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Heart of the Infinity, a horizontal pixel-style adventure game developed by Indonesian developer Mojiken, was launched on the Steam platform on January 20, 2023.

Before I played the book, I didn't have high expectations for this independent game from Indonesia, but the idea was shaken after I opened the game and disappeared as I played for dozens of hours.

Yes, I can say that this "Heart of Infinity" precisely confirms that sentence: "Games can solve emotional demands like movies and books."

Note: the second part of this article deals with spoilers.

After the fairy tale Indonesian town entered the Heart of infinity, the painting style attracted the players almost immediately, and the warm and clean picture as a fairy tale immediately got into the players' eyes.

The low-contrast green and blue are greatly used in the overall tone of the game, eliminating the feeling of heavy ink and color. The hue of freshness and transparency is obviously more appropriate to describe the "heart of the boundless" here.

The low contrast and light colors in the tone do not make the whole picture look too light, and the game adds shadows in order to avoid this. Of course, it is not a real-time shadow obtained by a large number of calculations, but a hand-drawn pixel shadow that is consistent with the style of the game.

The addition of shadows makes the picture more balanced, and the use of green and blue brings this tropical town in Indonesia to life.

The design of each scene in the game is also very elegant, whether it is the busy pedestrian street, or the supermarket of scattered goods, or the school corridor, these scenes have been restored under the flat pixel painting style. Especially the pedestrian street, pedestrians join so that the street is no longer empty, that kind of ordinary breath of life makes this town full of vitality.

The sound design of the game is also excellent. When players are close to the river, not only the sound of river flow will be added to the background music, but also the sound of feet stepping on puddles will be heard in their ears. What is more amazing is that when the player is in the school scene, the production team collects the playful communication sound of the students when the school is at recess in real life, and the sense of substitution is directly filled.

When it comes to sound effects, let's also talk about music. "Heart of the Infinity" does not adopt the practice of putting a song at the end of a cycle like other games, but chooses different background music at different stages of the game. The melodious piano music in the early days of the town, the urgent drumbeat when the plot took a turn for the worse in the later stage of the game, and finally the vocal music at the end of the game. It can be said that the game has a good performance in sound.

It is worth mentioning that the black edge around the picture is not a strange resolution problem, but is deliberately done by the production team. Through the addition of this black frame, it brings a cinematic feeling to the picture of the whole game, as if the players are not manipulating the characters in the game, but watching them perform through the screen.

The black edge does not always exist in the game, and the black edge will disappear in the later stage of the Heart of Infinity. As for why the production team has to add black edges to render the movie feeling in the game process, this answer needs to be found in the game by the players themselves.

Note: the second part of this article deals with spoilers.

The plot of the maiden's self-redemption "Heart of the Infinity" is undoubtedly the best existence in the same type of game. And the best thing about it is that it doesn't tell the story of a patient with depression and split personality, but hides it.

Hidden plot design, by allowing players to constantly sort out the truth in the course of the game, the creator will only feel shocked and surprised when the creator reveals the biggest reversal.

Players will play a character named Atam in the game and use props called the Magic Red Book to sneak into other people's hearts to solve puzzles in this way to help depressed girls get back to normal.

The biggest reversal of the game is that the whole plot takes place in the dream of a girl with depression and a split personality, and it is difficult to find that the story takes place in a fictional dream during the early play of the player. only the black box around the screen and some special events in the game are hinted at. When the truth is revealed in the later stage, it will bring great shock and shock to the players.

Of course, the story of Atam and the depressed girl is not as simple as in the plot summary above. In the process of the plot development, the relationship between the two is delicate, and the process is very smooth, and there is no sudden emotional turning point. Every emotional development is paved by the event.

As a player, it is easy to be moved by the sincere performance on the screen. In the end, when Atam and Raja were respectively, it also successfully stimulated the author's lacrimal gland.

Sneak into the dream of the red fairy tale "Heart of the Infinity" is a standard horizontal version of the puzzle game, some levels of the design is very good. To maintain this subtle feeling. Neither let players scratch their ears and scratch their cheeks because of difficult puzzles, nor lose the sense of achievement of solving puzzles because they are too simple, it can be said to maintain a good sense of balance of this difficulty.

For example, there is a level in the game that requires the player to unlock the password of a box.

In order to turn on the camera players need to collect all kinds of strange formulas in the scene, as long as you collect all the formulas, you can find that their combination is actually an equation. After solving the equation, you can get the numbers represented by each letter in the equation.

Finally, according to the note on the box "owned by Nikon", Nikon's English spelling is "NIKEN", and then you only need to type the numbers represented by the letters according to the order of the words.

Battle in the Heart of the Infinity uses the QTE trigger, players only need to hit the corresponding button within a specified time, it can be said to be simple and crude, but in this plot-driven game, the performance of the battle is actually not so important.

Even so, the game is matched with music and plot, and even such a battle is enough to bring a profound experience to players.

However, in the course of the game, there are also some full BUG, and there are some problems in the Chinese text of the game when it comes to the third chapter. Compared with the well-translated Chinese text of the first two chapters of the game, the text of the third chapter became a machine translation. I thought it was the BUG of the game, so I switched to other languages and found that this problem did not occur in other languages.

The final solution is for the game to push a patch, and the text problem disappears after the update. It is believed that there should not be similar problems when the game is officially launched.

Conclusion "the Heart of the Infinity" has no bloody and violent scenes, no chaotic lines and painting style, it uses fairy tale strokes to depict the inner world of a depressed schizophrenic, the plot design of the game, and the excellent quality of the script. If you are a player who wants to be moved in the game, then "boundless Heart" is undoubtedly your best choice.

It also tells us a truth: there are no magic fairy tales in the real world, and we can't go into the hearts of patients to cure them. The only thing we can do is to help them through companionship and listening.

This article comes from the official account of Wechat: UCGmedia (ID:UCG_Media), author: single Dream Frog

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