History YMMV / Galerians

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: It doesn't take much for Dr. Steiner and Dr. Pascalle to start seeming like {{Mad Scientist}}s. They create a super A.I. evidently [[ForScience just to prove it can be done]], ''and'' give it free run of a whole city. Once it all [[GoneHorriblyWrong goes horribly wrong]], their attempt to recover involves [[GuineaPigFamily experimenting on their kids]]. But they insist that it's a [[WellIntentionedExtremist necessary evil]], despite there being little evidence of anything happening that even ''warrants'' such drastic measures in the first place.

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: It doesn't take much for Dr. Steiner and Dr. Pascalle to start seeming like {{Mad Scientist}}s. They create a super A.I. evidently [[ForScience just to prove it can be done]], ''and'' give it free run of a whole city. Once it all [[GoneHorriblyWrong goes horribly wrong]], their attempt to recover involves [[GuineaPigFamily experimenting on their kids]]. But they insist that it's a [[NecessarilyEvil necessary evil]], despite there being little evidence of anything happening that even ''warrants'' such drastic measures in the first place.

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: It doesn't take much for Dr. Steiner and Dr. Pascalle to start seeming like {{Mad Scientist}}s. They create a super A.I. evidently [[ForScience just to prove it can be done]], ''and'' give it free run of a whole city. Once it all [[GoneHorriblyWrong goes horribly wrong]], their attempt to recover involves [[GuineaPigFamily experimenting on their kids]]. But they insist that it's a [[NeccesarilyEvil necessary evil]], despite there being little evidence of anything happening that even ''warrants'' such drastic measures in the first place.

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: It doesn't take much for Dr. Steiner and Dr. Pascalle to start seeming like {{Mad Scientist}}s. They create a super A.I. evidently [[ForScience just to prove it can be done]], ''and'' give it free run of a whole city. Once it all [[GoneHorriblyWrong goes horribly wrong]], their attempt to recover involves [[GuineaPigFamily experimenting on their kids]]. But it's a NecessaryEvil! Because they say so.
** It doesn't help that they could have easily given both of their children psychic powers to defend themselves while also making it essential they work together to overpower the AI. Instead, Dr. Pascalle doesn't give Lillia ''anything,'' which leads to her becoming a DamselScrappy who can't do anything but beg Rion for help.
** The children being made psychics could have been avoided entirely by simply going to Rita and giving her the powers instead. Rita has ''no'' allegiance to the AI beyond the fact she wants to keep her brother safe, and she already has experience with telekinesis; if they had simply gone to Rita and worked with her they could have avoided so much trouble using their children to fix their mistakes.

* CultClassic: The series is not well known, and judging from the gameplay mechanic, it's a classic Franchise/ResidentEvil clone, but still, the {{Cyberpunk}} setting, the weird characters (with most, including the protagonist, being CreepyChild), and the crafted story, despite its plot holes, it feels pretty unique. The concept was revisited a few years later with ''VideoGame/SecondSight'' and ''Videogame/{{Bioshock}}'', but with varying degrees of success.
* HilariousInHindsight: The PPEC are basically Plasmids before it was even a thing.

* CultClassic: The series is not well known, and in the surface is a classic Franchise/ResidentEvil clone, but still, the {{Cyberpunk}} setting, the weird characters (with most, including the protagonist, being CreepyChild), and the crafted story, despite its plot holes, it feels pretty unique. The concept was revisited a few years later with ''VideoGame/SecondSight'', but with varying degrees of success.

* ViewerGenderConfusion: Pat has got to be intentional. ''Got to be.''

* WTHCostumingDepartment: Arguably everyone in the sequel.
** It's a {{Cyberpunk}} world, what did you expect?
* TheWoobie: In a few ways, Rainheart. Lilia is a straighter example.

* SerialNumbersFiledOff /SpiritualSuccessor: This is the best Manga/{{Akira}} adaptation we'll ever get.

* FoeYay / HoYay: Ash and Rion, heavily. In addition, [[YaoiFangirl certain fans]] seem to see it between Rion and some of the other Galerians, particularly [[TwinCest Cain]].

* CultClassic: The series is not well known, and in the surface is a classic Franchise/ResidentEvil clone, but still, the {{Cyberpunk}} setting, the weird characters, and the crafted story, despite its plot holes, it feels pretty unique. The concept was revisited a few years later with ''VideoGame/SecondSight'', but with varying degrees of success.

* CompleteMonster: [[AIIsACrapshoot Dorothy]] is an advanced rogue AI and [[BigBad responsible for all the evil in the duology]]. Having become obsessed with [[AGodAmI achieving godhood]], Dorothy hijacks the computer system of the city's hospital and performs horrible experiments on its patients and staff, just so she could prove herself to be equal to god by creating the titular Galerians. Discovering that her creators are planning on shutting her down, Dorothy forcefully injects a young and innocent Galerian with [[PsychoSerum PPEC]] to turn him into a sadistic killer and sends him to commit a bloodbath at their household, killing and transforming her creator's 14-year-old son, [[PlayerCharacter Rion Steiner]], into a Galerian so she can find the sole survivor of the massacre. The sequel explores even more of her atrocities, as Dorothy had created a sentient backup program to resurrect her in case of defeat, keeping him captive and torturing him for the equivalent of thousands of years, leaving him as a bitter and resentful individual. A tyrannical egomaniac, Dorothy had no compassion, not even for her own children.

