Galerians: Ash - Strategy Guide (Page 01)
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Galerians: ASH ************** Written By Edward Chong Copyright 2003 Edward Chong Version 1.0.0 (Final) ----------------------------------------------------- Platform: PS2 Genre: Action Adventure/Survival Horror Warning: This walkthrough contains excessive use of drugs and many violent scenes. ------------------------------------------------------ Disclaimer: The author retains full copyright of this walkthrough. You may distribute this walkthrough freely as long as it is not modified and not done for commercial purposes. This walkthrough is unofficial and has nothing to do with the developers of Galerians: ASH. This is my first walkthrough effort so please excuse any mistakes I might have made. For comments or questions, I can be reached at edwardchong21@yahoo.com. Contents ******** 1.0 Cast 2.0 Story 3.0 Controls 4.0 Drugs and PPECs 5.0 Walkthrough 6.0 Others 7.0 Credits 1.0 Cast ******** You should know that Galerians: ASH is a second installment of the series. The first game, Galerians, was released for the PlayStation system in a few years ago. I have included all the characters from the first game and the second game in this section. You should be properly introduced to the characters concerned in the beginning of the game, but I will give you a more thorough introduction to each character, especially those from the first game. This might help players who have not played the first game. 1.1 Rion Steiner ---------------- Protagonist of both games. In the first game, Rion started out searching for his own identity. Realizing he has special psychic powers and a constant voice in his head begging for help, he sets out on an adventure to find the truth about himself, and the world he lives in. The answer that he found blew his mind away, literally. In the second episode, Rion, brought back from the dead, is again asked to help defend mankind from being exterminated by the Galerians, since he possess the only power that can stop them, for he himself, is also a Galerian. 1.2 Lilia Pascalle ------------------ Daughter of a famous professor who created the supercomputer Dorothy. She has in her mind a program that can destroy Dorothy. In the first game, she was hunted and was desperately seeking Rion’s help by using her telepathic powers. In the end, with Rion’s help, she was able to defeat Dorothy, but had to watch Rion die, and the world changed. She survived the extermination brought on by The Last Galerians and finally succeeded in resurrecting Rion, after six years. Being a brilliant scientist like her father, she helps Rion as Rion helps her to protect humanity. 1.3 Dorothy/Mother ------------------ A supercomputer created by Dr. Steiner and Dr. Pascalle. She was made to be a computer that runs Michelangelo City. A hindsight of the professors, they gave Dorothy a sentient mind, and as she began to question her own destiny, Dr. Steiner taught her about the concept of God. She learnt that she must serve her creator. As time goes by, she realized her power is greater than that of her creator, and she herself can become God. She began the Family Program and used chemical therapy (drugs) and genetic engineering to create artificial life forms, known as Galerians. Since she is the creator of the Galerians, she has become God, and in order to stay that way, she has to kill her creators. A classic example of artificial intelligence gone mad. Power without a heart is always evil. 1.4 Spider ---------- One of the four Last Galerians. He is mild-mannered and have spiders as his pet. In the game, he will crosses path with Rion more than once, and his impact on Rion is quite profound. In battle, he is slow and uses his spider minions to attack most of the time. 1.5 Parano ---------- One of the four Last Galerians. Twisted, creepy, crazy, ugly, and fast are the five words that can be used to associate with Parano. He likes killing tremendously and he uses his blades to prove his points. He is very limber and he sets Rion as his target from day one. An all around annoying guy, you will be happy to kick his butt over and over again. Before a battle, he always sends his robot minions to weaken Rion first. Not sportsman-like at all, his intention is just to kill Rion and even considers himself more powerful than the rest of the Last Galerians. 1.6 Nitro --------- One of the four Last Galerians. She is obsessed with pain and despair. She denies the existence of a real world and she will do anything to stop Rion from believing in one. A master of pyrokinesis, she is a formidable foe, although not nearly as deadly as Parano. 