Shining Flower / hikaruhana, demo version

"Visual Poetry for the personal computer.

Filled with beautiful graphics and animations, Shining Flower describes the journey of a wanderer and a search for fulfillment.  Part meditation, part fantasy, Shining Flower is an intriguing story of the wanderer's quest for enlightenment within a mysterious world.  Rich images and music create a breathtaking and original CD-ROM that is stimulating to the mind.

Shining Flower, developed in Japan by Maze, Inc., and published for the first time in the United States, brings striking aesthetic beauty to the personal computer.  In a unique way, Shining Flower releases the imagination as it deepens understanding of ourselves and the world." -- from Voyager

Shining Flower "follows the journey through a dreamlike or even surreal landscape of a little man holding in his hands a red flower from which emanates a bright light. He will meet strange creatures, who will make him a little in spite of himself visit the nooks and crannies of these unknown countries. This journey, tinged with spirituality, that one imagines initiated will take the player into the abstract depths of the earth while leaving him plunged into a kind of plenitude - the silence that characterizes the narrative is probably not for nothing." -- from Macintosh Repository