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Great game with bad control

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 7 / 11
Date: September 16, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Well I have just started and have completed the first day. So far I do enjoy it very much and consider it to be even more creepy and surprising than the first. Beautiful graphics and cinema interludes. I have been startled already a few times and if you have a home theatre system you had better utilize it as it greatly adds to the effect. Looks like another involved and complex story unravels as the game moves along.Now we discuss control. This part is very bad and leaves me a bit unsettled. You find yourself running in to things trying to get used to the direction Aya is going. You run in a zig zag direction and I know that as the game and battles get harder this is going to be a major problem. This is why I passed up buying Silent Hill. This is very poor control and I see no reason to have it this way. I am a die hard Parasite Eve fan so I will make do and so will other fans but if you did not play the first or did not care for it then pass and go on to something else. If you are a fan like me you will have to put up with this so I do recommend this but to die hard fans of the first only.

Not anywhere near as good as the first....

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 5 / 7
Date: July 22, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I played the original Parasite Eve non-stop when I purchased it, with the first day of owning it proudly conquering it. Immediately I started a second game and to this day have played through the game at least 20 times.
So when the sequel was announced, I gladly paid [$$] for the purchase. I went home and started playing, similarly to the excessive level of the original. However, Parasite Eve had taken a new "spin" and it was now basically "Parasite Evil."
Parasite Eve 2 abandons the RPG elements of the first game, and replaces that of Survival Horror (possibly to compete with Capcom or Konami whom had made loads of money with Resident Evil and Silent Hill respectively). The core fan base of the original game were RPG gamers whom purchased the game based on the Sqauresoft logo and spread the word that the game was actually good. With the drastic changes to the gameplay, Square those fans and the game was a critical flop.
Parastie Eve 2 is not really a "bad" game, there are easily a large amount of worse games, however as you play through it you can't really tell what kind of game you are playing and that gets a bit irritating/confusing.
Overall the game fails to fix some of the blatant flaws of the first game, and some new additions add new flaws (control) to the gameplay that can not be overlooked this time around.

Big Improvement

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: November 07, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Now I'll be honest, I got the second game because I'd seen my relatives play the first game but hadn't experienced it myself yet. When I started playing this game I was impressed, being a total lover of Resident Evil - I thought it was great in comparison and it still had its own storyline.

The game stands solid, the graphics are amazing for the system and I actually wouldn't mind seeing Aya in a remake at one point in time. It does however lack in brain power, most of it is full out combat. Which is good to me but it may disappoint others. I was disappointed in the ending too and according to my reading I got the good ending. It left me in mystery and as of yet there has been no rumor of a third game.

When I played the first game, I got easily bored with it. It was just repetitive and dull but I'll admit I simply just gave up on it early into the game and let my relative take over so I could see the ending. So I think that likers of the first game will be disappointed. This game is a faster-paced and more lively action then the first but haters of the first, like myself, I think will love it.

A good game although a little to long and hard. Anonamous 22

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 17 / 54
Date: July 31, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This game is very good and the monsters and weapons are cooler than the first one. The first one is slightly better though. Although this game is worth buying, I would insist on getting either Threads of Fate or Legend of Dragoon first. It might even be worth waiting for Chrono Cross.

Look out for the wall!!!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 6 / 13
Date: September 26, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Good: Graphics

Bad: Gameplay/Sound

Unknown: Plot

The graphics were pretty good, crisp, high detail, a bit dark though.

Gameplay, unfortunately, is terrible. I've never before played with 1st person controls (up-forward, left-turn left, right-turn right, down-back) and a fixed camera. Now I know why. When dodging matters, this control scheme fails horrendously. Running into the wall while trying to dodge because I can't see what direction I'm facing isn't a challenge, it's frustrating. Now for cameras. Cameras were usually WAAAAAY too close to the action, resulting in shooting at and dodging things you never even see. Good thing for the radar. And on to targetting. The "selection" targetting by holding down the target button and selecting with controller is pointless. If you aren't firing, you had probably better be moving. Had this "stopped" time, it would have been a good feature, but as it is, useless. The default "closest" targetting was often buggy, especially in long corridors. One instance in particular in a long corridor I was constantly switching between two monsters WAY offscreen, (not even in radar, finally ran down and realized what I was targetting), while a creature right next to me was hitting me. Now for music. Was there music? I never noticed. The music in the original struck me as very creepy, and added to the mood tremendously. I can't even say for sure that there IS music in PEII.

As for Plot, I really can't say, as I haven't and don't plan on finishing the game, even after having completed the first disk. To a certain extent the plot can't be that good, If I don't want to continue playing... but the interface is soooo bad that it could just be I have no desire to plod through a poor game, regardless of how good the plot is, or may turn out to be.

Now, a note to developers: Making a game difficult by having monsters move fast, take a lot of hits, hit hard and think smart makes a game challenging. Making a game difficult by having terrible camera angles and difficult controls simply makes a game frustrating. There IS a difference.

Finally, I'd like to say that PE 1 was a MUCH better game, and I'm gonna have to ask my sister for it back.

