Illbleed

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Illbleed

Publisher: Sega (Japan), AIA (US), Mr.Game (Taiwan)

Developer: Crazy Games

Peripherals supported: Jump Pack, Dreamcast Modem, Dreamcast VGA Box, Visual Memory Unit

Genre: Virtual Horror Land (バーチャルホラーランド)^[1]^[2], Action^[3]

Number of players: 1

Release	Date	RRP	Code
JP	2001-03-29^[2]	¥5,800 (6,090)5,800e^[2]	T-45601M
US	2001-04-25^[4]^[5]		T-46001N
TW	2002		T-45601M

Illbleed (イルブリード) is a Sega Dreamcast survival horror game developed by Crazy Games. First published in Japan by Sega in March 2001^[2], and later brought to the United States by AIA the following month, the game is most known for its quirky gameplay design and horror camp charm, and has since become a cult classic among survival horror fans.

Story

The afternoon following a school speech by protagonist Eriko about her unhappy childhood and hope for the future, her and her friends receive a mysterious ticket to a new horror theme park named Illbleed. While Eriko's friends goad her to join them, she initially refuses due to previous trauma with similar parks, but after her friends fail to return from their trip, she musters the courage to enter the park and rescue her lost friends.

Gameplay

To advance between levels, you need to kill all enemies (you need to find a weapon first) and checking the environment to advoid the traps.

To check a trap, the player need to uses these senses: smell, sight, hearing and the sixth sense (requires the Jump Pack).

The character dies if she/he get a heart attack due of the traps or when the HP bar is empty. When all playable characters died, the game ends.

History

Illbleed 's Western release was originally scheduled to be published in 2000, but Sega of America turned the game down on quality reasons.^[6] Third-party publisher AIA would later acquire the game's publishing rights, officially releasing the English-language version Illbleed in April 2001.

Working with Sega, Coolnet Entertainment planned to bring the game to the Xbox^[7], but the port did not materialise.

Production credits

Story: Shinya Nishigaki
Character Design: Masaki Segawa
Main programmer: Kazuaki Yokozawa
Art Director: Ryosuke Murakami
Chief CG Designer: Atsushi Yamamoto
Character Modeling: Masayuki Hasegawa, Masami Mashizume, Yuzuru Sakamoto
Creature Design: Ryosuke Murakami, Shinya Nishigaki, Tadashi Hashimoto, Tatsuru Shimizu
Character Modeling: Tadashi Kashimoto
Background Design: Shinya Nishigaki, Ryosuke Murakami, Tetsuro Sugimori, Ayumu Kojima
Background Modeling: Eiji Ohkoshi, Ryuzo Kishi, Akira Kurochi
Texture Design: Masami Hashizume, Eiji Ohkoshi, Yuki Takazawa, Akira Kurochi, Ryuzo Kishi
3DCG Animation: Atsushi Yamamoto, Tatsuru Shimizu, Yuzuru Sakamoto, Tadashi Hashimoto, Akira Kurochi, Daichi Okaziwa, Masayuki Hasegawa
Continuity: Tetsuro Sugimori
Special Effects Design: Tatsuru Shimizu
2DCG Design: Yuki Takazawa, Akira Kurochi, Tatsuru Shimizu, Jyu Ikeda
Subscreen Design: Tatsuru Shimizu, Yuki Takazawa
Main programmer: Kazuaki Yokozawa
Enemy Movement Programmer: Hideo Yamaguchi
Subscreen Programmer: Hideo Yamaguchi, Terufumi Ochi
Tool Programmer: Terufumi Ochi
Testing: Shinichiro Takahashi, Jyu Ikeda
Message Text: Tetsuro Sugimori
Game Data Management: Eiji Ohkoshi
Battle Director: Ayumu Kojima
Assistant Director: Ayumu Kojima, Eiji Ohkoshi
Production manager: Naomi Iwasaki
Publicity Art Works: Katsuhiro Moriyama
Special Thanks: Yutaka Kondo, Ichiro Ide, Kazuya Kasahara
Sound Designer And Music Composer: Yukinori Kikuchi, (Electric Zoo)
Usa Voice Recording Producer: Kayoko K. Dietsche
Recording Director / Casting: Lani Minella (Pro-Motions Production Co.)

