This is what makes Parasite Eve II stands out the most as a fantastic title of the era.
This sequel capitalises on the success of the survival-horror methods of exploration, item management, and puzzle-solving whilst retaining the flavour of its JRPG predecessor with elements such as the aforementioned convoluted storyline and magic points. The previous entry in the series was a horror JRPG, featuring turn-based battles.
Oh, and there’s a kidnapped little girl that looks like you? That’s all I got, and in classic Japanese fashion, that’s all you need. Basically, it turns out that the mitochondria in our cells are their own organisms and that some people are using them to produce ‘magic’ from their bodies, and some are using them to breed humans out of existence with cocoons. This story is off-the-walls bonkers and is so obtuse in its efforts to create intriguing threads of mystery and backstory between its characters and the shady organisation they are fighting against that it would take a legitimate consipracy theorist to piece it all together. Secondly, as I said, it totally doesn’t matter. Which is a shame, considering all the new elements it brought to its genus of games as well as its fine story direction by the original writer of Resident Evil, Kenichi Iwao.įirst off, what’s interesting to know (but completely unimportant) is that this game actually serves as the second sequel to a Japanese science-fiction horror novel that spawned the entry prior to this game. Hot off the heels of the successful Resident Evil trilogy, Dino Crisis, and Silent Hill games (and by hot, I mean hot, there were foursurvival-horror titles released for the PlayStation 1 in the year of 1999 – Parasite Eve II being the last of the heralded genre at the time), this barely remembered IP suffers some anonymity today despite the favourable reviews of its day.
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