*In Progress*
Intro:
It was a game I was always conflicted with. Back when the game came out and I have to be honest despite being a huge Shadow Hearts fan I forgot that it was coming out back then.
It was actually one day when I was passing by gamestop and I saw it brand new sitting in one of their shelves and I picked it up and bought it instantly, I was like oh shit is this real. But yet I actually remembered following it a bit when it was coming out in Japan
in July 2005 in america march 2006 then europe may 2007 which i think sort of killed it along with having learnt it does not feature
yuri and alice then i kinda forgot about it. then when i actually played it, it is a solid game but it was just a huge disconnect
it wasnt even like from koudelka to shadow hearts 1 this felt much more.
but afterall it was mostly a different creative team who made from the new world compared to SH1 or Covenant.
What would I change?
Note the goal is to keep the script as close to the original as possible, meaning even when big changes happen is to keep as compact as possible without having to rewrite the entire story.
Also to have it more connected and inspired by the previous Shadow Hearts titles. The theme and to create possible sequels.
The characters
Johnny --> Halley
Like when the game was going to be set in America so like why did they not use Halley?
He goes over, you can have a time skip and maybe they could not find Edward (Halley's father).And that is what motivated him to open his detective agency.
Lady/Grace --> Lady/Grace
This is the first somewhat big unavoidable change as Grace can't be Halley's sister.
Option 1:
Lady/Grace becomes Shania's sister which I think could be interesting which probably wouldn't take too much editing, certain parts of the story lines would change from Johnny to Shania.
In previous SH games, Alice and Koudelka are keys they are rare exist only once every 100 years, so maybe the experiment was to create a new key rather than to revive the dead.
Option 2: Lady/Grace is complete a creation of malice / not human at all, an attempt to create a new key. It could be written into the story why she looks like Alice as do Killer to Yuri.
Lenny --> Koudelka
Option 1:
Somewhat a natural change, maybe from the events of SH1 she has lost her powers or became weak where she can't fight anymore since Lenny is not a part of the party.
Option 2: Lenny and Natan gets combined and becomes Koudelka so she can be in the party, although quite a bit of adapting would be needed.
Shania --> Shania
Option 1: Becomes Lady's sister so she feels like it is her duty to kill her.
She gets her fusion powers from an experiment (revivial replaced with experiment)
(she was kidnapped along with Lady / Grace)
So she would (somewhat) replace Johnny's original role but differently.
Also Shania will not be a love interest for Halley but maybe a love triangle?
Option 2: Keep as is but maybe Killer replaces Johnny in the sequence during the experiment and he does not remember anything of it.
Natan --> Natan or Take out the character
Option 1: He has guilt over Shania being captured maybe he felt that it was his fault so he has dedicated his life to helping her.
Option 2: Take out his character from the story completely as I feel like his lines could be adapted to other characters and I feel that Shania could be more of a loner.
Other ideas would be to replace Natan with Koudelka or maybe even Margarette.
Frank Goldfinger --> Joachim Valentine
I felt that some characteristics were similar and changing ninja to wrestler is possible and he would be (kinda like) a new character to the cast here, so the lines may not have to be even edited as heavily.
Mao --> Chris (London Rats)
Probably the biggest change a big change but one where it builds a strong connection to the original SH especially through Halley.
I would give her the name Christina and make her Halley's love interest,
I felt Mao wanting to get into acting this could work for Chris maybe she grew up became a beautiful young woman. she got scouted an opportunity but then it didn't go quite right and got mixed in the wrong crowd, certain parts would need heavy edits while others not as much.
Hildegard Valentine --> New Character.
Well if we have Joachim then maybe 2 bats are too many but Hilda's character can be used for a different SH story. Anyways how about a cat person but who can transform into something similar like Mao or a demon cat.
Ricardo Gomez --> Qiuhua Zhen?
Maybe
Adapting the changes
Timeline - 1926 (3 years earlier). SH1 1913 SHFTNW 1929 Halley 28 -> 25
Edward - is missing (To start the events) this helps keeping the script as close to the original
London Rats --> Even though Koudelka promised to take them with her and Halley but they couldn't
due to that they couldn't adopt them. Joshua and Sharon got adopted.
Gilbert - change his reason for coming into the agency, claims to be Lady's father (lie) or searching for Edward etc...
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