Shadow Hearts: From the New World
Shadow Hearts: From the New World is the third official game in the Shadow Hearts series. The game series departs from Europe and centers on the "New World", the Americas. It is not directly related to the…
Shadow Hearts: From the New World is a role-playing (rpg) developed by Nautilus, released 28 July 2005 on PlayStation 2.
What Shadow Hearts: From the New World is
Shadow Hearts: From the New World is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by Nautilus and released in 2005. It was published by Aruze. It is available on PlayStation 2 only. It carries an ESRB T age rating.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The game begins in North America in the year 1929 and features two new main characters: a 16-year-old New Yorker named Johnny Garland, and a 21-year-old Native American woman named Shania, who has powers of fusion similar to Yuri and Kurando in the previous Shadow Hearts entries, although she is not a harmonixer. She makes pacts with spirits while Yuri and Kurando turned into demons. The story begins with Johnny, a private detective, being hired by a man named Gilbert to find one Marlow Brown. When Johnny finds the man, however, a mysterious 'window' opens, and from it emerges a monster. The rest of the game follows Johnny, Shania, and company as they attempt to uncover the truth about…
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are fantasy and historical. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Shadow Hearts: From the New World holds a critic score of 75 out of 100. That places it above 47% of the 3,814 rated role-playing (rpg) games in our database, which average 73. Games released in 2005 averaged 67, so it scored 8 points above the year average.
What it launched against
Shadow Hearts: From the New World launched on 28 July 2005, within three weeks of Dungeon Siege 2, Dungeon Siege II, Fatal Frame III: The Tormented and World Soccer: Winning Eleven 9. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Dungeon Siege 2, Dungeon Siege II, Fatal Frame III: The Tormented, World Soccer: Winning Eleven 9.
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Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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