Catalogue No. - T-36302G

Did you ever think that the Saturn was incapable of producing high quality FMV? If the answer is yes then you're probably not the only one to think that. I also thought the same way until I saw Maria. The quality of the FMV used in this game is just as good as some of the stuff shown on the Dreamcast. Axela/Break have made very good use of the True Motion codec. Much better than what Sega ever did with Digital Dance Mix or Fighters Mega Mix. Anyway, enough about the FMV, what is the game like? Well for none Japanese speakers it's going to be very dull indeed since the bulk of the game is text with CG stills. Every now and then you can select an option to determine which path is taken through the story. The story so far is about Maria, a patient in a hospital. The Doctor can't understand whey she has an injury. Maria's stories don't seem to add up. What could be going on? Maria seems like a nice quiet attractive young woman. That is until the end of the first episode where you see her alter ego for the first time. It seems that Maria has a split personality. As you can see from the screen shots on the box the top and center images are of Maria. She certainly looks a bit nasty in the second image.

So far I've only played the first episode of the game which has been a little slow paced but I'm hoping that episode 2 will be more exciting now that we know Maria's secret. I'm not sure how many episodes there are on these two discs since I never bother reading instruction books.