What the HELL Happened to Shadow Hearts?

[@ndoelgalak5121]

Shadow Hearts 1 & 2 are always have a special place in my heart. Sad, We'll never see any kind of jrpg like this nowadays

[@pierrelanau3119]

Ndoel Galak the universe is so unique

[@justinsingketon4564]

You just crushed my dreams with this realization

[@FritzFoxPirate]

Shadow hearts and Baten Kaitos were my favorite

[@GanRPG]

You know, the director of Shadow Hearts, Matsuzo Michida, was interviewed 2 years ago by Italian website GeekGamer. He said that New World is not the true third installment in the series. Shadow Hearts 3 would have been a prequel and you have gotten to play as Yuri's father. That would have been awesome.

[@albertocortese3586]

whit yuri father!? damn! that would be awesomee!!! if only this had gotten more sells...

[@dinkcrab2427]

Dude! Plus his mom would be party member

[@jekwalepak6022]

Oh shit i really love that

[@Piisuke]

I always felt like SH3 could have been a true sequel, considering how the ending of SH2 was a complete mess with Karen's ending and Yuri's travel back in time and the supposed end of the world that was going to happen regardless. Not that I liked the game. That being said, I am still hoping that Karen get a better treatment. I, to this day, still hate the ending she got. Karen > Alice.

[@diablofuerte7309]

Well shadow hearts one is a sequel so number 3 is really the 4th game

[@merinMeriyarin]

it's has been more than 10 years and i still replaying this game sometimes and hoping for the remastered or even reboot on PS4 gdi

[@RukileinchenChan]

I am currently replaying SH1. It is really sad that there are no more games because I love the ring system.

[@michaelhazellful]

Try lost Odyssey

[@RukileinchenChan]

@@michaelhazellful played and loved that one :)

[@whitemage34]

Love that game dall house was a rough place tho

[@zin22hashtagBABALU]

I hope XSEED do something and remaster it on ps4.. covenant is my favorite..

[@rokmare]

Hopefully, I have covenant and from the new world but never played the first one I regret never picking it up cause it was too expensive, would be nice if sony have it for sale at the PS store.

[@Nooblitz_74]

zintwentyTwo I hope they do a collection but yeah

[@dachimneysmokerc7621]

wow trust me been praying for this for ages i grew up watching my sister play shadow hearts she let my life brother play this but never LET me play her ps2 me and my brother keep saying to eachother out off all the games id like to play what one would u pick and my pick is shadow hearts and i say i would jump with joy if they remastered it i dont know what it is but the mucic and moments in this game are burned into my memory its crazy

[@randomguy3034]

26 years of all platform gaming and this series still has a special place in my heart. Sometimes you just encounter an irreplaceable charm with nothing to prove and a lifetime to give.

[@seanyboysmiles5071]

I can't thank you enough for making this video. My heart felt both nostalgic and sad. Shadow Hearts will ALWAYS be my favorite JRPG series of all time.

[@2BooG]

Love this Series, Grandia and Wild Arms.

[@lizzy532]

Shadow Hearts is my all time fav. I love it to bits. I hope some way, somehow, it can come back to life from The Graveyard... lol

[@CradleOfJohn]

Shadow Hearts is a series that needs to come back and the main reason Shadow Hearts 1 didn't sell too well is cause it released around the same time as Final Fantasy X and the graphical difference between both those games are actually pretty significant with Final Fantasy in general being a mainstream brand compared to something niche like Shadow Hearts which is why it got overlooked. Convenant is my personal favorite JRPG and although more light-hearted, From The New World is still a fantastic game with great characters and story. I think a lot of people would welcome a remastered collection of the series but I think the reason it was abandoned is cause it was ultimately a financial decision and the fact that it was too niche to make steady profit or enough to continue the series. Its not an impossibility for the franchise to come back as there are a rake of other game series that came back from the dead but it is slim to none based on the history we know about. Its a shame cause I really want Shadow Hearts to come back as it had so much charm with the gameplay, characters, story and aesthetic value. Maybe someday, we can always hope for it to return especially cause I thought that Onimusha was never gonna come back but we actually got a PS4, Xbox One and Switch remaster of it so nothing is impossible.

