Cyber Soldier Sharaku (lost Japanese point-and-click CD-i adventure game; 1993)

Cover Art of Cyber Soldier Sharaku

Status: Lost

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Cyber Soldier Sharaku (サイバーソルジャー写楽) is a point and click adventure game for the CD-i and was only released in Japan in 1993, it was developed and produced by Inspire with Akihito Izuhara as the designer of the artwork and animation and was published by Japan Interactive Media

In a Japanese site about Akihito Izuhara, he has worked on 4 other game on the Macintosh and has worked in the animation industry with the production of 4 animations

The gameplay is very similar to Myst or Burn Cycle which were both also on the CD-i and has quick time events in of the boss fights in the game and takes place in feudal japan and in the future of 7045 in a world of anthropomorphic dogs

This game was shown in the CD-I Software Lineup in April of 1993

Due to the CD-i tanking in Japan and failing even harder than North America and Europe, Japanese versions of other CD-i software and Exclusive are very rare and elusive to come by including Cyber Soldier Sharaku, only 2 known auctions of this game have ever been known, one from a bundle of Japanese CD-i software, the game and the console itself on Yahoo! JAPAN Auctions and another on Ebay with a user on Twitter @VGDealsRetroUK advertising the game for sale

The only known footage of this game is from the YouTuber shroomanCDi showing off the game in action on real hardware