Shadow Hearts: Covenant
Shadow Hearts: Covenant is a direct continuation of Shadow Hearts; Its story starts a year and a half after the first one in the midst of World War I. It focuses on Karin Koenig, a lieutenant in the German…
Shadow Hearts: Covenant is a role-playing (rpg) developed by Nautilus, released 19 February 2004 on PlayStation 2.
What Shadow Hearts: Covenant is
Shadow Hearts: Covenant is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by Nautilus and released in 2004. It was published by Aruze. It is available on PlayStation 2 only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The game begins with Karin Koenig, a lieutenant in the German Army during World War I, traveling to the town of Domremy with a Vatican Inquisitor, Nicolas "Nicolai" Conrad, to exorcise a demon there. When they arrive, the demon is revealed to be Yuri from the previous game. Nicolai casts a curse on Yuri; this severely weakens Yuri, but also reveals Nicolas as a member of Sapientes Gladio, a faction of dark sorcerers seeking world domination. Yuri escapes with Karin and they build a small party of allies to thwart Nicolas' plan. Nicolai, a bastard son of Tsar Nicolas II, hopes to take over Russia with the help of Rasputin, the current leader of Sapientes Gladio. Yuri manages to recover his…
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are fantasy, historical and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Shadow Hearts: Covenant holds a critic score of 81 out of 100. That places it above 71% of the 3,811 rated role-playing (rpg) games in our database, which average 73. Games released in 2004 averaged 70, so it scored 11 points above the year average.
What it launched against
Shadow Hearts: Covenant launched on 19 February 2004, within three weeks of Pokémon FireRed Version, Metroid: Zero Mission, Pokémon FireRed, LeafGreen and Ninja Gaiden. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Pokémon FireRed Version, Metroid: Zero Mission, Pokémon FireRed, LeafGreen, Ninja Gaiden.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Shadow Hearts: Covenant yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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