Heartworm takes you on a trip through distorted memories.
Heartworm is a love letter to classic Playstation survival horror. While its hard to review a game based off a demo alone, Vincent Adinolfi and the rest of the team behind Heartworm give you a sizeable bite of this games mechanics, levels, graphics, and most importantly, story. This game seems like it will center heavily around its plot, with multiple beautifully animated cutscenes featured in this short 20-30 minute(the steam page lists 10-20 minutes but I'm bad and died a few times) demo.
The opening cutscene started with our main character Sam detailing her departure to, supposedly, a place where she could reconnect with people she has lost. Even she is skeptical of this claim, but the scene ends with her declaring she is going to go regardless. This animated and voice-acted cutscene completely immerses you into the world of Heartworm and introduces the badass main character Sam.
Over a melancholy piano piece we take control of Sam, navigating down a street leading to an upside-down house, getting our weapon, a camera, and learning basic mechanics along the way. The way this game guides you through its mechanics is great, its concise but makes it impossible to miss it. You choose your settings, graphical and movement, I went with all defaults for the wonderful PSX look and feel.
The rest of the demo was immaculate, the exact kind of game I was hoping to play for this blog. Beautiful low-res textures and low-poly models make up a the beautiful unnamed(I think) town. Signal-less CRTs litter the streets with white noise being a definite motif in, at least, this part of the story. The music is especially beautiful in the not-currently-available quick-save location and also throughout the rest of the game, especially in the cutscenes. A highlight for me, which more demos should include, was the sneak-peek at later events in the story.
The worst part of the Heartworm demo, by far, is that there wasn't more of it.
Full Playthrough: https://youtu.be/EXn9d7LJGT0
Game: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1257030/Heartworm/
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