D: The Game

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An interesting little game from the 90s, I kind of wish there was more to it.

Kenji Eno --- D -> Enemy Zero

Great game!, but needs to be sold with an updated emulator that is easy to use, has a simple UI, and has easy de-interlacing options. The game already has a set of scan-lines in it's original presentation, it doesn't need to look like there' 4 or 5+ sets of them at any resolution. Otherwise this game is solid and is one of my favorite classic thriller horror-adventure games from the nineties!

I love old games but I'm not going to play this. The game doesn't stretch to fill my screen - sure some games have black bars but this game is a small part of my screen. I followed instructions to remove scanlines that made the game look terrible which did not work for me. I was probably following the instructions wrong but I have no idea how since I just did what the instructions seemed to be telling me. Multiple people reckon they've managed to do it so sure I guess it's possible then. It's still annoying that it's hard to fix how the game looks. After editing game files the game filled the screen horizontally but not vertically (there is still a ton of black above and below the game). The game itself is very weird and nonsensical in the beginning. I have no Idea what the hell is happening in the intro besides the narration. It's like multiple cutscenes interrupting each other. It was like a weird dream. It was so absurd it made me laugh. When that ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ was over, I thought the game was frozen because seemingly no buttons I pressed did anything and there was just a static image. I eventually worked out that the only thing you can do in the very beginning is turn left or right with arrow keys. Looking around the room was annoying since when you turn, you can only face paths you can take, so you can't enjoy looking around because you can't simply face any direction. After trying to face a painting because I felt like it a couple times, I realised the game is basically like a 3d first person point and click game except the pointing and clicking is replaced with arrow keys. That would be fine if the game looked a lot better. The game's age is not much of a valid excuse. Lots of games from the 90s look perfectly fine, this one however doesn't. Evidently plenty of people have managed to remove the scanlines hence the screenshots people take without them - congrats to them - but you shouldn't have to edit game files to make a game look decent or run well. Even in people's screenshots you can see a lot of black around the game. Do I think the game is bad? No, I think whatever was done to the game to put it up on Steam wasn't done well enough. As much as slowly moving through a building with a scanlines assaulting my eyes is an interesting experience, I'm not going to continue playing this. I have seen lots of communities of people who make old games run well on new computers. From the amazing work I've seen from people, you can definitely edit an old game enough to make it decent. I have read other reviews for this game and some people talk about this Steam version being a lot worse than other versions you can download.

it was def interesting i wouldnt say amazing but i assume for the 90s this must of been pretty interesting lol

One chilling night... You receive a phone call from the police about your father, Dr. Harris. A once renowned & well respected Doctor & Director of the L.A National Hospital, now a mass murdering psychopath who locked himself away within it. Rushing all the way from San Francisco, [b]you[/b], Laura Harris, make your way onto the tragic crime scene, as you try and figure out just what the hell happened and why your father would commit such heinous crimes. [b]This game is a classic[/b]. Originally released for the Panasonic 3DO, D is an old school, fully CGI, FMV, murder mystery, spookathon, with a twist. That twist being that as soon as you pop in the disc (or...boot up the game in this case) you have 2 hours to complete the entire ordeal before things get even worse for poor-ole Laura. No saving, no pausing, just [b]you[/b] and the chillingly, charming, atmosphere, this 1995 FMV game has to offer. In D, what you see is quite literally what you get, a short but interesting experience, that at the time, was really like no other. Whether or not that [b]still[/b] holds up in today's view is...really up to the individual. I wont pretend D is some sort of "hidden gem" that needs to be played and experience by everyone out there. But it [b]is[/b] a historic piece of gaming history and has something...truly alluring about it. Sure its slow, its a bit clunky, and for a horror game is not really all that scary, lol. But there's something...just so enigmatic and mysterious about this game, and that same something has had me come back to it time and time again. If old school point & clicks are your thing, or you just happen to have an insatiable curiosity for the horror genre and its earlier roots, D is one that does things juuust bizarrely enough to warrant at least a glance at. I love this game, and if you decide to pull the trigger, I hope you find something to love about it too. [b][BEFORE YOU BUY][/b]: Just as a heads up for those just about to hit the purchase button. This is the MS-DOS release of the game and it runs in dos box. That being said, this is the lowest effort release that could have been made for this title. What that unfortunately means is that the video sequences (which is the [b]ENTIRE[/b] f$%^ing game) are all rendered with these awful scanlines that make the video look like s#$%. Thankfully, thanks to some brilliant users, there's a pretty decent fix for this issue located in Steams "Discussion" section. Its not the hardest thing in the world to fix, but it does take a bit of know how. And I can see those extra steps being a red X for some newcomers not in the know. Just proceed with caution.