Talk:Heart of Darkness (video game)

"It is the first game to have its score recorded by an orchestra."

I think the intent here is to say that it is the first game to have an orchestra record the original soundtrack? It is certainly not the first game score to be performed and recorded by an orchestra (that honor most likely goes to one of the Akumajou Dracula / Castlevania or Final Fantasy games). Not to mention Total Annihilation (1997) which had a 97 piece original soundtrack! That line has to go.


 * Yes, pretty much. And as I noted on the page already, because of delays it ended up not being the first actually released with one. Melodia Chaconne 9 July 2005 19:14 (UTC)

ocean
What kind of role took "ocean"?
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_Software —Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.7.175.134 (talk) 19:09, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

Style
IMO, this article needs a fair amount of revision. It needs to be broken up into sections, or at least written a little bit more coherently. I would take a stab at it, but I don't know anything about the game that's not listed here. -Fuzzy 14:56, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)

??? Castlevania music recorded by an orchestra ???
Umm...Excuse me. I DON'T think Castlevania's music was recorded by an orchestra. It was only made to be played for Nintendo. And as you know, when it comes to music, Nintendo has some pretty bad music that plays in the background.


 * In Japan, there were and are many CDs with game music recorded by various ensembles, including orchestra. Castlevania did get an orchestral treatment -- but Dragon Quest was the first a good four years earlier. Melodia Chaconne 9 July 2005 19:14 (UTC)

GAMEPLAY INFO, anyone?
I just love how the entire article of a video game deals with its story.

I'm not saying that games which have stories should have their stories ignored, but they are also games first and foremost. Anyone care to describe the gameplay? I've never played this game myself, so I can't do it.


 * The gameplay is pretty similar to Another World, which is one of the very few games one can compare this game to, meaning it is at its base a side-view Jump'n Run without scrolling, each screen is uniq and not build up of tiles like in other Jump'n Runs, the gameplay however focuses strongly on puzzles, meaning the main task is to figure out how to get to the next screen. An example would be in one screen there are hanging a few skeleton monsters from the roof, if one walks by the shadow of these skeleton grabs and kills one, so the task is to blast the skeletons away before walking over to the next screen.
 * And a question, is there really a GBA version of Heart of the Darkness? I know that it was planed, but I am not so sure that it was ever released. -- Grumbel 02:35, 17 October 2005 (UTC)


 * In that case, please add that gameplay information, retyped in an encyclopediac form, to the main page of this article, if you don't mind. --CGally81 03:09, 17 October 2005 (UTC)


 * It was apparently finished, but it was never released because of cartridge costs (the amount of graphics required a very large ROM).


 * I'd also compare Heart of Darkness' gameplay to games like Oddworld: Abe's Oddyssey, 2d side scrolling platformers with a focus on puzzle solving. And a hell of a lot of very frightening deaths. Chiliflamingo 23:13, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

Designer
Joseph Hewitt? His name appears nowhere on the game's page at Moby Games. I'm changing it to Eric Chahi. HorseloverFat 01:35, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

POV
I removed a little, but really, this article sounds like a blurb for the game. I think a full rewrite would be great. 220.152.112.132 12:08, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

Probable vandalism
An anon (212.219.101.41) added what was probably vandalism to the article today; I don't know the subject, so I can't say, though. -- Pawl 15:05, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

Boobs lol
During a cut-scene at Amigo Island, the old and wise amigo shows Andy and the others an image of a female amigo with her breasts showing. Is this notable? I was pretty damn shocked to see that in a kids game, though it's hard to really call it that with all the death it has which is really far worse. If you need proof I can get a crappy photo of it as I have the game. —Preceding unsigned comment added by TailsClock (talk • contribs) 21:14, 31 July 2008 (UTC)

Inaccurate information/Source Citations/Rewrite
I have little idea about how to write and edit wikipedia pages, however I do have knowledge about the game and plenty of sources and I'd like to let you guys know at wikipedia that several items on this page are inaccurate. I believe it used to have more inaccurate content but it was taken out which is a good start but there are little things such as simple wrong names for things like Whisky being misspelled "Whiskey," and strange names for things used like "magic energy" is actually known as "the special power" etc. The main enemy type are also usually referred to as "spectres" which is information I obtained from the manual and the old official website. They are only really called "Dark Souls" by unofficial sources. I don't know how you would cite the manual of the game as a source, or the old official website as it is now offline but I would be happy to rewrite parts of the article to be more accurate and concise. I actually manage a remake of the old official website which contains press releases and official content about the game. The Heart of Darkness page on ru.wikipedia has sections that talk about the characters and the soundtrack too which I could also write up.Luxguin (talk) 03:08, 29 September 2015 (UTC)

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Potential journalist bias
An individual has decided that a video game with an aggregate score of 75% needs a single review at 2 stars as its only listed review for whatever reason. This in no way reflects reception of the game as a whole. I'm asking how many reviews are allowed on the page and what is the standard protocol for deciding which ones should be included. I would imagine that including too many would clutter the page. Is there a reviewer standard for what sources of review are allowed on the pages? Requesting additional assistance. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 104.246.165.74 (talk) 23:03, 5 June 2019 (UTC)


 * First of all, don't lie about other editors on the talk page. Boz didn't stop you from adding reviews; he stopped you from removing one without justification. No one even suggested that there are limitations on what reviews you can add. Martin IIIa (talk) 19:16, 11 May 2024 (UTC)

Source

 * https://web.archive.org/web/19970606062039/http://www.next-generation.com:80/news/041196b.html