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PlayStation 2

Shadow Hearts

Genres
RPG
Developer
Sacnoth
North America December 11, 2001 Midway
Europe March 29, 2002 Midway
Japan June 28, 2001 Aruze
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Shadow Hearts review HG exclusive

On a train heading through China, Alice Elliot finds herself in custody of the Japanese military who intend to deliver the girl with mysterious powers to their homeland. Unfortunately a dapper English gent named Roger Bacon has other plans. He effortlessly summons hideous demons…

Genj · August 20, 2010 · 2 comments

Shadow Hearts review

There's a lot of complaints about role playing games nowadays. People say they are nothing more than glorified books, with stale battle systems (I got to push X again? Sigh.), boring storylines (save the damsel in distress or save the world from an evil madman in some ancient…

psychopenguin · December 18, 2008 · 4 comments

Shadow Hearts review

Shadow Hearts is a shining gem in the collection of RPG's everywhere. This December-2001 release was unfortunately overshadowed by the releases of other popular games. Sacnoth was not a big name at the time and it got little attention. The most notable reason this masterpiece of…

mgtonvac55 · August 21, 2007

Shadow Hearts review HG exclusive

There are certain people I know that scan the Internet and store shelves in hopes of finding a hip kind of game. An. . . artistic, oddball, maybe incredibly unique kind of game - who also snatch up anything that they've heard was underground on some forum or from a salesman at…

carcinogen_crush · July 6, 2007

Shadow Hearts review

I'm going to come out and say it. Shadow Hearts is easily my favorite RPG, but that doesn't mean I'm going to give it a 10 for everything. That would be close minded. I try to keep an open mind when playing a game and when reviewing it, meaning I try my best not to be biased at…

peterl90 · June 9, 2007

Shadow Hearts review

As the camera pans down on the street corner outside a church, we see the bloodied and scattered remains of a body strewn all over the cobbled street. This gruesome collection of bloody flesh and bones is all that remains of a priest who was murdered here by something that…

jerec · January 8, 2005

Shadow Hearts review

Meet Roger Bacon. An elegant English gentleman, he enjoys tea, crumpets, and cricket. Oh yes, he also enjoys slaying priests who meddle with his plans for world domination. Above all, he is a gentleman though. Unfortunately, you are not Roger Bacon. You are Yuri, a young and…

sgreenwell · July 15, 2002

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