1.7 ASH ------- One of the four Last Galerians and Mother’s most precious creation. He was created by Mother and activated on her death so that he can exterminate mankind and bring her back to life. ASH seldom appears and in certain ways, he is very similar to Rion. 1.8 Cain -------- One of the four Galerians from the first game. A clone of the real Rion Steiner, just like Rion the protagonist. However, unlike Rion, Cain is evil and heartless. He holds a grudge towards Rion because Mother didn’t pick him for the job. His appearance was brief in the first game and the only important point he made was Rion’s secret identity. The battle with Cain in the first game was memorable, since it was a sick idea for one to be battling oneself, in physical reality, not philosophically. 1.9 Birdman ----------- One of the four Galerians from the first game. Birdman possess the power of teleportation. He was a creepy guy who tried to kill Rion in the first game, when Rion was trying to find out his identity in his own house. A brief appearance but has a life of sad stories. His death was saddening. 1.10 RainHeart -------------- One of the four Galerians from the first game. RainHeart has pyrokinesis as his weapon, but he often prefers to use his bare hands. A little overweight by creation, RainHeart seems very solemn, mostly because of his upbringing in the hospital that Mother had put him in, which happened to be the same hospital that Rion woke up in during the beginning of the game. His death offers a sad and sickening reflection his life thus far, and how Mother treats her ‘children’. Also, RainHeart was the murderer of Dr. Steiner and Dr. Pascalle. 1.11 Rita -------- One of the four Galerians from the first game. She possesses very strong tactile-telekinesis and was bent on killing Rion and Lilia when she found her. The battle was long and tiring, but her death was a beautiful requiem, as she asks Rion to put her out of her misery. 1.12 Dr. Steiner --------------- Father of Rion Steiner and co-creator of Dorothy. He taught Dorothy the concept of God and was killed by RainHeart in his own home, crushed to death by the boxes in a small storeroom without windows. However, before his untimely death, he had created a virus program that can kill Dorothy, and had embedded into his son’s brain. However, in order for the virus program to work, it needs another activation program. Dr. Steiner’s wife, Rion mother, was also killed in the same house, in the washroom, strangled by RainHeart. 1.13 Dr. Pascalle ------------- Father of Lilia Pascalle and co-creator of Dorothy. Killed by RainHeart in the Steiner’s mansion, he was drowned in his own car in the swimming pool when he was trying to make his getaway. Knowing Dorothy’s madness, he had created an activation program that will download the virus program from Rion’s brain into Dorothy’s system. In order to hide this activation program from Dorothy and her Galerians, he had embedded it into his daughter Lilia’s brain and sent her away to hide from the Galerians. 2.0 Story ********* 2.1 Galerians ------------- In the future, Michelangelo City was run by a supercomputer known as Dorothy, created by professors Dr. Steiner and Dr. Pascalle. In a hospital within the city, a teenager is undergoing some experiments involving drugs, when a girl’s voice began to seep into the mind of this teenager known as Rion. This voice pleaded for help from Rion, who at the moment was strapped to an operation table. Somehow, the screws to the metal straps holding him down began to loosen and Rion freed himself without knowing how. In fact, he didn’t even know who he was, just that his name is Rion, according to the voice inside his head. Rion’s release was not authorized, in fact, it was considered an escape. In the room he woke up in, he found out that he can open doors with only the power of his mind, and as soon as he exited the room, guards began to approach him with weapons in hand. Somehow, by concentrating his consciousness, Rion realized that he could use his psychic projections as attacks. As he begins his escape from the hospital (influenced by the voice in his head), he also realized that his psychic powers are based on the drugs that he takes. Except for his telepathic ability, any other psychic abilities that is used as weapons depends on the various drugs that he found in the hospital. He could use telekinesis and pyrokinesis to some extend. However, as he fights his way out of the hospital, more and more guards (as well as some other ‘experiments’) made it clear that his escape is not permitted. After using his abilities too much, Rion could go into shock, a condition known as Short, which can only be treated by using the drug Delmetor. Left untreated, Short will kill the victim and all surrounding life forms. In his escape from the hospital, Rion found out that his full name is Rion Steiner. He is the son of the co-creator of Dorothy, Dr. Steiner. In a newspaper he found in a restroom, Rion learns that his father is dead, and he has been missing for some time. He also learned that he is not the only person who is being treated with drugs and other