Parasite Eve Series Retrospective | An Exhaustive History and Review

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  @IFinishedAVideoGame · 2 years ago (edited) · pinned

  If you&apos;re desperate for more LENGTHY video CONTENT - you&apos;re in luck. I&apos;ve just posted a new video covering the entire ONIMUSHA SERIES. It&apos;s a lengthy exploration of one of the great lost franchises and how it almost destroyed the company that made it. Enjoy! - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zI6lW3BjZ4">https://youtu.be/6zI6lW3BjZ4?si</a>

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  @davidt3563 · 3 years ago

  Man, I remember all my friends pre-ordering Parasite Eve. We got it at the midnight launch and drove home. We cooked popcorn and grabbed our soda and slimjims, turned off the lights and melted our faces until we passed out. Those were amazing years man and I will never forget the first game.

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• BR

  @breendart134 · 3 years ago

  The immense strength it must have taken to make this video without giving in to the impulse to say &quot;the mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell&quot;...

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  @ThundernuggetTheTerrible · 2 years ago

  THE MITOCHONDRIA IS THE POW- <b>bursts into flames</b>

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• GA

  @garymcderp1146 · 2 years ago

  O man, I didn’t even know Parasite Eve started as a novel. I just thought Squaresoft had some wild writing staff.

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  @RodBrett · 3 years ago

  I was a 3d character modeler/rigger in the PS1/PS2 days so it&apos;s very nostalgic seeing video footage of artists working in front of their PCs at the time. We create assets an entirely different way today with a lot less limitations, but there was a art to creating models that were aesthetically pleasing with very limited polygons, bone count and texture map sizes. Fun times

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• RO

  @RobtheStampede · 3 years ago

  The thing I like most about Parasite Eve is that the game rejects the novel&apos;s take on organ donation. The novel hews towards traditional Japanese biases against it, and the characters are ultimately punished for their role in the process of donating organs. The game, however, says that Aya&apos;s donated organ is a GOOD thing, and in fact it is the thing that makes her a superhero who can save the city. This is a SCALDING hot take from a Japanese company in the 90s and I&apos;m still surprised that they went that way, 25 years later.

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• RI

  @rittsu · 3 years ago

  &quot;Aya Brea is too good of a character to be left in the PS1&quot;<br>Nomura: Brings her back and completely annihilate her character

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• AP

  @approachingetterath9959 · 1 year ago (edited)

  the dev saying he wants to lean into Aya&apos;s sex appeal, then infantilizing and sexualizing her under the title &quot;3rd birthday&quot; does not sit right with me, twists be damned lol

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• NZ

  @nzduklvr · 3 years ago (edited)

  Its actually incredibly comforting to know that, when I picked up the 3rd Birthday as a teen and it made No Damn Sense, that I wasn&apos;t alone. Even the people who knew it was a sequel (which I did not) were in the same boat.

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• RE

  @RegencyYarl · 3 years ago

  I played parasite eve and PE 2 in middle school and they still sit on my shelf to this day, it is so insane to me all these years later they fumbled a premise like this so badly in the end.

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  @Vargh- · 3 years ago

  Parasite Eve was my first love, this game literally made me the biology freak I am today. At one point, all i did was playing Parasite Eve 2 over and over again, I remember crying when my memory card died and my 16 completitions save got deleted. Man those where the times, thank you

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