D2 [M2 - Cancelled ]
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D2 had originally started life as a game project for the never-released Panasonic M2 console. Originally, a pregnant Laura was to have died in the opening credits (during a terrorist attack on a plane), but her unborn child would be “warped” back in time. The player would have taken the role of Laura’s son – now a teenager – trapped in a large, European castle, from which he had to escape while being assaulted by supernatural phenomena. The game was practically finished when Panasonic officially announced that the M2 was not going to be released, leaving WARP with no way to sell the title. When given the chance to put out D2 for other systems, Kenji Eno decided to abandon the entire original project and start over from scratch with a new setting. – [Info from Wikipedia]
A video with the intro from the original M2 version was leaked online, showing a castle in transylvania, and a man that is apparently “Vlad Tepes” alias Dracula. You can see a forest of corpses impaled on spikes, and that’s what Vlad Tepes was known for doing to his victims. Apparently Vlad’s tormented with something, maybe the death of his wife (there a scene of a woman lying inside a coffin, it may be her), when suddently he close it and then going mad. After that we can see him reading books, doing a ritual, be consumed by flammes, then a blue light appears and a mask: he speaks to the mask, request a wish maybe, and after that the scene changes to 1998 in Sanfrancisco.
Thanks to Guillaume Pascal & Marshall Leslie & Celine for the contributions!
Thanks to Games That Weren’t for have shared videos from the D2 alpha/tech demo!
Even more info: www.cdi.randomvariable.net/THDO/D2/index.html
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1 Response to D2 [M2 - Cancelled ]
Celine
August 1st, 2010 at 6:59 pm
The story , as told by Eno in a old GameFan interview, is about a king in Transylvania that desperately want a son ( an old superstition say that impaling people can help that ).
When the king’s wife die, the king ask the devil to give him a son in exchange of his soul.
The devil agreeing, take Laura’s son from her womb and crash the plane.
The son is warped in the middle age inside the castle and his quest is to defeat the devil himself.