Voice Staff

Voice actors: Marc Biagi, Steve Brodie, Dan Castle, Ryan Drummond, Lani Minella, Jorg Tittel, Kai Vilmelnsen, Bill Corkery, Tetsuro Sugimori
Recording Studio: Bill Corkery Productions

Motion Capture Crew

Motion Actors: Masashi Ogawa, Mako Shumizu
Motion Capture Staff: (Jungle Corp.), Masaharu Inoue, Akio Tatematsu, Meguni Hirano, Takeo Koga, Jun Nagase, Masashige Hiranuma, Tetsuya Kawada, Makoto Shioura, Shinichiro Kato, Norie Takahashi, Fumie Kobayashi, Sonoko Kawada

Sega Corporation Staff

Producer: Hirokazu Kojima
Product Manager: Toyohisa Hiwatari
Manual Designers: Hiroki Osawa, Satoru Ishigami
Special Thanks: Hisao Oguchi (Hitmaker), Masanao Maeda, Yoshihiro Sakuta, Junichi Shimizu, Hisakazu Nakagawa, Shinichiro Sugiura, Hiroyuki Miyano, Hitoshi Todo, Akira Nishikawa, Hideki Yohkaichiya, Takayuki Suzuki, Akinobu Koechi, Takayoshi Ohuchi, Hiromichi Hisada
Game Scenario And Dialog: Shinya Nishigaki
Sales Management Director: Tomoaki Ogawa
Director: Tetsuro Sugimori
Producer: Shinya Nishigaki

Source:

In-game credits

Magazine articles

Main article: Illbleed/Magazine articles.

Promotional material

Print advert in Official Dreamcast Magazine (US) #12: "March 2001" (2001-01-28)

Print advert in Dreamcast Magazine (JP) #2001-07: "2001-07 (2001-03-09)" (2001-02-23)

Print advert in Dreamcast Magazine (JP) #2001-10ex: "2001-10 extra (2001-04-13ex)" (2001-03-30)

Print advert in 576 Konzol (HU) #39: "Május 2001" (2001-xx-xx)

Physical scans

Sega Retro Average

Publication

Version

Score

100% Consoles (FR)

NTSC-U

71

^[8]

576 Konzol (HU)

90

^[9]

Bonus (YU)

NTSC

68

^[10]

Consoles + (FR)

NTSC-U

75

^[11]

Dreamcast Magazine (JP)

NTSC-J

80

^[12]

Dreamcast Magazine (UK)

NTSC-U

87

^[13]

Dorimaga (JP)

NTSC-J

82

^[14]

Dreamzone (FR)

NTSC-J

80

^[15]

Edge (UK)

NTSC-J

60

^[16]

Electronic Gaming Monthly (US)

NTSC-U

68

^[17]

Entsiklopediya igr dlya Dreamcast (RU)

81

^[18]

Famitsu (JP)

NTSC-J

70

^[19]

GamePro (US)

NTSC-U

68

^[20]

MAN!AC (DE)

NTSC-J

76

^[21]

Neo Plus (PL)

80

^[22]

Next Generation (US)

NTSC-U

50

^[23]

Play (PL)

82

^[24]

PSX Extreme (PL)

NTSC-J

70

^[25]

Strana Igr (RU)

70

^[26]

	74
Based on 19 reviews

Illbleed

Dreamcast, JP
Cover
Spinecard Disc Manual

Dreamcast, US
Cover
Disc Inlay

Dreamcast, TW
Cover
Disc Jewel Case Manual back 50x50px Calender front 50x50px Calender back

