Shadow Hearts: Covenant reviews

If you liked Shadow Hearts you'll love Shadow Hearts: Covenant.

Shadow Hearts: Covenant begins a year after Shadow Hearts ended, in 1914 – the beginning of the First World War – where we find Yuri settled in the church of Domremy where he has appointed himself guardian. Yuri's sadness at loosing Alice has become an integral part of his being and he wears his sorrow like a badge of honour. But when the war comes to Domremy Yuri is forced to become involved, and through that he learns that he can find other reasons to live and people to care about.

Throughout SH: Covenant you'll meet people that hovered about on the fringes of SH and you'll also meet a few you'll recognise. But the main character is Yuri and his quest to find himself is continued. Also, once again, you'll be battling with the Judgement Ring and those fearsome combos will dishing out damage in spades.

SH: Covenant has some of the best and most exciting FMV's I have ever seen and there are quite a few of them to move the story along. The 9 main characters are well developed and each brings his/her particular strengths to the team. The optional side-quests to find each character's Ul­timate Weapon or Armour makes for a very long game – over 150 hours – if you do them all.

Shadow Hearts: Covenant is a wonderful and fitting sequel with plenty to entertain, yet leaves lots to think about as it takes an already established series a step higher up the ‘extraordinary game’ ladder. Shadow Hearts: Covenant leaves us with more questions than it answers and I feel certain that the next in the series will be mind-shattering.