It is. One of your teammates in the first Shadow Hearts is Koudelka's son, but that hardly makes an impact (you merely save her from prison, could have been any other mother with an ESP-kid).Gil_Hamilton wrote:Also the original Koudelka, which is apparently in the same continuity.Neo Kaiser wrote:Shadow Hearts 1 and 2.
The real common point is all revolves around the 3 unholy books that help bringing the dead back to life - but not precisely enough, and following the recipe without reading between the lines causes the 'malice bug', in which what's brought back is not what was intended to (and likely devours the person responsible as thanks).
It took 4 games for someone to actually half-successfully pull it... ok, let's say 3/4 success.