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PlayStation (available in PlayStation Store for PS3, PSP and Vita)Parasite Eve is an American biological horror themed turn-based action RPG video game developed and published by Squaresoft (currently ) for the Sony PlayStation in 1998. It is the first game in the.The game is labelled as a PSOne Classic and was re-released on the North American PlayStation Store on March 15, 2011.
Mar 15, 2011 Parasite Eve is an American biological horror themed turn-based action RPG video game developed and published by Squaresoft (currently Square Enix) for the Sony PlayStation in 1998. It is the first game in the Parasite Eve series. The game is labelled as a PSOne Classic and was re-released on.
It is not available on the European PlayStation Store, possibly because it was never released in Europe.The game is a detached unauthorized sequel to the novel which was written. Sena notes that he had no input on the video game. It is not necessary to read the novel or watch its to comprehend the story of the video game, although it adds backstory to the incident of Eve mentioned in Japan.The story follows an intelligent half-white half-Japanese New York City police officer named, and her struggle against an ancient evil called ' threatening humanity, animals, and all life on Earth. The horrifying bond between Aya and Eve will continue until one of them dies. The player, as Aya Brea, must hunt down the biological entity known as Eve, as well as mutated monsters along the way.
The player must upgrade Aya's weapons and hidden mitochondrial powers to save.The game received two sequels,. Contents PlotAya Brea, an N.Y.P.D. “The worst foe lies within the self. —Tagline”Parasite Eve takes place over a six day span in in 1997. The incident starts on December 24 and ends on December 29.Day 1: ResonanceThe first day begins with, an rookie who happens to carry a loaded handgun in her purse even off-duty, attending an opera at the with an on December 24, 1997.Aya and her date watch a medieval-style opera focused on a man named Edward in love with a 'witch' named Eva.
Edward's father's forbids him to marry Eva due to having evil powers, claiming those who fall for her beauty by a curse. Edward decides to die with Eva so she won't be burned at the stake alone. During the opera, Eva's actress, locks eyes with Aya and suddenly, the cast, except for Aya, her date, and Melissa. The audience initially believes it to be part of the show, but when an actor on fire jumps off the stage into the audience, the audience panics and flee as the audience themselves are set on fire.Aya would eventually learn that a mutated strain of sentient mitochondria, which had lain dormant in Melissa's kidney transplant for years, awakened and began seizing control over humanity. Aya was granted great power due to the fact that she possessed Maya's mitochondria (transferred to her body during a corneal transplant as a child), but they either evolved differently to be symbiotic due to geographical separation or they were unable to take control of her as it did Melissa because of Aya's evolved cell nuclei.After the audience has left or died, Aya confronts Melissa on stage who tells Aya she is immune to the combustion. Aya and Melissa fight; during the fight, Aya learns she can use mysterious powers known as.
Melissa fights using targeted energy beams, but Melissa eventually levitates away. Outside Carnegie Hall, police arrive, but do not enter because of the danger (their bodies feel heat even outside the building) and can only supply Aya ammunition for her handgun.Melissa mutating into Eve.Downstairs, Aya witnesses a mutate into a monstrosity known as a or NMC.
Aya also finds a diary that reveals Melissa overdosed on immunosuppressants and despite feeling sick, Melissa avoided going to a doctor and mentioning her illness to others in fear that it would cause her to give up her lead role. Aya confronts Melissa backstage who is playing the piano, and Melissa says that Aya's mitochondria need more time to develop. Melissa then mutates into a flying beast known as and descends into the sewers, declaring that her name is now Eve. After a short trek in the sewers and fighting mutant and an, Aya arrives outside Carnegie Hall where she learns she is the sole survivor of the incident as everyone else burned to death (although it is unclear if her date survived or not). Aya's police partner, escorts her away from the scene.Over the course of the next few days, Eve begins to transform humans, animals and organisms into NMCs. Aya kills NMCs in order to end their suffering and eliminate the danger they possess.Day 2: FusionBaker and Aya in the conference about Eve.The next day on Christmas, the police attempt to suppress Eve's existence from the public, due to the lack of clear details and eyewitnesses, as well as to prevent mass hysteria and panic. In the following press conference, captain covers up the incident with lies, claiming a flammable chemical began the fire.
