LSD: Dream Emulator 1997 Demo Movie - is a first showcase video of the upcoming game. It consists of different pre-rendered CGI animations and showes the early concepts for the future locations. Importantly, everything shown in the video - isn't even a playable game. It is just a compilation of different pre-rendered animated videos. This is the only maintained demo video to exist. It was uploaded to the YouTube, and commented in a description, which is located below.
Original description:
"LSD Dream Emulator demo video. Looks to be pre rendered CGI, ingame beta testing and all sorts of oodles.
This video was uploaded to the companies website as a preview of the game. Shows some areas which didn't make the final game, a beta Grey man, and maybe what looks like the player you play as."
Differences from the Final Release[]
There are doors you can open in the Bright Moon Cottage. Some unused wooden doors are seen.
The scene of the Television is on the room of the Dying Woman (makes sense since the kanji says murder).
The Giant Baby does not " headbutt " you like in the final. Instead, it " eats " you.
Pit & Temple seen here - are much different, and pit is almost not seen at all! Unused alternative variant of Pit & Temple location with trees is seen.
The sumo location is different. Unknown location with an object floating on the top. It seems the hole on the center had a purpose.
In Kyoto the Buddha Head Statue and the Hand were much bigger. Many pagodas were there, and the location seemed much larger.
There was a location with plants and flowers and a brick path crossing green hills with a castle at the end. This location is currently dubbed as - Unknown Place, and bears similarities to the Happy Town.
A possible beta Gray Man with a blue cap and sunglasses. Much more similar to the Murderer and the ropes of the victim of the Gunman. He appears to have a shirt with a blood stain. Appears in Happy Town like the Gray man and also in the Bright Moon Cottage ( there's no gray man possible in there in the final game ). He runs instead of floating. It linked the player with the Violence District.
Comparison Beta Greycoat and Gunman Victim - the baseball cap and a "mouth and nose half-mask" similar to the surgical mask - are seen to the left - and are not present on the Gunman Victim - seen to the right.
Maybe at some point the idea split into two separated ideas: The Murderer and Gray Man.
The Violence District seems darker, the sky is red and the only thing visible being the circle of light from the lampposts. There is a running man that disappeared when you reach the place you saw him.
The Violence District layout is really different from the final game. Warehouses and the graffiti on the walls were replaced in the release.
There seemed to have once been a secret lift in the ViolenceDistrict, and the player is seen activating it and ascending right before the cut.
The Giant Baby's head looks more chunkier and wider than the final.
There are objects that nevermadeit in the final, such as realistic Japanese square chandeliers, curtains, a dining table with chairs, Japanese Toilet, Pterodactyl on top of what appears to be a fireplace and what your player would've looked like from the front. However, some of the objects got included into different locations: sodacans were moved to the Violence District, and a square chandelier may be seen in the end of the LongHallway.
Pterodactyl is seen curled up behind his wings - as the viewer of LSD checks him - as if he is sleeping.
Rather then the Trumpeters, like in the final version, the Soldiers were supposed to march near the entrance of the castle. Furthermore, it wasn't supposed to be an entrance to the castle at all: it was supposed to be another railroad tracked road for the Train to cross! In the final release, rails were removed from there.
Soldiers looked much different from the final, and seemed to have clothing - rather then the odd psychedelic texturing they do in the final.