[@AkumaItachi]

YEEEEEES, finally!!! I love Shadow Hearts so much, Covenant is the best JRPG of all time imo, everything is perfect about that game. From the New World, i was a bit sceptical about it first for the same reasons as you said but it is still a great game and i enjoyed it immensely. I know that we will probably never get another SH game but pleaaaase give me Shadow Hearts HD collection on PS4 T_T This franchise deserves more attention, i found out about it by accident cus it was unknown in Europe as you said but damn am i glad that i did The battle system and the judgment ring were awesome features in the game, i love when games do this and makes you do more than just press a button, Legend of Dragoon did an awesome job at this as well with the additions.

[@ErickLandonRPG]

Thank you.

[@DevilRaptorB]

Shadow Hearts 2 is my fav RPG of all times, the series is so underrated which is pretty sad.

[@AyyRalphy]

LOVED every single one of the series!! 1st one and koudelka shadow hearts will be my favorite. So glad to see ppl actually even played this video game. Such great stage music, and the boss music was amazing. When you fight Olga for the first time in the church - - - badass loved how the boss song changed and you just knew shit was about to go down. Hell yes ❤️🔥

[@edwardnox5907]

one of the best games i played, and yuri is a badass, he is one of the strongest jrpg main character i ever see, he remember me of that guy from the game altered beast tha can transform in many monsters.

[@gilgamesh.....]

Shadow Hearts was an amazing series. It deserves so much more love and a new game. Sad that it'll probably never happen. I'd be happy with a remastered trilogy of the current games.

[@CradleOfJohn]

@Gilgamesh H. Theres actually some good news that Sony has very recently filed a new trademark for the Shadow Hearts IP nearly 3 weeks ago but was only made public in the last few days. That said we don't know the full details on the extent of Sony's plan with the brand but I am willing to bet that it may have something to do with Sony adding a bunch of old titles from all their past gen consoles onto their new PSN streaming service. This is pretty good news for Shadow Hearts cause maybe it will get a 2nd chance on modern platforms with potential of having the old games remastered, remade or even a brand new entry in future. I'd love to see what a new Shadow Hearts game would look like with todays technology so hopefully we get something new in future with the series.

[@gilgamesh.....]

@@CradleOfJohn That's good to hear. I hope it'll mean a new game some time.

[@Harie0]

Yeah, it was a series I stumbled upon. Probably the best random buy I've done. I bought Covenant first though I should have bought the second game. It was a 2 for 1 gamestop sale and both were there. I figured it eh if this is good I can always go back for the prequel. Sadly, about that time that I did go for it, the games jacked up in price. Not insane, but they were nearly new prices again. I did not get the first Shadow Hearts until after the third came out. It was kinda funny the game was labeled new, but it rang up used and the used price was more than new. The guy at the register kinda shook his head and fixed it to new. Koudleka has been on my list to play though I doubt I would enjoy the puzzles in the game. In the US, the first Shadow Hearts came out the same time as FFX, so it was going to be overlooked from the get go. As beloved as Covenant was, it does carry a few issues though I will really only cover one: Yuri's return was a blessing and a curse. There are rumors that he was not going to be the main protagonist. It may have been Nicolai. Early promotional video shows him in one spot in the game far after he leaves the party (which had me wondering why they had bothered to make him playable when I first played it), and you can even see additional attack animations for him. He also turns into Yuri's mid level dark form.The game also got a re-release with some new content with at least one dungeon allowing you to control Nicolai and three other characters (a trio of antagonists), but guess what? You guessed it, it was only released in Japan. Still, it was a fun game that was very much the two discs it was on. Yuri's lack of presence in the third turned some off. It was a red flag for me, but reviews and comments that the plot and characters (more so characters than plot) were more light hearted (Covenant had its share though most was relegated to Joachim) made me put it way back on the priority list of buying. I won't say the game is bad, but when I tried it, it was not for me.

[@charley3520]

Really enjoyed your video! It's great that people still talk about this series. I bought Shadow hearts 1 and 2 around the same time over 10 years ago. They're two of my all time favourite games! :D I still play them now from time to time.

[@vitinho298]

I would Love a remaster on ps4,i really never got a chance to play this game....

