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Gley Lancer[lower-alpha 1] is a 1992 horizontally scrolling shooter developed and published by Masaya for the Mega Drive.

This article's lead section may be too short to adequately summarize the key points. (October 2022)

Gley Lancer
Japanese Mega Drive cover art
Developer(s)	NCS Corporation
Publisher(s)	Masaya Mega Drive Original release JP: Masaya KOR: Samsung Relaunch JP: Columbus Circle Virtual Console WW: NCS Corporation Windows JP: Extreme Co., Ltd
Producer(s)	Toshirou Tsuchida
Designer(s)	Hikaru Satō Kaichi Sato
Programmer(s)	Yukihiro Higuchi
Artist(s)	Hiroshi Hayashi Hiroshi Aizawa Masanori Sakurai
Composer(s)	Isao Mizoguchi Masanori Hikichi Noriyuki Iwadare
Platform(s)	Windows Mega Drive Virtual Console Switch PlayStation 4 PlayStation 5 Xbox One Xbox Series X/S
Release	17 July 1992 Mega Drive Original release JP: 17 July 1992 KOR: 1992 Relaunch JP: 6 June 2019 Virtual Console JP: 26 February 2008 PAL: 16 May 2008 NA: 21 July 2008 Windows JP: 12 July 2016 Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S WW: 15 October 2021[1]
Genre(s)	Scrolling shooter
Mode(s)	Single-player

Gameplay

During the game, the Gley Lancer can toggle through four different speeds. This is always done in a 1-2-3-4-3-2-repeat order, although the starting point can be chosen in the game options. By shooting silver and blue pods, the player can pick up various weapons which take the form of Gunners:

• Twin Shot: Fires a rapid stream of double blue energy pulses. Basic weapon.
• Laser: Fires thin white lasers. Not quite as powerful as Twin Shot, but pierces enemies and inflicts multiple strikes on large enemies.
• 5-Way: Shoots an arc of five purple energy pulses. Although the range is excellent, it suffers from a low fire rate—only one salvo from each Gunner can be on-screen at once.
• Burner: Shoots moderate-range fireballs that can track along any solid surfaces they strike.
• Spread Bomb: Shoots flickering blue bombs. The bombs have low speed and fire rate, but create secondary explosions upon striking an enemy or solid surface.
• Saber: Generates a continuous, short/mid-range beam of purple energy.
• Bound Shot: Fires a stream of rapid green energy pulses that reflect off of solid surfaces.

The player can have up to two Gunners. Both Gunners will always have the same weapon, with subsequent power-ups overwriting them both.

In addition, at the beginning of the game, the player chooses one of seven formations to use for the Movers that the Gunners are mounted on.

• Normal: The Gunners will face in the same direction the ship is moving. While C is held down, the facing of the Gunners is locked, regardless of how the ship moves.
• Reverse: Like Normal, except that the Gunners will face the opposite direction of the ship's movement.
• Search: The Gunners will automatically aim at the nearest enemy. Tapping C will toggle between the Gunners aiming at same or different targets.
• Multi: Each Gunner is restricted to either the top or bottom 180 degree arc of the ship. Horizontal motion will cause the Gunners to swivel in that direction. Although this prevents concentrated fire in any direction except the horizontals, it permits three-way firing. Holding down C, or only moving vertically, will keep the Gunners aiming in the same directions.
• Multi-R: Like Multi, except the Gunners will swivel in the direction opposite the ship's horizontal motion.
• Shadow: The Gunners imitate every motion of the ship, following a short distance behind. However, they can only fire forward. Holding down C fixes their positions relative to the ship.
• Roll: The Gunners constantly spin around the ship at 180 degrees from each other. Normally, they shoot away from each other, resulting in a kind of spiral fire pattern. Tapping C toggles between this and the Gunners both firing forward.

Plot

The story is narrated through manga-style panel illustrations, similar to Phantasy Star IV or Gaiares. The manual of the Virtual Console version includes translation of the Japanese voice and text of the first few narrations.

The story follows Lucia, a 16-year-old star fighter pilot in the Earth Federation. A war breaks out between humans and an unknown alien race in the year 2025. Lucia's father, Ken, a high-ranking admiral in the Federation Navy, is captured after his ship is warped out of the combat zone with 4 alien modules which have the ability of teleportation. Lucia, heart-broken after hearing her father's disappearance, decides to hijack the prototype fighter CSH-01-XA "Gley Lancer" with the help of her friend Teim and go after her father.

Development

The game's title is engrish, which was common of many shooting games of that era. The "r" from "grey" was substituted with "l" resulting in the game's title.[2][3]

The game was released exclusively in Japan on July 16, 1992.[4][5] The game was re-released on the Wii Virtual Console in Japan on February 26, 2008, in Europe on May 16, 2008 and in North America on July 21, 2008.[6] Before the Virtual Console re-release, an unofficial fan-made translation patch was made available in English.[7]

In 2019, the game was given a physical re-release in Japan.[8][4][9]

Reception

The game received mixed reviews upon release. In Japan, four reviewers for Famitsu gave it a score of 22 out of 40.[5] Mega Drive Advanced Gaming praised the game, giving it a score of 89%.[20]

On the Virtual Console, Eurogamer gave the Virtual Console release a score of 4/10.[10] Nintendo Life gave the game a score of 7/10.[11]

Notes

References

External links

• Gley Lancer at GameFAQs
• Gley Lancer at Giant Bomb
• Gley Lancer at MobyGames

На других языках

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- [en] Gley Lancer

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[ru] Gley Lancer

Gley Lancer — видеоигра в жанре горизонтального скролл-шутера, разработанная компанией NCS и выпущенная в 1992 году эксклюзивно для игровой консоли Sega Mega Drive. Хотя часть сообщений в игре написана на английском языке, она была выпущена только в Японии. Официальный выпуск игры в других странах состоялся в 2008 году при переиздании её на сервисе Virtual Console для Nintendo Wii[1]. До этого существовал любительский перевод в виде патча для японской версии игры[2].

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