A great game, but not what I expected in a sequal.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: March 10, 2001
Author: Amazon User

The original Parasite Eve was one of the greatest games ever made. It's unique combat system, a combination of real-time movement and turn-based fighting, was revolutionary and enjoyable, and the amazing FMV did wonders in moving along the incredibly original and entertaining story. So, when I heard about Parasite Eve 2, I knew I had to have it. While the game is very good, some of my favorite elements from the first game were altered for the sequal. Gone is the original combat system, to be replaced with a new real-time battle system that can be best discribed as a combination of the original game's real-time movement and lock-on targeting, combined with a Resident Evil-style battlefield. Also gone is the weapon/armor customization system from the first game, which allowed you to move parameters and effects to create your own unique weapons. While you do still modify some of your weapons and armor, you're very limited in what you can do, in both how much and what you can adjust. The use of the armor as a holder for ammo and items is new and interesting, but can be difficult and unforgiving. I got absolutely slaughtered a couple of times when I forgot to put more ammo in my slots, and ran out in the middle of a fight. In addition to this, the experience and bonus point system has been totally redesigned. In this game, your HP stat is determined by your armor (probably the only change I truly don't like), and your experience is used to learn and improve your parasite powers. While this does give you a customizing ability that harkens back to the original, I'm a little disappointed with there choice of abilities (and why are they based on elements, this isn't Final Fantasy). Finally, the bounty points (the new term for bonus points), rather than being used to customize Aya or her weapons and armor, are instead used like currency to purchase new weapons, armor, ammo, and items. If there's one thing that hasn't changed, it's the awsome entertainment and depth of the storyline. The FMV scens are back and better than ever, and the story itself still has that dark, brooding feel that made the first game a classic. The story is very remenicient of survival horror, such as Capcom's Resident Evil series, and the game has changed to reflect that genere. While I love survival horror, and this game is a perfect example of what that type of game can be, I feel that Squaresoft sacrificed too much of the original in the transition.

A bad sequel

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 17
Date: July 27, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I am not what one might call an overly hyped video game player. I dont go out and buy the next installment of FF (after VIII, it really got bad imo), I enjoyed .hack and its storyline though (but I felt that the series could have been brought together into one large game like with FFVII). Then there is the PE video game, I loved the first one, had some trouble, but over all it was a great game. I knew there was a part 2, so I found a copy and started playing it. Boy...was I disappointed.

First, the game play is terrible, the movement is haphazard, the angles are horrific, and its down right troublesome (unlike the first one). I loathed the movement, there was none of the smoothness of the first one.

Second, I hated the leveling, what leveling there is. You dont go up in your hit points, you barely go up in MPs and parasite powers, and even worse, when you go to a next scene (from one point to the next in the story) you go back down to your 100 hit points.

Third, which is related to the angles, the combat is atrocious. There is nothing quick and exciting, in fact its down right stressful because (since you rarely have a chance to get items for health unless you spend "money" between the scenes at home base) you end up dying again and again until low and behold you get through with maybe 1 hit point left and then WHAM you are hit by another attack and you have to do the whole stupid thing over again. Even worse, the camera angles are so bad you rarely if ever see the enemies and just shoot blindly.

Fourth, connected to three, the weapons are horrible to use. You end up getting killed repeatedly because you have to jerkingly reload so many times that when you are facing multiple opponents (unlike the smoothness of the original first story) and youre going to get killed unless you spend hours dealing with one combat situation.

Fifth, items, with the original first game, you got lots and lots of items. With this game, you are in luck if after three or four attacks (bringing you down to 1 hit point) you finally strike it and get a recovery2 pill that brings you back up to original hit points but then again those hit points are taken down again by the end of the next combat round.

While the story line might be interesting, it fails in comparison to the first one and by all means, the poorness of this game in the controlling just makes you so fed up that you dont care how this story ends. Its a bad, bad game that could have been a great sequel if only the company had followed the original game's beauty. Dont buy this game unless you have lots of headache medicine.

I can't believe it, but I actually hate this game.

what the ...??

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 18
Date: July 22, 2001
Author: Amazon User

man this is a poor game i bought it, played it for an hour and thought this cant be it but it is... theres no voice acting so the atmosphere is cack and the battle system is really bad. a game like this relies on gut feeling and instincts, not to be told how much hp was taken off the player should not be told. The cut scenes are good and the camera at the beginning (i sold it after that) was reasonably good. This game just feels like a sub-par resident evil. Even the graphics are not upto resie standards the developers didnt use pre renders like capcom so the areas look ok at best. The enemies are reasonably well animated and look solid enough but dont provide the visual oomph that resie's deadites do. You shouild be able to see the flesh hanging off them but nope. Whats with the rpg elements too? Again it detracts from the atmosphere when you recieve bp or whatever from kills and use it to upgrade, it just doesnt work and feels tacked on. If they were goimg to do something like this then they could have ,made it at least a bit more in-depth like other rpgs. There are many faults to this game and all add up to a below standard rpg/action type thing. not good at all. If you're wanting survival horro best check out resident evil 2.

Parasite Eve 2...Overall A Kick Azz Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 8
Date: October 03, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Ok First Off The Cinema In This Game Is UNREAL it just looks so cool ive never seen cinema in a playstation game that good its just awesome. Then a scare element...kinda skiddish but there is some pretty weird stuff in this game. But anyway the story is also very very very indepth you go from place to place i like that becasue in most games your in one place the whole time and that really sux..you know what i mean so basically i luv the parasite series and cant wait for a new game SQUARE SOFT YOU ROCK!

spooky

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: July 03, 2001
Author: Amazon User

First of all I'd like to start by saying I really enjoyed playing this game. You start the game as Aya a member of M.I.S.T on the trail of some of the most ugliest monsters,I myself have ever seen,in the hope of totaly wiping them of the face off the face of the earth. The graphices are brilliant alround,and weaponry is bought on the b.p system (bounty points). But what game could be complete with out a little magic thrown in. Aya brings with her the ability to use parasite eve magic, which in turn helps with killing the hords of monsters thoughout the game.I my opinion the game is a must have for any true playsation and/or survival horror fan. thumbs-up to SQUARESOFT

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