Shadow Hearts Review! (PS2) The Game Collection!

Happy Halloween! In this review, SuperDerek takes a look at a spooky turn-based RPG, Shadow Hearts! Welcome back to The Game Collection! And Happy Halloween. I am SuperDerek, and this is Shadow Hearts! Following the release of Koudelka, the development team Sacnoth was going through some hard times. Koudelka didn’t sell particularly well and received some pretty mixed reviews from critics. In the aftermath, founder Kiroki Kikuta stepped down from the head of Sacnoth as parent-company SNK was in the process of going under. Aruze Entertainment stepped in and picked up the pieces of the shattered company, stitched it back together and breathed in new life. In this fashion Sacnoth rose from the dead in order to set out to do what it could not during life: To create the pure Turn-based horror RPG that they had always wanted! The team went to work on a direct follow-up to Koudelka that would be released as Shadow Hearts in 2001 for the PlayStation 2. The story of Shadow Hearts f