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Galerians is awsome!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: September 07, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Galerians is a great game, and surprisingly gory. The main character is Rion and he is so cool because he is psychic, but he has to take psychic power enhancement chemicals to use his powers. This game is very original and clever. Although other reviews said it wasn't very good and took to long to load, they were wrong. The loading was not bad and is nothing to complaim about or even worry about. It took me a while to figure out how to use his powers with the drugs, but that was because I had no instruction book. Once I figured it out though, it was amazing. Running around and using his psychic powers to kill the bad guys was so much fun! This game has a great plot and is NOT just some Resident Evil rip-off.

A truly mixed bag, but worth a look.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: January 13, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Galerians is a decent game. However, it's not for everyone. Imagine a more flawed Resident Evil, with awkward controls and relatively bland gameplay, at times. You control Rion, a teenager who awakens in a strange lab to find himself with incredible psychic abilities. As he makes his way around what appears to be a laboratory of some sort, there will be all sorts of enemies roaming around, trying to stop him. In order to stop them, he must inject himself with psychic power enhancing drugs, so that he has the juice to take them down. Too much [illegal drugs] and he goes berserk, losing life rapidly, but blowing away everyone in his path. Not enough, and he won't have what it takes to defeat the opposition. Little by little, you'll uncover more and more of Rion's past and exactly why he's there.

The gameplay has some blaring faults, mainly in the sense that the fighting is hard to control, and somewhat poorly designed. The whole drug idea is a cool one, in terms of storyline, but when it comes to actually playing out that idea, it can be annoying. You'll be constantly running around, searching for drugs to either heal you, protect you against "shorting out", or help you kill the bad guys. Other items are strewn across the game, such as keys and what not, to add a bit of puzzle-play to the game, but all it really does is slows the game down.

When it comes down to it, the gameplay is very sub-par. But, the storyline, graphics, sound and overall atmosphere make up for it. The entire game is filled with chilling cinemas to depict the game's downright creepy sci-fi storyline. All of the environments are very imaginative and drip with style. This game isn't blatantly jump-out-of-your-seat scary like Resident Evil. It's closer to the subtle, psychological and atmospheric horror found in Silent Hill--but in a sci-fi setting. The game has a sinister air about it everywhere you go; you'll feel for Rion straight from the beginning, while being disturbed by the violent acts he commits, almost unknowingly. I would recommend this game to someone that is willing to sacrifice good gameplay for a unique, chilling plot, and superbly executed sound and graphics. But if you demand a game that focuses more on gameplay than ambience and aesthetics, steer absolutely clear of Galerians.

An enjoyable survival sci-fi game with some flaws

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: September 12, 2002
Author: Amazon User

First, let me start out the review by saying that the "over 50 hours of gameplay" claim on the back of the CD case is an outright lie. I beat it in under 6 hours my first (and only) time through. From what I've heard and read, 5-10 hours is average. In other words, don't expect the weeks of entertainment the packaging promises...

So, onto the basic premise of the game. You're a young boy named Rion. You wake up in a lab with no memories and an array of psychic abilities, apparently received while you were the unwilling subject for some sort of experimentation. You begin the game by escaping your restraints and trying to win your freedom. As you progress through the game's 4 areas, the story unfolds through character interactions and beautiful movies and images usually triggered by some sort of psychic flashback or intuition related to various objects and locations.

The gameplay basically involves battles (that are usually few and far between) and puzzle solving (mostly of the "find items and keys and figure out where to use them" variety). Your main weapons in battle are your psychic abilities, enhanced by chemicals called PPECs. You start out with 2 offensive abilities. Nalcon allows you to send sort of an attack wave ... You'll get a 3rd ability (albeit a fairly useless one) halfway through the game. So, you're basically left with 2 fairly weak main attacks, each taking more than one hit at full power to take out all but the simplest of enemies.

The game's weapon and healing systems all rely on drugs. You have certain amounts of offensive drugs in your system. When they run low, you have to inject yourself with more. When your health runs low, pop a pill. You also have "anger points" that rise just from walking around and rise more rapidly when you use psychic powers. This is due to the interaction of drugs in your system, and when the AP meter gets to high, you "short", which is basically a psychic overdose that leaves you walking around with a big migraine. The plus side: Every enemy you go near while shorting will die violently. The negative side: Your health will go south rather quickly until you stop the shorting by taking a pill called delmetor.

Enemy battles are usually easy, except for a handful of very difficult end bosses that take a while to defeat and a few instances where enemies attack you 3 at a time, leaving you frustratingly unable to fight back. Strategy is limited, usually involving running around in circles until you have enough time to charge your powers and attack.

As for the graphics and sound, they're both excellent for the Playstation. The general game graphics are nice, sharp, and detailed. The movies (which are the reason the game spans 3 discs) are also quite impressive. The sound is excellent, from eerie music down to the footsteps that let you know an enemy is pacing around the corner...

