History VideoGame / ParasiteEve

* AdultFear:
** Daniel has to save his son from {{Humanoid|Abomination}} and {{Eldritch Abomination}}s in both Days 2 and 3.
** The reason Torres DoesNotLikeGuns is because his daughter was accidentally shot.

* BonusDungeon: Climb the Chrysler Building. The enemies certainly wouldn't be out of place among the LegionsOfHell, but the Chrysler building itself isn't very hellish. The building is more creepy than anything else, especially with its level design and the fact that no {{Eldritch Abomination}}s are in plain view, like every other area in the game. A few bloodstains here and there, but after the BodyHorror that Aya encounters everywhere else in the game, it's fairly tame. [[spoiler: Now, the last level of the Chrysler? That qualifies.]]

In 1998, [[Creator/SquareEnix Squaresoft]] released a video game called ''Parasite Eve'', a sequel to [[Literature/ParasiteEve the 1995 novel of the same name]]. It was unique among [[RolePlayingGame RPGs]] available at the time because of its blend of RPG, ActionAdventure and the then- new SurvivalHorror genre.

* {{Homage}}: A possible one-- the dog transformation sequence holds some similarities to the infamous "kennel scene" in Creator/JohnCarpenter's ''Film/TheThing1982''.

* PostFinalBoss: After defeating the Spiderwoman at the hospital in Day 4, it'll send its spawn after you right after the player escapes a falling jet (ItsALongStory).

* PixelHunt: Annoying when most of the good weapons and items are not in boxes and have to be found by mashing X at random pieces of scenery, particularly in Soho. Made more aggravating by the fact that on a real PSX, the low resolution of [=TVs=] makes this worse. [=PS1=] emulators can heighten the contrast and increase the resolution to the point of making this much less severe.
* PointOfNoReturn: Several areas in the game are closed off once you go past them in the story, so you better make sure you explored and obtained everything before moving on. This is more apparent towards the end of day 5 and the start of day 6 where the final battles take place outside of the city.

* SoundtrackDissonance: The TrueFinalBoss fight with [[spoiler:Maya Eve]] atop the Chrysler Building in the NewGamePlus.

* DevelopersForesight: The last good luck charm Maeda gives Aya cannot be put into storage. There is actually a gameplay reason for this. At the final battle when Daniel gives Aya the special bullets to Maeda's gun, they replace the good luck charm in the inventory. Thus, it ensures the player will always have the space necessary to receive the bullets.

** Eve brings her giant pile of mitochondria to Liberty Island and starts covering the Statue of Liberty with it, necessitating a bombing run.

* RecurringBoss: You will fight Eve four times through the game.

* MagikarpPower: The N Suit found on the Museum in Day 5 has the same defense power as the B Jacket 1, the often recommended first-playthrough ultimate armor, but has significantly lower PE defense stat and comparatively lower critical evasion stat, not to mention no special effects attached to it. However, it has the highest max slots available of all the first-playthrough armors with 6 (compared to B Jacket 1's 4) and if a player collected enough tools and stat boosters, they could modify it as their tenured armor up until they get the actual best armor in the game in the BonusDungeon during NewGamePlus, the Cr Armor 2[[note]]Double-digit defense power and PE defense stat, has max 10 slots, and HP Up already attached to it[[/note]].

* OldCopYoungCop: Daniel and Aya respectively. In fact, Daniel is a contemporary and former partner of DaChief.

* BoringButPractical: Pistols. While it may be cool to have a submachinegun, rifle, or a ''grenade launcher'' as your primary weapon, the Pistol wins out because it has the quickest aim time (that is, when Aya lifts up her gun and fires). This is the only thing you cannot improve with guns. Pistols can become even more powerful when you mod them and/or beef up their stats once you got the items and points to do so, especially after several runs of NewGamePlus. Combine all that on top of their fast AT recharge and you got a weapon that can easily shred enemies with little effort.

* InfinityMinusOneSword: The M8000 dropped by the T-Rex boss. It has solid power and stats with the only dual-move skill available for the first playthrough.

** The guns that [[GunNut Wayne]] makes if you give him junk have the best base stats in the game and when combined with the Super Tool Kit can be upgraded to something truly amazing.

* MonumentalDamage: Eve brings her giant pile of mitochondria to Liberty Island and starts covering the Statue of Liberty with it, necessitating a bombing run. In NewGamePlus, the Chrysler Building is left in gory ruin due to [[spoiler:being [[TrueFinalBoss Maya Brea/the Original Eve]]'s nesting ground]].

* PeninsulaOfPowerLeveling: The museum is the best place for LevelGrinding as monsters there give you thousands worth of ExperiencePoints. Same goes for the 61st to 70th floors of the [[BonusDungeon Chrysler Building]] once you unlock NewGamePlus.

* CanisMajor: The final boss of Day 3 is a mutated K-9.
* TheCavalry: The US military eventually intervenes to try and stop Eve.

* DegradedBoss: A pair of the SewerGator that was the final boss of Day 1 can be encountered in a specific spot in the second sewer stage in Day 5 as a normal enemy.

* EleventhHourSuperpower: The final boss fight [[spoiler: is largely a cutscene, as bullets laced with Aya's cells are brutal anathema to the FinalBoss.]]

* MonumentalDamage: Eve brings her giant pile of mitochondria to Liberty Island and starts covering the Statue of Liberty with it, necessitating a bombing run.
* NewGamePlus: Finish the game and you can unlock the "New Game Ex". Aya's levels and stats are reset, but she brings with her a bunch of Bonus Points as well as the gun and armor that Wayne engraved for her aboard the Navy ship.

* PeninsulaOfPowerLeveling: The museum is the best place for LevelGrinding as monsters there give you thousands worth of ExperiencePoints. Of course there's also the [[BonusDungeon Chrysler Building]].

