The DualSense controller’s speaker and haptics have a significant impact on many of the game’s more emotional scenes. “The relationship between haptics and audio is so important, and is a big part of how we think about things,” Dabbous says, calling back to Rez’s Trance Vibrator as one of the early leaders in helping players to understand an emotional state. “So we can give that to our writers and be like, ‘Hey, in your script, you can specify your heart rate, if you want to – you can specify if a choice will increase or decrease your heart rate, and have that be reflected in the controller. And by pulling our writers into becoming so intrinsic to the design of the game, we increase our collaboration.”