February Retro Community Playthrough - Parasite Eve

[Stigzilla]

Beat this yesterday, and managed to beat the Warehouse boss!

[singlebanana]

Congrats! Interested to hear your thoughts on the game.

[Stigzilla]

Congrats! Interested to hear your thoughts on the game.

Really awesome game, I loved every bit of it, and that paired with the ending (not the true ending) makes me want to get and play Parasite Eve 2.

[singlebanana]

Glad you liked it and I believe that is the consensus all around. Please note that PE2 is a very different game, much more survival horror than RPG. Be sure you watch some video before making that pricey purchase.

[Stigzilla]

Oh, thanks for letting me know. I'm more interested in the story than I am worried about the gameplay, although I'm always excited by survival horror.

[JerryGreenwood]

Finally beat it yesterday!

I was very impressed with the story. The whole time I was thinking 'this could be a movie.' Then I see during the (insanely long) credits that it was based on a book. Makes sense, it was a very smart story. "Humans are a parasite" blew my mind. I've never considered that we're all parasites and Earth is our host. It actually makes me feel ashamed that our race is such a drain the planet. What a powerful message.

Very quickly, I'd like to defend the 2 biggest complaints I've read about this game.

1) Too short - I had no problem with the length. It never got stale for me. It progressed smoothly. I'd rather have half-short and twice-strong than filler and fluff to make it longer. Plus, I still have another 15-20 hours in EX mode.

2) Lack of music - I think music in some places would really hurt the atmosphere. I thought they used music and silence in the appropriate places.

PS - If they do make a movie, Aya would be played by Kristen Bell (Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Medium), Daniel by Reginal Vel Johnson (Family Matters, Die Hard), Eve by Kate Winslett (Titanic), Ben by Jaden Smith (Will Smith's Karate Kid), Navy Admiral by Ed Harris (the Navy guy in every movie).

[singlebanana]

Glad you finished and enjoyed it. Dig the casting. How appropriate for Oscar night.

[Crabmaster2000]

Grrrr!! Tried to continue on playing tonight and I couldnt get the game to recognize my save data. Anyone playing on the PS3 have any troubles? I could load it up fine, go the continue screen, it would show that something was in slot 1 (or slot 2 if I reassigned the data), but it wouldnt let me select it. I really wanted to play some more tonight, but after messing around for 45 minutes and not being able to load my old game I give up

[techwizard]

Grrrr!! Tried to continue on playing tonight and I couldnt get the game to recognize my save data. Anyone playing on the PS3 have any troubles? I could load it up fine, go the continue screen, it would show that something was in slot 1 (or slot 2 if I reassigned the data), but it wouldnt let me select it. I really wanted to play some more tonight, but after messing around for 45 minutes and not being able to load my old game I give up

were you signed into the same PS3 account that you used when you originally made the file? when stigzilla was trying to load his file at first on my PS3, i'm pretty sure he accidently signed into my account at first and it did what you described, showed something in slot one but wouldn't load it.

[Crabmaster2000]

Yeah I tried the other account on my system and had the exact same problem with it as well.

[JerryGreenwood]

I had a problem loading the EX game. It says "Please load disc 1", but disc 1 is already in.

[singlebanana]

That sucks Crabby..... You really need to finish the game. It's worth it.

[techwizard]

just remembered that while playing Final Fantasy XIII-2 i noticed a similarity in one of it's songs to some Parasite Eve music.