However, when ' was designed, it was thought that it would be too difficult for the hero to go straight from Shapeir to Mordavia and defeat the Dark One. To solve the problem, a new game, ', was inserted into the canon, and resulting in a renumbering of the series. Evidence for this can be found in the end of "": the player is told that the next game will be "Shadows of Darkness" and a fanged vampiric moon is shown, to hint at the next game's theme.