Played the first 15 minutes of Pier Solar. Great game! First thing that stands out are the CD quality sounds and music. Seriously, amazing stuff. It makes me wish that more big name games used this feature back in the day. Imagine if SEGA released a Genesis classics line in which some of the best games rereleased, at a lower price, with an attached CD. I'd assume there would just have to be some changes made to the cart, so that it could "talk" with the SEGA CD. Probably wouldn't have saved the SEGA CD, but it would have given extra incentive to buy the thing.
Graphics are great, lots of cool little effects like how the menu flies in. Dialogue is well written, has a very english-vibe to it. So thankfully no stilted "Father is sick. We must save him!" stuff. Didn't make it to a save point, so I shut it off and will play more this weekend.