What truly draws you into Whit’s family tale, though, are the choices you make. You’ll feel a pang in your heart as they attend a funeral. You’ll smile at Kate’s childlike obsession with spy novels. You’ll relate to his brother, Sege, as he struggles to live up to what his father wants him to be. You’ll witness the situations he’s going through as they unfold and see yourself in a similar situation. You’ll likely relate to Whit, or one of his family members at one point or another. This isn’t a gripping, twisting thriller this is a game that dutifully retreads the mundanity of real life – but there’s something rather endearing and beautiful about that. You’ll listen to your wife as she worries about bills. You’ll admire your children’s drawings of dinosaurs and pirate ships. You’ll chat idly with a neighbour about his crops. You’ll spend time picking up wood and helping your father erect a barn. It’s fair to describe Where the Heart Leads as boring at times. And you’ll probably begin to care for them, too. You’ll become familiar with the small town they live in, and become acquainted with the other people who live there.
You’ll get to know his wife, Rene, and their two young children, Kate and Alex. Sometimes those periods are fleeting other times you’ll hang around for hours, digging deep into the minutiae of Whit’s everyday life. In its 10-or-so hour running time, you’ll visit different periods of Whit’s life. There’s a touch of A Christmas Carol here a vein of ‘ghosts of Christmas past’ running through the narrative. You’ll get the answers you want eventually, but as Where the Heart Leads begins to unfold, it soon becomes almost irrelevant. Is he dreaming? Is he dead? Is he actually alive and will soon scramble out to safety? These questions will plague your early playtime of the game. That’s where Where the Heart Leads’ story truly begins: with Whit landing with a thump at the bottom of the sinkhole. Whit, on the other hand, finds himself plummeting further down. Taking up the role of family man Whit, your first experience of him is as he ventures voluntarily into the sinkhole to rescue the family dog, Casey. The opening of Where the Heart Leads is something of a metaphor for the rest of the game you don’t quite know what’s going to await you at the bottom, but you’re determined to keep peering in all the same. Sinkholes are a force of nature dangerous and terrifying, but somewhat intriguing in their mystery.
Beginning with a giant sinkhole opening up in front of Whit Anderson’s house, Where the Heart Leads is the sort of narrative journey that’s hard to put down.
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