PlayStation 2

Shadow Hearts

Description

"Shadow Hearts" is a console-style RPG set in a historical period - China and Europe of 1913 - one year before the World War.

The game's hero is Yuri Hyuga, a young harmonixer - a man who possesses the power of transforming into demons. He meets Alice Elliot, a young British girl whose father was brutally murdered, and who is persecuted by a mysterious warlock who calls himself Roger Bacon. Yuri and Alice travel through the pre-war China, dealing with demons, evil magicians, and Japanese occupation army. The journey eventually takes them and their friends to Europe, where they have to confront their ultimate enemy, but also uncover the truth about their own pasts.

"Shadow Hearts" implements traditional turn-based combat style for the battles, adding to it a feature called Judgment Ring. Every time you perform an attack, a ring with a spinning arrow appears on the top of the screen. If you hit a critical area on the ring, your attack will be more powerful. However, missing a hit area will cancel the attack. Various types of attack have rings of various difficulty - usually, the more powerful a spell is, the smaller is the hit area on the ring. Judgment Ring is also used for other purposes - it can help you to reduce prices in stores, and is needed to solve many puzzles.

Alternate Titles

• "影之心" -- Chinese Title (Simplified)
• "シャドウハーツ" -- Japanese Title

Part of the Following Groups

• Koudelka/Shadow Hearts universe
• Shadow Hearts series

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User Reviews

A brilliant and extremely underrated RPG.	DarkDove (67)
Sensation! Final Fantasy in 1913!	Unicorn B. Lynx (64776)

The Press Says

RPGFan	Jan 21, 2002	93 out of 100	93
Gamezilla	Jan 17, 2002	87 out of 100	87
GameSpy	Jan 25, 2001	86 out of 100	86
GameSpot	Dec 19, 2001	7.9 out of 10	79
Just Adventure	Feb 25, 2002	B	75
GamePro	Dec 12, 2001	3.5 out of 5	70
4Players.de	May 28, 2002	70 out of 100	70
Game Chronicles	Jan 20, 2002	6.6 out of 10	66
Gaming Target	Feb 19, 2002	6.5 out of 10	65
Game Revolution	Jan, 2002	C	50

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Trivia

The game's voice acting credits include Eric Stuart, Veronica Taylor, Maddie Blaustein and more. All three can be heard on the series "Pokemon" and in the game "Valkyrie Profile", while Eric has also been in such shows as "Slayers" and "Yu Yu Hakusho" and also has his own rock band.