Beauty And Betrayal Far From Earth In Heaven Will Be Mine by Leandro Pondoc for HEADSTUFF
"Heaven Will Be Mine asks what it means to be human in an inhuman space. But as the novel glibly puts it, “It’s just a metaphor anyway. You can be human anywhere.” | Beauty And Betrayal Far From Earth In Heaven Will Be Mine.”
Heaven Will Be Mine starts with a field of stars as its title screen. It’s soft and inviting, promising that age-old scent of adventure that comes with traversing the final frontier. Once you’ve picked a character’s story to follow though, the game screams. A blast of harsh electronica and scratchy sound effects as technical read-outs start filling the screen. It’s a sudden reminder that the freedom of space is burdened by what got us there. The sky comes at a cost. Trying to reach heaven inevitably creates some scars.
That’s the dichotomy behind the latest visual novel offering from Pillow Fight/Worst Girl Games, their follow-up to the 2015 release, We Know The Devil. While that visual novel dealt with the supernatural set in a tense, enclosed summer camp as teens confront the devil itself, Heaven Will Be Mine goes for something more expansive. It’s a visual novel telling of a queer mecha anime story, with all the trappings: giant robots shaped like humans, intense rivalries bordering on the flirtatious, fractious factional warfare and messy questions about the nature of humanity and space.
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