Heart of Darkness
Heart of Darkness places players in the role of a child named Andy as he attempts to rescue his dog who has been kidnapped by creatures known as The Dark Souls. The game has about half an hour of storytelling…
Heart of Darkness is a platform developed by Amazing Studio, released 4 July 1998 on PlayStation and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Heart of Darkness is
Heart of Darkness is a platform game developed by Amazing Studio and released in 1998. It was published by Infogrames. It is available on PlayStation and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
The game follows Andy, a child who hates his abusive teacher, loves his dog Whiskey, and has nyctophobia (fear of darkness). One day, Andy and Whiskey head for the park. A solar eclipse occurs while they're there. During the eclipse, Whiskey is taken away by an unseen creature. Andy then rushes to his treehouse, where he keeps his inventions, and jumps inside a spaceship to find Whiskey. He takes off and finds himself in the Darklands, which is a portion of the Heart of Darkness. Inhabited by creatures of the night and ruled over by an evil sorcerer that's known as the Master of Darkness, the Darklands are extremely dangerous. Andy must find it in himself in order to rescue Whiskey and find…
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are comedy, horror and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Heart of Darkness holds a critic score of 50 out of 100. That places it above 6% of the 2,372 rated platform games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 1998 averaged 70, so it scored 20 points below the year average. Players rate it 65, 15 points higher than critics did — a gap worth knowing about before you buy.
What it launched against
Heart of Darkness launched on 4 July 1998, within three weeks of Banjo-Kazooie, Street Fighter Alpha 3, The King of Fighters '98 and Colin McRae Rally. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Banjo-Kazooie, Street Fighter Alpha 3, The King of Fighters '98, Colin McRae Rally.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Heart of Darkness yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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