Heavy Rain isn’t the best game on the PS3, not even close, but it is my favorite game, and one game I will remember for a long time. If the score is even half as integral as the soundtrack from Heavy Rain, then it will be fantastic.

It’s sad that it will be Normand Corbeil’s last work. I’m looking forward to Beyond: Two Souls. It can be easy for the voice acting to pull you out of the scene (especially if you use the thought button), but the music does a great job of keeping the pressure on. To be honest, most of these have a strong sense of unease. She seems to be running away or escaping something most of the time. The Chase has a sense of urgency and panic, which goes well with a lot of Madison’s scenes. Mad Jack and Jayden’s fight (The Bulldozer) is a brutal fight, and the song matches that, with hard swings and the feeling that someone is about to die. Now, people could see that as a fault with the game, because each character seems to have a similar theme to their action sequence, but the music in each one is pretty good. The main reason I can’t pick one is that each song fits extremely well with the scene. (In order, the songs are The Bulldozer, The Hold Up, The Chase, Countdown, and Looking for Shaun. I couldn’t really choose a single song from one of the many action sequences Corbeil did the music for, so I chose the video of the credits, which has most of the song’s in it. Warning: There may be spoilers for Heavy Rain after this point. Here are some of the songs from heavy rain that still stick with me, almost three years later. A major part of this me, my brother, and sister’s love for Heavy Rain. Cloudy memory is possible, but I don’t think I can remember the last time someone in the industry’s death hit so hard as Corbeil’s did. Is Dead” for Jayden’s theme.) And there is the constant running joke between us that if you listen to Ethan’s theme long enough, it’ll turn into Aerith’s theme. (“Ethan’s sad, really sad” for Ethan’s theme. We’ve had a lot of fun adding lyrics to some of Corbeil’s songs. While The Walking Dead was making people go “Oh wow, the choices matter.” All I kept thinking was how much it reminded me of how Heavy Rain blew me away. It has it’s flaws, but at the time it came out, such a goddamn fantastic ride. Looking at it today, it doesn’t look so hot. And you know what? Maybe it doesn’t deserve that much love. We have a lot of different opinions about games, but our love for Heavy Rain is the same for each of us.

Between me and my brother and sister, Heavy Rain is pretty much OUR game. I get how people would make that mistake, but I just wanted to get that out of the way, to dodge the inevitable “Why didn’t you talk about Mars?” comments. That song is called Mars, and it’s on Audio Network. Remember the song from the trailer? It’s a great song, but it wasn’t by Corbeil. A lot of the music is from Audio Network, a place that sells music you can use for productions etc. Normand Corbeil did the score for Heavy Rain, but that doesn’t mean all of the music. This is a tribute to the Heavy Rain soundtrack, which was brought to us because of Corbeil.Before I continue, I should get a few misconceptions out of the way. This isn’t an obituary, I'm nowhere near qualified to do such a thing. He was working on the score for Beyond: Two Souls as well. And it’s a shame that Corbeil passed away so soon.

Here’s what I do know,I know that Heavy Rain’s soundtrack was fantastic. I thought I should write something, but hell, what do I know? I can’t write about all of his music, he did quite a bit of film scores before his work in Heavy Rain, but I don’t know much about those. It’s weird, it’s not like I knew much about the guy. When I learned last night that Normand Corbeil, the composer of Heavy Rain, passed away after a five month battle with pancreatic cancer at the age of 56.

Heavy rain sound track