Shadow Hearts: Covenant 2004

Is it still worth playing?

Nautilus' 2004 role playing game for the PlayStation 2, the second in the Shadow Hearts series, set in 1915 during the First World War. German army lieutenant Karin Koenig is drawn into a conflict between Yuri Hyuga and the secret society Sapientes Gladio. The party travels through towns and country across the Eurasian continent, buying items and equipment and completing story quests and side quests. That road is linear in the first half, driven by the story, while the second half opens up to more exploration and optional areas. Battles are turn based and begin from random and scripted encounters. Each character has hit points, skill points and sanity points, and one who runs out of sanity goes berserk and cannot be controlled. A journey across a continent at war still gives the road from town to town a flavor of its own today.