Reporters wonder if Eve is an alien or the work of a terrorist. After Baker answers a question directed at Aya, a reporter says, 'I'm asking HER the question!' Aya then reveals the truth, despite Baker telling her to be silent. After the conference, Baker yells at Aya for speaking up. Aya defends herself, saying that what she said is the truth, but Baker retorts that it does not matter if it's the truth, claiming most people won't believe Aya and the truth will only cause panic, as if preventing panic is more important than people being correctly informed and potentially saving lives in the future.Eve turning the audience into slime.Aya and Daniel visit a scientist named Dr. At the to learn more about the mitochondria Eve mentioned. Aya recognizes Klamp from her memories, but isn't sure why.
Klamp informs Aya and Daniel about mitochondria. After Aya reveals the suspect of the case called herself 'Eve', Klamp seems surprised and refuses to answer any more questions. Later that day, they hear that Eve is in and Aya pursues her while Daniel stays outside the park due to the danger of him being immolated. At Delacorte Theater, Eve turns the audience into an orange slimy mass.Eve takes Aya for a burning horse ride.Aya and Eve battle during an immolated horse ride, but Aya is knocked unconscious during the fight. Daniel discovers that his son, was at the park, but escaped being turned to slime.
His ex-wife, was less fortunate.Manhattan is evacuated due to the threat that Eve poses. While Manhattan is being evacuated, a Japanese scientist and an expert in mitochondria, manages to sneak into Manhattan after dealing with a rather xenophobic cop. He finds Aya unconscious and takes her to a vacated apartment.Day 3: SelectionKerberos in the police station.Aya awakens in an apartment in with Daniel and Maeda at her side. Maeda reveals the origins of Eve. A tried to culture the cells of his after she was involved in a car accident, and the mitochondria in her cells took over her body.
Maeda believes that Eve may be trying to give birth to an '.' The three visit Dr. Klamp again, and he tells Aya that the nuclei in her cells are fighting Eve’s mitochondria. After he asks a few questions of her, they leave and return to the police station, which has been attacked by Eve.
Aya, Maeda and Daniel rush to save Ben and Baker from a police dog named. They are successful, however, one officer named is killed.Day 4: ConceptionEve telepathically turning pilots into slime.Aya and Maeda head for, where Maeda thinks Eve may try to get sperm for the Ultimate Being. When they arrive, they find that Eve is already there and the hospital is overrun with NMCs. Aya tries to save the staff and patients who have not evacuated yet due to difficulties. While exploring the basement, Eve traps Aya by cutting off the power to the elevator. Aya restores power using fuses. While exploring the hospital, Aya discovers her mother's and sister's records.
On the roof, Aya encounters Eve who telepathically kills pilots in fighter jets. Eve has already taken the sperm and flees. Aya kills a giant spider called. Aya jumps off the roof before the roof is struck by the planes. Aya reunites with Daniel and Maeda, informing them Eve has taken the sperm. Daniel informs Aya that Melissa was witnessed visiting the museum, prompting a visit to Klamp the next day.Day 5: EvolutionAya witnesses the slime enter the city's water supply.While investigating the due to evidence of mutant slime being there, Aya witnesses the orange mass of people from Central Park enter the city water supply, prompting Aya to use a control panel to pump it away, preventing it from infecting the city's water reservoir.She visits Dr.
Klamp in the museum again, and discovers that Klamp has engineered special sperm for Eve so that she can create the Ultimate Being. Aya tries to arrest Klamp, but he insults her by telling her she is reciting 'meaningless laws in the human domain'. Klamp tries to attack Aya with a scalpel, but Daniel shoves him away.
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Klamp asks Eve to 'take him' and he is 'ready'. Klamp then bursts into flames and collapses. Aya helps him by putting out the fire in his final moments to which he questions the logic and reason for her compassion, but Aya simply says that it is what she as a human being must do.
Klamp's cold view and opinion of humanity is unchanged as he dies.Eve pregnant with the Ultimate Being.After killing some vicious reanimated dinosaurs, Aya finds a pregnant Eve in another part of the museum. The slime mass has become a. It smashes the museum's wall and surrounds Eve, forming an impermeable shield to protect her while the Ultimate Being gestates in her. The slime carries Eve away with its giant hand.After several failed attempts to attack Eve, the military asks Aya to attack her from a chopper, as she is the only one who can get close without combusting. The plan works and Aya also destroys the giant slime monster, but Aya has to personally finish the fight on Liberty Island beside a now-wrecked, where Eve finally succumbs.Day 6: LiberationUltimate BeingAya facing the Ultimate Being.Aya rests on a naval vessel. Maeda and Daniel are relieved Aya is safe.
