LSD: Dream Emulator

Quite possibly one of the weirdest and scariest games I've ever played. The game was actually based off of a dream journal someone made by an employee over the course of a few years at Asmik Ace (one of the Developer/publishers of the game). You will hardly ever see the same thing/hear the same music twice, and you will never know what will pop up in the background. The game was also part of a larger project, which included a soundtrack called LSD & Remixes (which is an awesome soundtrack if you can find it online, though not to be confused with the soundtrack that comes with the game, "Lucy in the Sky with Dynamites"), and the actual Dream Journal itself, which is titled, "Lovely Sweet Dream" (which I happen to have in PDF format, and 95% of it actually has translated English text alongside the Japanese text along with a series of drawings made by famous artists around the world).

This game is probably Osamu Sato's most famous work he's made, especially since the internet has made people around the world curious to try it, and it's actually a gateway to his other works (such as a very abstract adventure game called Eastern Mind: The Lost Souls of Tong Nou, which actually had a release in English!, and the Japan-only/super-rare sequel, Chu-Teng, which has recently become available online thanks to 4Chan). Other than that, he's also known for making abstract art, music videos, and commercials.

Only other thing to say is that if you want to import the game, good luck; Even if you can find a copy, they can go as much as $300 on Ebay, so you really have only two options: 1. Find the ISO file of the game to play it on ePSXe/any PS1 emulator (Like I did), OR if you have a PS3, there's option 2: Set up a Japanese PSN account, and buy the game from their PS Store (should be the Yen equivalent of $6-$10).

Would love to know if anyone else has ever played this. : P

 

The graphics become increasingly bizarre, but you have to make sure you don't run into the Grey Man/Hat Man by accident, or else the game resets back to the normal texture and you can't "Flashback" on that day. The worst I've seen were when the graphics all became bright colors and had Kanji letters EVERYWHERE, but it can become even worse! XD And yeah, the closest game that has a modern equivalent would be "Dream" from Steam's Greenlight program, but it looks to be more of a traditional adventure game, so the closest you have to LSD would be Yume Nikki (an equally disturbing game, but it runs off of RPG Maker, I believe).

By the way, Someone at The Pirate Bay has a "Complete Osamu Sato Collection" which contains Eastern Mind/Chu-Teng/LSD along with all of his music albums/soundtracks, an art book, and Lovely Sweet Dream (even though the author is the employee from Asmik and not Sato), but I don't know if the forum will allow me to post links like that. : I