FIRE IN THE HEART is a… concerning level. For some reason, jaizereal thought it would be a good idea to make a murder mystery dating simulator with the GD difficulty faces turned into real people. To be honest, as concerned as I am, they cooked. It’s easy to understand, looks great, and has awesome humor. The randomized captcha to open up the app on the computer is hilarious, but the best part is obviously the characters. Each character has their own custom art of a realistic body with the difficulty face as the head, and the art is shockingly well made. None of the characters or interactions are super in depth, but what is there is cute and well executed.

After you understand what you’re doing and talk to all the characters through the phone, you go on all your dates with them to figure out who the culprit is. The dates are super short and lack a lot of depth, and it’s a shame because you can basically figure out who it is just through how they look or where their room is. I wish you had to pay attention to more subtle details in their dialect, but I suppose that would make it inaccessible to other languages. Either way, the level isn’t actually too long, and even though it’s randomized, there isn’t much replay value since you’re forced to talk to all the characters anyways, and they don’t say anything different on separate playthroughs. 

There’s a big flaw with completing the level I found, which is that it isn’t explained that you must talk to all characters. Once I figured out who it was, I tried for 5 minutes to beat the level, but I was never given an option. Despite that flaw, FIRE IN THE HEART is a cute level that certainly deserves a Featured Rating, but I still think it could have expanded on the idea more.