Where is my Heart? Review

By Kevin Mitchell  |  Posted: November 8, 2011

Game Designer Bernie Schulenburg plays with different emotions in this puzzle platformer loosely based on his experience of getting lost in the forest with his mom and dad. Take control of 3 cuddly monsters – Brown, Orange, and Gray – as you collect hearts and feed them to the tree to move on to the next puzzle. Why does the tree want to devour hearts? I do not know, but you should always do what a tree that can swallow you whole wants, especially when you are required to enter its mouth to complete each level.

As you progress further into the game, the puzzles get increasingly more difficult. Each of the puzzles is broken up into panels, like a comic strip, except the panels are not in any conceivable order. As you get to the right edge of a panel, you will not appear in the panel directly next to you, but can end up in any of the others. These panels have been jumbled around, so you really have to pay attention to the background of each of them and try to anticipate where you will end up, or you will fall to your death and feed the tree a gray heart. I haven't found out what the gray hearts do, but I don't think they are a healthy snack for a tree.

You control each of the monsters one at a time and can switch which monster you control at any given moment with the press of a button. The point is to get to the end of the puzzle and enter the tree's mouth. Each of the puzzles contains hearts for you to collect to feed to the tree.

There are power-ups for each of the monsters that will aid you in completing some of the puzzles. The brown monster can transform into a horned mythical white creature and gains the ability to double jump — as well as walking with the stars in the Land of Fireflies. The orange monster has the most interesting transformation; you grow wings and gain the ability to rotate the panels around the center panel. This only rotates the panels and not you, so in essence, you could appear in any of the panels that are being rotated.

Simply Put

For a couple of bucks, Where is my Heart? is a great addition to the PlayStation Mini lineup. Anyone who is a fan of platformers and puzzles should give it a fair share. The best part about the PS Minis is playing them on the go or at home.