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• The Doll House sidequests, particularly the one in the first SH. Also, the Boss Room in the optional dungeon Kowloon Fortress is just... *shudder*
• More to the point: you know how most RPG series use kind of goofy-looking cutesy monsters as enemies? This one uses skinned corpses. For Mooks. And they're the least disturbing thing about it!
• The enemy bios in the Library are quite unnvering. There's a particular enemy in Covenant that's described as devouring a pregnant woman and absorbing her into itself and the person trapped inside is screaming constantly.
• Near all the monsters in Koudelka and the original Shadow Hearts are just... fucked up. Case in point: One of the first monsters you encounter in Shadow Hearts is a giant spider that- according to its bio- injects corrosive venom into the anus of its prey, and then devours its melting insides. One of the first monsters.
• More examples include the Armdog, an upside-down dog standing on a human arm... "The ghost of a postman who ate all the dogs in town." Or Sin, a scrawny naked woman standing on her arms, holding a pike with her toes which goes through a brain - "a mistake of God which seeks revenge against its creator." Or Guinea Pig, again a naked woman - with no head, that attacks you by splitting its whole body between her legs to bite you. Or the snail-girls in Zhaoyang village, with an absolutely horrible scream - "the ghost of a girl who was burned alive. She is very lonely, but don't get to friendly with her." For Covenant, we get male Fan Disservice in the form of a masculine lower body, gliding on its abdomen and legs in the air, which hits you with a huge phallic lump of flesh hanging from its crotch and bites you with mouths in the crook of its knees. And that's not even going into the bosses...
• Li Li of Dalian is bound to give a few players a nasty shock due to her grotesque appearance on her Character Portrait.
• The monsters from the original Shadow Hearts. Extremely disturbing - instead of the usual "giant whatever, robots and ninjas" trifecta of japanese RPGs, the Shadow Hearts' ones were usually made up of human body parts re-arranged in a variety of unpleasant ways, and/or moving in very jarring ways... The following games were lighter in that regard (although the giant spider with fingers for legs from SH2 still Squicks the hell out of me). Shadow Hearts 2 however had a spell that caused a cockroach tsunami, in first person view, that culminated in bugs seemingly crawling on the TV's actual screen, underside facing the player. If you suffer from insectophobia, you'll likely throw the controller down and roll into a ball the first time it's used on you out of the blue.
  • The bad ending of Shadow Hearts From the New World (don't max out all of Shania's fetishes, inculding the optional fusion), nuff said.

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