I got Covenant for christmas. wow, thats one awesome rpg. Im at the last boss now. The battle system is so enjoyable. The music has a great unique theme with Yoshitaka hirota, and yasunori mitsuda picking up the slack. It involves history and events from world war I and characters like Anastacia of the russian dynasty as a playable character and Rasputin the mad monk as an enenmy. Yuri is one of the best heros ever. His jokes are actually funny. You travel through europe and japan. Thats just shadow hearts covenant. You can tell its something special from the opening when the main hero in demon form slaughters a group of german soldiers in a church by "domremy" where Joan of Ark was born. Its amazing. I havent played 1 which is like resident evil the RPG. And Shadow hearts from the new world will be out soon with one of the most amazing opening themes ever.