In this Japanese CD-ROM, you'll wander the halls of a virtual "museum," where a mysterious gray figure forever attempts to push his way out of gruesomely anatomical oil paintings. In the next wing over, eerily tendentious organ music by Hiroyasu Yaguchi accompanies your trips down dim gray corridors - presumably the "hospital." Click on cell windows in the numerous doors to see looping, colorized QuickTime movies of masked, seminaked figures obscurely gesturing amid ominously pounding industrial machinery.
Look for the stairwells, which offer pretty rides themselves and lead to more craziness, including a semi-mechanical dog on a hospital trolley, an alien bug crawling across a shimmering corridor, four green creatures playing musical chairs on a blue bench, and a round stone-lined room where black and gray cubes rotate and pulse on heavy pedestals.
Museum or Hospital rewards a slow, meditative pace; click-happy tourists will miss a lot.
Museum or Hospital: US$99. East-West Communications: (800) 833 8339, +1 (310) 858 8797.
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