Psycho Dream is an absurd addition to Switch Online, my rough guess is as a Telenet Japan property somehow a deal was made for this and Super Valis IV to join the platform.
The story follows a fairly cool sci-fi premise where a girl has fallen into a coma whilst using VR technology. This has then embedded itself into her dream world. The two characters you can choose from Ryo and Maria are both technology debuggers of sorts who set out to save her.
Ryo using a sword and Maria using a whip, there are gems that upgrade each character to a good fighting standard. Yellow is more melee driven while Blue are ranged. Red is health and purple… I’m not too sure.
Each character has a final form - Personally I preferred Maria, her final fairy demon-style form is excellent. Whereas Ryo is like a cyborg using cyclonic blades.
The gameplay is probably most similar to a side-scroller action platformer like Castlevania but much more repetitive. Even those the visuals are really cool, varying from cityscapes to bodily pulsations with many effects at play, such as smog and a Sakura tree in bloom as foreground elements, it’s realism meets psychedelia.
The bosses are excellent, taking up full screens with bold designs. It’s a pity that it is only 6 levels long and overall really repetitive slog - it’s hard to recommend beyond admiring the aesthetic choices when it comes to visual design.
The story follows a fairly cool sci-fi premise where a girl has fallen into a coma whilst using VR technology. This has then embedded itself into her dream world. The two characters you can choose from Ryo and Maria are both technology debuggers of sorts who set out to save her.
Ryo using a sword and Maria using a whip, there are gems that upgrade each character to a good fighting standard. Yellow is more melee driven while Blue are ranged. Red is health and purple… I’m not too sure.
Each character has a final form - Personally I preferred Maria, her final fairy demon-style form is excellent. Whereas Ryo is like a cyborg using cyclonic blades.
The gameplay is probably most similar to a side-scroller action platformer like Castlevania but much more repetitive. Even those the visuals are really cool, varying from cityscapes to bodily pulsations with many effects at play, such as smog and a Sakura tree in bloom as foreground elements, it’s realism meets psychedelia.
The bosses are excellent, taking up full screens with bold designs. It’s a pity that it is only 6 levels long and overall really repetitive slog - it’s hard to recommend beyond admiring the aesthetic choices when it comes to visual design.