Rain pours, a child is missing, and you press the buttons as if your own guilt depended on it.

Heavy Rain's profile tells a twisted story. On nearly every criterion, Quantic Dream's thriller stays quiet, even low: the desert island and rediscovery questions drop it right to the bottom, while fun and connection sit in the soft middle. And then there's the line that stands out. Its music ranks ahead of 99% of games. The soundtrack at the summit, everything else struggling below average. Be careful though, many of these results rest on very few votes, one or two duels for gameplay and art direction. Those verdicts are still to confirm. But the soundtrack stands on a few more returns, and its peak looks real.

For the interactive thriller genre, it fits. You come for emotion, tension, atmosphere, not for the feel of the controller or for booting it up again next Monday. Heavy Rain owns being an experience you go through once.

So, for who? For you if a soundtrack that haunts you long after the credits matters more than anything. Much less if you want a game you replay for the pure thrill of the sensations.