February Retro Community Playthrough - Parasite Eve

[singlebanana]

So I purchased a memory card yesterday, played through to the second day while saving along the way. Read my kids some bedtime stories, can back and turned my game on, and the saves were faulty......... I ended up taking my PSOne with LCD screen and played downstairs last night until I got back to the Central Park entrance. This is literally the 3rd time I've played Day 1. I'm not sure what the issue is with saving on my PS2 with a PS1 memory card, but it really doesn't want to cooperate. I'm going to hook up the PSOne to my TV tonight or tomorrow and push through.

Expect the Week 2 goal on Friday. Since the month ends on a Friday, the 28th, I'll set it up so that we finish in 4 weeks. Excited to hear what people think about the game after the first week.

[SirPsycho]

MITOCHONDRIA DON'T WORK THIS WAY!

[singlebanana]

I sure this game screwed up a lot of Biology grades.

[SirPsycho]

I beat Day 2. The gameplay is pretty fun so far and the strategy is pretty simple. Just run away from enemies, let them attack, dodge it, them shoot them in the face. Upgrading weapons and armor seems like a cool system of customization, but I've only found Defense+ items for my armor. The last boss dropped a bunch of them so I'm saving them for the Day 3 armor. Been using the ever trusty M16A1.

[Fleach]

Any readers out there? Parasite Eve was originally released as a novel and adapted into two manga books as well as a film. The game is sequel to the events of the book.

Parasite Eve

Movie

Wow, I never knew about that.  I'm not much of a reader, but I'll probably try to at least find a summary of the novel.  Might have to check out the movie too if it has English subtitles.

Yes. The movie is subtitled.

And Rich is right about the bad biology stuff in this game. Maybe med school drop outs were on the consulting team?

[singlebanana]

Finished Day 2 tonight in 2 hours 1 minute. Guess all those redos made me quicker. So far I've found a ton of mods and tools, but I have yet to use any, just storing them since my M16 seems to be effective. Anyone know if there is a strategy to save them and do a big modification at the end? Just curious for those who have played before.

[techwizard]

Finished Day 2 tonight in 2 hours 1 minute. Guess all those redos made me quicker. So far I've found a ton of mods and tools, but I have yet to use any, just storing them since my M16 seems to be effective. Anyone know if there is a strategy to save them and do a big modification at the end? Just curious for those who have played before.

i'm playing the opposite way, using things pretty much right away. we'll have to see how it pans out with the different style of play.

[Disposed Hero]

Finished Day 2 tonight in 2 hours 1 minute. Guess all those redos made me quicker. So far I've found a ton of mods and tools, but I have yet to use any, just storing them since my M16 seems to be effective. Anyone know if there is a strategy to save them and do a big modification at the end? Just curious for those who have played before.

i'm playing the opposite way, using things pretty much right away. we'll have to see how it pans out with the different style of play.

Same here.  I just don't have enough inventory space to hold on to everything.

[singlebanana]

It's all about ditching the unimportant things. Like meds.

[Fleach]

I'm playing the middle ground here. I keep a weapon I like, and tweak certain things eventually.

Might put more time into the game over the weekend. I'm not too far from the first checkpoint so I doubt I'll lag behind everyone.

[Disposed Hero]

It's all about ditching the unimportant things. Like meds.

Yeah, I've had to resort to that.  They're not really necessary when you have healing powers.  I've been trying to keep the 'junk' items since I read you can unlock some special items if you collect enough of them.

[singlebanana]

It's all about ditching the unimportant things. Like meds.

Yeah, I've had to resort to that.  They're not really necessary when you have healing powers.  I've been trying to keep the 'junk' items since I read you can unlock some special items if you collect enough of them.

Wow, really? I'll have to look into that.

I do know that you have to play through the game a second time to get to the "final battle." I thought that might be too much of a push for the playthrough, especially since a lot of people really wanted to play both games this month.

[Disposed Hero]

It's all about ditching the unimportant things. Like meds.

Yeah, I've had to resort to that.  They're not really necessary when you have healing powers.  I've been trying to keep the 'junk' items since I read you can unlock some special items if you collect enough of them.

I do know that you have to play through the game a second time to get to the "final battle."

Really?  I had no idea.  I might actually do that once I finish this playthrough.

[Fleach]

Yeah, Rich is right. Once you beat the game you unlock a new mode called EX Game.

http://shrines.rpgclassics.com/psx/pe/exgame.shtml

[Disposed Hero]

Ah, I knew the EX mode was essentially the New Game+, but didn't know about the extra 'dungeon' area and the proper final boss fight.