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Good as a stand alone title--Terrible as a sequel

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: February 17, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Straight to the point, the series started off as a chilling and entertaining RPG with an real time battle flare and ended up as a Resident Evil cloned sequel.

The series could have ended with the first Parasite Eve, but Squaresoft decided to continue the series.

What resulted was a sequel who's only tie to the original is really the main character and the use of her Parasite Energy.

Take Aya Brea, Resident Evil style gameplay, and her parasite abilities and you basically have Parasite Eve II. Its Resident Evil with special powers. That can go one of two ways--look at it as a stand alone game or survival horror game if you like, love, or are interested in the Resident Evil series; or, you can hate, loathe, dislike, or bear it as the terrible sequel that surfaced.

On the plus side, the interactive environments are a nice touch as they create a strategic approach in battles. You can find all kinds of weaponry to find the best possible way to deal with bosses. The Parasite Abilities mentioned above do add some strategy to the game as well.

Its a tough call. As stated before, you either love it as a STAND ALONE title or hate is as a SEQUEL.

Breakdown-

Good:
-Gameplay
-Graphics
-Cutscenes
-Stand Alone title

Bad:
-Sequel
-Nothing Like its predecessor
-Storyline
-Characters

Question:
-Why did Squaresoft do this? What were they thinking?

Why didn't I buy this so long ago?

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: July 26, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This is one of those games that I look back and and wonder why the hell I never went out and bought this when I had the money. I never personally finished the first game, but starting the sequel from scratch didn't leave me confused at all.
This was one of the first RPGs I played that allowed you to move around and dodge enemy attacks. I didn't feel like I was just sitting around waiting for my action gauge to fill up anymore, I was actually doing something.
Dunno about paying $80 for a new copy, but I certainly don't mind paying $40 for it, even if it is used.

big loss

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 4
Date: July 21, 2007
Author: Amazon User

the game doesnt play at all , the disc had too much scratch, the post said it has good condition, it didnt i am very disapointed

Great game better than the first.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: July 17, 2007
Author: Amazon User

You know I actually like this game, and I was impressed with the graphics and everything.

-thumbs up-

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: February 22, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I used to rent this game a lot when I was younger. I can't remember why I didn't just buy myself a copy, and I also can't remember why I stopped renting it. There was probably a part that I couldn't get past and I lost my patience with it or something. Either way, it was a fun game to play back in the day.

Entertaining, but doesn't connect to the first game

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: March 07, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Parasite Eve II is a game that I'll NEVER sell. It's one of my many classics I have in my PSone game collection. It may not be as good as the first but I still find it fun and entertaining.

The game starts 3 years after the Manhattan blockade incident. You play as Aya Brea, who has just transferred from the NYPD to the FBI-MIST unit in Los Angeles. MIST is a special police force dedicated to hunting down NMC's and preventing them from spreading. When she's just about to turn in for the night, her partner, Pierce, informs her of strange activity going on in Downtown Los Angeles. When she gets to the Akropolis Tower, she finds weird, deformed creatures and must find out what they're doing there.

I did enjoy this game, even though there's not many connections to the first game. I really like the weapons (especially the bonus weapons) and the Parasite Energy attacks. 3 different endings and 4 additional game modes make you want to play this game forever and there are a few cool plot twists. For me, I was a bit disappointed in the storyline but I enjoyed the game overall. Play it for yourself and see how you like it.

WHAT DID YOU EXPECT???

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 11
Date: January 18, 2006
Author: Amazon User

DID YOU REALLY EXPECT PARASITE EVE 2 TO TOP OR EVEN COME CLOSE TO BEING AS GOOD AS THE ORIGINAL I DONT THINK SO BUT FOR A SEQUAL ITS A GREAT GAME AND A DIFFERENT STORY THE ONLY THING I WAS PISSED ABOUT WAS THAT DANIAL WASENT IN THE SECOND LOL

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.

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.

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.

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