Archive EntryPreservation Record

Fear Effect

Shelf markLIB-0231

Editorial StandingCatalogued · Permanent Record

2025Game

Catalog Information

Original Title: Fear Effect
Release: 2000 (PlayStation) · 2025 (Nintendo Switch, August 29; Limited Run Games #285)
Developer: Kronos Digital Entertainment · Implicit Conversions
Publisher: Square Enix · Limited Run Games
Platform: Nintendo Switch
Region: Region-free · Switch Limited Run #285 · HAC-P-BMFBA
Medium: Nintendo Switch game card · Limited Run Games edition
Subjects: Action-Adventure · Cel-Shaded · Supernatural · Fear Effect · Limited Run Games · Preservation

Archival Status

Custody: Permanent archive holding
Reference Copy: Nintendo Switch game card in retail case · Limited Run Games #285 edition
Filed: October 5, 2026

Curator Notes

Fear Effect is Kronos Digital Entertainment’s 2000 PlayStation action-adventure: cel-shaded mercenaries Hana, Glas, and Deke chase a Triad boss’s runaway daughter through full-motion-video backgrounds into the supernatural. Eidos published the original. Implicit Conversions ported it to modern platforms, its first release outside the original PlayStation, and it appeared on the Nintendo Switch eShop on August 29, 2025. Limited Run Games produced the physical edition as Switch Limited Run #285. This filing opens the Fear Effect lineage on the shelf.

Collection Documentation

The retained object is Switch Limited Run #285, Limited Run Games’ standard physical edition of Fear Effect. Dedicated artifact views of the individual copy have not yet been filed; the gallery below is held open for that documentation.

Preservation Notes

Access Hardware: Nintendo Switch; compatible Nintendo Switch family hardware
Original Hardware: Nintendo Switch
Playback Compatibility: Nintendo Switch software is region-free. The retained game card is the primary access copy and runs on any Nintendo Switch console.
Preservation Concerns: Game cards are flash media; long-term charge retention, contact wear, and loss of the small card from its case are the principal risks. Any content delivered as an eShop download or update depends on Nintendo’s servers and is not preserved by the card alone.
Edition History: Original PlayStation release in 2000, published by Eidos Interactive. The modern port released on August 29, 2025; Limited Run Games issued the Switch physical edition (HAC-P-BMFBA) as Switch Limited Run #285 in standard, Deluxe, and event-exclusive cover editions.
Access Status: Limited Run Games’s physical edition was a limited production and now circulates through the secondary market. The digital Switch edition was issued separately on the Nintendo eShop.

Connections

Series: Fear Effect
Editorial Record: Reserved for future critical writing in Bloodsoaked Media.

Artifact Documentation

Reference photography of the preserved copy held by Bloodsoaked Media. Each view records the edition, materials, and condition of the work in custody.

Space is reserved for official artwork verification, collection photography, scans, and supplementary archival media. Nothing is forced into the record until documentation is filed.

Stewardship History

A permanent chronology of this archival record — filed, revised, and tended over time. Entries accumulate; none are erased.

Oct 5, 2026
Collection Documentation entered
Oct 5, 2026
Connections established
Fear Effect recorded.
Oct 5, 2026
Official artwork entered
Official Nintendo Switch front cover filed under the Library accession path.
Oct 5, 2026
Curator Notes entered
Oct 5, 2026
Filed into the Library
Accessioned as LIB-0231.
Oct 5, 2026
Preservation Notes entered
Oct 5, 2026
Published to the public shelf