#episodic format

Session structure rules for Oneiroi.

It’s not required, but it provides an episodic format for those who want a guid in Session planning.

But the thing is, we had that, we had that in the form of incredibly long run (like 24-48+ episode seasons) of television shows, where you didn't know if folks were picking it up in the middle or not, so any 'plot' tended to be pearl strung across a background or only across 2-3 episode arcs. But they got rid of these because it meant that they had to pay union rates to actors, writers, and directors, instead truncating stuff enormously. They got rid of filler episodes with character development and background details because they wanted to have short, engaging, single sitting long running things.

They want to insert advertising into everything, but we found that sweet spot too, with daytime television, and instead they just cram the fucking things interupting the middle of any given show instead of putting them into natural breaks. But they got rid of these because they beat out cable and network television by not having advertisements at all, and now they're all super fucking exclusive and focused so even the adverts are boring as fuck rather than hiliarious little things like we had in the 90s.

Have you played Heavy Rain? Oh, well, do you want to know what happens anyways? No, no, I won't tell you; I'll show you, albeit over the course of 165 minutes. But hey, that's saving you over 500 minutes had you played it the old fashioned way!

This fan film comes from René Jacob who says he spent 120 hours over the course of four months splicing together the cutscenes from Heavy Rain. Being that Heavy Rain is, after all, a game, Jacob had to sparingly—if at all—use gameplay and relied more on weaving together the cutscenes into something more compelling as a feature-length film.

Jacob states he had to cut around plot holes in the story (though that wasn't always possible) and really focus in on Ethan's plot since, for the unaware, Heavy Rain actually centers around multiple main characters within an overarching story. This means he had to cut out most of the game's prologue and interject those scenes as "memories" later on.

You can also view the movie in its original episodic format at Jacob's YouTube channel if that's more to your liking. Warning: either way you watch it, you will be sad. It's not much of a stretch to say Heavy Rain is a downer.

via Kotaku, GamersGlobal.