Fatal Hearts - PC Game - Reflexive Arcade

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Fuzzles' Review - February 25, 2008 - View all my reviews (10)

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Fatal Hearts

Fatal Hearts is about a 15 year old girl (which is typical of Japanese anime stories) who you control the life of, by choosing different options and succeeding puzzles to lead her to one of 14 endings. The game is more story based but with an addition of puzzles, some of which are pretty hard and others that are way too easy.
The graphics I found very pleasant to look at, they are drawn by different artists but the images do blend in together really well. The emotions on the characters are also Japanese style anime that I found enjoyable.
Even though the characters don't speak the dialog, the animation tends to show how they feel about certain situations.
The music in the background is calm and relaxing, the sound effects are also nice to hear and bring in a good atmosphere to the game.
The gameplay is basically a click of the mouse however, if you get tired of clicking you can make the story continue by itself in the options. This I found handy to use.
All in all, I found Fatal Hearts a fresh experience here at Reflexive and hopefully more will follow. Games that have different endings interest me and so does Japanese anime ^-^. If you love story-based or puzzle games you may want to try out this.

This review has an average score of 4 - Based on 7 ratings
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gaunt56's Review - March 11, 2008 - View all my reviews (4)

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a game to remember

Fatal hearts, a game that is a big puzzle/mystery comes from the makers of cute knight, begins with a simple girl staying over at her friend's house. Blah blah blah i am sure you don't want to hear about.One of the tough things about this game is there is no way to tell who to trust, because no dresses up like a villian or a hero, just ordinary people you meet everyday, except the friend's parents. They creep me out. the graphics are nothing new to cute knight, so it could be welcome or boring. I find it welcome. The effects sound pretty much how they are supposed to. There is also a LOT of supense. But no one is kidding about the puzzles being tough but I will talk about that later. The talk between you and everyone else is almost choice to say what at a certain period in the conversation and will affect what puzzles you play thus also changes the ending, so it makes sure you pay attention. Overall i give it a 4/5. Why take a way a star? Is because the puzzles can be really frustrating some times, but they made it that so the ending is more cherished.The first ending I had was fantastic, certainly unxpected. A great game that is certainly worth the price. I recomend it to people above thirteen because there is a couple of adult themes.

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Cherished's Review - March 25, 2008

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Take into consideration the purpose of this game.

I think the first thing before you try or even download this game is to ask yourself what does one expect of such a game; Fatal Hearts calls itself a puzzle game, but it is more of a visual novel than a game - though the player is required to be more interactive than usual when it comes to a visual novel.

The visual novel is exactly what it is: a visual novel. The characters speak their lines and act out their parts visually for the players and the players get to make their choices. Do you trust this person, what do you do? From these actions, the player is eventually led to fourteen different endings, showing us fourteen sides of the same story.

For me, Fatal Hearts was a wonderful play. The fourteen endings clearly illustrated the different backstories and characters and showed me to feel for them and made me want to understand more of them. The multiple routes allow for countless replays as each choice turns the story in another way and shows you what you what you might not have expected previously.

The art leaves more to be desired but the storyline is certainly well done and it makes me hope Reflexive will publish more visual novels like this.

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