Elemental Gearbolt (幻世虚構 精霊機導弾, Genseikyokō Seireikidōdan) is a light gun shooter video game developed by Alfa System and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation.
[4] The events of the game are framed through Tagami, a mysterious figure who travels to the world in order to investigate what caused its destruction.
It links powerful weapons known as Holy Guns to Nell and Seana's corpses, re-animating them as Elementals with only one purpose: seek and destroy the Network.
Ialu reports that the excavation unit at the Goate Mountains have been destroyed, the cause being one or two armored individuals mounted with incredible weapons headed towards Owato.
Ialu urges the prince to retreat, but Bel Cain decides to stay, remembering a younger Nell telling him that his strength of character will serve him well.
Reunited with his childhood friend, unaware that Nell's corpse is controlled by the Holy Gun, the Prince dies with a peaceful expression.
Bel Cain speaks to the player: "One day, all will put away the destructive desires of self, striving only to create a world without barriers.
The life expectancy of their bodies was limited to 24 hours, the exact amount of time needed for the holy gun to destroy Bel Cain's kingdom.
As is the norm with light gun shooters, the action in Elemental Gearbolt takes place from a first-person perspective, and the pace of the game and rate of enemy occurrence is completely preset.
Score determines rank, and in the year following the game's North American release it was used to participate in contests sponsored by Working Designs.
[5] The official soundtrack features a 24½-minute drama track in Japanese and 19 original score cues performed by a full orchestra.
Some winners of Working Designs' contests for Elemental Gearbolt in the 1998 E3 at the Georgia World Congress Center received 'Assassin Case' prizes that contained gold-plated GunCon light guns.
[6][7] GamePro's Four-Eyed Dragon considered it a "strong and enjoyable light-gun shooter with an unusual RPG flair", but saw the pixelated polygonal graphics and short duration as negative points.
[20] In retrospectives, Elemental Gearbolt has been listed among the best light-gun games on the PlayStation by Retro Gamer, Time Extension, and GamesRadar+.