Akuji the Heartless

released on Dec 31, 1998

Akuji the Heartless is an action-adventure video game, released in 1998 on the PlayStation. It uses a modified Gex: Enter the Gecko engine, and both games were developed by Crystal Dynamics. The gameplay involves hack and slash combat combined with platform elements.


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My main experience with this game its demo in Gex 3: Undercover Gecko. It's one of those games from the mid to late 90s that's comically edgy, as if a teenager made the whole thing. I love when you pick up a powerup and Akuji says, with zero inflection or emotion, "Hellblast".

I'm really surprised that people didn't seem to like this one. It runs off the same engine as Gex (which I'm a big fan of) and is more or less a dark/edgy 3D platformer before that trend took over on the PS2. Perhaps a little too easy, but I still had a lot of fun giving it a once over.

This was a very obscure game that I used to play despite finding it scary, I loved the combat and soundtrack, the fact that the soundtrack progressed during gameplay was mind-blowing, you need to play this if you love obscure, dark platformers.

This game could potentially be better now that I’m older but I’m basing my rating off when the game came out. It wasn’t my type of game and I feel like this one was similar to Soul Reaver so if I wanted to play something, why not the better option? AKUJI! That woman’s voice saying his name is a core memory…

Has all the ingredients for a good game but not enough of them.