Technical information

ROM dump status

System

Hash

Size

Build Date

Source

Comments

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CRC32
MD5
SHA-1

2001-01-15

GD-R

Page

External links

Sega of Japan catalogue pages (Japanese): Dreamcast

References

↑ File:Illbleed DC JP Box Back.jpg
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 ^2.3 http://sega.jp/dc/010309/ (Wayback Machine: 2014-08-03 12:34)
↑ https://sega.jp/history/hard/dreamcast/software_l.html#tab02 (Wayback Machine: 2020-02-01 22:57)
↑ http://www.gexpress.com/detailedspecs.cfm?returndept=DC&returnpage=1&number=839204000017 (Wayback Machine: 2002-02-22 05:26)
↑ https://groups.google.com/g/rec.games.video.sega/c/GkD9KP3ghZ0/m/8_-BLA8jWSUJ
↑ Official Dreamcast Magazine, "Holiday 2000" (US; 2000-11-28), page 20
↑ http://sega.jp/corp/release/2002/1203_1/ (Wayback Machine: 2007-11-18 20:38)
↑ 100% Consoles, "Juin/Juillet 2001" (FR; 2001-0x-xx), page 57
↑ 576 Konzol, "Május 2001" (HU; 2001-xx-xx), page 34
↑ Bonus, "5/2001" (YU; 2001-06-25), page 35
↑ Consoles +, "Juin 2001" (FR; 2001-0x-xx), page 86
↑ Dreamcast Magazine, "2001-10 (2001-04-06,13)" (JP; 2001-03-23), page 22
↑ Dreamcast Magazine, "No. 23" (UK; 2001-06-14), page 56
↑ Dorimaga, "2002-18 (2002-10-11)" (JP; 2002-09-27), page 34
↑ Dreamzone, "Mai 2001" (FR; 2001-xx-xx), page 40
↑ Edge, "June 2001" (UK; 2001-05-21), page 72
↑ Electronic Gaming Monthly, "June 2001" (US; 2001-05-08), page 103
↑ Entsiklopediya igr dlya Dreamcast, "Izdaniye chetvertoye, dopolnennoye" (RU; 2002-xx-xx), page 101
↑ Famitsu, "2001-04-06" (JP; 2001-03-23), page 33
↑ GamePro, "May 2001" (US; 2001-0x-xx), page 80
↑ MAN!AC, "06/2001" (DE; 2001-05-02), page 47
↑ Neo Plus, "Maj 2001" (PL; 2001-xx-xx), page 66
↑ Next Generation, "July 2001" (US; 2001-06-19), page 86
↑ Play, "Lipiec 2001" (PL; 2001-xx-xx), page 41
↑ PSX Extreme, "05/2001" (PL; 2001-0x-xx), page 37
↑ Strana Igr, "May 2001 1/2" (RU; 2001-xx-xx), page 56

Illbleed

Books: Illbleed Zekkyou Survival Manual (2001)

Prototypes: 2001-01-15

[:File:Illbleed_DC_JP_Box_Back.jpg_p-1] File:Illbleed DC JP Box Back.jpg

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[:File:ODCM_US_10.pdf_p20-6] Official Dreamcast Magazine, "Holiday 2000" (US; 2000-11-28), page 20

[https:.2F.2Fweb.archive.org.2Fweb.2F20071118203808.2Fhttp:.2F.2Fsega.jp.2Fcorp.2Frelease.2F2002.2F1203_1.2F-7] ttp://sega.jp/corp/release/2002/1203_1/ (Wayback Machine: 2007-11-18 20:38)

[:File:100.25Consoles_FR_06.pdf_p57-8] 100% Consoles, "Juin/Juillet 2001" (FR; 2001-0x-xx), page 57

[9] 576 Konzol, "Május 2001" (HU; 2001-xx-xx), page 34

[:File:Bonus_14_SCG.pdf_p35-10] Bonus, "5/2001" (YU; 2001-06-25), page 35

[:File:ConsolesPlus_FR_113.pdf_p86-11] Consoles +, "Juin 2001" (FR; 2001-0x-xx), page 86

[:File:DCM_JP_20010406.pdf_p22-12] Dreamcast Magazine, "2001-10 (2001-04-06,13)" (JP; 2001-03-23), page 22

[:File:DreamcastMagazine_UK_23.pdf_p56-13] Dreamcast Magazine, "No. 23" (UK; 2001-06-14), page 56

[:File:Dorimaga_JP_20021011_2002-18.pdf_p34-14] Dorimaga, "2002-18 (2002-10-11)" (JP; 2002-09-27), page 34

[:File:Dreamzone_FR_24.pdf_p40-15] Dreamzone, "Mai 2001" (FR; 2001-xx-xx), page 40

[:File:Edge_UK_098.pdf_p72-16] Edge, "June 2001" (UK; 2001-05-21), page 72

[:File:EGM_US_143.pdf_p103-17] Electronic Gaming Monthly, "June 2001" (US; 2001-05-08), page 103

[18] Entsiklopediya igr dlya Dreamcast, "Izdaniye chetvertoye, dopolnennoye" (RU; 2002-xx-xx), page 101

[19] Famitsu, "2001-04-06" (JP; 2001-03-23), page 33

[:File:GamePro_US_152.pdf_p80-20] GamePro, "May 2001" (US; 2001-0x-xx), page 80

[:File:MAN.21AC_DE_2001-06.pdf_p47-21] MAN!AC, "06/2001" (DE; 2001-05-02), page 47

[22] Neo Plus, "Maj 2001" (PL; 2001-xx-xx), page 66

[:File:NextGeneration_US_79.pdf_p86-23] Next Generation, "July 2001" (US; 2001-06-19), page 86

[24] Play, "Lipiec 2001" (PL; 2001-xx-xx), page 41

[25] PSX Extreme, "05/2001" (PL; 2001-0x-xx), page 37

[26] Strana Igr, "May 2001 1/2" (RU; 2001-xx-xx), page 56

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Illbleed

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Contents

Story

Gameplay

History

Production credits

Magazine articles

Promotional material

Physical scans

Technical information

ROM dump status

External links

References