However, the Ultimate Being is born and attacks the surrounding ships. Aya battles the Ultimate Being, but its mitochondria causes it to evolve at an alarming rate, and even fuse with objects onboard the vessel. Aya sets the vessel's boiler pressure dangerously high, so as to destroy it with the Ultimate Being onboard. She then jumps off the ship and the cruiser explodes, killing the Ultimate Being.Maeda, Aya and Daniel at the harbor.At the harbor, Aya says she doesn't understand why she was immune to Eve. Maeda says a part of Maya is inside of Aya, and when Aya's mother and sister died, a part of Maya was transplanted into Aya as a child, due to Aya being born with a defect in her right eye, and what Aya was seeing was Maya's last memory burned into her cornea at her death. Maeda theorizes that the mitochondria in Aya's body underwent a different evolutionary change than Eve, living symbiotically with Aya's mitochondria.Maeda posits a misanthropic stance, comparing humanity to a cancerous parasite who are killing the planet, its environment and animals, saying, 'Starting with the incident in Japan and now with this. I wonder if this is a message to all mankind.
If the earth is a single human being, we humans that invade the earth become like viruses out of control. We, in essence, are upsetting the natural balance of the body. This is definitely.
Utter destruction. Humans are, in essence. You can say that we are parasites and the world is our host.' Parasite Eve EndingAya, Daniel, Maeda and Ben go to Carnegie Hall.After the events in the game transpire, Aya and her friends go to the opera at Carnegie Hall again.
During this time, Aya communicates with the entire audience's mitochondria and their eyes begin to glow a pinkish red. The meaning behind this ending is ambiguous. One theory is that this is what Eve meant when she told Aya: 'The more you use those powers, the more you become like me.' It is possible this Carnegie Hall ending scene is non-canonical due to the events of the EX-Game which the player can receive to prematurely 'end the game', though it is presumed that the events of the rest of the game continue.EX-Game Chrysler BuildingParasite Eve Chrysler Building (Floor 77 Boss Truebred Eve)Aya fighting Truebred Eve.The EX-Game ending is an alternate way to end the game on a New Game Plus. Aya ascends the, where powerful NMCs around the city have gathered. On the 77th floor, Aya discovers a cocoon containing what seems to be the body of her deceased sister Maya.' Maya' claims she is the ' and explains to Aya that Klamp cultivated the cells of the original Eve in Maya's body to analyze.
When Melissa was giving birth to the Ultimate Being, the original Eve created a nest there, using the NMCs in the building to protect it. In case Melissa and the Ultimate Being failed, the purebred would remain. The original Eve lets Aya speak with her sister through her body. Their reunion ends when Eve's consciousness dominates Maya. Aya holds Eve at gunpoint, angering her, and they engage in battle.After the purebred is defeated, the mitochondria inside Aya begin to rebel against Aya. Aya's mitochondria have now reached a higher evolutionary stage than Maya’s, but Maya's personality has suddenly become dominant and begun to fight off the Eve persona. Maya eventually wins, purging the Eve persona from herself, protecting Aya by preventing the original Eve from taking her over.Aya loses her mitochondrial powers but comes to terms with her sister's death.
Aya claims her body is back to normal before Eve came along. However, this directly contradicts Parasite Eve II and The 3rd Birthday which shows that Aya still possesses them, meaning that this scenario may be non-canon or that her powers returned over time. Aya leaves the building by herself, saying it's time for her and Maya to return home.GameplayNew York City, the world map of Parasite Eve.Parasite Eve is a survival horror with many RPG elements. Movement in the various environments is free. Movement in the 'world map' (which is a map of Manhattan) is limited to specific destinations:. (EX game only)CombatAya being hit by a mutated rat and losing 7 HP.Parasite Eve PS1 Final BossBoss gameplay of the Ultimate Being.Battles are encountered somewhat randomly via 'hot spots'.
A sound of a heartbeat occurs and the screen flashes and inverts black-and-white. Enemies materialize suddenly and there is no shift to a separate battle screen.
Aya is bound within a perimeter of unseen barriers until the battle is over, either by defeating all enemies or using the Escape command.In battle, the player has an 'Active Time Bar' (ATB) that sets the time for every turn to take action. Upon each turn the player may choose between attacking with their equipped weapon, using PE for defense, assistance or attack, using items, changing weapon or armor, or escaping the battle. If the player chooses to attack, a dome symbolizing the range of the weapon appears.
