In between the “…” pauses, the characters will most likely be talking about evolution and mitochondria. All these years later, I’m still not sure how someone would speak and/or express “…!?” Someone please link or send a video of this expression being performed. “…” and “…!?” and “WHAT THE…!” are beaten to bloody pulps, they’re used so much. Especially with the delivery, which is done through completely over embellished dialogue. The story is as chuckle-inducing B-movie cheesy as it sounds. The game is about saving humankind from their own mitochondria. The video game adaptation is almost like a sequel to the novel, taking place in New York City.Īnd gaming gods help me, even stating the plot premise is going to sound ridiculous. It’s based on a Japanese novel, which also has a movie adaptation with the same name. As I mentioned, Parasite Eve is a science fiction tale. Obviously, Final Fantasy games are fantasies, set in whole new worlds which take hours to establish and explore. Yes, they are both RPGs made by the same company, but they’re of different breeds. It might’ve been a little misleading, since you can’t really compare the two. You know, “Coming from the makers of Final Fantasy VII,” or something like that. They even use that as a selling-point on the packaging. It’s rated M (17+) and thankfully Gamestop didn’t care about age-appropriate suggestions at the time. PE was released after FFVII. When I saw this game with female lead characters made by Squaresoft, toting a unique action system with a sci-fi vibe, I ponied up the cash immediately. Squaresoft could do no wrong in my eyes (Oh, how times have changed). I’d played Final Fantasy VII, VIII, and probably some other ones, and Chrono Cross. When I first played Parasite Eve, I was 16 and my love of RPGs was newfound. Turns out, the overly-critical academic actually liked the game and my memory was, well, what I expect it to be nowadays.įor those of you who haven’t played this game (go download it from PSN and play it now, fools!) it’s a very unique experience even stacked against gaming offerings released in the two generations following the Playstation. And I wanted to test my memory with a few things. She wanted to know what all of my fuss with PE was about, anyway. My point is, this was a quick run-through so she could experience this overlooked classic. Unless the reward was a picture of his junk or something. I did the Chrysler Tower years ago and leveled Aya to 99, but never ever will I farm junk for Wayne. Ain’t no mommies got time for crazy optional stuff. 99.9% of the time we hang out we have two little people running around. There will be no mention of the Chrysler Tower or collecting hundreds of pieces of junk in this review. So, we plodded away at this 10-ish hour game for a couple of weeks and finally ended Eve’s spawn last night. I like this game enough to bestow upon it an honored slot on my video game top ten list! Recently, I decided to fix slcantwell’s egregious oversight of never playing this Squaresoft gem. Good history, in fact (minus my first attempt at the final boss but we won’t go down THAT memory lane). Oh, the things I learned about mitochondria… Like how to use it as hair gel.
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