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Shadow Hearts
- $181.99
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Item Condition
Complete in box: the disc, the manual and the original case, all original; anything beyond that is included only if you can see it in the photos. Our grade: Minor Wear. The photos are of the exact item you'll receive — look them over closely for its condition, packaging and details. Discs are professionally resurfaced when they need it and tested before listing. It ships in a collector's bag or a hard plastic case.
Item Description
Shadow Hearts arrived on the PlayStation 2 in 2001 as one of the most boldly original JRPGs of its era, a dark, folklore-drenched adventure that blends an early 20th-century historical setting with cosmic horror and unsettling supernatural mythology. Developed by Sacnoth and published by Aruze in Japan and Midway in North America, it is a sequel to the 1999 cult favorite Koudelka, sharing that game's world and recurring characters, yet it carved out its own atmospheric identity rooted in shadow, madness and an almost grotesque sense of beauty. Dedicated fans have kept its reputation alive for more than two decades.
The story is set in 1913 and follows Yuri Hyuga, a Harmonixer who can absorb the souls of monsters and transform into them. Alongside Alice Elliot, a young exorcist who helped her father banish harmful spirits, Yuri's journey weaves through real locations across China and Europe, from Shanghai to London, while confronting forces that blur the line between ancient evil and world-ending catastrophe. The narrative carries a weight and emotional depth uncommon for the genre at the time, balancing pitch-black subject matter with moments of dark humor and genuine humanity.
What sets Shadow Hearts apart mechanically is its Judgment Ring. Rather than selecting attacks and watching numbers fly, every action in combat requires hitting colored zones on a spinning wheel, a brilliantly simple mechanic that keeps the player engaged in every turn, and the same ring governs moments outside battle and even shopping. It rewards timing, builds tension and gives combat a kinetic energy that still feels fresh. Combined with Yuri's Fusion transformations into monsters he has defeated, gained in the eerie Graveyard, it makes the gameplay loop compelling from beginning to end.
Visually and tonally, Shadow Hearts is unlike almost anything else on the PS2. The monster designs are disturbing in the best possible way, grotesque, imaginative and deeply unsettling, and the environments carry a perpetual gloom that feels intentional rather than a limitation of the hardware. Yoshitaka Hirota's score, which he described as "beautiful yet destructive," with additional contributions from Yasunori Mitsuda, Masaharu Iwata and Ryo Fukuda, layers haunting melodies against the game's relentless sense of dread. It comes from the era when mid-tier Japanese developers were taking bold creative swings, and it began a series PS2 RPG fans still hold in high regard.
Fast factsgame data via IGDB
- Released
- 2001
- Publisher
- Aruze
- Developer
- Sacnoth
- Players
- Single player
About the game
Shadow Hearts is the first official game in the Shadow Hearts series and is the sequel to Koudelka. Shadow Hearts follows the adventures of Yuri Hyuga, a Harmonixer guided by a mysterious voice in his head. He finds himself thrown into the conflicts prior to World War I where he must save the world and the woman he loves from destruction.
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PlayStation 2
Shadow Hearts
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