weird experiments in this hospital. All test subjects are known as Rabbits, hence he is one himself. The director of the hospital kept appearing on TV screens, telling Rion to go back and not try to escape. As Rion learns more of what is going on, the truth behind the hospital’s function begins to sink in. It seems that Dorothy has betrayed her creator and began to play god. She created an army of ‘humans’ with psychic abilities, called the Galerians. However, these humans are genetically engineered, and in order for a normal human to gain these psychic abilities, they must use the drugs known as PPECs (Psychic Power Enhancement Chemicals) just like Rion does. In his attempt to escape the hospital, Rion also learnt about the Family Program, Dorothy’s plan in creating the few most powerful Galerians to help her conquer the world and wipe out humanity. Before Rion could exit the hospital, he came face to face with the director, and had to defeat him twice, because after burning out his skin, Rion saw that the director is really an android underneath. In an attempt to search for more clues of his past and what is going on, Rion traveled back to the house where he grew up in. It was no doubt infested with Dorothy’s minions but Rion dispatched them without a problem. In this house, Rion’s psychic ability enabled him to see actually happened. Dorothy was created to be a supercomputer solely used to run the city. However, a module that gave Dorothy a sentient mind enabled her to think and began to ask of her purpose in existence. Dr. Steiner taught Dorothy the concept of God, where the creation only has to do what their creator asks of them, and nothing else. For a moment, Dorothy seemed to be satisfy with the answer, but soon, she began to ask the reason as to why she has to serve those who are inferior to her, since she has the power to run an entire city and her creators were merely humans. She hatched a plan to kill her creators and became a God herself, hence the Galerians and the Family Program. Rion also learnt that his father and Dr. Pascalle knew about Dorothy’s betrayal and have created a virus program to kill Dorothy. However, in order to hide the program from Dorothy, they embedded the program into the brain of Dr. Steiner’s son, Rion. Further, for the virus program to launch, an activation program must be executed beforehand. This activation program was embedded into the brain of Dr. Pascalle’s daughter, Lilia. She is the one Rion hears in his mind. She is the one in danger. In the same house, Rion saw how his father died in a storeroom, crushed to death by junk. He also saw his mother’s death, strangled from behind in a washroom. Dr. Pascalle also died within the vicinity of the house, drowned in the pool inside his car when he was trying to make his getaway. In order to find Lilia, Rion had to go to a hotel in the city, but his progress was halted by the appearance of the first Galerian from the Family Program. Birdman. Possessing the power of teleportation, Rion had a hard time defeating him. In the end, Birdman was left to die at the playground of Rion’s house. Arriving in the city, Rion found the hotel but it looked like someone beat him to the chase. The blood on the front desk told him that. As Rion searched through the hotel, he met some pretty unusual tenants and some very disturbed people. He also met with RainHeart, the second Galerian from the Family Program, and the assassin of his parents as well as Dr. Pascalle. RainHeart was a fire user and they had a heated brawl in one of the rooms in the hotel. Defeating RainHeart, Rion was ‘rewarded’ with the vision of RainHeart’s past, how he was treated in the hospital with all the experiments and drugs. The poor soul was merely a scared and reluctant slave to Dorothy’s scheme. Lilia’s voice was getting louder but at the same time more desperate. Finding an underway, Rion made it pass the generator room and into an abandon and hidden room, where Lilia has been hiding for so long. Before they could be properly introduced, the third Galerian from the Family Program barged in. Rita is a telekinesis specialist, and she made Rion’s head spin with all the tables and chairs flying around. Rion beat her time and again, which made her mad. She injected more and more drugs into her body in order to defeat Rion, but she only defeated herself as the drugs overdosed her system. Before her death, Rion got a glimpse into her life filled with Dorothy’s forced commands and dirty works. She wanted to perish just like the white snow in her dreams, and begged Rion to kill her. Despite Lilia’s pleading, Rion fulfilled Rita’s wish. Too many have suffered and more have died in Dorothy’s insane rise to power. It is up to Rion and Lilia to stop her. They infiltrated the Mushroom Tower where Dorothy resides, killing all those who stands in their way. However, a surprise came when they arrived at the