#SuperOldGameSaturday - Shadow Hearts (PlayStation 2) - Part 6
0Originally Recorded/Aired on March 4th, 2023
We have a quicker return for March's part of Shadow Hearts for PlayStation 2 on #SuperOldGameSaturday with TheCrochetNerd64 guiding us and, with this part, we complete the game with its good ending after completing the side-quests and travelling into the Float for the final battle. So, why is this not the Finale of the game? Well, because as great as the good ending is, it's not canonical to this franchise and its sequels, so we'll have the final part next month on April 15th showing off the bad ending, as well as all of the entries in the bestiary, all the special weapons and armors we didn't show here and a bit of a surprise bonus game of TheCrochetNerd64's choosing (and even I'm not sure yet what he's got up his sleeve, so be sure to come back for that). For this part, though, we got through what we needed to in record time, thanks to TheCrochetNerd64's expert guidance on this underrated 2001 RPG and we had a great time as we had even more story developments in the side-quests (including full closure for basically every character in the game, big and small), saw a bunch of voiced cutscenes and went in deep with this game and other gaming topics of interest on the minds of the both of us and the best chat on Twitch, who were also very active and excited for how this part went down (and rightly so). TheCrochetNerd64 has done a great job bringing this game to all of us (and convincing me to buy a copy and further plead for a modern release of it), to which I can't thank him enough, as well as the chat for joining us on this journey. Again, we've got a little more left for this game to bring you next month, but for now, hope you enjoy this penultimate can't miss part of Shadow Hearts (and if you like what you see, stop by https://www.twitch.tv/captainditrag, usually each Saturday at 7 PM EST, but the schedule over there will tell you what our next show and time will be, to see these streams live and join/help drive the conversations on what we play each week)!
Also, here's the Link List, with links to everything we & chat referenced on this show:
A link to the first five parts (and in April, every part) of our play of Shadow Hearts:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrOxkvwdJ2y9Lb2ddYnLjf0mNRNLK5WjB
A link to a terrific article from Alana Hagues from Nintendo Life exploring the recent trend of remasters of classic games coming out with poor results (like Tales of Symphonia Remastered) and/or getting post-launch patches for fixes to those issues (which is required reading for any company thinking about doing a modern re-release of Shadow Hearts), courtesy of NintendoLife.com:
https://www.nintendolife.com/features/talking-point-why-are-so-many-remasters-sub-par-at-launch
Am article from Trey Griffeth explaining how it was multiple game studios who made the recent Metroid Prime Remastered release a reality (and here's hoping again for a future treatment of that for Shadow Hearts), courtesy of GameRant.com:
https://gamerant.com/metroid-prime-remastered-developers-studios/
A link explaining more about the Asp, a form of snake, courtesy of Wikipedia.org:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asp_(snake)
An article by Trumann Tu explaining a bug in Crisis Core: Final Fantasy 7 Reunion that kept in a line by Zack Fair's original voice actor from the PSP Crisis Core game, Rick Gomez, despite Reunion recasting Caleb Pierce in the role (which was a controversial one with fans, including TheCrochetNerd64), courtesy of GameRant.com:
https://gamerant.com/crisis-core-final-fantasy-7-reunion-bug-zack-old-voice/#:~:text=A%20bizarre%20bug%20in%20Crisis,in%20one%20of%20its%20cutscenes.
A link to the song, Invisible" by Dio, off of the great 1983 metal album, Holy Diver, courtesy of MetalRevolutionRadio on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSQ2_8HvMaw
A link to Star Shape, the terrific piece of music from this game that we hear later in the Float, courtesy of Shadow Heart Wikia on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkFv7ti9m94
A link to a video showing the additional dialogue that we would have seen going through the Float if we were running the bad ending fully (instead of just showing it off in next month's Finale, though it also has the bad ending itself), courtesy of LaTanaDiMrX on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TieVFAFNGRA
A link describing The ClueFinders franchise, a 9 game series of PC edutainment titles from The Learning Company that TheCrochetNerd64 mentioned having memories specifically of 1999's The ClueFinders 5th Grade Adventures: Secret of the Living Volcano, courtesy of Wikipedia.org:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_ClueFinders
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