Nintendo 64's unveiling at the 1995 Shoshinkai show, though it was not in playable form and was described by journalists as one of the most incomplete of the 13 games. The development team were very enthusiastic about the Nintendo 64 as a development platform. Project leader John Whyte commented, "It's been really well designed and we haven't even scratched the surface. It's scary. The drawing chip is a masterpiece of engineering. There are no hassles for developers compared to other systems. You don't have to worry about clipping. It just handles it." In contrast to DMA Design's previous publisher, Psygnosis, who showed minimal interest in the development of their games, Nintendo frequently directed the development team to make major changes to Body Harvests gameplay and visual style. The language barrier between the Japanese publisher and British developer added to the difficulty of implementing these changes, as the developers sometimes struggled to understand what Nintendo wanted from them; Whyte cited as an example a message in which Nintendo told them to make the graphics "more materialistic." DMA Design's head, David Jones, described their relationship with Nintendo: Reception The game received "average" reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. Next Generation reviewed the game, rating it four stars out of five, and stated that "Although not as clever or polished as DMA's own Space Station: Silicon Valley, Body Harvest is an unsettling and thoroughly enjoyable game with lots of original and fun features." References External links 1998 video games Action-adventure games Alien invasions in video games Alternate history video games DMA Design games Gremlin Interactive games Nintendo 64 games Nintendo 64-only games Single-player video games Third-person shooters Video games about extraterrestrial life Video games about insects Video games about time travel Video games set in Greece Video games set in Indonesia Video games set in the United States Video games set in the Soviet Union Video games set in 2016 Video games developed in the United Kingdom