Kind of reminiscent of the Hollywood police story (except with saving the whole of humanity) they wanted to go for. It’s nothing fantastic, but it works relatively well. The ridiculous premise aside, the story isn’t half bad. It was a shame, too, because everything else looked promising. You understand, it’s very hard to suspend disbelief for this game, so it lost many points already from the get-go. Naturally, she’s thus the only one who can stop Eve. Their “leader,” Eve, is a conscious being taking over a human host in the very beginning of the game, starting to ignite people left and right, and Aya is somehow the only person immune to that ability. The very premise is too much – mitochondria within the human body rebel and want to take over the world. I’ll doubt I’ll ever read that one to see how well the game adapted it, but I doubt the book could be much more impressive than the game. Parasite Eve is actually based on a book of the same name. Ridiculous premise, which leaves the story no chance to be great.Pretty protagonist and nice CGI cutscenes.Fun battle and weapon management system.But the main premise and, particularly, the evil you are fighting in the game, make it pretty hard to suspend disbelief… As a whole, it’s a bit of a mixed experience, but the rewarding parts outweigh the bad.Īll screenshots in the review have been taken by me. Parasite Eve also offers an interesting battle system and weapon management, and several pretty nice tunes on the soundtrack. There’s Aya, there’s her partner Daniel, there’s the police chief Baker, and a few other cops working with Aya… But that’s where the similarities with Hollywood police films end. This kind of hinders the goals it had set before itself, as it mostly fails to capture the atmosphere of a rather police-central story it is trying to tell.
Parasite Eve is set in New York City or, more particularly, Manhattan, but it still feels very Japanese. Parasite Eve is the game featuring our forum regular Ertyu’s favourite video game girl, Aya Brea, and its intriguing concept (a female detective fighting a biological menace for humanity) had me choose it as the next PS1 RPG to play after Grandia. We all know the first PlayStation is the definitive RPG game system, and I’ve of course played its Final Fantasies, Xenogears and Lunars (albeit the Mega CD versions) already. In the last couple of years, I’ve been doing some catching up on great PS1 RPGs that I’ve missed over the years.
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