Shadow Hearts: From the New World Review

By Joe Dodson

A brave old world.



Last year, Shadow Hearts: Covenant blew our minds by delivering a Playstation 2 role-playing game that wasn’t suitable for children. Covenant wasn’t just naughty – it was refreshing in the way it toyed with and broke typical RPG conventions. Where other RPGs feature the same character archetypes (the chaste girl, the bad girl, the silly old man, the irritating…

  • Funny and weird
  • Customizable spells and rings
  • There's a map!
  • Too many random encounters
  • Save catastrophes
  • Poorly paced

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Joe Dodson
Joe Dodson

Raised by devout and strict Raelian parents, Joe Dodson's goal in life is to prove that aliens do exist, and want to eat us. He is currently honing his writing skills by writing and editing video game reviews about, you guessed it, aliens that want to kill us all.

In his spare time, Joe likes to watch scary movies and pwn nubs as Holyhank the evil dwarf.

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