Mao is a character in the game Shadow Hearts: From the New World. Mao is a man-sized, bipedal, talking cat of significant insight and wisdom. She helped the party ninja, Frank Goldfinger, complete his Shinobe training years prior and currently is working as a Lieutenant for Al Capone as manager of his casino, Four & Deuces. When stumped on how to pursue their enemy Frank refers to his great and wise Master Mao who currently works in Chicago and that she would be able to point the party in the right direction, thus does the party seek Mao out. Upon meeting the party and hearing their plight Mao agrees to help if they help her boss Al Capone, after the caper Mao stays with the party once she is no longer needed to oversee Capone's daily affairs and uses her new spare time to see the party's