Snek Experiences D2 Part 3 (Dreamcast 1999)(No Commentary)
1----Lowkey part of the Blue Stinger universe. Needs Hassy though.---
---Surprised that her makeup is still perfect despite running around the Canadian mountains in freezing cold temperatures fighting monsters.---
D2 is a survival horror video game developed by Warp for the Dreamcast. It was published by Warp in Japan in 1999 and by Sega in North America in 2000. Directed and written by Kenji Eno, it serves as the third entry in the D series after D and Enemy Zero. Like the previous two games, D2 stars the digital actress Laura and serves as an independent story unrelated to either game.
The game has a few different kinds of gameplay. The majority of D2 involves exploring the Canadian wilderness from a third-person perspective while interior locations are encountered in a first-person perspective. While exploring the wilderness, the player encounters random battles, much like those of a role-playing video game. When fighting monsters, the player cannot move Laura, but only aim her weapons. Defeating these creatures earns Laura experience points, which are used to level Laura up, increasing her health limit. Laura is initially equipped with a submachine gun with unlimited ammunition and a hunting rifle, which is used to hunt animals for meat which she can use to regain health.
In terms of the hunting feature, animals Laura kills for meat are totaled up during gameplay and on the Options screen, and players can see how many kills she has collected as well as any medals given. Additionally, Laura has a camera that she can use to take pictures any time in the game (except during cinematics). Players can also save the pictures to a VMU and view them later on.
D2 was met with positive reviews despite the criticisms of gameplay. D2 aroused conflicting reactions in reviewers. They lauded the graphics, music, and deep storytelling. However, they criticized the actual gameplay for being repetitive, dull and buried with cut scenes. The game has an overall rating of 70ish percent.
D4 has 4 disks that you, the player, will swap in and out of when the game asks for it, I.e From Disk 1 to Disk 4 and vice versa. Luckly, Redream allows for such a function easily.
The snowmobile handles just as bad as you are watching it. On ice it's uncontrollable and on snow it likes to speed up to max speed. That might be an issue with the emulator, but from what I'm seeing, that's how it is. Also sometimes you get thrown off and the snowmobile doesn't respawn back to it's upright position, causing you to either run the whole way or to reload a save.
The grenade either does a lot of damage or just kills everything on screen. I'm assuming it kills all enemies except bosses where it does a bit of damage.
Disk 2 wasn't as long as Disk 1, probably because I explored the whole map A area without knowing I had to walk around the first house to then trigger the next area which was the plane crash. Somethings get explained, lore gets dump, feels like a Hideo Kojima game with the whole observatory bit. Anytime they mention dinosaurs, meteors, or the Yucatán Peninsula, all I think is Blue Stinger now. Since we are on Disk 3 now, I imagine the climax of this game will happen on the next part of the part after that, we'll have to see. Disk 3 could be 10 hours long for all I know.
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