Have any of you actually played The Sacred Pools prototype on PS1?

This is one of the strangest cancelled PS1 games. The Sacred Pools was a SegaSoft FMV project planned for PlayStation in the late 1990s, making it one of the rare times Sega came close to having a game on PS1 store shelves in North America under the SegaSoft label. Hidden Palace has more info on the game and its history. Has anyone here played it, and do you think cancelling it was the right move?