If the enemy is outside of the range, the shot is likely to fail. Even if the shot lands, the damage will be less than normal.When the player decides to use Parasite Energy, they must choose from the menu the desired PE skill. The same goes for weapon, armor or items; however, if the player choose to escape, experience will be lost. Parasite Energy is slowly recharged over time.CustomizationWhen not in battle, the player has the option of altering the weapon and armor attributes and effects with tools and super-tools.
The player selects the 'tune-up' option, choosing the weapon that will be altered and the weapon from which the attributes or effect will be taken.One of the principle RPG elements of the game is that experience-based levels are present. Each time the player's level increases, their attributes go up and BP (Bonus Points) are given. These points can be distributed to the ATB, item capacity, or attributes of a weapon or armor.EX-gameBonus Points (BP) received after a day can be distributed into Active Time and Item Capacity, as well as buff armor and equipment.When the game is cleared once, a new mode appears, called the 'EX game' which is essentially a New Game + (Plus).
In May, my PS4’s hard drive tragically crashed. It was in a safe mode loop and no amount of YouTube and forum solutions helped. It was time to give up. Useless.In a desperate attempt to console myself with other games, I booted up my old PS3 and looked through my catalogue.“I don’t remember buying P arasite Eve,” I thought. Probably from a Golden Week sale. I’ll try it out, why not?Holy crap, that game is weird.
But it’s exactly my kind of weird, the kind that I appreciate now and didn’t when I was younger. At that time, all the things I wanted needed to be bright, lively and new. Parasite Eve is neither of those. It’s dark, swathed in muted, grey tones. It doesn’t have magic or a funny cast of characters; it has a creepy lady at the opera with strange limbs and a police officer.
Squaresoft via AlexShepherd/Wikia What is it about?Bear with me for a brief science lesson. Mitochondria are present in many of our cells, and one of their functions is converting oxygen to energy. But what if the mitochondria mutate? In Parasite Eve, a strain begins to evolve and become self-aware, seeking another host beyond humans. It calls itself “Eve,” and happens to enjoy setting people on fire when they get too close. NYPD officer Aya Brea is unaffected by the spontaneous combustion for some reason, and it’s her job to figure out what the hell is going on.Released in 1998, Parasite Eve was Squaresoft’s first M-rated game, and it shows. Based off the Japanese sci-fi/horror novel of the same name, the game isn’t blood and gore-kind of horror as much as it is the scientific and biological kind.
Watching the animals undergo transformations in CGI cutscenes remains pretty disturbing, even if the technology is dated. The game’s theme reflects a more cynical view of the world and humanity, and ultimately settles on ambiguity. It’s up to you to see it how you want to see it. In the end, you won’t find any last-minute chipper or tearjerking moments that rally for the beauty of the human race. It instead leaves the player with heavy philosophical questions. There’s a dreary kind of truthfulness that resonated with me, and I continued thinking about it for days after I finished. Listen to more of Ashley’s thoughts on Parasite Eve at 3:00 — as well as Dark Souls, Halo, and Killing Eve — in the latest episode of The Polygon Show.
Available on, and everyone else podcasts are sold. One of these is not like the othersI love that in between Square’s games with glowing magic rocks and summoning spirits, suddenly there’s Aya, an NYPD officer. She isn’t descended from royalty, blessed with magical powers (unless you count cell mutation) or “the chosen one.” Aya is just Aya. She doesn’t fall into any of the typical female character tropes that tend to be present in most video games, whether that’s being hypersexualized, a damsel in distress or too eager to “be one of the guys.” I’d sooner compare Aya to the silent male protagonists of Chrono Trigger and Chrono Cross than Yuna from Final Fantasy 10. Where I expected a certain amount of gruffness to overcompensate for being one of the only women on the force, I found quiet, laser-focused purpose. She doesn’t say much throughout the game, and eventually I found the quiet to be comforting, even meditative, while I navigated mazes in parks or hospitals.At no point does Aya ever have an in-game companion.
Every battle from the beginning until the end is just you as Aya, alone. Parasite Eve fuses Squaresoft’s typical ATB (Active Time Battle) system with freedom of movement. You have to wait for your meter to fill up to attack or use an item, but you can move and run around your enemies in the meantime.
It’s a strange battle system that wanted the familiarity of the ATB mechanics while wanting to edge in something new — even if that means taking a risk and fusing the two together.
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