Family Program Room. A person who looks exactly like Rion appeared. He declared himself as Cain, the fourth but not the last Galerian in Dorothy’s Family Program. He is a clone of Rion, just like Rion himself. The shocking news brought by Cain was that Rion is one of the Galerians in Dorothy’s Family Program, just a clone of the real Rion Steiner who had died years ago when he was kidnapped and admitted to the hospital. Both he and Cain was created to masquerade as the real Rion and brings Lilia to Dorothy. Rion realized he was a puppet in Dorothy’s scheme, and Cain is furious at their mother’s decision of not choosing him to masquerade the real Rion. Unable to accept the truth that he is a clone and that he is a Galerian himself, Rion killed Cain who didn’t seem to have any remorse of who or what he was. Regardless of the truth, Rion and Lilia went on to face Dorothy. Dorothy greeted Rion as her son, therefore Cain was telling the truth. She ordered Rion to kill Lilia, but he refused. Dorothy was left with no choice but to kill them both herself. She ended up begging Rion not to kill her, his own mother. Rion put it into perspective for her. She killed her creator, now she is going to be killed by her own creation. Using Lilia’s activation program, Rion downloaded the virus program in his brain right into Dorothy’s mainframe, thus killing her. However, in doing so, the download caused Rion to go into Short condition, only this time it cannot be cured even by using a Delmetor. Lilia held the dying Rion in her arms as the Mushroom Tower exploded. A cliché --------- The virus program was embedded into Rion’s brain. The real Rion died shortly after being admitted into the hospital. Dorothy recreated Rion by making a clone of him, thus replicating the virus program in Rion’s brain as well. If Dorothy hadn’t cloned Rion, the virus program would have disappeared together with the real Rion Steiner. It seems that fate has a cruel sense of irony. 2.2 Galerians: ASH ------------------ Six years into the future, Lilia survived the explosion in the Mushroom Tower. However, contrary to their believes, Michelangelo City did not prosper after Dorothy’s destruction. Instead, it perished with her. At the moment of her death, Dorothy launched one last program: The Last Galerians. Aside from the Family Program, Dorothy actually have another batch of Galerians created and ready to strike out at humanity at the moment of her death. The Last Galerians were to annihilate all human and revive Dorothy. Lilia has been working on bringing Rion back to life after that fateful encounter with Dorothy at the Mushroom Tower. Rion’s consciousness is lost in the vast space of Dorothy’s backup data storage. Lilia must find a way to bring Rion’s consciousness back into his cryogenically frozen body. 3.0 Controls ************ The controls differ depending on which button configurations you choose in the Option screen. However, the usage of the controls (not the buttons) are as below: 3.1 Check/Confirm --------------------- Used to sense for psychic residues and look for items as well as opening doors. In the menu screen, it is used to navigate and select options. 3.2 Cancel ------------ Used to cancel actions. 3.3 Movement ------------ Used to move Rion around. 3.4 Lock-On ------------ Used to lock onto an enemy so that the enemy is always in sight. Limited movement is still permitted while locked onto an enemy. 3.5 Shield --------- Used to invoke Rion’s ability to generate a psychic around himself. The shield is impenetrable, protecting Rion from enemy attacks. 3.6 Personal View ------------------- Enable Rion to look around in first-person mode. Movement is not allowed when in Personal View. 3.7 Others ----------- There are other controls like tilting of the camera angle and activating the menu. 4.0 Drugs and PPECs ******************* Drugs are used primarily for recovery or some status change in Rion’s body. PPECs (Psychic Power Enhancement Chemicals) are used to endow Rion with psychic abilities that can be used to attack enemies. 4.1 Drugs --------- 4.1.1 Recovery Capsule ---------------------- Used to recover Rion’s HP gauge by about 50%. Rion will die when his HP (Hit Point/Strength) gauge is empty. 4.1.2 Recovery Plus ------------------- Used to fully recover Rion’s HP gauge. 4.1.3 Delmetor -------------- Used to empty Rion’s AP gauge. If his AP (Addiction Point) gauge is filled, he will go into a condition known as Short. 4.1.4 Appolinar --------------- Used to max out Rion’s AP gauge on purpose so that he go into Short condition. Do not use without Delmetor at hand. 4.1.5 Skip ---------- Used to raise the level of Rion’s psychic ability by 1. All of Rion’s ability can go to a maximum level of 3, but all psychic abilities has to be at the same level before any of them can go to the next level. 