- Interactive novel and audiobook with FMV cutscenes that adapts the epic poem Orlando Furioso about medieval French king Charlemagne's heroic paladin Roland who falls tragically in love with sorceress Angelica and loses his mind.
- Dubbed the world's first interactive multimedia novel, this program offers the player to read a novel based on Orlando Furioso (The Frenzy of Orlando), a 16th century Italian epic poem by Ludovico Ariosto about the real life 8th century royal knight and paladin Roland (Orlando in French) who falls madly in love with a pagan princess and sorceress Angelica to the point of mania and eventually insanity. This poem was itself loosely based on a medieval French epic poem The Song of Roland (La Chanson de Roland) about the Roland's heroic role in the historical Battle of Roncevaux which was fought in 778 between the forces of French Christian king Charlemagne and the Saracen Muslim armies that were occupying Spain at the time. The player can also turn on the atmospheric instrumental music that follows the story or choose the option to listen to theatrical actors reading the book for him/her. Short full motion video clips illustrate some key sections of the story. The story is told by its four key players - Roland, Angelica, Roland's enchanted talking sword Durandal that was sent by Heaven to help him in his holy cause and king Charlemagne himself. The novel has seven chapters. Each chapter is told in any order the player chooses by these four characters so that the same events are covered from four different perspectives. The player must occasionally make choices depending on which of the characters he/she trusts to be telling the most accurate version of events that transpired. The outcome of the novel is the same no mater which option is chosen but some aspects of the story change slightly. The audiobook version of the novel is around three hours in length. The novel can be read or played in any order and the player can even simply skip to the end. The novel features mature content including brief female nudity and the FMV sequences are often surreal and somewhat disturbing.
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