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Making virtual breakfast with complex joystick motions

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Cooking eggs should not require the fine motor skills of a fighter pilot. Heavy Rain prided itself on immersive controls, which meant that completing mundane tasks like making orange juice or frying a pan of bacon required players to twist their analog sticks in precise, slow half-circles. Breaking the yolk resulted in a genuine sense of mechanical failure.

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