4.2 (PPECs) ----------- 4.2.1 Nalcon ------------ Green in colour, Nalcon endows Rion with the power of telekinesis. Rion can concentrate shockwaves of psychic blasts and lets them loose on an enemy. 4.2.2 Red --------- Red in colour, Red endows Rion with the power of pyrokinesis. Rion can project a wall of fire from his mind that burns anything caught within the blast radius. 4.2.3 D-Felon ------------- Blue in colour, D-Felon endows Rion with the power of anti-gravity. He will be able to lift reasonably sized objects off the floor and then slams them down again where it hurts the most. 4.2.4 Melantropin ----------------- A drug that is abundant within Rion’s body. Endows Rion with the psychic abilities of telepathy (communication with the mind) and Shield. 4.2.5 Bustanor -------------- Yellow in colour, Bustanor is a new drug created by the scientists working for Dr. Lilia. It enables Rion to throw out a number of projectile shockwaves that will home-in on the nearest enemy. Concentration time is very brief for Bustanor. 4.2.6 Breakaron ------------- Purple in colour, Breakaron is a new drug created by the scientists working for Dr. Lilia. It enables Rion to discharge the static trapped in the air, creating thunders all around him. Very powerful but the ingredients used to make Breakaron are very rare. 5.0 Walkthrough *************** 5.1 The End of the Beginning ---------------------------- You begin at the final level of the previous game. Take some time to get used to the controls, since they are evidently very different from the last game (for those who played it). Run around the room and you will notice that clouds with different colours appear now and then. These clouds are items. Unlike other games in this genre where you have to search for items, hidden or otherwise, Galerians: ASH makes it easy for you. As long as you are in the vicinity, a cloud will appear and all you have to do is run into the cloud to get the item. These items will normally be drugs (PPECs, Recovery Capsule, etc). For important items (like keys, files, etc), they don't appear in this way, therefore you will still have to search for them. Collect all five items from this room and Check the big tanks if you wish (you will have to Check each tank twice to see first the name of the clone, then the face of that clone, which turned out to be Birdman, RainHeart, Rita, Cain, and of course, Rion), but the only requirement to continue is to check the body lying on the floor. That's Cain, another clone of Rion who actually knows he is a Galerian, which was defeated in the first game. You get some Rion/Cain Type files which are actually instructions that tells you how to play the game. I suggest you read them even if you have played the first game before. There are some distinct changes in this installment. I noted them down in the previous section in this walkthrough. Once the door is open (unlocked when you Check Cain's body), go to the door and press Check to open and enter. Go up a flight of stairs and you will come to a big dome. After a cut scene, you are back in control. Start running because there are Rabbits all over the place trying to slice you into tiny pieces. Run around for items. You can kill the Rabbits, but they will keep coming and coming. Notice that when an enemy is near, a target appears around it. If you press the Check button, a number appears on top of the enemy. This number is the amount of HP that enemy has. Whenever you have an enemy in target, you can charge up your psychic power and blast it to oblivion. Each blast will generate a number on top of the enemy. This is the amount of damage that the enemy has received from your attack. Some of your psychic powers, like Red, is capable of damaging more than one enemy at a time, if the enemies are closed together. That will save you some PPECs. Alternatively, you can Lock On to an enemy. Once you do that, the target will change from green to red and Rion will not let the enemy out of his side. You can still move around, but only by walking. This is not recommended when you are faced with many enemies around you. If you are surrounded, try to use the Shield button. This will generate a psychic shield that absorbs damages. However, since this shield is enabled by the Melantropin in Rion's blood, your AP gauge will fill up as you are using the shield. It is always better to lure the enemies so that they are following you. When you have some distance, turn around, charge up, and let your psychic power loose. Once you kill an enemy, it will turn into an item cloud. The items could be PPECs, drugs, or a status boost (HP + 7, AP + 23, Nalcon + 10, etc). A status boost will make your gauge longer (although you cannot see it) so that your HP, AP, and PPECs can lasts longer. In this huge dome room, your objective is to find an open door. Just run around and find that door. Once you found it, go in. In the next area, there is a Save Terminal to the left. There are also a