The Black Heart

The Black heart is a game made with the MUGEN engine by Andrés Borghi. It is a horror themed fighting game with its own intro, characters, stages, modif, credits and even its own storyline which you can play in Story mode (see below for more details).

Prequel Story
"There is another world apart from ours. A world that was once beautiful but now is a hostile place ruined by war and hate. A blood stained world...

Humans have ignored the existence of this other world because their destinies have never been bound to it...

''But that is about to change since the king and creator of the other world has been murdered. His strength and will had disappeared as the time passed, turning him into and old and defenseless being.''

''However, that didn't change the fact that within him the incredible power that allowed him to create that other world still existed. Because of that he was attacked by an entity called Final: A powerful creature that emerged from the infinite chaos that exists in the space between both worlds. In a single attack he ripped the king's heart and ran away with it to the depths of chaos.''

It is said that the one that succeeds at freeing the power within the heart will be given an extraordinary strength; a power that could end all that exists if it falls into the wrong hands." (Taken from main website, link above)

Sub Menu
Unlike normal MUGEN games, when you click on the main icon it takes you to a sub menu. On this sub-menu you ahve a few options before you enter the game, these choices are...
 * Difficulty - here you choose how hard your opponents are in Story mode, it also effects the final result you get at the end of each chapter. (See below)
 * Language - Here you choose whever the game is in English or Spanish
 * View Movelist - brings up a HTML of all the characters move lists
 * Unlock - Allows you to enter a special code you recieve in Story Mode (See below)
 * Play - to start the game

Main menu
The Main menu has the following choices...


 * Story


 * Verses


 * Team Story


 * Team verses


 * Team Co-op


 * Survival


 * Survival Co-op


 * Training


 * Options


 * Exit

Story
Story mode follows 6 chapters in which can be done in any order you like, however if you want to play the story mode in the correct order then you must play these characters in this order...


 * Chapter 1 - The wooden man (Hashi)


 * Chapter 2 - Cry from a soul (Noroko)


 * Chapter 3 - The red dream (Peketo)


 * Chapter 4 - Chaos and death (Animus)


 * Chapter 5 - The daughter of the prince (Ananzi)


 * Chapter 6 - Lust for power (Shar-makai)

Each chapter follows a pertical fastion when playing each character. You will first play against yourself on there home stage and then proceed in fighting all the remaining players each being slightly harder then the last. When all the characters have been defeated, you will then face Final in his home stage "Chaos" when he has been defeated, you will be shown there end story and then the credits will play.

Also after beating the boss with each charaqcter, you will get a piece of the code required to unlock bonus in the Unlock menu of the Sub-menu. The code however will vary depending on what difficulty you are on, completing all characters stories on Normal will give you a code to the Gallery while completing story mode on Hard mode will give you the code to unlock Final as a playable character.

Gameplay
The gameplay of Black Heart is quite unique when comparing to normal MUGEN games. For example, when the enermy is below a certain health point, they will start to bleed. Each game will last for 99 seconds per round, the first person or team to either K.O their opponents or have a higher amount of health than there opponet will win that round, best two out of three wins.

Each character exept Final has 5 abilitys, these are...


 * Normal moves


 * Special moves


 * Super moves


 * Fatal move


 * Killer mode

Normal moves are what every charecter normally does, these are done with A,B for kick and X,Y for punches. Every character also has a unique grab attack when they are close enouth to the character such as Peketo's teleport slam.

Special moves are unique attacks that each character can peform durring the battle, these attacks do not cost any power to perform and are the weak version of the Super moves. An example of a Specia move is Hashi's Natural fan move.

Super moves are the upgraded version of speical moves so as a result they will do more damage, this however comes with the cost of 1 power bar. These moves can be used in combos and done at anytime, also if the super move is the killing blow, then they may do a uniqe ending to the move such as Peketo's Scarlet Delight move where he will stab the heart of the character he is attacking if the move K.O. them.

Fatal move is the one unique attack each character has, move will execute the opposing character in the fasion relating to the character you are playing as. The requirments however to perform this move requires you to have a full power bar and the enery you are going against must have a quarter or less of there overall health left, if its any higher then it will not work.

The last move is the Killer mode which is activated when the player has a power bar above two. When acticated, they will change and have a uniqe fighting style untill the bar runs out changing them back to there normal form. Each character has there own uniqe Killer move which gives them there own advatages and disadvatages such as Nokoro who will change into her doll form shooting ancient japanese ghost faces at your opponet, while she in her doll form, she will become harder to hit due to her size. The killer mode can be deactivated at anytime by pressing the same buttons to activate the mode again.

Final moves differ from the main characters due to him having a unique battaling style. More detail about his moves are shown in his section here.

Restrictions
In order to prevent cheating, the game has all the overwrite buttons "eg. F1, space, etc" turned off. This is not just for story mode but for all game modes.

MUGEN vs Black Heart
If anyone is condidering about transferring the characters files from Black Heart to any other MUGEN file, this will not work. This is due to Black Heart characters having a unique code which is made up for Black heart only, if they are transferred to another MUGEN game then they will not work as they should. This includes the stages as well

If anyone is intrested in downloading the characters and stages sepertly from the Black Heart game then go to this website (http://www.andresborghi.com.ar/mugen/) and click on the relevent links.

Videos
thumb|left|300px|The Black Heart Trailer