Shadow Hearts was released in 2001 and Shadow Hearts: Covenant was released in 2004, with both games detail the adventures of Yuri. But first, there is another game, or should I say games, I have been dying to tackle again. There is a solid chance of me firing up the PlayStation 2 right away to relive Eike’s adventure. There are many times where you are on a timer trying to prevent your death, and you hear echoing footsteps or a lonely cold wind and it just increases the urgency of the moment. The soundtrack to Shadow of Destiny was more ambient than musical which added to many elements of the game, especially in the earlier chapters. This was one of the first times I played a game with voice acting, and it wasn’t terrible, which makes immersion all that easier. This was my first foray into narrative gaming with zero action and I loved every second of it. Most of the games in my library at the time were JRPGs or fighting titles, but Shadow of Destiny played more like an open-world puzzle game.
As I played through more and more of Shadow of Destiny, I kept exploring different options to see if I could get different endings, so I could learn more of the overarching story and find out the truth about Eike, Homunculus, Dana, Magarette and the rest of the cast. However, in this the lowest possible ending it reveals that two of the major characters you interact with were switched at birth, and it answers some questions but raises more. As I played through the story, I started piecing together the timelines and I finished my first play-through with the lowest possible ending. The element of time travel and the effect it can have on the present is a story that will always drag me in, and Shadow of Destiny nails it completely. Your efforts lead you towards one of six endings (eight technically with variations of two endings) to learn about how the two major timelines you traverse are related. Shadow of Destiny starts with a simple premise but evolves into a deeper connected story that, as the player, you are able to take in as much or as little as you want. So the first couple of chapters are about you preventing your own death, and then there is a shift when you accidentally take someone into the past with you, and to make it worse losing this person in the past. From here you are introduced to Homunculus, a creature who gives you a device called the Digipad, which gives you the power to go back in time to an earlier point of time before you died. You play as Eike, the unfortunate soul who is killed almost immediately as you begin your adventure. No, this isn't a precursor to a Soulsborne title. Shadow of Destiny ( Shadow of Memories on Windows), is a game where you die in the first five minutes. One day, in my local game rental store (which is a phrase that you don’t hear anymore), I found some box art that appealed to me. In my younger days, I would wander the aisles of Walmart, Zellers, and Superstore looking for the next title to immerse me completely. There were two titles/series that left an impact on me, that both had the word “shadow” in them, and no Shadow of the Colossus does not make an appearance in this. I spent several hours, days, years diving into the library of the PlayStation 2 and falling in love with all the amazing titles. Articles // 4th Mar 2020 - 3 years ago // By Mogtones In the Shadows of the PlayStation 2
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