The controls..well..they're annoying. If you've never played a survival horror game, the stiff controls will prove to be a great annoyance. If you're a survival horror veteran, they'll be a familiar annoyance. Having to charge up your psychic powers in order to attack with any effectiveness adds to the frustration as it's sometimes hard to target fast moving enemies while charging, leading you to miss often and waste your PPECs..

Overall, I'd say don't buy this game, rent it. It's a rather enjoyable game with a great storyline and entertaining puzzles. However, as I stated earlier, it will only last you a couple nights, and since the main thrill of the game is following the storyline and figuring out the puzzles, it has practically no replay value.

This is a nice game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 30, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game was awesome, but it had a few rough spots. First of all, the PPECs had to be taken almost constantly. Also, if you dont take another kind of drug, youll freak out and eventually die. The environments were vivid and believable. The characters were cool, too. The puzzles were a bit easy, though. I have to admit, I had some help with beating the game because I found it to be so hard. Good thing I have my trusty game shark! :)

TWISTED

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: March 25, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game was great. But its not for the younins. You play some kid I forgot his name but then again so did he. He has no memory you wake up in what look like a hospital room that was trashed. Than some guys came in the room and just berst into flame. How you. You have pryrocantic power. But to use them you need drugs there are some diferent drug each give you different powers.
NALCON - green. shockwave
RED - red. fire blast
FELON - blue. anti-gravity.
Grafics - 8
Sound - 7
controls- 6

Story - 8 1/2

JUST COULDN'T GET THE HANG OF IT

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: December 23, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I started GALERIANS several times to get the hang of it. It is back in the trade in store where I got it. I found GALERIANS to be rather imature to say the least.
The fact that the chemicals that controlled him were most irritating to have to use. Not being able to control him during his time of blowing his cool when he could have done the most damage to enemies was ridiculous.
I got to the third level where he's in his back yard with running in circles and his enemy is bombing him and his temper is going up and up. After enemy shoots at him 50 times than it's his turn to fight back with a character that keeps disappearing. Well, by then he sends off his powerful whatever to kill enemy but by that time you cannot control him an of course he dies each time this happens. Don't like games where you don't have a fighting chance.
Collecting pills and other objects. Only have so much space which means you throw away something to pick up something more useful. Sorry, didn't like this at all.

Not A Game For Scaredy Cats

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: July 17, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This is one of the best games I've played on Playstation! Although this game may not be a little gorey... (okay, REALLY gorey) how can you downgrade it for that? I thought the graphics were excellent, Rion was hot (hey, as a girl I can appreciate that), and the plot was movie worthy. For those of you who haven't played this game, I would just like to say, "Expect the unexpected!" Whether it's guys jumping you in your own house or Cain being a "little" blunt, you will be surprised. I really liked the music. Not so much the rave stuff at the beginning, but the creepy music hit a bullseye. The characters range from 14 years old to 18 years old. Lilia, a 14 year old, (who is the same age as Rion) is a girl with telepathic powers. You get to actually control her later on in the game. Rion can burn people alive, crack their skulls, or lift them in the air and throw them onto the ground.

Now for the bad stuff. Filling the levels with hard bosses and easy enemies is really dumb. And the ages??? In Japan, pedophilia might be okay, but I'd rather be working with an older Rion. It's hard to envision someone my age attacking human beings. Other than that, GREAT!

STUNNING GAME !!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: May 12, 2001
Author: Amazon User

It will remind you the movie AKIRA , an experiments on children and getting special POWERS .

beautiful , sad story .

buy it , fast .

Incredibly short

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: December 24, 2000
Author: Amazon User

The sole reason why I gave this game four stars is due its length. Although a three CDs game, it does not live up to that. The first CD contains two areas to explore, and being three CDs long, I at first thought each CD contained two areas. Unfortunately, the second and third CDs include one area each.

But don't let this disappoint you; Rion's house and the Hotel are more than enough to play this game. Really, that hotel was something creepy; knowing that the guests are dying one by one (and even creepier, knowing how they died) builds up enough atmosphere.

Another point. The reviewer from Boston, Mass. had to read the instruction manual before playing. You need to take your pills in order to avoid that kind of events, not that Crave did that intentionally.

Hmmm... Me think good...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: November 04, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Galerians is interesting from the start: you play Rion, a 14 year old who wakes in a hospital with no memory of the past. You discover you have phycic powers which, properly used, can fire a shockwave, levitate people and smash them into the ground, or simply set them on fire. If you are sick to death of all the shoot em ups out there, this will be refreshing. The story is quite strange: set in the future, Rion travels to his house, contantly having phychic visions of the madness that transpired there- in the house it does get a bit creepy. While some of the boss's are extremely difficult, and the play controls lanky from time to time, it is a small price to pay for the overall quality. I really enjoyed this game- it had a fresh twist on things, and kept me entertained till the end, which is something you certainly can't say about all games. There are 3 discs and hours of gameplay that presents a good challenge to those who want one. .... Honestly, it's a good game. :)

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