The WhatsNext verdict
If you enjoy old-school fighters with grotesque horror designs, gore, and black humor, The Black Heart delivers memorable arcade combat and specials. It suits patient genre fans more than newcomers, given its stiff inputs, unforgiving difficulty, and small roster.
What it does best
A gothic horror look packed with grotesque personality
A macabre world where horror and black comedy constantly collide
Old-school fighting that makes gore and specials feel rewarding
What might put you off
Controls can feel stiff and the difficulty is unforgiving
The small roster and short campaign limit longevity
The setup
What you are walking into
There is another world apart from ours. A world that was once beautiful but now is a hostile place ruined by war and hate. A blood stained world... Humans have ignored the existence of this other world because their destinies have never been bound to it... But that is about to change since the king and creator of the other world has been murdered. His strength and will had disappeared as the time passed, turning him into and old and defenseless being. However, that didn't change the fact that within him the incredible power that allowed him to create that other world still existed. Because of that he was attacked by an entity called Final: A powerful creature that emerged from the infinite chaos that exists in the space between both worlds. In a single attack he ripped the king's heart and ran away with it to the depths of chaos. It is said that the one that succeeds at freeing the power within the heart will be given an extraordinary strength; a power that could end all that exists if it falls into the wrong hands.
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