{"id":900000,"date":"2003-08-03T14:00:09","date_gmt":"2003-08-03T20:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horror.dreamdawn.com\/?p=900000"},"modified":"2003-08-03T14:00:09","modified_gmt":"2003-08-03T20:00:09","slug":"d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horror.dreamdawn.com\/?p=900000","title":{"rendered":"D"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Also known as:<\/b>  D no Shokutaku<br \/>\n<b>Platforms:<\/b> PSX,  Saturn,  PC,  3DO<br \/>\n<b>Release Date:<\/b> 1996-03-02<br \/>\n<b>Regions:<\/b> USA Japan Europe<br \/>\n<b>Chris&#8217;s Rating:<\/b> &#9733;&#9734;&#9734;&#9734;<br \/>\n<b>One of the only mid-1990s first person pre-rendered puzzle games worth remembering.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>D is sort of a Myst-style horror game.  It is played from a first-person perspective, and is built exclusively out of pre-rendered images.  This game is the first entry into WARP&#8217;s D Series (D no Shokutaku; &#8220;D&#8217;s Dining Table&#8221; in Japan), three games with unrelated plots that star the same female protagonist.  Kenji Eno, WARP&#8217;s founder, lead designer, and main musician, was interested in the idea of virtual celebrities, and wanted &#8220;Laura&#8221; to become a brand tied to no particular game design.  The plan does not seem to have been successful; after D2, WARP changed its name and exited the game business.<\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless, D is an interesting game.  The plot, involving Laura attempting to find her way through a hospital to her psychotic father, is interesting.  Throughout the quest, Laura witnesses a series of psychedelic flashbacks that reveal her own repressed past, and though the adventure is entirely point-and-click, the story is well conveyed.  The graphics are quite dated by today&#8217;s standards, but they looked top notch when D was released in 1996.<\/p>\n<p>D suffers from its incredibly short length.  Though the hospital is fairly large, the puzzles are easy and the entire quest can be completed in a few hours.  The gameplay is mostly consistent, but there are a few puzzles (and one annoying realtime section) that simply do not fit.  However, WARP did a pretty good job overall, and D is one of the few unique games in the horror genre.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"img\/screenshot\/rev-d-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"img\/screenshot\/thumbs\/rev-d-1_thumb.jpg\" border = \"0\" width = \"252\" height =\"180\"\/><\/a><a href=\"img\/screenshot\/rev-d-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"img\/screenshot\/thumbs\/rev-d-2_thumb.jpg\" border = \"0\" width = \"252\" height =\"180\"\/><\/a><a href=\"img\/screenshot\/rev-d-3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"img\/screenshot\/thumbs\/rev-d-3_thumb.jpg\" border = \"0\" width = \"252\" height =\"180\"\/><\/a><a href=\"img\/screenshot\/rev-d-4.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"img\/screenshot\/thumbs\/rev-d-4_thumb.jpg\" border = \"0\" width = \"252\" height =\"180\"\/><\/a><a href=\"img\/screenshot\/rev-d-5.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"img\/screenshot\/thumbs\/rev-d-5_thumb.jpg\" border = \"0\" width = \"252\" height =\"180\"\/><\/a><a href=\"img\/screenshot\/rev-d-6.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"img\/screenshot\/thumbs\/rev-d-6_thumb.jpg\" border = \"0\" width = \"252\" height =\"180\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Also known as: D no Shokutaku Platforms: PSX, Saturn, PC, 3DO Release Date: 1996-03-02 Regions: USA Japan Europe Chris&#8217;s Rating: &#9733;&#9734;&#9734;&#9734; One of the only mid-1990s first person pre-rendered puzzle games worth remembering. D is sort of a Myst-style horror game. It is played from a first-person perspective, and is built exclusively out of pre-rendered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,26,17,22,16,23,14,4,29,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-900000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1996-releases","category-3do","category-completed-games","category-european-releases","category-japan-releases","category-pc","category-psx","category-reviews","category-saturn","category-usa-releases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horror.dreamdawn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horror.dreamdawn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horror.dreamdawn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horror.dreamdawn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horror.dreamdawn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=900000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/horror.dreamdawn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900000\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horror.dreamdawn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=900000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horror.dreamdawn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=900000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horror.dreamdawn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=900000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}