Underplayed Gems

Elemental Gearbolt (1997)

Elemental Gearbolt cover
Developer
Alfa System
Publisher
Working Designs, Sony Computer Entertainment
Platforms
PlayStation
Genres
Shooter

More by Alfa System

The 3D catalog: game boxes on wooden shelves, with the cat sitting at the counter next to its greeting.

The catalog in 3D

The same catalog has a room you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real games from it when you tell them what you feel like playing. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this game is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

More games like thisWatch the trailer

or watch the trailer on YouTube

How it feels

A rail-shooter rush of frantic on-rails gunplay wrapped around a melodramatic tale of vengeful, reborn souls.

fast-pacedarcade shooterintensesci-fi actionmelodramaticlinearchallengingstylized

About

Elemental Gearbolt is your typical "save the world from the evil lunatic who wishes to destroy all of mankind for his own tyrannical reasons" story. In this case, a power hungry prince is plotting this scenario by using the Neural Network Computer, which happens to keep the world in balance. He wishes to destroy this machine, which feeds on volunteers, or Elementals. Once you die, your soul is fed to this machine which makes you an Elemental. Such is the case with the two sisters' Nell and Seana. But what the prince did not know is that he caused their death and now the two Elementals are out for his blood and to save all of mankind.

More games like this

More by Alfa System

This page is from Underplayed Gems, a catalog of older and overlooked games. Not quite it? You can browse by platform and genre, or take this one into the 3D catalog and ask the Catbot for something closer.