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
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User Reviews
The Press Says
| RPGFan |
Jan 21, 2002 |
93 out of 100 |
93 |
| Gamezilla |
Jan 17, 2002 |
87 out of 100 |
87 |
| Digital Entertainment News (den) |
Aug 03, 2003 |
8.7 out of 10 |
87 |
| Adrenaline Vault, The (AVault) |
Feb 16, 2002 |
  |
80 |
| GameSpot |
Dec 19, 2001 |
7.9 out of 10 |
79 |
| Just Adventure |
Feb 25, 2002 |
B |
75 |
| 4Players.de |
May 28, 2002 |
70 out of 100 |
70 |
| Gaming Target |
Feb 19, 2002 |
6.5 out of 10 |
65 |
| IGN |
Dec 20, 2001 |
5.5 out of 10 |
55 |
| Game Revolution |
Jan, 2002 |
C |
50 |
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Trivia
The game features plenty of historical material, for example, the war between China and Japan and the occupation of Manjuria (North-East China) by the Japanese, where they created a marionette state. However, some details are historically incorrect. For example, Shanghai wasn't occupied by the Japanese army in 1913. Other smaller details refer more to the Japanese invasion that occurred 30 years later, during WWII, than to the game's actual epoch.
This entry to the MobyGames database was contributed by
Unicorn B. Lynx 
(60462) on Apr 19, 2002.
