/vr/ - Retro Games

>>5979002
This thing I guess. Never played it myself only saw my friend doing it once. Something about a boy with psychic powers and using drugs to control them.

Galerians is such a flawed game. It's basically a race against an invisible countdown, but you don't really understand it until you reach the last disc. If you don't hurry up, you go berserk and instantly kill every enemy that makes close contact with you, but at the same time you become slower and your life starts decreasing fast. To revert or prevent this, you need to take a special kind of drug called Delmetor, which is scattered throughout the levels. The problem is, like any other item, it's scarce, and your inventory is too small, so you constantly find yourself in a situation where you have to sacrifice other valuable resources, just because the game will fuck you up if you don't carry enough Delmetor.

This sounds like a neat concept on paper, but it's not when the game encourages exploration (like any other RE clone), go slow sometimes, and features intense backtracking and key finding.

Long story short, you have to play up until disc 3 at least twice in order to memorize 90% of the game and reach the final boss like a pro and as fast as possible, otherwise you can get stuck.

It's a shame, because the story, setting and overall concept are so fucking good for a survival horror from this era.

If you were planing to give Galerians a chance, I highly recommend to either use a guide, or resume to last save every once in a while when you know exactly what to do next.

It is not god-tier at all but I so want it to be. Shame it has so many fucking problems.