Shadow Hearts [Playstation 2 the Best]

PlayStation 2 · 2003

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About this game

Yuri Hyuga is a young harmonixer: a man who possesses the power of transforming into demons.

He meets Alice Elliot, a young British girl whose father was brutally murdered, and who is chased by a mysterious warlock who calls himself Roger Bacon.

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Yuri and Alice travel through pre-war China, dealing with demons, evil magicians, and the Japanese occupation army.

The journey eventually takes them and their friends to Europe, where they have to confront their ultimate enemy, but also uncover the truth about their own pasts.

Shadow Hearts is a Japanese-style role-playing game set in a historical period (China and Europe of 1913, one year before World War I) with plenty of supernatural elements mixed in.

The game shares plot-related and stylistic traits with Koudelka , to which it can be considered a sequel.

The player navigates a party of characters (up to three active combatants) over pre-rendered backgrounds.

Combat with regular enemies occurs randomly.

During battles, characters use regular attacks or cast spells.

In addition to the regular health (HP) and magic points (MP), each character also has a special SP ("sanity points") bar.

The sanity bar is gradually depleted in combat; when characters run out of SP, they become insane and hence uncontrollable, until their sanity is restored with items.

The game implements traditional turn-based combat style for the battles, adding to it a feature called Judgment Ring.

Every time a character performs an attack, a ring with a spinning arrow appears on the top of the screen.

If the player stops the arrow when it is over a critical area on the ring, the attack will be more powerful.

However, missing the larger hit area will cancel the attack completely.

Various types of attacks have rings of various difficulty; usually, the more powerful a spell is, the smaller the hit area is on the ring.

The Judgment Ring is also used for other purposes; it can help the player reduce prices in stores, and is needed to solve several puzzles.

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About PlayStation 2

The PlayStation 2 (2000) is the best-selling game console in history, with a library exceeding 9,000 titles that spans everything from budget shovelware to genre-defining classics. That massive volume means PS2 collecting is accessible and affordable overall, but a handful of low-print-run RPGs and cult titles have become genuinely expensive — a common pattern once a console's original audience grows up with disposable income.

Gamevaro tracks Shadow Hearts [Playstation 2 the Best] for PlayStation 2 with separate market values for loose, complete-in-box (CIB) and factory-sealed copies, sourced from real eBay sales. Prices also vary by region — PAL, NTSC-U and NTSC-J releases of the same game often sell for different amounts due to print run sizes and regional collector demand.

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Market values by condition

NTSC-J

Loose / Item only

€57.47

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Recent sales

Date	Type	Region	Price	Source
2026-06-30	Loose / Item only	NTSC-J	€57.47	eBay US

Rarity & condition

Only a handful of market sales have been tracked for Shadow Hearts [Playstation 2 the Best], suggesting it doesn't trade hands very often — a sign of relative scarcity compared to more common PlayStation 2 titles.

Complete-in-box (CIB) copies typically command a premium over loose cartridges/discs because the original box and manual are more fragile and get discarded or damaged over time — fewer complete sets survive.

Frequently asked questions

How much is Shadow Hearts [Playstation 2 the Best] worth?

Shadow Hearts [Playstation 2 the Best] for PlayStation 2 is currently worth €57.47 loose. Prices are based on real sales and update regularly on Gamevaro.

Is Shadow Hearts [Playstation 2 the Best] rare?

Shadow Hearts [Playstation 2 the Best] has only a handful of tracked market sales, suggesting relative scarcity compared to more common PlayStation 2 titles.

What's the difference between loose, CIB and sealed for Shadow Hearts [Playstation 2 the Best]?

Loose means cartridge or disc only, CIB (complete in box) includes the original box and manual, and sealed means factory-sealed and never opened. These are tracked as separate market values because the price gap between them can be significant, especially for older releases.