Time is not kind to polygons, and playing this on an HD TV didn’t do it any favors. Graphically the game looks old, but that is because it is. Creepy is a much better word, and the cut-scenes do a good job of showcasing how weird this stuff is. The enemies are encountered in set areas, and there really isn’t anything definably scary about the game. Your Energy refills while in combat, and your healing abilities are quite effective at keeping Aya alive. Resident Evil this is not, so don’t worry about not fighting things or running out of ammo. The Survival-horror aspect of the game-play is less fleshed out. The downside is that without the significantly rarer Super Tool, the item is destroyed, so some careful planning is necessary. You can move stat modifiers between equipment by using Tools to make the guns you want to use more effective. The variety of different guns and armor you pick up will affect other traits, such as attack power, defense, range, and so on. As you kill things, you level up which increases your base attributes and HP total. Stats play a key role in PE, and this is where the RPG elements kick in. The enemy design is good, and most of the time you are still able to identify what sort of animal they started out as, yet be creeped out by their deformation. Once the meter is full you can shoot, use items, or use Parasite Energy to perform a special ability like healing or buffing yourself. The combat in the game takes on an Active Time Battle system where a meter fills at a speed relative to your stats. Without spoiling too much, let’s just say that there is a lot of talk about evolution, mitochondria, and spontaneous combustion.Īs you travel from area to area you will fight a host of strange mutated critters. In PE you play as Aya Brea, a member of the NYPD who happens to attend an opera the night some crazy stuff goes down. The demo disk was reason enough for some people to buy it, but the game itself was okay in its own right. Parasite Eve was originally released in 1998, and came with a demo CD featuring Xenogears, Brave Fencer Musashi, Bushido Blade 2, and Final Fantasy VIII. Is it worth checking out today, or should you let your cells evolve along a different path? Parasite Eve is a Survival-horror and RPG mash-up produced by Squaresoft for the original Playstation.
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