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This game may not be that great without mouse but it is definitely playable as I will show. Even in the Japanese version. I know I had fun with it for an entire day, but there are so many countries that I didn't manage to played to the end.
It takes a little while to learn the controls but not too bad. It is a complicated game at first so I can't explain everything. There is gamefaqs or other places. But the basics are:
* There is always one of three things you have to do: kill someone, persuade someone, or pick up a suitcase.
* Persuade is a very important concept. In order to persuade you have to buy the persuader as i did in the beginning of the video, and also you must upgrade your cyborg with "brain". Make sure to bring your persuades people with you to the exit -- all of them.

I might blog about the rest of the instructions because there is so much to say. You can upgrade your weapons, research ways to improve your cyborg, there are other agents out to get you (which you can kill or persuade to make them part of your team).

Then there are all the controllers to explain. To change the menu, press L or R. To enter a menu, press Y. Here you can press A to do something, or B to cancel, or X to switch something (such as between buy and sell). Left and Right change between characters in the menu.

In the game, Select makes a team follow or unfollow. Y+Left/Right switches between team member. X+Left/Right switches between weapons. X+Up picks up a weapon and X+down drops a weapon. A fires and B enters/exits cars. R makes it possible to get a temporare boost extra energies you have. L+R boosts all energies at the same time.
* The upgrades do different things. Upgrade Eye to spot the enemy earlier. Upgrade Body to give a stronger armor. Upgrade Leg to run faster. Arm will make your shot more accurate. Etc.

The Japanese version has a battery save function, unlike the American. The missions are also somewhat different, in case you are following a walkthrough.

You can always restart from the last level if you fail and you can also just wait at the menu to accumulate money so you can buy upgrades you need (it will take a long boring time to use that strategy). This makes the game not that hard to beat if you have the persistance.

Played on super famicom console.