[@cyrniki]

Vitinho 98 just emulate it

[@vitinho298]

My pc is trash, but i managed to get the original sh1, played and finished on my ps2! Amazing game

[@rikastemmet8849]

I like it to

[@iamaeris]

I played all 3 Shadow Hearts games. My favorites are 1 & 2.

[@Acollyt]

A great series (particularly the first 2) which were a pleasure to play. Sad that the series did not get a longer run.

[@johns6265]

Whilst Shadow Hearts probably can't come back, hopefully other developers can take up some of the series ideas and themes. There is a definite space in the market for a fantasy horror RPG, Shin Megami Tensei has been on the handhelds for years and is now exclusive to the Nintendo platfrom, we have no idea when another Persona game is coming. There's definitely room for more RPGs that explore the horror genre, I'd love to see one that goes straight out survival horror with the atmosphere and tone of something like Siren or Rule of Rose.

[@adambrass4015]

John S "...probably can't come back" -- oh why not?

[@woof_woofie]

I still rmbr the first time I got my hands on shadow hearts. I was hook & really love the theme, story & gameplay. Then came Shadow hearts 2 & it was an even better masterpiece. Wish there is a remake/remaster of both.

[@GramoChopin]

I've played many obscure games and this is one of my top favs. Yuri is a very underrated anti hero. He comes off as Guts but with demon morphing abilities and practically immortal. He would be perfect in the world of Berserk and vice versa Guts being in the Shadow Hearts world. Mainly the first one. The very first one held nothing back and was goth horror to it's core. Guts, Yuri and Caim from Drakengard are my top 3 fav anti heroes. There all magnificently insane.

[@PeteTheGrouch]

Gramo Chopin When you can have your arm sliced off in the opening cutscene, then just calmly pick it up & reattach it like nothing happened, you just know the dude's a total badass! 😎👌

[@princelorian]

I recently discovered your channel. You deserve so many more subs. Your content is amazing. Thank you.

[@ErickLandonRPG]

Thank you and welcome!

[@NoxSkye]

I really wish they continued the series, one of my favorite series of all time

[@noelienoelie8425]

Kodelka. Amazing voice acting. I wish I had played it when it first came out.

[@SelemaTatsuhiko]

Shadow Hearts is an amazing series (New World included)! It has some of the most beautiful music in any game I’ve played and the ring combat system was a mechanic so cool and unique is that I don’t think we’ll ever see again. I think New World’s “problem” definitely was the fact that they leaned a little too much into comedy. Starting with the original SH game there’s always been a bit of humor and with each game it got a little more prominent. When people talk about shadow hearts they talk glowingly mostly about the first game that had such a dark atmosphere. SH 2 mixed the gothic horror and humor evenly. I think New World is a perfectly fine game all things considered but I am certainly see where folks come from. I also think folks just really missed Yuri who was a really fun character with a lot of depth. Seeing him through 2 games gave us more opportunity to care about him and after he was gone it just wasn’t quite the same.

[@musiclover01ization]

Shadow Hearts seems like an interesting series. I wish it was on the PSN. Great video, Erick.

[@ErickLandonRPG]

Thank you.

[@BlackCatPI]

Shadow Hearts was my 2nd RPG... and further pushed my love for the genre. Erick it breaks my heart that Aruze is making gambling machines. they could be ruling our lives with Horror RPGS...😣

[@QuixoteX]

Never played Shadow Hearts but I was aware it existed. Sometime I think around 2010? I heard of Koudelka and saw that it was real cheap. I got a new copy for about $16. I had now idea it was related to Shadow Hearts until later. Sometime I'd like to try the Shadow Hearts games, but all of them are expensive now, including Koudelka.

[@Kaitou1412Fangirl]

Another nail in Shadow Heart's coffin: the first game released about a week before Final Fantasy X, which, especially with Square being at their peak, spelled obscurity. Covenant thankfully had more room to breathe despite releasing a few weeks before SMT Nocturne.