few items to grab so run around a little. Go into the middle hallway last, because once you are in there, a cut scene will take place and once that is over, two robots will appear. Use Nalcon on these robots because Red don't do a thing to them. Run around, wait for them to start shooting, quickly dodge out of the line of fire, face one of them, and then let loose a blast of Nalcon. If you hit them while they are not shooting, there is a possibility that your blast will be blocked by the metal shield that they are carrying. Take them out, go back into the middle hallway for another cut scene. When the cut scene is over, go into the elevator straight ahead. Again you find yourself inside a dome. To your left is a big terminal while to your right is a giant face. Directly in front of you is a door and at least three Rabbits charging at you. You will have to take them out even though they will appear again. Keep killing the Rabbits until they don't appear anymore. If you don't, it won't be easy to solve this next puzzle. See the pink cloud in the middle of the room? If you walk into the cloud, it will disappear and reappear somewhere else. If you leave it for too long, it goes back to the center of the room. The idea is to follow the pink cloud. Move into it to make it disappear and reappear somewhere else, follow it and make it disappear again. The pink cloud reappears almost always behind you, further and further every time. It gets harder and harder to catch up with it in time. If you don't get to it in time, the pink cloud will go back to the center of the room and you will have to do it all over again. To help you run faster, press the Forward Roll button. This will make Rion roll forward, gaining a little more distance than just running alone. This move is also critical while fighting with enemies. If you are surrounded or targeted, use this move to quickly get out of the situation you are in. Once you are done chasing the pink cloud, the terminal will be powered up. Go there, just Check it, and a cut scene will follow. After the cut scene, go to the door opposite the one where you came in. Forget about the giant face. There's nothing there. Exiting the door will land you in the Bridge with some really tall and red monsters that spits yellow gas. If you are in another survival horror game, you would most probably get poisoned, but in Galerians: ASH, Rion doesn't get poisoned, so it is relatively safe to fight these lanky creatures. However, don't get too comfortable because they still pack a punch. Take them out if you want, otherwise just run to the other end of the bridge and press Check at the darkened door. There is also a Save Terminal here. I have to say that this game is very generous in providing Save Terminals, unlike the first game. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Boss Fight : Dorothy !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! In this next room, you face Dorothy a.k.a Mother. After some cut scene, the battle begin. Unlike the battle with Dorothy in the first game, this time around, she is much tougher. She has three long-range attacks. If you are in the circular platform, she will either use an electrical attack that shoots all over the place, or the dual laser beams from her eyes, or a flamethrower. If you retreat back to the door, she will only use the flamethrower, which is almost impossible to avoid. In the circular platform, you should check the panel where you can upload your virus into Dorothy, but don't stay too long, because she will also occasionally hit you with her hands. Your best bet against her is Nalcon, unlike the first game (which was Red where it burns all of her three eyeballs), since her eyeballs only come out after a while. You should have enough Recovery Capsules to spare, so just stand in front of her and keep on letting loose some Nalcon, blast after blast. You will not see any numbers on her head, but as long as she shows some flicker, you will know that your blasts connect. Keep doing this until she falls. A long cut scene follows. This is actually the ending to the first game. When the cut scene is done, you will be saying the same thing as Rion. Déjà vu. You are back where you began. It's the same room where you first found Cain. You must be saying 'no' by now. Yes, you have to go through everything all over again. This time around, be sure to grab all the items in this room. You will need it. Check Cain's body to open the door and go up the steps to the gigantic dome. Similarly as the first time, run around to find the open door that leads you into the room with a Save Terminal. Search the area for items and go into the middle hallway for another cut scene. Take the elevator up to enter the room with the gigantic face and the moving pink cloud, only this time around, the pink cloud is gone and is replaced by a Galerian by the name of Spider. