Let me start off this post with a huge thank you to loyal reader CritAnime for directing me to this incredibly awesome Sega CD cyberpunk graphic adventure released back in 1994, Snatcher. In the game you take on the role of Gillian Seed, a amnesiac with a vague recollection of something called Snatcher when he is awakened from Cryogenic sleep in Siberia. He joins J.U.N.K.E.R. in the hopes of reclaiming his lost memories.
The game was originally developed by famed Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima for the NEC PC-8801 and MSX 2 back in 1988 before being ported to the Sega CD. There have been some changes from the the original Japanese version due to fit in with what would be allowed by the censors in America. Such as nudity and a few very graphic death scenes. Check out the intro I've included below for the rest of the story...and some very nice music to boot!
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This is a rather nice game with some nice art and music. The voice acting could have been better in places though. You can also see the influences from films like Blade Runner, for the opening city shot, and The Terminator for the Snatcher skeleton.
I am saving up like crazy to get my own copy of the game. It does fetch a crazy amount of money on ebay and other sites. But it would be worth it to have this sat in a collection.
Also thanks for the credit ;)
Definitely some influence by Blade Runner there, that city shot is almost identical with the bursts of flame, flying cars and giant corporate pyramid. Sad I missed this one because there weren’t too many cyberpunk games around in those days. Still aren’t.
Drake did you ever get chance to play the Blade Runner game for PC? That's pretty good.
The 1997 one? As a matter of fact the game is still nestled in my closet, having completed it enough times to go well into double digits. It’s not a bad effort, though some of the catalysts for different endings appeared to activate randomly. I didn’t have Internet back then to do some checking around.
I have done 10 of the supposed 15 endings to it. Although most of them do seem to be very slight alterations of each other.
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