In yet another piece of evidence that the PSX was the coolest, edgiest console in the world, LSD is a game (maybe better described as an 'experience') that, true to its name, simulates a heavy psychedelic experience. The developer based it on his 'dream journal', and based on the game's title, clearly saw the connection between dreams and psychedelic drugs. The whole game sees you wondering through trippy landscapes in the first-person. When you touch objects like trees, buildings and animals, you get transported to another 'dream', which will depend on what object you touched. You may be in a field one second, in a ghost town the next, then watching a couple of sumos fighting after that. The visions range from the mundane, to the beautiful (well, beautiful by 1997 graphical standards), to the disturbing - as demonstrated by a sequence in which you appear to be inside a human body and are attacked by a red-eyed baby. Sure, the rudimentary polygonal graphics mean that you probably won't be too affected by the experience, but as WTF depictions of drugs go, this one tops them all. It feels like it was spewed straight out of someone's unconscious without passing through any social filters to make it more coherent for the player. In that sense, it's one of the most awesomely honest hallucinatory experiences around in video-games. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ol4OSIGGukA
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I'm a writer-editor hybrid whose writings on video games, technology and movies can be found across the internet. I've even ventured into the realm of current affairs on occasion but, unable to face reality, have retreated into expatiating on things on screens instead.