[@GoumesGames]

this is a series i want to know better.The third Shadow Hearts i have very good memories in my times playing in my PS2,but i do know what i will think today if i replay the game.Also,great video as always xD õ/ ^^/

[@atemplarz4757]

I just finished playing Shadow Hearts a couple days ago, i gotta say that Shadow Hearts Covenant is definitely in my top 3 favorite JRPGs, EVER! I was astonished how awesome it really is when i finished it, i really recommend it for hardcore turn based RPG lovers. Let's all push for an HD Remaster release it totally deserves it! Thanks for helping to spread this gem Erick. Keep up the great work!

[@ErickLandonRPG]

Thank you!!

[@JenniferDawe]

Loved this series, I own Koudelka but lost my shadow hearts 1 and 2 :(

[@joeoe99]

Which track was played in the background of this video around 7:20?

[@TheGoldenPS1]

What I was trying to say is Atsushi Morita who is president of SIEJA worked in the business department of Aruze when Shadow Hearts was made. He has contacts with Aruze. So who knows if a new Shadow Hearts is possible.

[@riquta44]

I never thought someone would mention Chaos Wars here. Ngl that game introduce me to Shadow Hearts.

[@Kevin-gg2bl]

I've only played Covenant. Love that game. Probably second favourite RPG I owned as a kid.

[@MrRu13s]

*penny blood enters the chat*

[@nickwick35]

Just emulated these on my PC, going through Shadow Hearts now!

[@GramoChopin]

Late but how did u enjoy it ? Sh is 1 of my fav rpgs.

[@nickwick35]

@@GramoChopin amazing game. Still need to play the sequels.

[@GramoChopin]

@@nickwick35 noice. What do u think of Yuri ?

[@TheGoldenPS1]

Actually, a insider said back in 2015 that SIEJ is in talk to get something done with it. It hadn't even began pre-production. He is not sure if SIEJ can solve this problem as he also said they were in talk with Capcom to get more Monster Hunter on PS4 and we got Monster Hunter World. So he knew what he was talking about. After this information some Italian game journalist interviewed Shadow Hearts creator, Machida-san, and character designer, Kato-san. Machida-san said he is working on a new game and can't provide any details yet. In the future he would like to make a Western adaptation of it. A remastered collection of Shadow Hearts series (the first two games he worked on) have no plans but he will talk with his staff about it. This interview was published on Jan 2 2016. Can be found on Gematsu if you search for "Shadow Hearts creator". Machida-san left Nautilus before the spin-off was in the works. He freelanced a lot. He wrote the story and events for Ninety Nine Nights 2. Created Arms' Hearts with Kato-san and was developed by Hamster. After that we get this interview in early 2016.

[@ErickLandonRPG]

Thanks for the info!

[@patsg1146]

gematsu.com/2016/01/shadow-hearts-creator-working-new-video-game

[@TheGoldenPS1]

@@ErickLandonRPG You're welcome. This was before I started to hear more leaks about PS5's launch window. Foxy Games UK on youtube has some good early info from Sony on the launch window and specs in the hardware. He has said before in 2017 that Sony has created a new studio for PS5. He didn't mentioned in which country. So it's kind of an open field. My attention is from this year in about 2 months ago Foxy Games UK spilled the beans on his podcast to MadZ Gamer. There is a first party game in PS5's launch window that looks as good if not better than FF Spirits Within and Advent Children movie. You can expect that in the first gen of PS5. I know JAPAN Studio is working on a hard sci-fi game with story choice so it's not RaySpace he is talking about because that is a major PS4 title to be announced soon. This has also FF reference and one of them in Japan to come close to Nomura's character design is Miyako Kato. So I wonder if New Shadow Hearts from Verendus list has connection to what Foxy Games UK has heard. I'm not saying they are making a straight Shadow Hearts 3 because Machida said command based games are not popular today. However, it's possible they are revamping the franchise. It might not live up to old fans expectations similar to how GOW was not technically GOW4 as they changed the gameplay completely. Gone was the arcade style level based GOW with QTE combat. I don't think it will upset fans that much as long as Machida goes even darker now with his story. New audience will also be introduced. With Sony's marketing it will not be overlooked if the team put all their soul into it. I can also believe this due to Monolith Soft's grow. Sony is started to feel threatened by Nintendo's RPG domination. Sony used to have two RPG teams on PS1. Arc Entertainment and The Legend of Dragoon team. In-house RPGs were received better than their external RPGs developed by other studios they pushed hard on PS2.

