Basically, this is an opportunity to relive key moments in Whit’s life and help him make choices that will affect his future life. It’s a pretty neat art design element.Īs you relive your life’s most important memories, you have decisions to make. Not like you would see in a horror movie, but more like an ethereal, haunting outline of people from your past. The environments seem realistic, but the people you talk to appear as ghostly apparitions. The art design involving these memories is very interesting. He begins to relive memories from childhood to adulthood pivotal moments that shaped the man he is today. From here, Whit’s journey becomes much more mystical.Īs Whit is looking for a way out, his memories become an ethereal reality. The mission is successful, but Whit, unfortunately, falls into the depths of the sinkhole. From here, you make your first big decision, which was an absolute no-brainer – I chose to get Casey to safety.
After the initial shock of the event, Whit realizes that the family dog, Casey, is stuck in an unstable, lower part of the sinkhole. Your journey starts on the Whit Anderson farm, where a ginormous sinkhole opens up on your property. Where the Heart Leads is another great entry in the narrative storytelling genre, giving you the opportunity to see what you would do if you could relive key moments in your life. Yet there is an audience that yearns for narrative types of games due to the emotional journeys we go on.
In a world filled with shooters, platformers, and action-adventure games, narrative storytelling avoids large action pieces that some gamers enjoy. Narrative storytelling games are not for everyone. When it comes to narrative storytelling videogames, Where the Heart Leads is a great example of how a development team can create a mechanic that keeps you engaged.
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