The Ring: Terror's Realm
Encyclopedia
The Ring: Terror's Realm (known simply as Ring (リング Ringu) in Japan
) is a video game developed by Asmik Ace Entertainment
and published by Infogrames
in 2000. A single player
survival horror, it is based on the Ring series of novels by Japanese author Koji Suzuki
, which also inspired the Japanese film Ring
(1998) and its American remake, The Ring
(2002).
world.
-style survival horror video game" and "a pretty depressing homage to Ring." Those unfamiliar with Suzuki's works were equally unimpressed. The staff at IGN
said "The lowest rung on the ladder of Dreamcast survival horror games, The Ring: Terror's Realm is just an average jaunt into the dark side", while a contributor to the Planet Dreamcast website
declared it "hands-down the worst thing I've ever experienced on the Dreamcast." Greg Wilcox of GameTour.com described it as "one of those games that will make you wonder what sort of legal or illegal substances the developers were taking while they were making this one. The game is a combination of bad and weird, mostly leaning toward the bad". Wilcox also noted that one of the Ring films he'd seen was, in his opinion, "a hell of a lot scarier than what's here."
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
) is a video game developed by Asmik Ace Entertainment
Asmik Ace Entertainment
was formed in 1997 through a merger between the Asmik Corporation and Ace Entertainment, both of Japan. The name Asmik comes from its three founding companies: Ask, Sumitomo and Kodansha. The company is headquartered on the third floor of the Lapiross Roppongi building in Minato, Tokyo.Asmik...
and published by Infogrames
Infogrames
Infogrames Entertainment SA was an international French holding company headquartered in Paris, France. It was the owner of Atari, Inc., headquartered in New York City, U.S. and Atari Europe. It was founded in 1983 by Bruno Bonnell and Christophe Sapet using the proceeds from an introductory...
in 2000. A single player
Single player
A Single-player video game is a video game where input from only one player is expected throughout the course of the gaming session. "Single-player game" usually implies a game that can only be played by one person, while "single-player mode" usually refers to a game mode for a single player, where...
survival horror, it is based on the Ring series of novels by Japanese author Koji Suzuki
Koji Suzuki
Koji Suzuki is a Japanese writer, who was born in Hamamatsu and currently lives in Tokyo. Suzuki is the author of the Ring cycle of novels, which has been adapted into a manga series. He has written several books on the subject of fatherhood...
, which also inspired the Japanese film Ring
Ring (film)
is a 1998 Japanese horror film by Hideo Nakata, adapted from the novel Ring by Kōji Suzuki, which in turn draws on the Japanese folk tale Banchō Sarayashiki. The film stars Nanako Matsushima, Hiroyuki Sanada, and Rikiya Ōtaka as members of a divorced family...
(1998) and its American remake, The Ring
The Ring (2002 film)
The Ring is a 2002 American psychological horror film directed by Gore Verbinski and starring Naomi Watts and Martin Henderson. It is a remake of the 1998 Japanese horror film Ring....
(2002).
Premise
Sadako Yamamura's curse has taken the form of a computer program which transports users into a virtual realityVirtual reality
Virtual reality , also known as virtuality, is a term that applies to computer-simulated environments that can simulate physical presence in places in the real world, as well as in imaginary worlds...
world.
Reception
In a review submitted to "the ringworld", a fansite dedicated to Ring, contributors C. Gavlas and K. Gavlas called it "a crude, clumsy Resident EvilResident Evil (video game)
Resident Evil, known as in Japan, is a survival horror video game by Capcom. The first installment in the Resident Evil series, it was originally released in 1996 for the PlayStation and was subsequently ported to the Sega Saturn and PC. In 2002, a remake of the game was released for the Nintendo...
-style survival horror video game" and "a pretty depressing homage to Ring." Those unfamiliar with Suzuki's works were equally unimpressed. The staff at IGN
IGN
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said "The lowest rung on the ladder of Dreamcast survival horror games, The Ring: Terror's Realm is just an average jaunt into the dark side", while a contributor to the Planet Dreamcast website
Website
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declared it "hands-down the worst thing I've ever experienced on the Dreamcast." Greg Wilcox of GameTour.com described it as "one of those games that will make you wonder what sort of legal or illegal substances the developers were taking while they were making this one. The game is a combination of bad and weird, mostly leaning toward the bad". Wilcox also noted that one of the Ring films he'd seen was, in his opinion, "a hell of a lot scarier than what's here."