[@VulpixRose]

Great video! I’ve been waiting for this one for a while. Seems Aruze caught the Konami disease. As for other games in the series in 2010 the creator of the series and it’s character designer made a spiritual successor of sorts called Arms’ Heart for the PSP. However it was once again Japan exclusive and it failed miserably.

[@Yackael]

The battle system was as addictive as the Shadow Hearts ones though, despite the low budget look of the game.

[@VulpixRose]

Yackael That’s good just such a shame that shadow hearts and any other game the creator makes just becomes a cult game and fades into obscurity.

[@weredoingallgames]

SH:C is still probably my favorite game ever. I'm not sure if it's problems were really marketing-related, but also distribution-related. The first few years I wasn't even able to buy the game anywhere in Europe, and had to resort to playing a pirated version. Only after a few years did I finally manage to buy the game. If only these games were released in these times where you can just get every game through the PS Store.

[@CynicalGamingBlogTerry309]

Notice how a lot of the games in these "what the hell happened to" series ended in Sixth generation. Well Shadow Hearts existed entirely in the Sixth generation... unless you count Koudelka. What the hell happened after Sixth gen!?

[@donwx5142]

The HD era...., games became too expensive to make for these smaller development companies, so many of the lesser none jrpg franchises such as Shadow Hearts, either moved to handheld or died.

[@asmodeus58XX]

Also, Sony's 2006 E3 disaster. When the freaking 360 gets more JRPGs, you know Sony screwed up harder than a seasoned carpenter.

[@GeaForce]

Online multiplayer?

[@laurenriley2943]

Rising prices in game development

[@insanehiker5587]

That and the fact that SNK gathered enough capital to get the rights to their franchises back from Aruze who snapped them up during SNK's Bankruptcy not by buying the rights back but by suing Aruze. SNK won the lawsuit reaquiring the franchises such as Fatal Fury, Samurai Showdown, King of Fighters, and Metal Slug. The move also left Aruze in such dire financial straits that they had to disolve Nautilus, as for pachinko machines, the are a safe bet for gaming companies in Japan- or at least they were. Last year the Japanese government passed a new series of laws to crack down on the loopholes that Pachinko Parlors had been using to skirt around the gambling laws, coincidentally this has also made some companies like Konami revaluate their current strategy as it would cost their company a great deal of money.

[@blackwyvern106]

We need to make a petition, NOW to XSEED.

[@forlilde]

Holy Sh*t man, i've spent all past week thinking about Shadow Hearts and if I should or not give a try (I only played the begining of From the new world), and I was looking if a youtuber that I respect had talked about it, then you posted this video... That's crazy man Hahaha. I love you work, keep it up!

[@dominoscr]

Thanks for making this video! I had no idea part of the team worked on Lost Odyssey, and I am playing that now! I loved ShadowHearts and didn’t expect anything after Covenant. To me From the New World was a fun goodbye letter from the makers. I remember when playing it that I felt like Johnny was a direct reference to the dev team “fighting the corruption” but lacking the ability to do much without help. In the end, they could not keep that door from opening and had to face the reality that their world was changed. The fetish stuff was a way of telling people to go after their passions.

[@dominoscr]

Johnny fighting a failed resurrection was a big tip-off to me the dev team figured this was their last time as well as the focus on Capturing Moments.

[@ErickLandonRPG]

Thank you.

[@LadyLeomon]

I know it, I was a bit late discovering it at a time but thanks to a friend I got all 3 games. 1 and 2 were great then 3 was ... there (seriously) what the hell happened there?), overall a great series, just sad it’s been so overlooked in favour of Final Fantasy 🙁🙁🙁 Thanks for the video Erick (really need it today) and go hug your animal friends folks 💙🐱💙

[@robertgahwiler2459]

Honestly I only have covenant and from the new world but I love shadow hearts it is a fun series to play and I love the architecture the series tries to use to add a sense of realism mixed with fantasy and magic.

[@TheLunarLegend]

just beat Shadow hearts: FTNW today. Great series, love these games.

