Parasite Eve Review

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(More customer reviews)I have to personally say this game is one of the best games Squaresoft has ever come accross.They also need to create more games like this one. An organism which is dubbed Mitochondria has been living within humans eversense the birth of Eve. Since all humans are descended from Eve it is onlya matter of time before this living organism breaks free. You play the roleof a rookie cop named Aya who is attending an opera on Christmas Eve 1997.The singer in the opera named Melissa makes eye contact with Aya and all ofa sudden people in the crowd begin to spontaneously combust. Followingthis, Melissa mutates and declears that Eve has been awakened and takesoff. From there on out Aya tries to figure out what happened at the operahouse and why her and Melissa are some how connected.
A thrilling storywhich brings the human imagination into a battle against not only a raceagainst time and mutations, but a battle against yourself.Seeing asthough the Mitochondria is in every human being on the face of the Earth,players can put themselves in that position, and feel as though they arebattling against themselves before there Mitochondria takes completecontrol over everything logic in their bodies.It also can make you thinkthis could happen in reality b/c of the Mitochondria is part of yourbody.
The best part of Parasite Eve is without a doubt the innovativebattle scenes. The Parasite Eve battle engine contains an excellent mix ofaction and strategy that has yet to be seen in any console game before.Just like Final Fantasy VII, Parasite Eve makes use of an action bar. Youcan't attack, heal, or use an item until the bar is fully charged. You canhowever during this time dodge enemy attacks waiting for it to fill. Youalso have a PE bar which will fill slowly throughout the course of thebattle. The PE bar allows Aya to perform special tasks such as healingherself or increasing her attack power. Overall, the battle system isextremely innovative and makes the game fun to play through. I don't thinki've played an RPG in awhile in which I've actually looked forward togaining experience and doing battle.
True to its claims, Parasite Eveoften looks sleek, inspired, and beautiful - like a good film. The scenerythroughout the game is composed of still 3D-rendered images of mostlyauthentic New York locales, and the quality and detail of these varioussettings is astounding. Whether you're searching through Central Park inthe middle of the night or rummaging through the slums early in themorning, Parasite Eve looks consistently real. The background art looks sogood that you will often find yourself admiring your surroundings insteadof forging onward in your quest. The various polygonal characters aren'tquite as sharp as the backdrops, but their motions and actions during plotsequences are expressive and believable. As Aya, you will have to shootyour way past scores of monsters, all of which are your typical mutatedurban animal variety and thence not particularly imposing. Though some ofthe boss monsters are both creepy and fearsome, like a particularly largeand ill-tempered three-headed hound, for the most part your opposition willfail to impress.
Even a discriminating connoisseur of CG cinematics wouldbe awestruck at several animated cutscenes over the course of Parasite Eve.While the cinematic sequences are never particularly long, they arefrequent and almost always amazing - all the more so toward the end of thegame. Among other things, you'll witness breathtaking panoramic shots ofNew York City, grisly deaths or even grislier metamorphoses, and even somegood old-fashioned military intervention. Though there's hardly enough CGhere to make up a feature-length film, there's plenty of the stuff to keepyou going all the way through. It's integrated seamlessly into the game andmakes key plot sequences much more dramatic and the entire game morememorable overall.The music also adds a dramatic effect that makes itseem even more real.They need to add this music to more of their sequelsto this game.
If Squaresoft works hard enough I honestly believe moresequels to this like the Nintendo's Zelda could be created but these wouldwithout a question blow Zelda out of the water.I truly think a movieshould be created about this game.Including part 2,3,4 whatever how many,following up on the "Ultimate Being".Also the music needs to beadded to the movies.
My overall rating:* * * * * out of 5 stars. Myoverall rating:10 out of 10 Would I buy a sequel: yes without a doubtWould I pay to see a movie about this:yes, of courseand I know otherswho would too.

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