Psycho Dream 「サイコドリーム」

🗼 It's like you spotted a weird unknown cartridge on the store shelf, but since you're partial to retro anime style, you give it a chance without a second thought. It's not the most complex, but definitely an old straightforward action from 1992 (if RIOT sounds familiar, that tells everything you need to know). Simple power-up upgrades, minimal platforming, no secrets, modest duration, sometimes weird hitboxes. Unfortunately, no plot in the game itself, but the controls are fine, the graphics are great, and the mysterious atmosphere is well created, as is the music. The emulation isn't the best, as it has minor graphical bugs and A LOT of slowdowns, which is basically your main enemy (don't know if it was like that on the native hardware). Simple working shell, but the manual isn't even translated (sad). You should understand that this is an EXTREMELY niche release (not even «VALIS» level) from a small dev team. Regional prices are at least present, but if you have doubts about buying, definitely wait for a significant discount, otherwise you might be disappointed.

A beautifully haunting piece of gaming history, unfortunately overshadowed by its even more terrifying emulation issues. Psycho Dream is an extremely interesting, yet unfortunately flawed, action platformer that was originally only released for the Super Famicom in 1992. Even at that time, the game was met with very unfavorable reviews and considered a pretty bare bones experience by comparison. And while sadly I would agree with such sentiments, I think as time progressed people were able to find more appreciation for the title and enjoy it for its incredibly weird and psychedelically designed world. Make no mistake though, [b] as a game [/b] ,Psycho Dream is a [b] VERY [/b] bland and generic action platformer. It works, but its just not that fun. The hit boxes are all over the place, the level design is almost non existent, and the story is...well, its stuck on the manual... [b] completely untranslated. [/b] However if I'm being honest, Psycho Dream seemingly puts its gameplay and level design in the passenger seat while letting its visual presentation, crazy-ass music, and super interesting story, take the wheel instead. [b] This [/b] is where I think [b] most [/b] people wil…

The emulator sucks, the game is mediocre and boring, I beat it under an hour. Riot has a history of generic and great games, but this one is just bad. Music, controls and gameplay sucks. Though Maria is hot, her design reminds me of the robot chick in Jason X, and the plot and concept is not bad. Though this port isn't bad, it's just lacking, dead in the inside. Achievement doesn't add publicly nor it add +1 on your library. It's just another bad port of an obscure game from the same creator of the Valis series.

Whatever issue this got its slew of negative reviews seems to be fixed now. I played and beat this game without any issues or jank. In fact, it ran very smoothly. The game is interesting and worth the cheap price if circa 1990 action games are your thing. For it's time, it's a step above the norm graphically, although the mechanics can feel clunky at times - especially where some platforming is needed. Enemies can also be annoying, but that's more a product of this game's era and not so much the design itself. All in all, not a bad game for what it is and in some ways it's a step above the norm.

it is weird, it is a hidden gem and it is a very good snes game, and for the price ? no way to say no. you will have a good time, just don't listen to the emulation accurate weebs here, the game is good enough for the causal gamer and no need to fret about it, had a great time playing it and it is great thing to have such an obscure game available on steam.

I waited for the fixes, I love this game deeply so ♥♥♥♥ it pretty good.