It pulls the “humanity’s last saviour” angle rather compellingly, even if it’s no more believable than other games of the era. The environments are deserted, which give the atmosphere a feeling of isolation.
A lot of these are filled with gooey, disturbing imagery - presented with the most detail that 1998 CGI could muster. In what would almost be a hallmark for Square RPGs of the era, there are a lot of FMV cutscenes between all the action bits. While the dialogue is stilted by its own pretentiousness, the rest of the narrative is told stylishly and with a lot of visual flair. Which isn’t to say that the story isn’t enjoyable. It becomes hard to tell if the plot is throwing a twist your way, or if you just missed something while skimming all the fancy words. It doesn’t add up to a smarter plot because it all boils down to, “evil scientist messes with nature and creates a monster.” If anything, all the attempts at science talk are a distraction. I’m not sure what pretensions the plot has, but it loves throwing around big words. I hope you paid attention in grade school biology because you will hear that word about a million times throughout the story. The plot primarily involves Aya, a New York police officer, in pursuit of the former lead actress, who has now become a horrific monster and is threatening humanity with her mitochondria. It involves protagonist Aya Brea as she attends an opera where, without warning, the entire audience spontaneously combusts right in front of her eyes, leaving only her, her cowardly date, and the lead actress unmelted.įrom there, things go completely bonkers. It involves the protagonist, Adzu… sorry, no, that’s what I named her. Holy crap.Īs far as opening scenes go, you’d be hard-pressed to find one that tops the intro in Parasite Eve. However, rather than a fantasy cyberpunk JRPG, Parasite Eve is something unique.
Parasite Eve was a 1998 game for PS1 that proudly touts on the box that it’s by the same people who brought you Final Fantasy VII. Not that I’m complaining placing any kind of story around a holiday is a great way to establish its setting, and if there’s one thing that Parasite Eve excels in, it’s setting.īut I’m getting a bit ahead of myself.
Parasite Eve beats on every definition of Eve that it possibly could, so of course it starts on Christmas Eve. I should have saved this one for Christmas.
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