Heart of Darkness (PC/Playstation) - Full Playthrough

Описание: It's cinematic platformer time and it's another game by Eric Chahi! It had a troubled development cycle of over five years. The animations and backgrounds are impressive and I can see he had a grand vision for this game. The execution, however, was not that great.

Firstly, the game runs in a resolution of 256x192 which may have been fine on the Sony Playstation where it was also released, but on PC it was just dated. The graphics on PC have a smaller color palette, but they are still much better considering that the Playstation version has terrible macro blocking of the backgrounds as if it was highly jpeg compressed.

Secondly, none of the characters are likeable. Andy is cringeworthy in every cutscene, the amigo aliens in their diapers look dumb as heck and the pink alien is whatever. Even the dog looks weird and isn't adorable at all. The story is lame anyway. I don't understand how he does the dimension travel and how he returns. I guess it's just a dream by Andy dealing with his fear of the dark.

And finally, the controls don't give you the tools to deal with the challenge of the game. It's not very challenging from a design perspective. The puzzles are mostly trivial. Combat is the problem. The fights are very random and the game runs at only 12.5 fps (80ms frame time) which makes it not very responsive. You will die a lot to things not working as you anticipated.

It is very unfortunate that this game didn't turn out better. It has none of the mystery of Another World and none of the movement and story complexity of Flashback. The cutscenes also try to be a Disney level animation and look very mediocre. I cannot recommend the game, but if you do want to check it out on PC, check out https://github.com/MaximLopez/HeartOf... for a re-implementation of the Heart of Darkness implementation so you can run it on modern PCs. It's a fork of "Hode", another such engine.

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00:00 - Start & Intro
06:49 - Level 1: Canyon of Death
15:32 - Level 2: Swamplands
21:12 - Level 3: Magic Lake
43:13 - Level 4: Space Island
52:59 - Level 5: Rivers of Fire
1:01:35 - Level 6: Caverns of Doom
1:05:16 - Level 7: Into the Lair
1:22:39 - Level 8: Heart of Darkness
1:42:23 - Ending
1:45:19 - Credits
1:50:00 - 3D Glasses Sequence