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Boss Fight : Spider !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!! Spoilers !!!!!!!! As the story has it, Rion is currently nothing but data inside the backup storage of the Mushroom Tower. Lilia is trying to revive Rion by bringing his consciousness out of this mass of backup data. It seems that when Rion and Lilia killed Dorothy, she was able to execute one final program: The Last Galerians (this was actually the working title for this game, before it was changed to Galerians: ASH). This program creates the four Galerians you will be facing in this game. Parano, Spider, Nitro, and ASH. They are the last Galerians that will wipe out mankind and bring Dorothy back to life. !!!!!!!! Spoilers !!!!!!!! Your first meeting with the Last Galerians happen to be Spider. He talked about how he would be better off without Rion interfering into their work and so now he must kill Rion. The fight begins with a really techno music and green cobwebs all over the place, with particles that looks like snow falling from the ceiling. Two things you should look out for: Spider, and spiders. If you see Spider, just blast him with either Nalcon or Red and he will retreat to the ceiling. Once he does that, run around the place burning the cobwebs down. Little spiders will try to crawl up Rion and suck the life out of him. Use Red on them. Make Spider come down form the ceiling and when he does, blast him with Rion's psychic powers. Spider's attacks are nothing to be concerned about. They are easy to dodge and doesn't do heavy damage. This should be an easy fight, although it could take some time, waiting for Spider to show up. You can look for him using the Personal View right analog stick, but know that once you go into Personal View, you are standing still and sitting duck. Once the battle with Spider is over, he will disappear. You get a Skip and a chance to upgrade your psychic powers. Skip is a drug that will boost your psychic powers one level. Currently there are four psychic powers that you can choose to upgrade: Shield, Nalcon, Red, and D-Felon. You may choose to use the Skip later, but it doesn't really matter anyway. I suggest you use it on Shield, because a level 2 Shield is going to be a saviour in the next stage. When you are done deciding, go to the terminal to get the bridge set, get out of the room. Go pass the bridge (killing the monsters if you wish). Again, you arrive at Dorothy's chamber. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Boss Fight : Dorothy - Déjà vu !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This fight is exactly the same as the previous fight. Just blast her with Nalcon and try to avoid as many of her attacks as possible. You should kill her within three minutes. After taking out Dorothy, instead of uploading the virus program into Dorothy (which was already done because Dorothy is already dead, Rion is a data in the backup storage, remember?), Rion used the panel to transport himself out of the backup storage, and back into his body. 5.2 Six Years into the Future ----------------------------- In a very long cut scene, Rion wakes up from his cryogenic sleep inside the Hyper-Sleep Room. Lilia brings him up to date (that's six years into the future) and gave him some new clothes. As the cut scene ends, you are suppose to go out the door to the Control Room, but why not take a look around first? There is a cloud of circling particles in the room. This is what I call a Healing Cloud. You step into it, press Check, and your HP gauge will be instantly refilled to the max, while your AP gauge is instantly emptied. Other things in the room includes the cryogenic chamber where Rion slept, a control panel, and a large cylindrical thing in the middle of the room. Nothing important except the Healing Cloud. In this stage, you may want to return here to get yourself healed instead of using Recover Capsules. Those things are hard to come by. $$$$$$$$$$$$ My Two Cents $$$$$$$$$$$$ A little note I would like to make about Rion's new look. Since six years has passed, he does seems to be taller and more matured, especially with the tight leather pants and T-shirt. His collar is different from the original game. It looks more 'hip', while the original looked like a dog collar. His hair sticks to his head with a really spiky look. He hunches when he is standing and his two shoulders looks like they are out of place. All in all, I still prefer the original look. As far as cryogenic technology goes, a subject don't grow or decompose when they are frozen in sub-zero temperature. That's the idea of cryogenic freezing! On the other hand, Lilia looks even more matured, with a strong scientist feel to her. Her outfit is tight and almost sexy. Ultimately, she fairs much better than Rion in the outlook department. In the Control Room (there is only one exit from the Hyper-Sleep Room), go to