[@lolapop1381]

It's such a shame lots of people never even heard about this awesome game ....brings back so many good memories. I love its humor too

[@Antagonopolis]

Nice vid, mate. First SH is still my fav game in the genre. Never experienced atmo like in that game in any other JRPG. Also... Sure, we most likely will never see another SH game, but for me it's basically the same thing as with FF VII Remake and people who are concerned that it may totally suck... No one will take away the original games that are already here and already among the best.

[@lancrin9262]

Was waiting for you to cover this.

[@ErickLandonRPG]

Hahaha, yeah, about time, right?

[@Handfast]

I just picked up From the New World i'm excited to check it out

[@adthomp]

need to be on PSN store but we have to either have a ps2 or use a emulator (which is a pain to set up)

[@joeyn.9135]

Good video, but you left out the part about the potential SH3 game that never was. There was even concept art released 2 years ago of Yuri and Kurando's father, who were going to be the main protagonists. Anyway, Matsuzo Machida (director of Covenant) said he's working on a new secret game since 2016, so who knows. Might be a spiritual successor to the SH series. One can only hope.. :')

[@ErickLandonRPG]

Thank you. I always leave pieces of information out so there can be an interaction between me, the video and the subscribers/watchers. They always come and share something new. I love when that happenes so thanks for commenting!

[@banyu123]

It's really sad, I really love the games and even with pcsx2 being really good, there are glitches in shadow heart series so they're not perfectly playable even today. The Lost Odissey situation is also a mess, how can Microsoft still not making PC version of it? Even resonance of fate, tales series, atelier series, etc now making their way to steam, and Microsoft is sleeping with Lost Odissey and Blue Dragoon on their hands 😭

[@TK-dp8vl]

I dont understand why people are so negative about "from the new world". I loved that game! The tragic events of Johney and his sister, the colourfull setting, the goofyness and of course the gameplay, were all very good.

[@MsShadowBlossom]

Love this series and still follow it after all this time. A big piece of my childhood and I wish that we could get an HD remastered collection on PS4 so bad!! Literally one of the most underrated and overlooked game series ever. Ugh. Forever and always in my heart. 💕🤞🏼💯 EDIT: OMG I’VE NEVER HEARD OF CHAOS WARS!! I’m shook!

[@ErickLandonRPG]

It's a great game and you can also switch to Japanese voices, so it only makes it better.

[@mgarcar1255]

I am a huge fan of Shadow Hearts I&II. I bought/played them both on launch. Funny enough, I recently purchased Shadow Hearts III, and I am currently playing through it. Though 3 is very different tonally, it still has the same battle system. I am enjoying it, but I can see why it didn't ride the success of SHII. Really wish the series would come back.

[@donone352]

Shadow hearts 2 , shadow hearts 1, shadow hearts 3, in that order of favourites

[@juanapu1]

I only played the last game. For me was bizarre, but not THAT bad. It got it from a friend, purely as a really obscure RPG. We're fans of JRPGS, me and him used to play any JRPG we came across. Obscure, known, bad, good. Here in Argentina its not a main genre.

[@fariszakuan4941]

Ahh I love this game I need to finish it this game and I hope we will get a new Shadow Hearts game in the future

[@XaendrOlivera]

and now we're getting penny blood, that is so cool!!

[@Liadva]

Absolutely loved the shadow hearts series - sadly had to sell my copies of 1 and 2 as well. Still have my koudelka copy

[@camma12]

Finally, been waiting for this 😁

[@ronklue3462]

And as hard as it was to have 3 be the last one, about that hard for me to watch shadow hearts everlasting without some tears running out of my eyes

[@iamplaceholder]

Joachim: Hmm... Nice mailbox. Joachim: Hmm... I really want this mailbox. *You got Red Mailbox*

[@9Tailsfan]

Ya know a few old ps2, ps3 and PS 4 have been remastered and re released on modern consoles like Nintendo Switch and X Box One. Shining Resonance, Tales of Vesperia, Ys VIII, Valkerya , Mega Man X. So there is still some hope!

[@GabrielAlves-dv7gq]

são os meus jogos favoritos. ate hoje espero a remasterização, saudades.

[@Coyoda]

Is it alright that I like Shadow Hearts From the New World mostly for its gameplay and silliness? You could do some really insane combos in there more easily (since you don't need to pair two characters one turn ahead of time to do a combo.) And I mean...Ricardo and his guitar...I want that guitar.

