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In fact, the game itself is quite short by RPG standards. Parasite Eve is a very linear game though and there are no overworld maps and relatively few areas in the game. Times have certainly changed have they not? It is rather surprising that Parasite Eve was apparently supposed to be a cinematic RPG, yet it is less cutscene heavy than a lot of RPGs released today.

There are a lot more details that I did not explain regarding Parasite Eve’s plot simply because figuring them out as you go along helps the experience a lot more. The rest of the game slowly unravels the mystery ,and exactly what she is. The reason Aya is immune to this is because her mitochondria are similar to Eve’s, which protects her from Eve’s attacks.

No one other than Aya can even go near Eve due to her ability to use the mitochondria energy to set anyone in close proximity on fire. After a failure to track down the lead actress Melissa, who suddenly calls herself Eve, the police are informed of this and, unlike just about every other horror story ever written, the police are actually competent and try to prevent the same thing from happening again.įrom then on, it is revealed that Eve is actually the result of rogue mitochondria that have evolved to the point where they no longer need to work with the human body, and that the rest of the game’s monsters are caused by the mitochondria taking over. However, less than five minutes after you arrive, the lead actress turns out to be a mutant and the entire audience, aside from Aya, spontaneously combusts and Aya heads after her into the sewers below. Parasite Eve’s story takes place in a modern day New York City where a rookie cop, Aya Brea, and her date go to see an opera on Christmas Eve. The game itself still serves as a solid RPG with some rather questionable design choices, but had I not been told beforehand, I would not have even realized that it was supposed to be a survival horror game. However, what is interesting is that they do not contrast with each other completely. The game tries too hard to combine its RPG elements with aspects of the survival horror genre, that was then recently popularized by Resident Evil, that the two genres interfere with each other. There are a lot of well crafted aspects to the game and it is not difficult in the slightest to see that Squaresoft had great intentions, but it is these intentions that ultimately bring it down. The problem with Parasite Eve it has a lot of frustrating moments to it. To its credit, Parasite Eve does have a very well told story, a solid combat system, cool looking FMV cutscenes, and a great soundtrack they just do not mesh together well.

However, that would be rather unfair to the game itself now wouldn’t it? So if I wanted to be a complete hypocrite and be as close minded as the very people I just criticized, I could brush Parasite Eve off as a hipster’s Final Fantasy VII. Chances are this game will be either Xenogears, Parasite Eve, or any other Squaresoft game that is not Chrono Cross or Final Fantasy VIII.

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Although there will usually be at least one other PSOne Squaresoft RPG that demonstrates their true prowess before they suddenly forgot how to make good games.

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The game that was allegedly the sign of the series downfall will generally vary from person to person, but chances are it will usually be Final Fantasy VII, which just so happens to be the game that made the series popular. Of course some of these people will claim the Final Fantasy series has been dead long before their current scapegoat existed. The thought process of the player base of Squaresoft games is that supposedly “Squaresoft had so many great games back then and everything they made after the merger sucks.” Well I suppose it is a given that there will be something stupid that comes out of any large enough fan base but still. One aspect I will never understand of JRPG fandom is the intense hatred towards Square Enix lately.