the place where everybody gathers to meet Major Romero. You may not like him at first, but you will definitely hate him later. Listen to them talk about how the humans can handle the Last Galerians when an intrusion was detected and everybody was put on alert. It seems that one of the Last Galerians, Parano, has invaded Hangar No. 3. Major Romero dispatches his soldiers to the scene, while leaving you pretty much free to do anything you want. Run around the Control Room for some items and then take the stairs to the 3rd floor. There are a total of 5 floors in this area. The Hyper-Sleep Room, the Control Room, 3rd floor, 2nd floor, and Entrance Lobby. This does not include the hangars and sewer which you will have to roam later. On the 3rd floor, the first thing you should do is find Lab No. 1 where Lilia has been taken to. Getting off the staircase, it should be the last room in the hallway to Rion's right. Talk to Lilia and she will give you a Map Device. This enables the Map option in the Menu, and adds a map to the top left corner of your screen. I don't suppose I need to tell you how important the map is. Yellows are unlocked doors, red are locked doors, red triangles are enemies. Rion is the big blue arrow, the only thing on the map that moves. Lilia will also give you a communicator that is only used in cut scenes. Check around the lab for some items. Try to meet the main computer that controls this shelter, Elaine. You may be thinking 'they dare to rely on a computer again, after what happened to Dorothy?'. Well, one of the scientists will tell you that Elaine is not installed with an artificial intelligence module, therefore, she cannot operate without human controls. Now that's a load of my mind. Also, talk to a scientist on the raised platform to learn about their research of a new PPEC. Next up, there is only one thing to do. Explore. You have three floors to explore. The 3rd floor is a little small, consisting only of the Tactical Operation Room (there's a Save Terminal here), Lab No. 1, and a Sick Bay. Note however there are two stairwells to the 2nd floor, one guarded while the other locked. You can reached the 2nd floor via the guarded stairwell. The 2nd floor is much bigger. There is an Armory, a Emergency Generator Room, Warehouse No. 2, a Save Terminal, and Lab No. 2 (inaccessible). All you can do here for now is run around, visit all rooms so that you know your way around, and note key items that you cannot pick up just yet (power cable in Warehouse No. 2). Then, go down one more floor to reach the Entrance Lobby. This place is huge, but there are nothing much to be seen or to get here. The three main areas that you have to visit is the Flight Control Room to your left (you can see the door from where you stand), the General Office to your right (also visible), and the R&D Room way back behind Rion. There is also a locked door behind Rion. Visit all rooms to get some items. Go to Flight Control Room first. There are two doors here, both leads back to the Entrance Lobby. The lock door I mentioned is on the same block as the Flight Control Room. Next, look for the R&D Room, but before you go in, take a walk around the bend. You will see a long hallway with a dead end. Search the boxes to find a key that you cannot get just yet. Note the location and then go into the R&D Room. There's nothing interesting in the R&D Room but there is another door at the back, that leads to the General Office. Walk around to find two doors facing each other. One to the Armory (locked) while another leads to Hangar No. 3, which is where you need to go right now. Open and enter the door. You will appear on a stairway. Just find the door that opens into West-Side Underpass. A cut scene quickly ensues, depicting how the humans are losing against the Galerians. Rion showed up and save the day. After meeting Cas, a tough female soldier, you get control of Rion. Follow the straightforward sewer to the other side, taking some time to first save at the Save Terminal (there are two items next to it) and getting another item from the dead end platform before heading towards the door. A cut scene is triggered as you near the door. Some of the dead soldier begin to rise, and Rion's Sense shows how Parano turn them into zombie soldiers after he killed them. They say that of all the Last Galerians, Parano is the most cruel. He took out one eye from the corpses and replaces them with a control device, making the dead rise to serve his cause. Sick, huh? Rion agrees. As soon as you come back from the cut scene, use Red to immediately fry the three zombie soldiers. If you hesitate, they will throw a bomb at you. You absolutely don't want to get wounded now because Parano is just behind the door. Kill the zombie soldiers, grab the items they turn into, enter the door and walk a little for another cut scene.
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