[@decusq]

It's such a shame because i LOVE Historical Fiction. The first two games were so good about telling the stories of characters who were not only struggling with their adventure but the times changing all around them with war and society. How everything was changing all around them despite their efforts. The third game in the series... well... it had some ok ideas but... half the cast was just unneeded.

[@artdemon7632]

I never thought of "Shadow Hearts from the new world" as comic relief, expect for frank, the released malice and roger + the bad ending of it they could have connect it to new SH4 by "time", time element is what all party members used in SH2 , but . . It's now a dim hope, unless there's fanmades and new projects

[@kamuizero]

Muy buen video! Solamente pude jugar al Koudelka original, no sabia que estos juegos estaban conectados, incluso provoca jugarlos (por primera vez) a ver que tal. Muchas gracias!

[@ErickLandonRPG]

Muy diferentes a Koudelka, sin lugar a dudas, pero bastante recomendables. Gracias a ti.

[@KaMmErAcK]

This is a game series that really need a remaster on ps4. These are the best Rpgs of all time and more people need to be able to enjoy them.

[@lazyDude77]

Recently replayed the series including Koudelka. Best jrpg series. Fight me

[@ronklue3462]

Did anyone else get that killer was yuri post mistletoe curse and lady was alice post death? Never was said but obvious. S.H. to this day remains my favorite series period. This was the best and saddest love story I’ve ever witnessed.

[@OwtDaftUK]

I loved them. I only played though them the one time though and it was back in the PS2 days so it's hard to know how much I like them now. But at the time I though the 2nd one pacifically was one of the closest games to been as good as final fantasy. Ever since I got into Final Fantasy I would always try to find something as good as them.

[@user-ef7gn4jy6v]

I d like to play these games one day.

[@Chelaxim]

You should do Imageepoch (7th Dragon,Luminous Arc,Stella Glow,Fate/Extra,Time and Eternity and Arc Rise Fantasia) it's some telenovela level of crazy what with the CEO and his possible fate.

[@ErickLandonRPG]

I think we should wait and see what happens; some of those are fairly recent games and the others were never meant to be a series, so I don't see any what the hell happened material in any of them. Maybe only Luminous Arc since anything past the second game was never released outside Japan.

[@Ziko577]

We didn't get 3 or Infinity. 3 should've got released as it pretty much isn't that different from the first 2 games.

[@NYCJoeBlack]

Michael Lewis - Please explain. I LOVED Stella Glow!!!! I wanted a sequel.

[@Chelaxim]

NYCJoeBlack The company went bankrupt,Sega bought some of thier IPs. The CEO has went missing after the bankruptcy and because they were a small company that recruited big name talent people think it was money borrowed from the Yakuza. People have discovered hidden messages from the other board members on social media asking if he is okay. Not even the board members nor his family knows his whereabouts. Crazy right?

[@kysierkevin]

True Imagepoch is a dark horse kind of company. They also develop a game called The Last Ranker for psp and with no sequel. The game reminds me of legend of dragoon gameplay + legend of legaia visuals

[@disturbedrebirth]

Shadow Hearts came out the same month that FFX did. That didnt help it either.

[@ho2da]

Shadow hearts covenant is my favorite all time game it makes me sad that well never get a true sequel

[@vitinho298]

After 2 years really wanting to play the first one, I got a decent price for SH1, played and finished, and oh boy, I never saw any Jrpg with so bizarre atmosphere and vibes like this one. Did the both "good" and "bad" ending. I hope someday i will be playing the sequel,the covenant one. And maybe the "from the world" game,which is more considered as spin-off then sequel. But still, I want a HD collection for these three games, a remake or sequel would be a dream,since the company only cares about f* pachinko machines. I really hope we get something from this series in the future, after I heard that this series was kinda a sequel for kouldelka, I went crazy trying to find a way to play this series. And yes I think the franchise it is extremely, BUT extremely unknown and underrated by people on these days.... Sorry if I writed too much😅. I'm a 22 year old dude, just trying to show how much I find interesting SH1, in comparison for others JRPG's. I really do hope this series gets something in the future!

