Oddly enough I had just looked at a review of shadow hearts the other day and was considering it.The review made it seem kind of quirky and average. Also I wasn't so sure about the whole judgement ring thing myself.

I'm not sure why but I seem to be less and less into turn based battles now. I don't know if it's the games or if it's me. For example I loved chrono trigger, but then in chrono cross i just sort of stopped playing and forgot about it. Did the same with the final fantasy game with kefka in it (snes version). I loved playing magical starsign and radiant historia though.

Anyway, If i play shadow hearts I'd want to play them in order rather than read an overview. So is the battle system going to balanced out with good story, fast levels, fewer encounters or anything like that? Thats mainly the reason I rarely get into strategy games, it's just to slow paced and too much of the same.

Oh, I know the tales games and the others I mentioned aren't exactly connected to one another in terms of story. Still sometimes just the title connection and references make me feel like I'm missing out on something. I went and tried a little Disgaea just because ZHP had prinnies in it and I wanted to see what they were exactly. They did manage to get 2 games featuring them so they must be awesome or something right? Maybe not so much.

I'll try to get abyss and shadow hearts though. I still want to hear other options though. Also I'm getting logged out, is this a regular thing because I'm leaving the page open and idle too long or is this because I have stuff like "noscripts" and "disconnect" on my browser? I just recently put the second thing on to try it out, doesn't seem to be helpful though.