Crukih's video: Heart of Darknes Commentary

--------------------------------------------------USEFUL TIMESTAMPS-------------------------------------------------- 0:00 - Intro 7:17 - Game Starts 10:15 - Losing Tesla Gun 11:48 - Prince of Darkness Revealed 14:00 - The Swamp 16:15 - Rock Slide 16:45 - Something in the Water 18:45 - Magic Rock (Underwater Section) 22:28 - Entering the Caverns 27:30 - Meeting the Amigos 33:18 - Village under Attack 37:40 - Screw Gravity 38:56 - Magma Cave 42:12 - Lava Pits 46:16 - Magic Rock Cave 50:15 - Evil Lair 58:37 - Escaping Cell 1:03:00 - Tesla Gun Reclaimed 1:07:18 - Hunt for Magic Rock Pieces 1:14:35 - Assault on the Bridge 1:19:51 - The Heart of Darkness 1:24:40 - Credits 1:28:20 - 3D Ending --------------------------------------------------HYPERLINKS-------------------------------------------------- Thumbnail artwork can be found here: https://bulk2.destructoid.com/ul/131872-heartofborkness.jpg Crukih 2: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEspWHr0j27p3Y-cMNjme1w Walkthrough Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmSh_BqEHuQ Discord Server: https://discord.gg/b6HAZN4 --------------------------------------------------DESCRIPTION-------------------------------------------------- Heart of Darkness has more than its fair share of problems. The controls can feel ‘Sticky’ at times. Rapidly pressing the fire button whilst trying to aim in a different direction will cause Andy to fire in the same direction. It takes time to condition yourself to take a moment to pause the firing to aim in a new direction, something uncommon in most games. Also, enemies such as the spiders have invincibility frames whilst the player does not. It can feel cheap when a spider jumps over a blast to devour you. Indeed, there are several deaths in the game that you wouldn’t even be aware had you not already played the game before and knew it was coming. Whilst you do respawn quickly after death, it does stink of questionable game design. The CGI falls just short of horrifying at times, and is massively different from the main game in tone. Whilst the main game paints an atmosphere of a dark, brooding and inhospitable atmosphere, the cut scenes are often silly and cheerful, with childish music. It feels like a completely different game from the horrific deaths the main character can endure, getting his spine broken by wall worms, devoured by shadow monsters or burned alive. However, for all its many flaws, Heart of Darkness oozes charm, which Is it’s main saving grace. The weird dichotomy between the whimsical cut scenes and the dark gameplay could be seen as an adventure from the mind of a child. Someone who is troubled, who has dark fears that genuinely trouble him. Whilst they plague his mind, he starts to think up scenarios where he overcomes these fears which plays out the more light-hearted sections (Would also explain why one of Amigos just casually has her tits out constantly, typical teenage horniness). Perhaps I’m reading into it too much… If you don’t die and don’t include the cutscenes, the game could be finished in just over an hour. Thus, what you have is a fun, bite-sized adventure with magic, Tesla guns and shadow monsters which is pretty damn fun to play. Also, given how this game was made by only a handful of people, I can forgive some of its shortcomings. Seriously, look at the credits, the same 6 names get repeated like 10 times…