop these attacks.
A trap stops us for a fight with a heretic and bats.
I find Pietro della vigna a Roman chancellor who failed his job and comitted suicide.
We come to an area with two slides into it. Once we are in we can't get out. A block is available but I still can't reach the jump with it at the bottom of the slide.
We have to push the block up the slope and time the jump right to get onto it as it slides and jump again from it to get out of the trap.
We come to an area with a piece of tree that glows. We have to hit it and break it. There are lots of suicide fruits nearby which make dante kill himself if he stands in their field. We have skeletons and demons to fight in increasing numbers until we break the tree.
A cut scene shows dante's mother a being made from the trees hanging from a noose.
Seems that Dante's mother killed herself to get away from his father's cruelty. Dante's father told him that she died of a fever.
We get suicide fruit magic as a reward.
We come to the abominable sands.
Brunetto Larini in in hell for Sodomy, I absolve him.
I find Guido Guerra another sodomist and absolve him.
We come to an area where we find souls of the crusaders who have murdered in the name of an unholy cause.
I find a  relic here named memory of Acre.
We have a climb up to a jump here that we cannot quite get across. We have to push a derrick with a platform up a hill. The problem is that a demon and three endlessly respawning skeletons get in the way. I found it best to just try and ignore them as much as possible and push them away with cross attacks as to kill them. They just come back as quickly as you kill them and you don't get the derrick up the hill.
Virgil tells us about the river of blood and we get a save point.
We descend down to a dias and find Francesco who is Dante's brother.
This is a boss fight where Franceesco attacks with sword and shield, he also throws his sword when you get far from him and summons crusaders to help him.
When I kill him I get Francesco's forgiveness relic.
We now have to fight on the dias as it descends to the next level of hell.
Winged demons and crusaders, protected by heretics.
We are now in fraud.
Beatrice arrives looking very demonic being carried by some demons.
she tells us that we have arrived at our final resting place. Since Dante broke his promise to Beatrice he technically committed fraud.
A firey demon is sent to kill Dante. You have to put him out with cross attacks before you can harm him it seems.
Thais the harlot, who enjoyed men fighting over her. I absolve her.
I use a lift and come across some tiny spiders.
We come to a chasm with a floating platform. At the otther side is a dias. We are told we can kill all enemies using infinite magic.
And we will get a bonus for doing it in under 75 seconds.
I complete this challenge. I don't think I got the bonus though. Seemed a bit odd in the middle of the game there.
The next rooms is the same only we have to get a 100 combo streak.
Then 5 air kills.
Tiresias I find and absolve.
Then stay in the air for eight seconds.
Next protect innocents from exploding skeletons.
Now we have to kill a load of enemies without using magic. halfway through this a minotaur arrives and we have to fight it as the challenge is aborted.
In the next area we have to survive without using block.
In the next area we have to kill all enemies without letting the hit counter reset.
I find Myrrha who I absolve.
Finally the last ditch as Beatrice calls them. We have to survive and kill all enemies.
This is an endurance test and we get a combination of all enemy types so far.
A cut scene.
Seems that Dante ordered the killing of all the prisoners at Acre. When King Richard arrived and found out Dante let Francesco take the blame and he was hung.
Beatrice shows dante the Ninth circle of hell, resevered for traitors.
Dante pleads that Beatrice should be released and gives up her cross and suggests that he will stay here in fraud as long as Beatrice is saved.
An angel arrives and removes the demon taint from Beatrice and takes her to heaven.
He tells dante that his work is not done.
I find Fra Alberigo and absolve him.
Now I descend into the ninth and final circle. It is an arctic wasteland full of giant frozen heads who blow harsh winds that can knock you off the edges of the cliffs.
We have to clamber around a bit and avoid the winds here.
We come to Virgil who tells us that the devil personally consumes traitors here in the ninth circle as traitors are the worst kind of sinners.
I find a bridge made of ice, we have to walk across it. Bits collapse, you should be ok if as soon as you see shaking you turn back you will find the correct path.
We have to destroy a chain like stucture at the end of the bridge, then we fall into the final boss battle.
Lucifer is a large humanoid with wings.
He tries to hit us with his fists as we run around on a dias with a huge five pointed star painted on it. He also uses a large wind attack which sends out twisters to get us.
The twisters are dodge able with a button press.
Once you take his energy down enough the belly of the beast opens up and a smaller lucifer comes out.
Seems this is lucifers prison.
We then have to fight this smaller lucifer who uses a sword and ranged attacks.
I found that spamming the X light attacks seemed to keep him off balance and the divine armour was a necessity along with using the redemption attacks when you have it available.
When he is down to less than a third energy he takes to the air and rains down fireballs and area attacks.
You can grapple up to him by pressing right bumper.
Once his energy is down here he starts a cut scene/quicktime section.
Platforms raise from the star and you havee to grapple from one to the other then stick your scythe into Lucifer. You see him making a break from the icy prison and you have some quicktime to stop him.
A rather lushly rendered cut scene shows Lucifer telling you that you are stuck here with him now.
You have a final ace though the souls you have collected are released and confine lucifer again. You then are transported by God or Beatrice to a nice happy place.
However your stay there is short and Dante comes out naked from a cave onto an island with a pyramid in the distance.  "to be continued" appears.

11:25 on the in game clock
570 achievement points.

Upgrade List

Unholy
Impaler
Pressing YY initiates a fierce attack that hits enemies multiple times.
Repayment
Pres LT just before an enemy attack to counter Press X or Y after countering to counter attack.
Diabolic Rupture
Press YY while in the air to initiate a fierce attack and finishing move.
Death's pillar
Press YYY to initate a firece combo that knocks enemies to the ground and breaks their block.
Diabolic hammer
Pressing LT and Y will initiate a deadly focus attack combo for massive damage.

Holy
Divine Force
Holding and releasing B will break enemy defenses by releasing a concentrated burst of holy energy.
Divine force level 2
Holding B for longer will increase the damage from divine force when released.
Holy Barrage
Pressing BBB will unleash a three part attack of divine energy.
Wisdom of Camilla
The mana bar increases in scale.
Fortitude of Seneca
The health bar increases in scale.
Holy protection level 1
Dante will take 5% less damage from enemies.
Sacred Judgement
Pressing LT plus B will initate a  two part focus attack that violently pulls enemies towards Dante with divine might.
Magic Righteous path Level 2
Deals more damage with this magic.
Sacred Quake
Pressing Lt and B while in the air will crash Dante down in a focus attack that stuns nearby enemies.
Sacred Quake level 2
Scared quake will do more damage and have a longer stun.
Sacred Justice
Pressing LT + B during sacred judgement wil launch and stun enemies in the air.
Vindication
Press B after countering to initate a critical attack that sends enemies flying.
Holy Protection level 2
Dante will take 10% less damage from enemies.
Fortitude of Brutus
The health bar increases in size.
Magic Righteous path level 3
Righteous path deals more damage to enemies.
Holy devastation
Pressing BBBB will unleash a devastating wave of holy energy.
Blessed spirit trap
Enemies release health when destroyed by Dante's cross.
Divine Tempest
Holding and releasing B while in the air will launch enemies into the air with divine might.
Redemption cell
A cell is added to Dante's redemption meter which extends it's duration.
Relic Slot
An additional relic slot is unlocked.
Magic: Divine armour
Instantly blinds surrounding enemies and provides protection to Dante for a short period of time.
Magic: Martyrdom
dante sacrifices health and mana to deal a heavy amount of dmage to any surrounding enemies.