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[IbizaPocholo]

The work of WARP and Kenji Eno are some of the most important video games in the history of video games for many reasons and Eno more so than any other video game developer in the 90s embodied the concept of the auteur more than Kenji Eno with his original 3DO game D, also known as D No Shokutaku in Japan as well as D's Diner Directors Cut! He trained in part Fumito Ueda who would go on to create Ico, Shadow of the Colossus and The Last Guardian and in many ways would go on to shape the history of video games through his narrative structures and experimental gameplay techniques.

Sadly Kenji Eno passed away early but he left behind a legacy not only as a video game designer but also as an accomplished musician and composer...and also a bit of a hilarious troll

Up next: D2 on the Dreamcast...IMO one of the best Dreamcast games and probably also a Dreamcast hidden gem!

 

[ManaByte]

RIP Kenji Eno, you mad man.

 

[RetroGamingUK]

Disappointed this never got a European release

If my memory serves me right this was the first game to have screenshots running on Dreamcast

Team Andromeda is a big fan

 

[Spukc]

I love diablo 2

 

[bender]

I played it so get that shit out of here VGEsoterica .

 

[onQ123]

That's not how you spell Powerstone

 

[SEGAvangelist]

Game had boobs. Was cool.

 

[Proteus Maximus]

I played and competed it back in the day. I actually enjoyed it. Good game.

 

[Proteus Maximus]

Disappointed this never got a European release

If my memory serves me right this was the first game to have screenshots running on Dreamcast

Team Andromeda is a big fan

It was released in the US.

 

[RetroGamingUK]

 

[RetroGamingUK]

There’s quite a cosy vibe about this game which is difficult to explain…

 

[SF Kosmo]

Pretty ambitious sequel, too.

I was thinking of another DC game no one played, but it's the one in my avatar.

 

[Windom Earle]

I would have played it but even back then it was impossible to find. Really low print.

 

[Team Andromeda]

It was released in the US.

Thanks mate . loved the work of the late Kenji and D2

 

[SEGAvangelist]

Thanks mate . loved the work of the late Kenji and D2

I miss Kenji. A great SEGA warrior.

 

[Northeastmonk]

I got D on Steam. I grew up seeing D2 everywhere, but I never played it.

 

[Team Andromeda]

I miss Kenji. A great SEGA warrior.

Yep a true SEGA fan . I didn't like the way SEGA Japan treated him after D2 didn't sell well , aong with how SEGA treated Camelot, it was nasty .

Never would have happened under Nakayama-san rule .

 

[nush]

Disappointed this never got a European release

That’s because I rejected it for release because it wasn’t commercially viable. I loved it, finished it and made the executive decision.

 

[The Pleasure]

That’s because I rejected it for release because it wasn’t commercially viable. I loved it, finished it and made the executive decision.

You gave the game the nush which is euro speak for a reach around. Only a bloody axel mate would blow the blaggart out like that.

 

[RetroGamingUK]

Thanks mate . loved the work of the late Kenji and D2

Some lovely stuff there, what’s the magazine in the bottom right?

 

[thicc_girls_are_teh_best]

I always feel Kenji Eno never got enough credit. In a way, he was doing things in terms of crackpot shit-crazy narratives in 3D gaming before Hideo Kojima or Suda 51. I'd say Eno, at least in the late '90s, was the most zany out of the three when it came to stories in games.

He also had some pretty innovative ideas for game design, from the invisible enemies in Enemy Zero to Real Sound to elements in D2. I'd of quite enjoyed a future where Kojima, Eno, and Suda 51 co-developed a game together

 

[Team Andromeda]

Some lovely stuff there, what’s the magazine in the bottom right?

Thats EDGE mag (in the pic)

Also with my humble collection of WARP games. RIP Eno

 

[tommib]

Why can’t we have a re-release of D, Enemy Zero and D2 in a nice trilogy digital edition? Can someone make this happen? Call it the Eno Classics.

 

[PrefectAboro]

This game always reminded me of an "arthouse/criterion" style of survival horror. The part in the cabin where Kimberly Fox plays that cassette tape and it sounds like some Nina Simone type shit was poetic. Her love story with Parker has this emotional subtlety to it as well.

It's a shame some of the gameplay elements can get super annoying. Constant random battles (thank goodness you have infinite ammo for the uzi).

But Eno's sense of direction and quirky depth of characters was always unique. I really hope the romhacking community would release an UNDUB uncensored project of this in the future.

I just found an English scanlation of a Horror Manga based on D2. Looks really good too! Gonna read this and replay D2 when the snow comes!
http://plastiquepulse.com/D2Anthology.html

 

[kunonabi]

D2 is the only game of the trilogy I beat. I also own enemy zero but my spatial hearing is awful. Love D2 though.

 

[StreetsofBeige]

Never had a dreamcast but is that what the boxes were like? Awesome box. Suit and tie guy getting out of a car.

 

[fart town usa]

Really interesting game. The combat system is unique as hell, for better or worse.

Laura being a digital actress is still one of the coolest ideas in game development, surprised no one else did the same.

RIP Kenji.

 

[SmokedMeat]

I rented this one, and I remember being so impressed with that early plane crash setting.