[@GabrielAlves-dv7gq]

poderia disponibilizar legendas em portugues ? obriigado, amo o canal.

[@pauljones327]

this series was totally unknown over here i picked up the first game in 3 for 2 sale mainly bc i enjoyed midway games and rpgs it was the other 2 games i got that i really wanted shadow hearts was the free game which i thought be fun but i loved it and picked up the sequels as soon as i saw them

[@Nooblitz_74]

Yeah I enjoyed shadow hearts 1 I would love to go back and enjoy this one ps4 to ps2 and look back at those days.

[@howardng1368]

Any chance of doing what the hell happened to lunar or arc the lad?

[@ErickLandonRPG]

Yes, I'll cover both!

[@svartedauden3566]

Good vid again. How much time in research does it take you in average to do a "What the hell" video?

[@ErickLandonRPG]

Not that much. You see, "research" here is the key word. I only research superficially on the franchises, maybe I dig a little here and there and often find some interesting information that went below a lot of people's radars, but the truth is that I am not a researcher nor am I a historian and these videos are still about 50% (or more) my opinion. Also, I've followed most of these franchises almost since they began, or at least since many, many years ago, so a big part of my "reseach" has just been my watching their evolution over time, therefore becoming, once again, something subjective. The point of making these videos is to encourage people to share their own opinion, thoughts and also their research to create a discussion on what the hell happened to these franchises. This is something that has worked pretty well, since some gamers have come to share their own information since I started making them, so I'm happy about that. Thanks for watching and commenting!

[@svartedauden3566]

Erick Landon RPG you are a true gamer. fuelled by your passion for rpg. your videos are something I look forward too every week. keep it up! 👍

[@ErickLandonRPG]

Thank you.

[@kd1only]

Thanks for the review

[@jimmathin1669]

Never knew they're related to koudelka but that made sense cause it has similarities to its environment. Sadly, SH 1 and SH 2 is so well written that it made them sink to live up to the sequel... i blame the critics for giving so much negativity that made this series hard time to stand up again cause of the number of bad reviews it received... i mean c'mon the SH 3 is not as bad as Tales Series back in the days! Sucks cause i miss the humor and the roulette system! Miss SH Badly.. BTW +1 for the clothes effort to replicate Yuri and the Gloves

[@therabidpancake1]

Koudelka and all three of the Shadow hearts games need a remaster . Shadow hearts has to be my favorite games of all time . Lost Oddisy was another good one. Speaking of good games where the heck is the remaster of Chrono Cross .

[@diegoa.679]

tell me if this have some point: Yuri returned in time, the the paradox erase him making him disappear gradually, so only his "voice" can be listen until he was fully erasesd and his voice made him save Alice at any costs, making you have the good ending in the SH1. I am Crazy??

[@DGP406]

okay now I finally watched the Shadow Hearts video!

[@DSan-kl2yc]

SH didn't get known after the fact or failure. Or years later. SH2 actually made some waves. Was even featured on xplay. Had good scores. And people were aware of sh3. So if they had done a really good game. They could have been become a slightly better studio if they could have gotten support or bought out by a bigger company.

[@Michael-ke8on]

Erick, can you do Skies of Arcadia?

[@ErickLandonRPG]

Was that game supposed to be a series or something? Wasn't it just a stand-alone title?

[@Michael-ke8on]

Erick Landon RPG Hi Erick, yeah, I believe you're right. It originally came out on Dreamcast, then an upgraded version came out for GCN. I remember there were some rumors/talk about another game coming out. Wondering if you knew anything about it/did research on it.

[@jackmagaiver5188]

Joguei ate de mais sexta estes grandes rpgs

[@666.goth.kitty.]

This game might go a little viral after the appearing of a top 7 video today by KZbinr Dross.

[@bulkycloud975]

Great content

[@metalheadsforyang5371]

We can all make a fund to pool money to buy the rights and build on the story. Maybe even an animated series or live action series.

[@rokmare]

Aurze also hold the rights to steam bot chronicles one of my favorite JRPGs aside from shadow hearts and we never got a sequel to that game neither 😭.

[@Nanagi51]

Is there any discord for shadow hearts fans? Anyone?