History VideoGame / HeartOfDarkness

** When just deprived of his powers, Andy is surrounded by enemies. One of them breath fire on him; [[spoiler:if he avoid it, the fire burns the flimsy trapdoor under his feet, sending Andy tumbling away from the danger]].
** Shortly afterward, Andy is SwallowedWhole by the GiantMook... [[spoiler:who earlier ate his plasma riffle, giving him back his weapon when it is most needed]].

The game revolves around a boy named Andy with a fear of the dark, who during a solar eclipse gets his dog Whiskey mysteriously kidnapped by a dark force. Determined to get his best friend back, he sets out in his spaceship to retrieve him from the alien [[DeathWorld Darklands]] to where he was taken.

* AllJustADream: [[spoiler:According to the ending.]]

* EvilTeacher: The Master looks a lot like Andy's mean teacher, and has the same voice.

* JustEatHim: Late in the game, Andy is inevitably swallowed whole by a GiantMook. This looks like an endgame but isn't, [[spoiler:because the toad-like monster had earlier swallowed Andy's plasma rifle... and the hero can ''recover his weapon in the mook's stomach and blast it from the inside''.]] Oddly enough, [[spoiler:if you get eaten by the monster just after it eats your lightning gun by the start of the game, you die. Except that time, [[LudicrousGibs he chews]].]]

* PowerSource: The MagicMeteor is the source of Andy's powers, and when blown to bits by the Master, Andy suddenly lose them... just as several enemies are closing on him.

!!Tropes:

* BodyHorror: The Amigos cannot touch the ground in the Darklands around the Master of Darkness' lair. One of them gets too tired to fly, and the moment he lands he's turned into a shadow monster. If that wasn't enough, the other Amigos yell at him to go away, since it's too late to help him.

* JustEatHim: Late in the game, Andy is inevitably swallowed whole by a GiantMook. This looks like an endgame but isn't, [[spoiler:because the toad-like monster had earlier swallowed Andy's plasma riffle... and the hero can ''recover his weapon in the mook's stomach and blast it from the inside''.]] Oddly enough, [[spoiler:if you get eaten by the monster just after it eats your lightning gun by the start of the game, you die. Except that time, [[LudicrousGibs he chews]].]]

* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: There's almost no blood. However, many of the deaths involve broken and dislocated bones with a properly sickening ''crunch'' as a monster pulls them loose, or flesh getting torn off.

* PowerGlows: The Magic Stone's green glow.

* JustEatHim: Late in the game, Andy is inevitably swallowed whole by a GiantMook. This looks like an endgame but isn't, [[spoiler:because the toad-like monster had earlier swallowed Andy's plasma riffle... and the hero can ''recover his weapon in the mook's stomach and blast it from the inside''.]] Oddly enough, [[spoiler:if you get eaten by the monster just after it eats your lightning gun by the start of the game, you die.]]

''Heart of Darkness'' is a [[CinematicPlatformGame Cinematic Platformer]] developed by Amazing Studio for the PC and [[PS1 Playstation]], that came out in 1998.

!!''Heart of Darkness'' provides examples of the following tropes:

''Heart of Darkness'' is a [[CinematicPlatformGame Cinematic Platformer]] developed by Amazing Studio for the PC and [[PS1 Playstation]].

* ChildProdigy: How many kids do you know who invented their own makeshift lightning gun and spaceship? (Well, besides VideoGame/CommanderKeen...)
** [[spoiler: Judging by the ending, all this stuff may or may not have just been in his imagination.]]

** Just the deaths. All the deaths. Even with the lack of blood, it makes one wonder if the ESRB even ''looked'' at the game before giving it an E-rating.

** [[spoiler: Judging by the ending, all this stuff may or may have just been in his imagination.]]

'''''Heart of Darkness''''' is a [[CinematicPlatformGame Cinematic Platformer]] developed by Amazing Studio for the PC and [[PS1 Playstation]].

* EverythingTryingToKillYou: The plant life, the underwater creatures, the dark beings, the environment, shadows cast by the environment...

* TheStarscream: The Heart Of Darkness' pink servant. The Heart of Darkness has to destroy the glowing green rock when his servant brings it to him when he suspects that it's giving him...ideas, and eventually he starts plotting with Andy to put it back together and destroy him (though he's obviously plotting to backstab him once it's complete.)

* LifeEnergy: Whatever powers Andy gets from touching the glowing green rock act something like this. He can use it to cause seeds to sprout into vines for him to climb, stun wildlife by overloading them with it, and flat-out vaporize shadow creatures.

* ConservationOfCompetence: [[spoiler:The dog wasn't the one supposed to be kidnapped.]]

* GreenThumb: [[spoiler:A beneficial side-effect Andy receives from touching an illuminated underwater rock.]]

* ExcusePlot: A largely unexplained one anyway (for example, why did the EvilOverlord want to kidnap Andy in the first place?); though the end suggests it was AllJustADream.

Not to be confused with the Creator/JosephConrad novella of [[Literature/HeartOfDarkness the same name]] or the [[VictoriaAnEmpireUnderTheSun Victoria II expansion pack.]]

* [[spoiler:AllJustADream]]: According to the ending.
** [[spoiler:OrWasItADream]]: According to the credits.

* ChildProdigy: How many kids do you know who invented their own makeshift lightning gun and spaceship? (Besides VideoGame/CommanderKeen...)

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar

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Not to be confused with the Creator/JosephConrad novella of [[Literature/HeartOfDarkness the same name]].

* JustEatHim: One of the first few (loads) of deaths, can happen by either a regular mook or the GiantMook that breaks through a canyon wall to eat your Lighting Gun. If you don't escape the screen after it happening, the GiantMook will [[JustEatHim just eat you]]. [[spoiler:Andy can get eaten by the GiantMook later in the game aswell. This looks like an endgame but isn't, because the toad-like monster had earlier swallowed Andy's plasma rifle... and the hero can ''recover his weapon in the mook's stomach and blast it from the inside''.]]

* JustEatHim: Andy is once swallowed whole by a GiantMook. This looks like an endgame but isn't, [[spoiler:because the toad-like monster had earlier swallowed Andy's plasma riffle... and the hero can ''recover his weapon in the mook's stomach and blast it from the inside''.]] Oddly enough, [[spoiler:if you get eaten by the monster just after it eats your lightning gun by the start of the game, you die.]]

* ChildProdigy: How many kids do you know who invented their own makeshift lightning gun and spaceship?

* DarkIsEvil: Darkland, Dark kingdom... yeah...
** The whole darkness theme, might be from Andy's fear of the dark.

** EvilTeacher: The Master looks a lot like Andy's mean teacher.

** Oddly enough, [[spoiler:if you get eaten by the monster after it eats your lightning gun by the start of the game, you die.]]

** The Amigo shaman is also clearly smoking something with psychotropic effects.

* JustEatHim: Andy is once swallowed whole by a GiantMook. This looks like an endgame but isn't, [[spoiler:because the toad-like monster had earlier swallowed Andy's plasma riffle... and the hero can ''recover his weapon in the mook's stomach and blast it from the inside''.]]