Deciding whether or not to take leftovers to your neighbors is a choice you can make. Where the Heart Leads is nothing if not effective in conveying the power and consequences of your decisions in both immediacy and over time, although I will admit, not every one is riveting. The impact is there, and the more I realized the weight of my choices, the more I gave each seemingly big decision deeper pause. Will you side with your dad or your girlfriend’s dad in the dispute over a tractor accident and who should pay for it? No matter who eats the bill, they will remember how it played out and your part in the decision. Will you tell Whit’s folks of his lazy brother’s hideout he built? They will remember it when it has implications in a far more weighty event.
This web of choices can lead memories to play out in very different ways. There are a lot of choices that have hefty implications in Where the Heart Leads, whether immediate or far down the line. This expands heavily as the game plays out. It starts with the mentality you have about your dog and saving them, whether it’s that the dog is troublesome and you’re only going to try as hard as necessary to save it, or whether they’re family and you’re going to do anything to save them. Whit will often find other characters, whether real or a figment of his memory to converse with, coming up against choices that he makes about those situations.Ĭhoice is a powerful thing in Where the Heart Leads. Rather, you wander around as a character through a colorful mix of the present situation, sprinkles of past memories, and some times fullblown trips into those memories and their events. You are seemingly never in any real danger of harm or a losing condition. The gameplay loop of Where the Heart Leads might be considered a bit of a walking simulator. His journey takes him through memories of times gone by, of his father, mother, then-girlfriend, her family, and the matters that they had to endure. The danger and dreariness, along with the myriad odd buildings and junk Whit finds on his journey through the sinkhole, eventually lead him on a trip down memory lane. When the crumbling ground threatens the family dog, Casey, Whit springs into action to save their animal pal and it leads to him falling headlong into the depths of the pit.īy a sheer miracle, Whit survives his fall and the task then becomes escaping the vast depths of the sinkhole alive to get back to his family. Whitney Anderson and his family awake to tremendous rumbling to find that a large portion of their land has turned into a sinkhole pit with seemingly no bottom to it.
Where the Heart Leads kicks off our journey on what is seemingly a simple countryside farm in the middle of a storm, but it’s only seconds in that things get wild. It’s quite a bit slower paced than other Armature Games, but it has an extensive and interesting family narrative aided by the power of beautiful watercolor-like visuals, emotional swing, and the resounding echo of the choices you make. Where the Heart Leads is a walk through time, focused on a simple rural family and the choices they’ve made along the way. However, their latest effort is a solo venture, and a splendidly surreal one at that. with Batman: Arkham Origins Blackgate, Comcept with ReCore, and even up to and including Epic Games with support Fortnite. Armature Studio has been around the bend helping with a lot of games through the years.
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