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Just thought I'd scan this and put it through machine translation. An intervew from PureGirl the one with Cala on the cover.
Might scan the other section too, something under the Developer's Library section of the book.

I tried to upload this to the post itself, but it kept kicking back to the homepage, Scan (http://i.imgur.com/L1UdxUX.jpg)

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Here is a local copy of the interview scan, in case in the imgur link stops working. (http://www.sognadigitalmuseum.com/forum/attachments/puregirl_interview.jpg)

I remember reading over some of that interview a few years ago and picking up on the "3 CD" part. Remember that a few scenes were cut down to make it fit onto 2. At the time of this interview, I don't think a plan for DVD release was in the works yet.

Despite a few translation errors, its a fascinating read to explain why Sogna branches out into so many genres over their last few releases.

That's intriguing that they cut some scenes from it. Do we know what they were?

Some they added back into the DVD version. You just about have to compare the two to know which ones.

There's also an image of a Julietta scene that was either cut, or never proceeded past the cel stage - she's face down and no such scene made it into either version.

If you look at the numberings from the game files, you'd see they skip some frames,
but it could also mean they reused an earlier ANM file to save space.
the Julietta and Diabolos scene look heavily cut down.
if you look at the numberings around that scene, they skip some numbers/letters
Could have been due to time constraints,
seeing as they could have easily added in the cut scenes to the DVD edition, shame wish we could've had more Julietta.

That's a good point. Generally the scene numbers are defined by the storyboard. They are then drawn and animated out of order. At some point they must have realized they were going very long and decided to drop a few before they were ever animated. Some may have had a few base cels drawn, like the image I posted above, but my guess is very few or else they could marketed an album disc or new Island-type game to show off the missing art.

As far as the Julietta scene is concerned, I'm fairly convinced that it was originally meant to be at least two scenes, to show she's raped over and over like Cala.

On the other hand, they're all in the same number range, which usually means they're in sequence. I also feel like it was a major plot point that Diablo gives Julietta a ton of time to think over his proposal and only rapes her once Veloce's out of the picture. I think it was part of Diablo's characterization as a powerful ruler with a hidden soft spot that he would prefer not to rape her but he only needed to do it once to impregnate her.

Interesting. It's too bad we never got a full version with all the animation sequences in it. I would have loved to see what else they originally had planned for the story.

Or sequels. Its one of the few VIPER games that properly lends itself to continuing the story.

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