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Development for D2 started as a premier game for the cancelled Panasonic M2 console, the successor for the 3DO console.[2]

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.[3] 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.[3]

D2 was the first M2 game for which screenshots from a playable version were released to the public.[4] The game was "about 50 percent finished" when Panasonic officially announced that the M2 was not going to be released.[2] Kenji Eno decided to abandon this concept and create an entirely new game for the Dreamcast.[2]

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.


Source : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D2_(video_game)