Shadow Hearts Covenant

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A vampire who fights with professional wrestling moves, a puppeteer whose marionette does his fighting for him, a loyal white wolf and a runaway Romanov princess: Shadow Hearts: Covenant assembles one of the oddest parties in any RPG and drops it into the middle of the First World War. It is 1915, a year and a half after the original Shadow Hearts, and German lieutenant Karin Koenig's unit has been attacked in the French village of Domrémy by what appears to be a demon. The demon is Yuri Hyuga, the Harmonixer from the first game, and an attempt to destroy him with the Holy Mistletoe leaves his powers crippled and Karin questioning which side she belongs on.

The Judgment Ring is what players remember first. Every attack, spell and even item use plays out on a spinning ring, and pressing the button as the needle crosses each hit zone, ideally in the narrow red strike zone at its edge, decides how much damage lands. Covenant builds on it with combos: chain party members' attacks together and each follow-up adds to the assault, turning a single turn into a coordinated barrage. Yuri's Fusion returns too, with new monster forms unlocked in the Graveyard, a metaphysical space where he charges gravestones with captured soul energy. A Sanity meter means any character left in battle too long can go berserk, and ring customization lets you tune each fighter's timing to your own skill.

The story runs from Vatican City through imperial Russia and on to Japan, pitting the party against Sapientes Gladio, a secret society led by a fictionalized Grigori Rasputin. Nautilus mixes real history, occult horror and broad comedy in a way no other series quite matches: one scene is a grim meditation on grief and guilt, the next has Joachim Valentine hamming it up like a wrestling showman. Yoshitaka Hirota's score, with contributions from Yasunori Mitsuda and Kenji Ito, swings from eerie chanting to driving battle themes, and Gepetto, Lucia, Anastasia and the swordsman Kurando each bring their own battle mechanics to the party.

Covenant drew strong reviews and is still regularly championed as one of the PlayStation 2's great hidden RPGs, yet it never had the mainstream profile of the Final Fantasy releases around it. That gap between quality and fame is exactly why RPG fans hold it so close. Covenant is the high point of a cult series, a game that earns its shelf space as surely as it rewards the forty-odd hours it takes to see Yuri's story through.

Fast factsgame data via IGDB
Released
2004
Publisher
Aruze
Developer
Nautilus
Players
Single player
About the game

Shadow Hearts: Covenant is a direct continuation of Shadow Hearts; Its story starts a year and a half after the first one in the midst of World War I. It focuses on Karin Koenig, a lieutenant in the German Army who assists in the exorcism of a man able to turn into demons, Yuri Volte Hyuga. However, after learning of Yuri's caring nature, Karin goes on a quest with him to save him from a spell inside him and are drawn into a conflict involving demons of demonolatry.

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