“DIGITAL SADNESS” MULTIMEDIA

Below is what scrolls by when  you start up “Disc 0” of the 4-disc Sega Saturn game “Enemy Zero” by insane man Kenji Eno. Of course, then it turns out that Disc 0 is just a trailer for the game, a promotional video for Eno’s studio WARP, Inc (in which Eno comes off like John Romero, which is hilarious), and a Metal Gear Solid VR Missions-style training stage that implies that you’ll actually have a gun for more than, say, a tenth of the real game and that it won’t have limited amounts of ammo.

But I digress. The menu screen for the game-free portion of Enemy Zero:

ENEMY ZERO
WILL
BECOME
A MORE
MOVIE-ORIENTED
TITLE,
WITH
LAURA
AS AN ACTRESS.
THE MAIN
STAGE
OF
THE WORK
WILL
BE
THE SPACE
ITSELF.
BUT
ENEMY ZERO
WILL
HAVE
AN ASPECT
OF
AMUSEMENT
AS
A GAME
AS
WELL,
A LESS
WEIGHT.
ONE
OF
THE CONCEPTUAL
SUBJECTS
OF
THE WORK
WILL
BE
“DIGITAL SADNESS”
MULTIMEDIA,
AS
DIGITAL
MEDIA,
HAS
EPHEMERAL
FACTORS
AND
RISKS.
THROUGH
SHOWING
ENEMY ZERO,
I
WOULD
LIKE
TO
MAKE
IT
CLEAR
THAT
THERE
ARE
SUCH
CONTINGENCY
RISKS
IN
THE DIGITAL
WORLD
OF
THE MODERN
TIMES

Me too, Kenji. Me too.

—Casey