Shadow Hearts

Games: Shadow Hearts

• Release Date: December 14, 2001
• Genre: Role-Playing
• Style: Third-Person 3D RPG
• Similar Games: Final Fantasy X (PlayStation 2), The Legend of Alon D'ar (PlayStation 2), Tsugunai: Atonement (PlayStation 2)

Game Description

Shadow Hearts is a role-playing adventure of romance and the occult, set in the early 1900s and driven by a turn-based combat system. Players take the role of Yuri Hyuga, an "Harmonixer" who can take the forms of other creatures and beasts. Following a soft voice in his head, the hero finds himself rescuing Alice Elliot, the daughter of a famous exorcist. Alice was nearly taken prisoner on a train during a journey to China. As her kidnapping is foiled, the real story begins.

Players travel through China and Europe, searching for the mysterious man who tried to capture Alice and unraveling the villain's devious master plan. Other good-hearted characters may join the hero on this quest, each adding distinct personality and new abilities to the mix. The game features more than 100 different monsters to battle, over 200 magical items to find and use, and 20 different creatures types that the hero, Yuri, can learn to become.

~ T.J. Deci, All Game Guide

Production Credits

Company 1: Sacnoth; Scenario Writer: Matsuzo Itakura; Character Design: Miyako Kato; Program Director: Izumi Hamamoto; Movie Design Chief: Hiroshi Nagano; Movie Design: Yoshihiro Yamamoto, Toshiaki Kawada; Movie Edit: Yuka Saito; Background Design: Ayumu Kuboya, Naoki Kojima, Kousuke, Takada, Shiori Matsubara, Kazuna Mikamoto, Seiji Tokizawa; Field Programming: Yoshihiro Kuroiwa; Event Plan: Yuuki Sukekuni, Noriko Shinbo, Akira Harada, Toru Bando, Yuko Sakamoto; Script Manager: Katsuyoshi Uno; Event Programming: Takashi Sugimoto; Battle Plan: Takehiro Ishida, Shingo Murakami; Battle Stage Design: Rie Wada, Toshiyuki Terada; Battle Programming: Nobuyuki Yanagisawa; Monster Design Chief: Makoto Nagayoshi; Monster Design: Minoru Seagusa, Hiroko Ito; 3d Character Design: Yoshihiro Ogawa; Model Programming: Takaaki Ishikawa; Motion Design Chief: Takeshi Toyoda; Motion Design: Fumiyo Tanaka, Isao Takeuchi; Composer: Yoshitaka Hirota, Yasumori Mitsud; Sound Effects: Junya Kuroda, Masakatsu Tamura, Tukiko Togashi; Sound Manipulator: Masaharu Iwata, Ryo Fukuda, Jin Watanabe; Sound Programmer: Hidenori Suzuki, Hirokazu Kobayashi; Company 2: Forest Entertainment Inc.; Effects Graphics: Nao Sasaki, Eishu Takamura; Effects Programming: Riki Inoue, Tsuyoshi Hasegawa, Takeo Fujii; Debug Leader: Akihiro Ichikawa; Debugging: Tomoko Ogawa, Shinichi Sonoda, Kazuyuki Fujii, Hitoshi Tanaka, Akiyoshi Kontani, Yuta Saito, Masafumi Seya, Tomonori Koizumi, Kazuhiro Kikuchi, Kouki Nakadai, Masatomo Nakano, Tomoko Oyama, Suguru Yokoyama, Takeshi Hagiwara, Takeshi Mayumi, Emiko Nakamura, Gakuro Ohkoshi, Shinya Tomii; Administration: Shoko Maruyama, Minoru Makino, Masumi Okazaki, Sachiko Yoshitomi; Company 3: Digital Media Lab; Producer: Makoto Fukushima, Haruhisa Shinzaki, Brian Lowe, Jun Mihara; Director: Izumi Obata, Matsuzo Itakura; Manager: Atsushi Morita; Animator: Nozomi Sanada, Takayuki Higurashi, Kenji Isobe, Syuuichi Murata, Miho Obara, Youichi Iwata, Takako Oobuchi, Satoshi Maruyama, Yukiko Isobe, Yasuhiro Nishimura, Akira Watanabe, Hiroshi Yamamoto; Programmer: Junichi Hirose, Ryo Matsubara; Company 4: Shadow Entertainment Inc.; Designer: Takashi Iijima, Masahide Suwabe; Sis Works Co. Ltd.: Keiichi Shiraishi, Kunio Iwai; Rise Spirit Co., Ltd.: Tomohiro Nishimura; Hyper Sonic Co., Ltd.: Kazuharu Nagumo; Supporting Staff: Asako Oikawa, Yoshiaki Kono, Yuichi Kobayashi, Nobuo Yaegashi, Masato Kamimura, Yasuhiro Numata; Forest Entertainment, Inc.: Keizo Kokubo; E. Beans Co., Ltd: Tokiko Fujimoto; Paon Co., Ltd.: Hozumi Yoshida, Tatsuya Watanabe; Creek & River Co., Ltd.: Nobuyuki Nishida; Funky Corporation: Kazuya Aya, Tomoko Nishibe; Company 5: Midway Games Inc.; Associate Producer: Jeremy Airey; Assistant Producer: Darren Walker, Devin Shatsky; Print Design & Production: Midway Creative Services; Vp of Marketing: Helene Sheeler; Director of Entertainment Marketing: Lawrence Smith; Product Manager: Patrick Dillon; Director of Public Relations: Marci Ditter; Public Relations Manager: Jay Boor; President of Business Development: Mark Beaumont; Vp of Business Development: Lee Jacobson; Testing Manager: Hans Lo; Testing Supervisor: Dan Wagner; Lead Tester: Jason O'Brien; Product Analyst: John Kaiser Iii, Brady Mercy, Seher Basak, Jeff Schmidt, Annabel Treshansky, Eljin Whitehead, Nick Munford, Travis Zander; Technical Standards Analyst: Zak Mcclendon, Ray Mitchell; Special Thanks: Melani Windham, Paula Cook, Tom Taylor, Doris Lynch, Ron Ludlow, Misa Miyahara, May Cam, Gary Gonzales, Chris Mowry, David Tokheim, Dawson Vosburg, Deborah Fulton, Rob Gustafson, Mike Burke, Horizon Media, Jared Hamiter, Elisa Mathez, Ben Rubright, Mary Tierney; Company 6: Wordbox Inc.; Voice Acting: Eric Stuart, James Carter, Cathcart, Wayne Grayson, Veronica Taylor, Maddie Blaustein, Scott Rayow, Ted Lewis; Taj Productions and Aruze Corp: Hisao Ando, Mitsuaki Ohno; Sacnoth Co., Ltd: Hajime Tatsuta; Keiz & Co., Inc.: Yukihiko Kono, Akino Soshiroda; Add Corp: Taku Nishida, Yasuyuki Uchima; Company 7: Image Song; Words: James H. Woan; Music: Yoshitaka Hirota; Voice Casting: Hiroko Kasahara, Kyoko Kishikawa; Guitar: Hitoshi Umemura; Bass: Love Devel & Kuruko; Drums Percussion: Hidenobu Kalta Otsuki; Erhu Performing: Wei Wei Wuu; Executive Producer: Kazuo Okada

~ Keith Adams, All Game Guide