Shadow Hearts is series with a beloved fan base. In the wake of all these game Medievil, Crash Bandicoot, Xenoblade Chronicles you can’t help but believe that Shadow Hearts deserves this shoot. With Machida having a studio we hope that we will get that chance threw some means. But if we do get the chance what would want.
Right now we have 3 choices. A remaster which would bring the old game to new consoles with hd graphics and probably a few gameplay improvements. A remake which would probably be along the lines of FFVIIR which we would get things retold and probably a lot of continent that was taken out of the game. As we have seen through date mining Machida and the other had to cut a few things from the game. Then there is a sequel which would have Ben Hyuga Yuri father as the main character. If we do get Shadow Hearts back we will most likely get to chose from these option. I hope to go over them and get your take on it.
1st we will look at remaster. This would be probably similar to FF 8 Remaster. Only because I doubt anyone held on to the code of the original Shadow Heart games. There fore similar to how Square Enix build FF 8 Remaster Machida and the rest (if the original team is put together and work on it) will have to build it from scratch. This would give us new graphics and a few function as most remasters today due but we would be getting the original game in essence. This would be the start and would continue until From The New World. That is unless someone one the team kept the code for the games.
2nd remake is. Some don’t think this worth it as they would be happy with just a remaster or a collection. But there are some positives. 1 big one is we can get new stuff. A lot of time content is cut from games this would allow the developer to put it in more so than the remaster. We might even get ideas put in that were changed last minute. Or in some cases ideas that never got considered for time. We might get some gameplay adjustments. The reason why I use the word some is I am not sure if we got a remake if team would go all action or stay turn base and rely on the judgement ring to deliver the difficulty.
3rd would be the sequel/prequel Machida and his team were planning for. This would have Yuri father and uncle as 2 of the party members. (To see my thinking on that please check the archives on Shadow Hearts 3 as I discussed a lot about it.). This could be a positive point to start from as it is a prequel so it takes place before Shadow Hearts and Kodelka meaning you don’t have to know the previous games to get into it. In terms of gameplay it is the developer choice but it would be a nice experiment to see how people would react to Shadow Hearts game having new gameplay or keeping true to the formula of the old ones. Similar to the remake situation but with a twist. Since this is before the games you might not face the backlash as your would remake not having classic gameplay.
Shadow Hearts fans want play the game on modern systems. We would probably accept any of the 3 above as we just want this series top return. But how it will return and in what matter is what this asking and hopefully informing you as to what can happen. Let me know what your thoughts on this.
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