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WORST GAME EVER

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 19
Date: July 15, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This game is horrible. It has terrible play control and a poor story line. If you buy it you WILL be disapointed. The play control is the worst I have ever seen for a game. You have lame powers and no real attack except for your lame powers. It has good graphics, but thats it. over all this is the WORST GAME I HAVE EVER PLAYED.

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 good game.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 16
Date: June 11, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I rented this game and with in the first 2 minutes of game play I was horrified. Rion, the main character, woke up in a bed just after having needles put into his neck. Then he got up and went into a different room, talked to a person and blew off his head (with his blood spraying all over him and the room) and opened another door. Here he found himself in a hall way and three more people were there, hiding their heads between their knees pleading for mercy. He walked up to them and two of there heads blew off. The third one stood up and had a sloow painful death, with his face blown away and blood spraying every where, then falling to the ground. Blood was every where. I mean what kind of a person plays that and thinks, "Oh this is fun".I'm not against all violent games, for instance I am a big fan of the Final Fantasy series, but the people don't plead for mercy and then have their heads blow off in that. What I am really trying to get at here is that Crave shouldn't make games like that. I mean when someone pleads for mercy I really don't want to kill them, and THEN their heads blow off. What does that make you think? Might as well just go shoot some people with a magnum. DON'T PLAY THIS GAME IF YOU WANT TO STAY SANE.

This is a great game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 8 / 8
Date: June 14, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Though getting some bad reviews, Galerians is a game that won't disappoint anyone who is wanting a game that offers a facinating plot, cinemas that start every five minutes, and a game that doesn't rely on you blowing up everything in site.

Starting out in a lab, young Rion wakes to find himself enpowered with psychic abilities. Not remembering much of his past, Rion strikes out to find out who he is, why he has been subjected to experiaments, and to help an old friend, Lilia, who is calling to him.

Galerians does not contribute anything really new to the sirvival horror genre in terms of gameplay. While the psychic powers are enough to set this game marginally apart from other sirvival horror games, it's the plot and atmosphere which really give this game it's edge.

There are some slight problems with Galerians, but nothing that should keep you from buying it. The voice overs could have used some help. The controls are ackward, with a huge leaning curve. But the main problem is the games easiness and shortness. Dispite the huge three disk attire, Galerians only has four areas which shouldn't take you that long to beat. However, like I said, none of these problems are major, and this is definately a game to recomend.

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.

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.

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.

Great Game But Lacks In Difficulty

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: March 27, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This game is great. The graphics are good ad it is very fun. Although this is true, it is extremely difficult. When you get towards the end of the game you find yourself restarting the game a lot because you died.

Lets see i would say this game is pretty good

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 5
Date: July 29, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Actually if i could i would give this game a 31/2. To me this isn't the worst game,but it also isn't the best game I've played. Yes there is gore and yes peoples heads do get blown up, but hey i like gore and i think its funny when they're heads get blown up, cause I mean they try and kill you anyway, its not they're these completely innocent people begging for mercy. Plus some of them are robots and mutant things so who cares if they die. I guess I am what you call a somewhat desensitized person, so if are sensitive to violence i guess i could tell you to stay away from this game along with all the other "mature" rated games, cause they can be disturbing at times. The controls on this game are somewhat annoying but you get used to them pretty quick. Oh yeah when you see your AP bar blinking go up to any enemy and press R1 and........ i'll leave what it does as a surprise. Just be sure to have Delemetor before you do this or else you'll most likely die. I would never actually buy this game, well i recommend renting it first and if you get so addicted that you just can't help yourself go ahead and buy it, all i can say is that i didn't really get hooked on it. Now Final Fantasy 8! Thats a game i got so addicted to, that it was actually scary. I would highly recommend that to everyone, and people who are somewhat sensitive to gore. I totally had to buy that game,it still remains the best game on my rack,~sigh. Ahhum anyway......... the truth is i had never heard of this game before, instead i just saw it on the rack at the video store after i found out all the games i wanted to rent were picked over. So i gave it a try and yes it was pretty good,yes it has good graphics,and yes it is original. It is a good time waster so just rent it first thats all i can say.

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.

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