Thread 723661371

thoughts on Shadow Hearts?

i liked it but don't remember why exactly anymore. unlocking pantyshot was nice

>>723661371 (OP)
I didn't think this could be a thing but the main character was actually TOO rapey for me. Still a fun game and doing battle mechanics in the shops for a discount was a neat idea.

i rented it and enjoyed it, the manual came with a walkthrough for the first couple hours which i used

>>723661371 (OP)
Masterpiece

>>723661371 (OP)
SHLOOOOOP SHLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOP
SHLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOP

>>723661371 (OP)
second game is a lot better

>>723661371 (OP)
Please tell me you work for a publisher and were sent by a higher up to test the waters because someone above you wants to buy the IP.

>>723662498
Nah. I played first through and through, but dropped the second one. Dungeons aren't as sweet and to the point as the first one's.

>>723662498
2nd game is way goofier.

>>723662658
Why would he come to 4chan /v/, of all places, for that?

>>723661371 (OP)
aris is playing it rn, ill have to wait for his opinion before i can aswer your question

>>723662658
It's owned by a pachinko company now. It's dead Jim.

Shame that kickstarter went nowhere. Penny Blood.

>>723663260
>kickstarter
>shame it didn't happen
best of no pattern recognition having golem here

>>723661371 (OP)
I'm a sicko that actually likes Koudelka the best

I enjoyed Shadow Hearts and II/Covenant, couldn't stand From the New World though. What a garbage ass game.

>>723663191
I know. I pray one day they decide to sell.

>>723663358
Koudelka is a masterpiece.

>>723662795
the first game has about as many gags, its just shorter so the total gag amount is lower and most importantly was a ps1 game turned into a ps2 game midway through development so the gags are just lines of text instead of entire cutscenes

>>723661371 (OP)
yuri is cool, both endings of the first game being canon is cool, judgement ring is cool, music is great. actual games are kind of whatever and the party members are all one note memes outside of whatever GF yuri currently has

>>723661371 (OP)
KINOO!!!!

>>723661371 (OP)
Good. It's structure encapsulates the 32-bit era JRPG design ethos in a very good manner that's ephemeral and difficult to describe unless you've played a lot of those games. It does what it sets out to do competently and has a strong cast of characters, lore, story, and structure.

It's worth playing Koudelka (spiritual precursor) and it's direct sequel. Koudelka is kind of was but it's still worth experiencing at least once. Great sense of atmosphere.

>>723661371 (OP)
More like Shadow Farts.

>>723661371 (OP)
still haven't played the first one.
will never play the third one.
2 is where it's at.

>>723662658
a fat retard streamer is currently playing it

>>723665068
the 3rd one isn't even bad. It's not as good sure, but still a solid game.

>>723665412
It's dogshit.

>>723665209
Fuck this board.

>>723661371 (OP)
As a sequel, Covenant had one of the most interesting reasons for simultaneously carrying on from the first game's bad ending while also justifying the first game's good ending that I've ever seen. Pure kino.

>>723665542
You didn't even play it retard.

>>723665596
>tranime poster
>kino
Back to /tv/ lad. Your kind isn't welcome here.

>>723665412
i think it's weird it tries to turn Al Capone into a good guy.
Alphonse was definitely, definitely not a good person.

>>723661371 (OP)
Nobody who played this knew it was a sequel to Koudelka

>>723665621
I did. Johnny was a shit protagonist. Lady was a nothingburger villain. The party members were pretty forgettable with boring gimmicks. The plot was nonsensical at points and it the humor was avast downgrade.

>>723663358
I've played Koudelka for the first time a year ago, my only gripe is that the grid battle system doesn't really go anywhere to the point it might as well not exist besides front and back row niggas and that the inteo and animations are too slow and they become tedious by the end of the game
Everything else is superb.

>>723661371 (OP)
The last pre-rendered jrpg. It's really well done, and has all the gameplay, story, and presentation quality you want from one. It's as good as Legend of Dragoon I'd say, in other words top tier just below the classic pre-rendered games Squaresoft made.
The sequels are fairly different, so it still holds up against them despite them expanding on the gameplay features a lot.

>>723665676
This

>>723665770
Yeah but It was pretty fun playing Koudelka after finding out about it and recognizing some of the monsters that were reused in Shadow Hearts. Shame about those load times for fights and the absolute lack of variety in battle music, but otherwise a pretty solid game for it's time.

>>723665676
Anime website
Anime video game

>>723665770
I played Koudelka first, but had no idea SH was a sequel until after I had already bought it (I just wanted another JRPG to play on PS2)
Truthfully I kinda hate the way Shadow Hearts treats Koudelka herself, yeah she does ultimately get a happy ending, but boy did she need to go through some horrible shit to get it.

>>723663260
Was wondering about that, I assume the Wild Arms esque game died to.

>>723661371 (OP)
The bad ending of the first game being canon and the good ending of the second game leading back into the first game is kino

>>723667224
Based

>>723663260
i just heard about this and went to check. it says it made 3x the asking amount. so... what went wrong?

>>723667139
Armed Fantasia is on life support. Still attempting to find a publisher, but it's gone nowhere.
It's not completely dead like Penny Blood is, but it might as well be

>>723667831
Think it through for a minute. The answer should come to you.

>>723665676
>Sharty fag election tourist trying to dictate who doesn't belong
Big raffs

>>723667867
Figures. Seemed to good to be true.

>>723667831
They could never get a publisher for either title. So they basically just pissed away the KS money making pitch demos and the like.
Penny Blood got a proper spinoff from it (Hellbound), but ultimately both projects are dead.

>>723661371 (OP)
My ps2 started giving me disc read errors so i never beat it. I dont think i made it too far into the game maybe halfway through. I think i was tired of the jrpg format by then and played more of DDR or resident evil 4.

>>723661371 (OP)
Covenant is a top 3 JRPG of all time for me.