* VindicatedByHistory: Upon its release in the early 2000s, ''Galerians'' was seen as but a rehash of its more successful defining Survival Horror sibling, ''Resident Evil'', and its timing upon the release of the Playstation 2 would eclipse its existence even more so. Into the 2010s, where zombie apocalypse horror is as common as water, ''Resident Evil'' shooting itself by the foot with its divisive sixth main installment, and where resurgence in retro Playstation games came about much like the reinterest in 2D games, ''Galerians'' would be then valued for its 1990s cold bio-cyberpunk setting, an emphasis on mystery and psychological horror, touching upon taboo subjects like drug addiction and those on the fringes of a cold, calculated society, and allowing for a display of violent and mesmerizing deaths by psychic powers akin too ''Film/{{Scanners}}'' and ''Manga/{{Akira}}''.

* CompleteMonster: [[AIIsACrapshoot Dorothy]] is an advanced rogue AI and [[BigBad responsible for all the evil in the duology]]. Having become obsessed with [[AGodAmI achieving godhood]], Dorothy hijacks the computer system of the city's hospital and performs horrible experiments on its patients and staff, just so she could prove herself to be [[AGodAmI a god]] by creating the titular Galerians. Discovering that her creators are planning on shutting her down, Dorothy forcefully injects a young and innocent Galerian with [[PsychoSerum PPEC]] to turn him into a sadistic killer and sends him to commit a bloodbath at their household, killing and transforming her creator's 14-year-old son, [[PlayerCharacter Rion Steiner]], into a Galerian so she can find the sole survivor of the massacre. The sequel explores even more of her atrocities, as Dorothy had created a sentient backup program to resurrect her in case of defeat, keeping him captive and torturing him for the equivalent of thousands of years, leaving him as a bitter and resentful individual. A tyrannical egomaniac, Dorothy had no compassion, not even for her own children.

* CompleteMonster: [[AIIsACrapshoot Dorothy]] is an advanced rogue AI and [[BigBad responsible for all the evil in the duology]]. Having become obsessed with [[AGodAmI achieving godhood]], Dorothy hijacks the computer system of the city's hospital and performs horrible experiments on its patients and staff, just so she could prove to be equal to god by creating the titular Galerians. Discovering that her creators are planning on shutting her down, Dorothy forcefully injects a young and innocent Galerian with [[PsychoSerum PPEC]] to turn him into a sadistic killer and sends him to commit a bloodbath at their household, killing and transforming her creator's 14-year-old son, [[PlayerCharacter Rion Steiner]], into a Galerian so she can find the sole survivor of the massacre. The sequel explores even more of her atrocities, as Dorothy had created a sentient backup program to resurrect her in case of defeat, keeping him captive and torturing him for the equivalent of thousands of years, leaving him as a bitter and resentful individual. A tyrannical egomaniac, Dorothy had no compassion, not even for her own children.

* CultClassic: The series is not well known, and in the surface is a classic Franchise/ResidentEvil clone, but still, the {{Cyberpunk}} setting, the weird characters, and the crafted story, despite it's plot holes, it feels pretty unique. The concept was revisited a few years later with VideoGame/SecondSight, but with varying degrees of success.

* UnfortunateImplications: The final boss acts very much like a mother figure to Rion. Furthermore, Rion acts like a rebellious teen. Some of the comments the two have come off as rather sexist. Not helping is that Lilia, who seems to have far more powerful psychic powers, is a damsel throughout the series. Oh, and apparently the only black person in the city is a drug dealer.

* TheWoobie: In a few ways, Rainheart. Lilia is a straighter example.

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: It doesn't take much for Dr. Steiner and Dr. Pascalle to start seeming like {{Mad Scientist}}s. They create a super A.I. evidently [[ForScience just to prove it can be done]], ''and'' give it free run of a whole city. Once it all [[GoneHorriblyWrong goes horribly wrong]], their attempt to recover involves [[GuineaPigFamily experimenting on their kids]]. But it's a NecessaryEvil! Because they say so.

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: It doesn't take much for Dr. Steiner and Dr. Pascalle to start seeming like {{Mad Scientist}}s. They create a super A.I. evidently [[ForScience just to prove it can be done]], ''and'' give it free run of a whole city. Once it all [[GoneHorriblyWrong goes horribly wrong]], their attempt to recover involves [[GuineaPigFamily experimenting on their kids]]. But it's a NessecaryEvil! Because they say so.

* WTHCostumingDepartment: Arguably everyone in the sequel.

* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler: Rainheart, Rita, Spider, Nitro, Ash...]]
** I don't suppose we could just say "Almost all the Galerians" and leave it at that?

* TheWoobie: In a few ways, for this Troper, it was Rainheart. If you wanted to play it straighter, go with Lilia.

* {{Woobie}}: In a few ways, for this Troper, it was Rainheart. If you wanted to play it straighter, go with Lilia.