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THE SECOND PICK WAS EVEN BETTER THAN THE FIRST

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 7
Date: December 23, 2001
Author: Amazon User

When I completed the first game I ever played on my Play Station, I found myself at a loss. Something was missing in my life. Another game to play. I was in a children's store and found myself looking at the games up on the wall that were available. I don't know why but I picked PARASITE EVE 11. I had never heard of it or knew what it was about.
What a wonderful surprise to find that I had chosen a gem (In my oppinion). So far, I'd have to say that PARASITE EVE 11 is by far my favorite of what I have played so far.
I found it to be challenging and exciting to play. This game will remain in my archives for future playing. I really enjoyed it and will not give it up.
As always, when a good game comes to an end there is the need to seek out another. I rented PARASITE EVE. Needless to say, it went back to Blockbusters immediately. It was just awful especially compared to PARASITE EVE 11. How can a company make one game great and the other terrible.
Well, I'm not here to knocked another game but since it is in the same family a comparison was in order.
PARASITE EVE 11 is just wonderful playing.

Why, Square, Why?!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 12
Date: November 04, 2000
Author: Amazon User

The first PE had problems - Aya's painfully slow movement, some bad camera angles, etc. - but was overall a good game. This ... this is a travesty.

First, the movement system is *miserable*. Character-relative movement is an abomination, painful, and results in many many deaths. Second, Aya's Parasite powers are pathetic - how did she go from taking on Eve and the Ultimate Being to this!? Eve would have turned this Aya into mincemeat. Third, why is Aya suddenly young and dressing in bizarre fashion? I dunno about you, but *I'd* wear body armor, or at least long pants, when confronted with creatures like that.

In terms of plot and characterization ... there isn't any that I had the patience to see. Aya's sole reaction on seeing a human (or apparent human) mutate boils down to so what. This, from a woman who freaked at seeing the rat mutate, who has not seen anything else mutate since finishing off the Ultimate Being ... who seemed to think nothing else was going to mutate.

Stupid puzzles, uninteresting secondary characters (where's Ben? Maeda? Daniel? Wayne?) ...

Pass on this one. Play the original again.

Ummm......What in the World has Square done here?!?

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 17
Date: May 03, 2001
Author: Amazon User

PE1 was VERY good, In my opinion, it had great movement, battle system, weapons, and it didn't leave you all twisted up into a little ball trying to figure out what to do next.

PE2 ahem....What the heck happened to Aya? She got all pudgy and the graphics got worse and the movement is painfully slow. You don't get the suspense where in PE1 you'd turn a corner and then there was a heartbeat and you'd be like "Holy Crap!" But in PE2 you're all like "How come my hp is going down? Oh another monster?" And it's like you didn't know when you entered the cafeteria that the woman was all the sudden turning into some bloody monster? In other words, IT IS NOT WORTH PLAYING, GET FF8 OR PLAY PE1!!!!!

Not a worthy successor of the first PE

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 8
Date: December 05, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Parasite Eve was arguably the best RPG since Final Fantasy took off, and for good reason. But where PE had the most original storyline I have ever seen (yes, I mean that), it plays a little stale in PEII as it just seems too familiar. And those unbelievable CG sequences in PE were too few and far between. Don't get me wrong, there is plenty to keep you interested, but I simply wasn't as thunderstruck as I was with PE, as far as the movie clips were concerned. And the ending...I felt like I had done a lot of work and got very little reward.

What has improved is the fighting. Except for the bosses, you can actually get through the game with nothing but conventional (OK, some not-so-conventional) weaponry. There is something satisfying about firing a grenade at your enemy and following up with a round from your rifle. And the parasite energy abilities are as always a joy to use and develop. I'm not the first one to say it, but the real-time action really does make for an exciting game.

If I hadn't been spoiled by the remarkable PE first, this might have been a terrific game. But I was, and since most people will play PE before PEII, I think that's a flaw. Electronic Arts should have waited and developed this game more instead of hurrying to follow up on the PE success.

