{"id":27360,"date":"2025-09-05T07:55:44","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T07:55:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/where-the-heart-leads-new-trailer-showcases-choice-and-consequence\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T07:55:44","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T07:55:44","slug":"where-the-heart-leads-new-trailer-showcases-choice-and-consequence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/where-the-heart-leads-new-trailer-showcases-choice-and-consequence\/","title":{"rendered":"Where The Heart Leads\u2019 New Trailer Showcases Choice And Consequence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/where-the-heart-leads-new-trailer-showcases-choice-and-consequence.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" alt=\"\" typeof=\"Image\" class=\"image-style-body-default\" \/> <\/p>\n<p><span><span>Where the Heart Leads (formerly known as Where the Heart Is) is a choice-driven narrative adventure that debuted as part of<\/span><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gameinformer.com\/2020\/07\/01\/sony-starts-the-playstation-indies-initiative\"><span><span><span><span> PlayStation\u2019s Indie Initiative<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><span><span> over the summer. The surreal premise centers on a man gaining the power to relive and change his past life choices. The game is the brainchild of Armature Studio (the\u00a0co-developer of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gameinformer.com\/games\/recore\/b\/xboxone\/archive\/2016\/09\/14\/recore-review-game-informer-xbox-one.aspx\">ReCore<\/a>), which unveiled a new trailer showcasing the many consequences your decisions can have.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span>Players control Whit Anderson, an artist who falls into a sinkhole while trying to save the family dog. Inside he discovers a strange power that allows him to revisit and alter key moments of his life, from childhood to parenthood to\u00a0old age. Should Whit have helped his father rebuild the family farm or left him to deal with it on his own? What if Whit told his friend to focus on school instead of chasing his artistic passions? Most importantly, why are there so many scattered phone booths in this snow-covered forest? Check out the trailer below for a taste of the game\u2019s mystique and the various ways your decisions can play out. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gameinformer.com\/2020\/12\/16\/where-the-heart-leads-new-trailer-showcases-choice-and-consequence\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here to watch embedded media<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span><span>Each memory plays out as a dreamlike vignette, with important figures in Whit\u2019s life taking on a ghostly appearance that shatter, so to speak, with every choice made. Armature says Where the Heart Leads features hundreds of choices and dozens of endings; all told through a whopping 600,000 word script.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span><span>The game looks to be shaping up nicely, and it\u2019ll be fascinating to see how different each scenario plays out once it&#8217;s out in the wild.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span>Where the Heart Leads comes to PlayStation 4 (and PlayStation 5 via backwards compatibility) in Q2 2021. You can check out the game\u2019s debut trailer <\/span><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gameinformer.com\/2020\/07\/01\/new-narrative-adventure-where-the-heart-is-coming-to-ps4\"><span><span><span><span>here<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><span><span>.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span><span>Let us know in the comments how you feel about the game so far.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gameinformer.com\/2020\/12\/16\/where-the-heart-leads-new-trailer-showcases-choice-and-consequence\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where the Heart Leads (formerly known as Where the Heart Is) is a choice-driven narrative adventure that debuted as part of PlayStation\u2019s Indie Initiative over the summer. The surreal premise centers on a man gaining the power to relive and change his past life choices. The game is the brainchild of Armature Studio (the\u00a0co-developer of ReCore), which unveiled a new trailer showcasing the many consequences your decisions can have. Players control Whit Anderson, an artist who falls into a sinkhole while trying to save the family dog. Inside he discovers a strange power that allows him to revisit and alter key moments of his life, from childhood to parenthood to\u00a0old age. Should Whit have helped his father rebuild the family farm or left him to&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/where-the-heart-leads-new-trailer-showcases-choice-and-consequence\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27361,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-informer"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Where The Heart Leads\u2019 New Trailer Showcases Choice And Consequence | Arcader News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Where the Heart Leads (formerly known as Where the Heart Is) is a choice-driven narrative adventure that 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