Still no word from Sony on Shadow Hearts but I am noticing how people are asking. I showed you the exchange between one fans and Machida before. Now I am posting a twitter yesterday. Hopefully we can get the JRPG scene resurrected so Final Fantasy and Persona aren’t alone. With Shadow Hearts, Grandia and more in toe. The fans ask on twitter with @PlayStation and @AskPlayStation. If you are interested ask them there as well other places you can think off. With the week coming to an end lets hope we hear something new about JRPG PSX 2017.
As always thank you for reading.
Universal Entertainment Corp (formerly known as azure) owns the IP (Intellectual Property) they confirmed it with me so they are not gone but the original development team Nautilus (Sacnoth) is.
I have talked to them and xseeds in the past while both are passionate about shadow hearts but they were also not optimistic about a new game main reason being the risk involved and that the original developer team has disbanded.
Out of different things which I said and asked about shadow hearts one specific thing they replied and said was that they would personally like to see a prequel to the first shadow hearts. So there may have been some chatter at some stage about that and also there was an interview on gamergeek back in 2016 with machida and kato which kato showed two illustrations but then with the risk involved to do a game better or at the quality like covenant at today’s standard would be too much which probably why we haven’t heard anything.
Personally I think a ps2 classic of shadow hearts covenant would be the best way for a comeback if it has trophies and maybe extras like directors cut content in English etc… and that it wouldn’t have same costs as a brand new game that way it probably wont be as big of a risk and it can be used to test the waters.
Universal told me despite no plans for remasters but they do value everyones support and wont rule out anything in the future. only things us fans can do are email info@universal-777.com and try to hype the series as much as possible.
I think people should contract sony as well to ask how about ps2 classics of shadow hearts they cant really do anything more but if shadow hearts becomes a big request as a classic then who knows
Xseeds / ghostlight are more of a publishing and localization companies they don’t have the rights liked mentioned although despite that they took the time to reply to my emails which was nice. In the end companies like xseeds ghost light or midway(gone now) don’t have a say and have no control over the ip. Universal has always focused on slot machines etc… stepping into videogames was more just a side thing or promoting some of their slots as a lot of their published games were mini games etc… shadow hearts are pretty much the only real games they’ve published after taking control of sacnoth in 2000 then dissolved them in 2007 hence why no proper game was published by them since but difference with Universal is that they do have a say and have control power to do something.
Thanks for the info and response. I will post about it if you don’t mind as well as suggest to universal. Again thanks.