Found something interesting about Shadow Hearts. A fan named Terminal Sarcastic data mined the first game and in it he found that you can play as Yoshiko Kawashima. This data mined version is incomplete as Yoshiko has no special abilities leaving Yuri non selectable fusion as a place holder. Now this means she might have been planned to be playable and they changed there minds or they just didn’t have the time and had to cut her out. The twitter I found this at hints that she is no the only one that this happened to.
Yoshiko is the Japanese commander who order for Alice to be brought to Shanghai. She is killed in the game but players do get to play her in Covenant as one of the apes for a shot period. This same person also posted the video which you can see below. The video shows her with a full party so maybe as a new plus or after betting since new game plus wasn’t a thing back then.
As always thank you for reading.
