Akuji the Heartless
Akuji the Heartless is an action-adventure video game, released in 1998 on the PlayStation. It uses a modified Gex: Enter the Gecko engine, and both games were developed by Crystal Dynamics. The gameplay…
Akuji the Heartless is an adventure developed by Crystal Dynamics, released 31 December 1998 on PlayStation and PC (Microsoft Windows). The main story takes about 6 hrs to finish.
What Akuji the Heartless is
Akuji the Heartless is an adventure game developed by Crystal Dynamics and released in 1998. It was published by Eidos Interactive. It is available on PlayStation and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
The game centres on the voodoo priest and warrior Akuji (voiced by Richard Roundtree), who had his heart ripped out on his wedding day, and through the use of voodoo magic is now cursed to wander the Underworld. However, Kaisha, his would-be bride, finds him in hell and speaks to him in soul form: she informs him that it was Orad, Akuji's own brother, who orchestrated his murder. She begs Akuji to escape and stop him, as their families are preparing for war, and Orad is preparing to sacrifice her to the gods. Upon traveling through the first level of the Underworld and consulting loa Baron Samedi Akuji discovers he has a chance for redemption: if he traverses hell and collects the souls of…
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 6 hrs.
What it launched against
Akuji the Heartless launched on 31 December 1998, within three weeks of Suikoden II, Super Smash Bros., Crazy Taxi (1999) and Mario Party.
Released around the same time: Suikoden II, Super Smash Bros., Crazy Taxi (1999), Mario Party.
Official trailer
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