D2 Japanese Survival horror by Warp for the Sega Dreamcast - Christmas Bonanza Review

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Welcome to Canada. It's Christmas Day as your plane travels over the frozen wilderness... But it's not a holly jolly Christmas as terrorists hijack the plane just as a meteor hits and tears the plane apart. Spanning 4 discs for the Sega Dreamcast, D2 is a survival-horror title from a studio called WARP. The game is packed with cut-scenes, action sequences, environments to explore and multiple characters. Most of which turn into aliens.

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D2 has a lot going on. There's a hunting element to collect meat, there's a camera to take photos, different characters, drug abuse, tech labs and crazy experiments.

Walkthrough available here: https://au.ign.com/faqs/2004/d2-walkthrough-490954

D2 Full Script and story description: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/dreamcast/197029-d2/faqs/27280

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Development for D2 started as a premier game for the cancelled Panasonic M2 console, the successor for the 3DO console.

In this early version, a pregnant Laura is on a passenger flight to Romania which is attacked by a supernatural force. The plane crashes and her unborn child is spirited away by the Devil to medieval Transylvania, to be the child of a widowed duke who sold his soul for a son. The player would have taken the role of Laura's son as he enters adulthood, and must escape a large castle and fight the devil to save his father. Unlike the original D, but like the D2 that was released for Dreamcast, the game was to feature full motion video cutscenes but gameplay entirely played out with real-time graphics, and consisting of both puzzle solving and combat.

D2 was the first M2 game for which screenshots from a playable version were released to the public. WARP employed their usual unorthodox promotional tactics during development. For the first two days of the April 1997 Tokyo Game Show, WARP did not show any games, instead holding a celebration of the arrival of the cherry blossom season at their booth, before finally showing a demo of D2 on the third (and final) day of the show. The game was "about 50 percent finished" when Panasonic officially announced that the M2 was not going to be released. Kenji Eno decided to abandon this concept and create an entirely new game for the Dreamcast.

In Japan, a demonstration version of D2 was packaged with another WARP produced game, the Dreamcast remake of the Sega Saturn title Real Sound: Kaze no Regret. This early preview of the game, known as D2 Shock Demo, features modified opening credits and "heads up display" compared to the completed game. Additionally, it contains a save file that copies to the Dreamcast VMU and unlocks a "secret movie" in the retail Japanese version of D2. This movie is a preview of the shelved M2 version of D2. It was removed from the North American version but can briefly be seen as an in-flight movie during the hijacking sequence.




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