Shadow Hearts/Trivia

Everything About Fiction You Never Wanted to Know.


  • Executive Meddling: Hiroki Kikuta, director of Koudelka, wanted to make the game much more Survival Horror in nature; the rest of Sacnoth (ex-Square employees) wanted to make something closer to Final Fantasy. The resulting game was an unhappy compromise between the two clashing gameplay styles.
  • Hey, It's That Voice!: Covenant has a lot of well-known voice actors who do a very good job in this game. Examples include:
  • Keep Circulating the Tapes: The first game went out of print fairly quickly, and had a relatively low print run to begin with. This led fans to have to resort to scouring eBay to obtain a copy. The sequel seemed doomed to the same fate, but the trope was averted when the publisher recognized it had a cult hit on its hands and re-released both titles.
  • No Export for You: The Director's Cut version of Covenant
  • What Could Have Been:
    • Early trailers of Shadow Hearts Covenant actually showed a beta... in which Yuri was actually nowhere to be seen in the party. But the harmonixer was still there... who was this Harmonixer? Nicolai - Kind of odd considering what his role in the final version was.
    • Shadow Hearts was originally in development for the original PlayStation.
    • From the New World was meant to be a side game and not a true sequel. The director has recently revealed that he wanted to make another game starring Yuri.
  • The Wiki Rule: The Shadow Hearts Wiki.