was believed that D2 was nearly complete when Panasonic officially announced that the M2 was not going to be released, Eno later revealed the game was "about 50 percent finished". Following the abandonment of the M2, Warp began work on porting the game to the Sega Saturn. However, eventually Kenji Eno decided to abandon the original concept and create an entirely new game for the Dreamcast. In Japan, a demonstration version of D2 was packaged with another Warp-produced game, the Dreamcast remake of the Sega Saturn title Real Sound: Kaze no Regret. This early preview of the game, known as D2 Shock Demo, features modified opening credits and a "heads up display" compared to the completed game. Additionally, it contains a save file that copies to the Dreamcast VMU and unlocks a "secret movie" in the retail Japanese version of D2. This movie is a preview of the shelved M2 version of D2. It was removed from the North American version but can briefly be seen as an in-flight movie during the hijacking sequence. A playable animation demo of the M2 version of D2 was found and coded to run on M2 kiosk hardware in December 2019. It features the main character of the M2 version, Taren, executing the backflip sword slash seen in the alpha version of D2 previews from 1997. Reception D2 received "mixed or average" reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. D2 aroused conflicting reactions in reviewers. They lauded the graphics, music, and deep storytelling. However, they criticized the actual gameplay for being repetitive, dull and buried with cut scenes. Jeff Lundrigan of NextGen said of the game, "If you've got a lot of patience, it's well worth your time, but D2 desperately needs a better sense of pace." In Japan, Famitsu gave it a score of 32 out of 40. Notes References External links 1999 video games Adventure games Cancelled Panasonic M2 games Cancelled Sega Saturn games Dreamcast games Dreamcast-only games 1990s horror video games Sega video games Survival video games Video games about nightmares Video games scored by Kenji Eno Video games set in Canada Video games featuring female protagonists Video games about zombies Single-player video games Video games directed by Kenji Eno Video games developed in Japan