Tabbeh Plays Vidya: "Parasite Eves I & II"

Isn't that funny. Two vidya in one post.

Parasite Eve I: the first of the Parasite Eve games released in 1998 for the Sony PlayStation. It's... apparently a horror survival with RPG elements. Odd, kind of. I mean, though much of the weapons are guns, it works very much like an Eastern role playing game. You know. Linear. Hardly customizable. That sort of thing. But who can help it. It's in 1998.

The game is set in Manhattan, New York, a location famous for sewer monsters and Spider Man. At an opera house, a... well, opera is showing when all of a sudden, a supposedly unscripted series of spontaneous human combustions happens in the audience and on the stage, burning EVERYONE to death. Besides Aya Brea. Because there's something about her.

And it isn't that she's totally straight. Even though she is. It's more because she inherited mitochondria from the "first" Eve, Maya, through a transplant of sorts. And for whatever reason, her cells and mitochondria evolved so it would power the nucleus instead of completely take it over. Something like that.

After several days and stuff starts to pick up, it's discovered that apparently the mitochondria within everyone's bodies in this game are completely separate organisms, simply living within and multiplying inside a person's body. And what is referred to as "Eve" awakened during the opera within the person playing the lead, Melissa Pearce, and proceeded to set everyone aflame during the opera as well as reduced everyone to what only made me think of LCL from Neon Genesis Evangelion at a concert that occurred the following day. This LCL like slime (which I think I'll just refer to as Tang) apparently has the ability, through Eve, to reanimate dead things as shown in the museum when frigging dinosaurs were brought back to life as well as become a humanoid giant of its own.

Eve. Setting aflame people, reducing others to slime, and mutating "lesser organisms" like rats into things referred to as "Neo Mitochondrial Creatures" (NMC). Invincible? ... Not necessarily. But, however, what's worse is its offspring––referred to as the Ultimate Being (or U.B.)––which would appear to be birthed in a similar fashion as other mammals. Eve, the being's mother, had been killed in the end, which is good. However, her death was too late and the U.B. had been born, went through ridiculously accelerated evolution... and subsequently killed by Aya Brea: Totally Straight Action Cop.

Really, all I could think of throughout the entire game was that this was some cross between Neon Genesis Evangelion, Akira, and other things including a biology textbook. Still, at least the controls much better than its direct sequel: Parasite Eve II.

I mean, the story might be just fine in the sequel (I wouldn't know; I only played for five minutes before throwing the controller), but WOW, THE CONTROLS SUCK. I mean, you'd think they'd be suited for an actual shooter game, but from the looks of the game itself, it should've just used the controls from the previous game. I'm guessing this is how it feels to be Spike and Barley playing Silent Hill.

I'll... get back to this later.