The sacred pools Ps1 psx gameplay - first impressions.

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Published on November 5, 2022 7:56:34 AM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8oZYCr42wY

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The X-Files Game (1998)

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For the first time Vic plays the ps1 prototype of this FMV game until it crashes. only the first of 3 discs is demonstrated. being a 1st time reaction means clueless Vic chatter BGS. real hardware.

.Cue file burnt with imageburn to CD-R to play on a chipped SCPH-7502 playstation console. this method gives me correct burns all the time, so if i haven't used a defective media than i'd say the prototype is 99% finished.
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About the game:
It's an FMV adventure title, reportedly to be of quite an "Adult" nature (yeah, right) where one assumes the role of a traveller sent to a deep space island to assist in somesort of counter-sabbotage. (I'm guessing this because the intro will not play)
It was meant to be released in 1996 by segasoft for ps1, windows pc and sega saturn, with the saturn version being the leading edition - this ps1 version is ported from the saturn one and developed later.
(checkout @SEGASATURNSHIRO for information on this)
Plays similar to Mansion of hidden souls or the later X-files PS1 game in which you move "on tracks" freely through the corridors of a live action star base of sorts to collect stuff, chat to other colonials and solve puzzles. Perhaps it more strongly resembles Quantum gate or the Daedalus encounter

I'm impressed with the set and it's atmosphere, but the acting certainly is the type that defined the bad rep that FMV games generally get.
Characters leap out and zap you when you get close to a door, wherever they are trying to kill you or energise i cannot tell. Some look as good as Farscape and others look bad enough to be rejected from Tom Baker era Dr. Who - wrapping a nude in electrical tape doesn't look exactly alien to my knowledge.

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