Jesus Christ, the protagonist’s age alone should have catapulted the game into the Teen rating at the very minimum. The first few are pretty boring (drowning, falling from stuff, etc), but then the protagonist - a twelve-year-old boy - gets his neck snapped, is eaten alive, is strangled.
Here is every death one can experience in the game strung together into a single video. Hit the jump for some videos that explain what I mean. That, and it is undoubtedly the single most violent game ever made to still be rated “E for Everyone.” By essentially simplifying the cinematic platformer formula and removing stuff like backtracking, nonlinear levels, or a huge emphasis on combat, Heart of Darkness - despite being unpopular enough to warrant a Games Time Forgot article - may arguably be the greatest work in the entire genre.
That said, if you’ve ever played a “cinematic platformer” like Flashback, Out of This World, or Blackthorne, you’ll find much to enjoy in Heart of Darkness. It has absolutely nothing to do with the Joseph Conrad novella of the same name, does not take place in Vietnam, and it chronicles the story of a young boy saving his dog from evil, intergalactic aliens. Just to get it out of the way, I have no idea why this game is called Heart of Darkness.
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