* WithThisHerring: {{Justified}}. At the beginning of the game, Aya's on a date at the opera and has her badge and gun, which as an NYPD officer she would be required to carry even when off-duty, which is when shit first goes to hell. The next day, when Captain Baker assigns her to the case, the first thing he does is to give her a permit that authorizes her to take an M16 rifle out of the police armory which is in the words of the armorer, "the most powerful gun I can allow you to have."

* StandardStatusEffects: Has the general flair. Poison damages you over time, Paralysis slows you down or makes you completely immobile, Darkness reduces the range of your guns, Confusion remaps your directional controls to random directions, and Defense Down [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin does exactly that]] and is the only effect that cannot be cured. All effects vanish when the battle ends.

* TokenTrio: A variant. It has TheHero with MixedAncestry, the African-American OlderSidekick, and the AsianAndNerdy [[TheSmartGuy scientist]].

* MarathonLevel: The Chrysler Building has no save points at all and until you can get an elevator key, you're forced to trek up the building via stairs. If you don't feel safe and want to leave so you can save your progress, the return trip will be just as long.

* OneWingedAngel: Eve goes through three forms. [[spoiler: The Ultimate Being goes through five, and the last one in unstoppable.]]

* PsychicPowers: Sort of. The "awakened" mitochondria in Aya's body allow her access to Parasite Energy, and when invoked she can heal herself, create a protective barrier, and cure status ailments. Her more potent abilities are a concentrated energy ray and a berserker rage that allows her to attack all enemies onscreen multiple times.

** This is a subversion: When Maya and Mariko died in the accident, they were listed as organ donors. [[spoiler: Melissa received a liver transplant from Maya and was on immunosupressants because the doctors thought her illness was rejection syndrome, not parasitic infection. Aya's awakened mitochondria also came from her sister: a corneal transplant. Mysticism related to this is why she sees her sister at random moments through the game.]]

** A velcro holster strapped to the inside of Aya's thigh would do the job nicely, the dress isn't that high-cut.

* DummiedOut: Game Shark codes will grant you access to a "Debug SMG", which was a gun that had max stats and every attribute in the book on it.

The story revolves around Aya Brea, a New York City police officer whose mother and sister were killed in a car accident when she was a child. While Aya was attending an opera performed at Carnegie Hall on Christmas Eve in 1997, all hell breaks loose when both the actors and the audience burst into flames. The only survivors are Aya, her date (who runs away never to be seen again after the fire), and the lead actress, Melissa, who just so happens to be harboring a primordial horror inside her body known as Mitochondria Eve.

* TyrannosaurusRex: The final boss of the museum is a mutated one.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: The final boss manages to avert BarbieDollAnatomy by having its phallus and scrotum resemble a tail.

* EliteTweak: Tools and Super Tools offer all sorts of weapon and armor customization possibilities, if you're willing to put up with their rarity and the regular Tools' destruction of donor equipment.

* NewGamePlus: Finish the game and you can unlock the "New Game Ex".

* PowerupLetdown: Burst fire. You effectively do the same amount of damage spread across multiple bullets.

* SewerGator: The final boss of day one is a mutated alligator in the sewers beneath Carnegie Hall.

* AwesomeButImpractical: Guns with high rate of fire effect. While you can attack enemies multiple times in a single turn, the damage output is less compared to a gun that only fires one shot at a time. On top of this, guns with high rate of fire roots Aya to the ground until she finishes attacking, which can leave her open to enemy attacks.

* CollisionDamage: Simply ''brushing against'' enemies inflicts ScratchDamage on Aya.

** The game also can't decide if Aya was he sole survivor of the opera on Christmas eve, or if her sort-of-boyfriend made it out too. The other cops were laughing that said boyfriend ScreamsLikeALittleGirl, so it's unlikely that they were lying about his survival. However, the press reporters maintain that Aya was the only one to make it out.

* {{Sidequest}}: The warehouse. While the story says the warehouse could be a place Eve is hiding in, she's actually isn't there. You don't need to go to the warehouse to finish the game, but going there anyway can net you some good items, weapons, and a rocket launcher if you can survive the tough random encounters and the boss of the place.

* TokenTrio: An variant. It has TheHero with MixedAncestry, the African-American OlderSidekick, and the AsianAndNerdy [[TheSmartGuy scientist]].

** This is a subversion: When Maya and Mariko died in the accident, they were listed as organ donors. [[spoiler: Melissa received a liver transplant from Maya and was on immunosupressants because the doctors though her illness was rejection syndrome, not parasitic infection. Aya's awakened mitochondria also came from her sister: a corneal transplant. Mysticism related to this is why she sees her sister at random moments through the game.]]
* TouchOfDeath: The FinalBoss will crawl after Aya and slowly pick up speed. If it reaches her at any point, it will glonp her from above and instantly kill her.

In 1998, [[Creator/SquareEnix Squaresoft]] released a video game called ''Parasite Eve'', a sequel to [[Literature/ParasiteEve the 1995 novel of the same name]]. It was unique among [[RolePlayingGame RPGs]] available at the time because of its blend of RPG, ActionAdventure and the then still new genre SurvivalHorror.

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* SignificantGreenEyedRedhead: Melissa Pierce, the LivingBodysuit of the BigBad, has GreenEyes and auburn hair.

* WithThisHerring: At the beginning of the game, Aya's on a date at the opera and has her badge and gun, which as an NYPD officer she would be required to carry even when off-duty. The next day, when Captain Baker assigns her to the case, the first thing he does is to give her a permit that authorizes her to take an M16 rifle out of the police armory which is in the words of the armorer, "the most powerful gun I can allow you to have."