History VideoGame / Galerians

* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: Not only does the first act have you popping and setting fire to dozens of (relatively) innocent scientists, but you can kill them while they're kneeling down and trying to perform cpr on their colleagues.

''Galerians'' is an ActionAdventure (sometimes referred to as a SurvivalHorror despite the game has fewer horror elements than the contemporary) with fixed camera angles, developed by Polygon Magic and published by ASCII Corporation / ASCII Soft, released in 1999.

* OverdrawnAtTheBloodBank: The impressive fountains of blood generated by victims of Rion's [[YourHeadAsplode head-explody mode]].

%%* PedophilePriest: "DO YOU KEEP THE MONEY IN YOUR POCKETS?"

[[YouWakeUpInARoom Waking up in an unfamiliar place]] can be an unsettling event. It's more so when you wake up alone and {{strapped to an operating table}}. Especially with {{psychic powers}} and [[IdentityAmnesia amnesia]].

That's how the protagonist, 14-year-old Rion Steiner, finds himself in. When Rion hears a girl's voice calling to him for help inside his mind, he psychokinetically frees himself and sets about trying to find his way to her. Little does he know that the attempt will pit him against a whole army of guards and robots, several other psychics known as Galerians, and [[BigBad Dorothy]], a very angry supercomputer with [[AGodAmI a god complex]].

Unique to the game is that instead of guns or melee weapons, Rion relies on chemicals known as PPEC, which allow him to do various psychic powers. They are also very limited in supply and continuous absorption will cause Rion to have a splitting headache, known as "shorting", that can harm non-psychic beings around him.

There is also a CG-based movie which retells the first game, part of which is used in the "recap" sequence of the second game.

* BandagedFace: First generation Rabbits, for whatever reason.
* BarbieDollAnatomy: Rion is depicted in various states undress, and tends to lack...features. No nipples. Except in the official art. Huh? [[VaporWear However, Nitro's costume strongly suggests that she does have 'em.]] Additionally, Rion gets some [[MaleFrontalNudity full frontal nudity]] in Galerians: Ash, and apparently has no penis.

* BittersweetEnding: The first Galerians end with [[spoiler: Dorothy being destroyed by the virus encoded within Rion's DNA, but it costs Rion's life in process.]] Galerians: ASH [[spoiler: end with the threat of ASH being thwarted, but it once again cost Rion's life as ASH were part of him. On the plus side, he'll have the chance to reunite with those who already dead.]]

* BlessedWithSuck: [=PPECs=] (Psychic Power Enhancement Chemicals) grant psychic abilities such as pyrokinesis and telekinesis. The downside is that they're highly addictive, dangerous and overuse can result in a condition known as 'shorting', where the victim psychically destroys everything nearby instantly by blowing their minds - and his own. There is a drug to stop it, but the question is whether the victim - or someone nearby - is able to inject it/shoot them with it in time.
* BodyInABreadbox: In Act 2, Rion goes home and finds that his parents have been killed. Dad dead in the closet. ''Mom literally fridged.''
* {{Bowdlerization}}: The term [=PPEC=] (Psychic Power Enhancement Chemical) only exists in the English version, evidently to avoid calling the drugs what they are.

* ComputerVirus: Once Dr. Steiner and Dr. Pascalle realized Dorothy was out of control, they developed a failsafe program to destroy her -- the Virus Program. They wrote the Virus Program into the brain of Lilia, Dr. Pascalle's daughter. Rion has a program to ''activate'' the Virus Program in his head, so the two must be united in order to destroy Dorothhy.

* CreepyChild: Rainheart and to a lesser extent Rion.

* DiedInYourArmsTonight: [[spoiler:Rion dies as Lilia holds him]]. Galerians: ASH reverses the roles, [[spoiler:with Lilia dying in Rion's arms.]]

* FangsAreEvil: Every single tooth in Parano's [[MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily mouth is filed to a point]].

* {{Green Eyed Monster}}: Cain, whose green eyes are the main characteristic distinguishing him from [[spoiler:Rion]], ironically.

* ImAHumanitarian: In the subtitled movie, it is subtly implied that [[spoiler:Rainheart]] is a cannibal.

* KidHero: It's easy to forget that Rion is fourteen (or sixteen if playing the international versions) during the first game.

* NostalgiaLevel: The tutorial of ''Galerians ASH'' has you playing two loops of the final chapter of the first ''Galerians''.

* OnlyICanKillHim: According to Rion, only a Child of Dorothy can kill another Child of Dorothy. Considering the opposition is psychic, [[spoiler:or non-corporeal, and/or hangs out in a radiation-riddled derelict power plant,]] he's probably right.

* PedophilePriest: "DO YOU KEEP THE MONEY IN YOUR POCKETS?"

* ShapeShifting [[spoiler:Nitro disguises herself as Lilia.]]

** [[IncorruptiblePurePureness Incorruptibly pure]] Lilia clearly sports a BlackBraAndPanties in the ''Galerians: Ash''...and at least black panties in the first game.

* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: According to the sequel's logic, time in a computer passes infinitely slower than time in the real world. With that in mind, [[spoiler:[[AndIMustScream Ash has been stuck in isolation in the computer for what would be equivalent to thousands of years.]]]]

The second game, ''Galerians: Ash'', was released in 2002 for UsefulNotes/PS2, it updates the presentation into a full polygonal third person action adventure, and involves the characters of the future reviving Rion from the dead in order to fight a new group of Galerians whose intent is to restore Dorothy at all costs. It has one of the strangest endings ever seen in a survival horror game.

* SameContentDifferentRating: The original game was rated Mature. The UsefulNotes/PlayStation2 sequel, Ash, was rated Teen, despite having a ContentWarning in the beginning.

* SameContentDifferentRating: The original game was rated Mature. The UsefulNotes/PlayStation2 sequel, Ash, was rated Teen.

* BittersweetEnding: The first Galerians end with [[spoiler: Dorothy being destroyed by the virus encoded within Rion's DNA, but it costs Rion's life in process.]] Galerians: ASH [[spoilers: end with the threat of ASH being thwarted, but it once again cost Rion's life as ASH were part of him. On the plus side, he'll have the chance to reunite with those who already dead.]]

The second game, ''Galerians: Ash'', was released in 2002 for UsefulNotes/PS2, and involves the characters of the future reviving Rion from the dead in order to fight a new group of Galerians whose intent is to restore the aforementioned supercomputer at all costs. It has one of the strangest endings ever seen in a survival horror game.

That's the boat that the protagonist of 1999's ''Galerians'', 14-year-old Rion Steiner, finds himself in. When Rion hears a girl's voice calling to him for help inside his mind, he psychokinetically frees himself and sets about trying to find his way to her. Little does he know that the attempt will pit him against several other psychics known as Galerians, a whole army of robots, his growing addiction to [=PPECs=], and [[BigBad Dorothy]], a very angry supercomputer with [[AGodAmI a god complex]].