Silhouette Mirage
| Silhouette Mirage | |
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North American PlayStation cover art
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| Developer(s) | Treasure |
| Publisher(s) | |
| Director(s) | Masaki Ukyo |
| Producer(s) | Koichi Kimura |
| Composer(s) | Katsuhiko Suzuki Jun Irie Hideki Matsutake |
| Platform(s) | Sega Saturn, PlayStation |
| Release date(s) |
Sega Saturn
PlayStation Network
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| Genre(s) | Action |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
| Review scores | ||
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| Publication | Score | |
| PS | Saturn | |
| AllGame |   |
N/A |
| Edge | N/A | 6/10 |
| EGM | 8/10 | N/A |
| Game Informer | 7.5/10 | N/A |
| GameSpot | 4.6/10 | N/A |
| GameSpy | 77% | N/A |
| IGN | 8.9/10 | N/A |
| OPM (US) |  |
N/A |
| PSM | |
N/A |
| Aggregate score | ||
| Metacritic | 69/100 | N/A |
Silhouette Mirage, also known as Silhouette Mirage: Reprogrammed Hope (シルエットミラージュ ～リプログラムド ホープ～?), is a side-scrolling video game that was developed by Treasure. Initially published by ESP for the Sega Saturn on September 10, 1997, in Japan, the game was later ported to the PlayStation on July 23, 1998, in Japan. In 2000 Working Designs translated and published the game in North America. In 2010 the game was released for the PlayStation Network, albeit only for the Japanese store.
The setting is Earth, during a post-apocalyptic year 2000. Prior to the events in the game, a group of scientists conducted genetic experiments in a great facility called Edo. From their activities emerged the two attributes: Silhouette and Mirage. These aspects manifested in a child named Armageddon (Clod).
The two aspects were based on the dualistic nature of Yin and Yang: One's existence is crucial to the other's. Despite the complementary nature of the attributes, they repelled each other. As a result, Armageddon's attributes split to form two pure figures: Megido and Har, respectively the self-proclaimed Silhouette and Mirage leaders.
Eventually, the genetic experiments resulted in a biological explosion which contaminated the genetic structure of all entities on Earth. Many perished, and those that survived displayed either of the two attributes (a special group, called Proteans, can display both attributes).
In preparation for this disaster, the computer system Gehena created a being known as 'The Messenger of Justice' (hostile figures dubbed her 'Messenger of Destruction'), designed to repair Edo's computer's system and neutralize all the instances of the two attributes.
The game is an action side-scroller similar to Gunstar Heroes. What makes the game unique is that it works the concept of the two attributes into the game: A figure inflicted by an attack whose attribute differs from it suffers Power damage, and has its spirit (similar to MP) absorbed when inflicted by same-type attacks (it is never absorbed in the Japanese version).
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