{"id":1744637,"date":"2022-07-22T06:50:11","date_gmt":"2022-07-22T10:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/platogaming.com\/?post_type=station&p=1744637"},"modified":"2022-07-22T10:45:02","modified_gmt":"2022-07-22T14:45:02","slug":"strays-weirdest-mod-so-far-is-a-heavy-rain-reference","status":"publish","type":"station","link":"https:\/\/platogaming.com\/plato-data\/strays-weirdest-mod-so-far-is-a-heavy-rain-reference\/","title":{"rendered":"Stray's Weirdest Mod So Far Is a Heavy Rain Reference"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Not sure if you’ve noticed, but the Internet loves cats \u2013 so it’s not a huge surprise that feline cyberpunk adventure Stray has already built up a modding scene just days after release. But no matter what you expected from Stray mods, you probably didn’t think one of them would be based on Heavy Rain.<\/p>\n

Over on Nexus Mods,<\/a> you can already find ways to reskin your playable cat in a number of styles (including looking a bit like Garfield<\/a>, and with an eyepatch<\/a>). But nestled among the many reshades is a mod simply called JASON<\/a> by creator Gibrietas.<\/p>\n

JASON has a simple, perfect function \u2013 it replaces Stray’s manual meowing with the sound of Heavy Rain protagonist Ethan Mars shouting for his lost son. I don’t know why I think this is incredible, but I very much do.<\/p>\n

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https:\/\/t.co\/Gy8XOLYoho<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Amongst the Catgirls of the Nephren-Ka (@pestilent_one) July 21, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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If you don’t remember, Heavy Rain was a 2010 Quantic Dream adventure game that begins with a scene in which you can “Press X to Jason<\/a>“, sending out multiple shouts of, well, “Jason!”. Now, 12 years later, thanks to the wonders of technology, you can do the same with a very cute cat.<\/p>\n

Personally, I think Gibrietas now needs to work on a sequel mod, entitled SHAUN<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Stray arrived this week, and we awarded it an 8\/10 review<\/a>, calling it “a delightful adventure in a dark but endearingly hopeful cyberpunk world, and that\u2019s thanks in no small part to the fact that you are playing as an adorable cat the whole time.”<\/p>\n

Joe Skrebels is IGN’s Executive Editor of News. Follow him on <\/em>Twitter<\/em><\/a>. Have a tip for us? Want to discuss a possible story? Please send an email to <\/em>newstips@ign.com<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1744638,"template":"","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","type":"","auto_type":false,"post":"","stream":"","stream_url":"","waveform_data":[],"duration":0,"bpm":0,"downloadable":false,"download_url":"","purchase_title":"","purchase_url":"","post-count-all":0,"like_count":0,"download_count":0,"editor_note":"","copyright":"","captions":[]},"genre":[78],"artist":[147],"mood":[],"activity":[],"station_tag":[18744,18711,7387,18723,18119,10610,177,18710,18750,14091,18732,3862,9445,18726,13258,18715,18719,18742,18712,18714,18729,5227,18749,16767,3702,18708],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/platogaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/station\/1744637"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/platogaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/station"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/platogaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/station"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platogaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platogaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1744638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/platogaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1744637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"genre","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platogaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/genre?post=1744637"},{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platogaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=1744637"},{"taxonomy":"mood","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platogaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mood?post=1744637"},{"taxonomy":"activity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platogaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/activity?post=1744637"},{"taxonomy":"station_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platogaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/station_tag?post=1744637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}