I cant believe how much fun i had

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: April 07, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I had so much fun with this game. I have not played the first but i hear many good things, the game play is fun, u know u are in a battle b/c ur controller and the screen shake and invert to black and white. The monsters are various and very different, then any Resident Evil game, it is almost like Resident Evil yet itn't i never really got into RE until i played this game now i have RE Zero and some for PSone. If u dont like a kind of game that has some of the sickest guns u will ever see, then u are in need of mental help, the bosses are different. Some of the bosses i could not beat until i decided to try a different way that i would have never done before b/c usually it would be suicide. So u have to think outside the box for the bosses in this game. They are not just hit hit hit and hit some more. like the final bosses u can die no matter how high ur health is u will still die from one hit of it's "core" beam. so to find out what is so great go out and buy it b/c it is inexpensive.

This Game Sucks

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 15
Date: April 28, 2002
Author: Amazon User

When I first bought Parasite Eve for Playstation, I was amazed at how great the game was, how well it played, how great the stroyline was and how much fun it was to play. Then I heard they made a sequel. It is not at all like the original. The controls and battle system are messed up, the story [stinks], and it is annoying to play. Square really blew it with this one. If they make a Parasite Eve 3 they better go back to basics.

The original's feel is sacrificed for mass market appeal

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: November 18, 2000
Author: Amazon User

The first Parasite Eve was my favorite Playstation game ever, and I bought the second one on the strength of the original. Unfortunately, I found that much of the creepiness of the story and intuitiveness of the controls had been sacrificed for a more commercial "X-Files meets Resident Evil" kind of game.

On the positive side, the clunky weapons system is replaced, and the replayability factor is high. Although the story is still very linear, you can make choices that alter the story (and the ending) somewhat.

You can read other reviews for details on the story and style; I simply wanted to note that if you really liked the original, this is a bit of a letdown.

Good...or...not???

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: November 26, 2000
Author: Amazon User

When I first got home from the store, I happily tore the rapping off of my game. I liked it for awhile, but then I got stuck, I know some of you out there are saying to yourselfs "Just cause you can't figure it out doesnt mean that I can't!". Well I wish I could be as "smart" as all of you because I found the game to be VERY HARD! Don't get me wrong, it is a very fun game...until...you reach a puzzle. At just about evey puzzle I got to I had to call the help line. WHen i got the answers to the puzzle they werent even what i thought they would be. So all I have to say is, if you like sitting and stareing at your tv for hours trying to figure out the answers, then buy it, but if you are just a regular gamer then leave the next copy you see at the store there for somebody else cause it's "criptic puzzles" arent for everybody. So all in all i thought the game was um... let me think...well...NOT GOOD. So i gave it a 3/5 stars.

A very impressive game...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: December 29, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I'm one of those veteran SquareSoft video game players, and I must say that this game was highly impressive. I'm more into RPG-type games, and usually I stay away from games with guns you actually have to shoot the gun yourself.

I rented this game off of an impulse, not because I've played the original Parasite Eve. As I said before, I usually stay away from these types of games altogether.

I found that this game was rather riveting from the start. You actually have to have control and you have to move to dodge enemy attacks. Much unlike the traditional RPG game, where your characters will magically dodge and take hits. I like the fact that it's combined a fighting style with traditional RPG gaming, and that really scored high marks with me.

One thing that had me miffed for a while was the idea of movement. It takes some practice making sure up is move forward, down is move back.. all that hellish stuff you have to learn while playing a new game. After you learn it, though, it becomes second nature, and makes game play easy.

As for the NMC's and ANMC's.. I was completely impressed. Yeah, I mean, some of them are hard [especially those Desert Chasers.. I will kill the person who says they actually enjoy killing those things! Kidding..] but you can't make a game like this easy, right?

The thing that impressed me most was the multiple endings and the other modes of play. Whoa! You can't just play this game once and say you know it all. There's all sorts of things to still get done, more weapons to find. Replay Mode, Bounty Mode, Scavenger Mode, Nightmare Mode.. you can be kept busy for weeks.

Not to mention the advertising that SquareSoft tacks all over the game is extremely cute.

I also enjoyed the gun choices and the customizable features to both guns and armor. Each time you play the game, you can always make it different.. there's so much to explore, even if it's only two discs.

I highly recommend this game to anyone who enjoys this type of game, and RPGers who, like me, have a phobia to any kind of game like this. I know I enjoyed it, and I know many others will, too.

Parasite Eve II is way cool....

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: October 16, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Although this time around, PE plays more like Resident Evil than Parasite Eve. That a bad thing you ask? Nope. PEII is stilll as engaging and fun to play than the last.
Do yourself a favor, and get this game.

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