Parasite Eve manages to magically blend the lines between Sci-fi action, survival horror, and JRPG in a single tasty package that you can’t help but come back to. Much like Armored Core, there may be people who don’t like it, but I’ve yet to hear of them. But I think there is something more going on, because as far as I know, anyone who plays it ends up liking it. I was a massive nerd about that game in the days of my youth. I probably connected so well with it initially because it’s so much like Resident Evil. Funny enough I’ve never actually completed it even though its a short game, compared to JRPGs of the time which averaged 30 hours, Parasite Eve can be wrapped up in ten to twelve hours.
While this is not the very first JRPG I ever played, it is the very first one I ever let myself get swallowed up by, and invested heavily in to.
Imitators and companion blades would come attempting to achieve what it did, but none would ever come close.Īs you can obviously tell, I am very fond of this game. It was molded in the likeness described in a story by a local author, something he saw in a dream. However the science and engineering of game smithing had improved since the forging of the famous title, so some of the material was reforged into a lesser known legendary blade. Thus the forging of another final fantasy would begin shortly. Legends say that shortly after the renown title Final Fantasy VII was forged by the master weapon smiths of the Holy Church of SquareSoft, some of the smiths discovered there was enough material left over from the meteorite they had melted down to make a whole other weapon. OST cover used because “It looks cooler” But I was a Resident Evil fan and it looked like Resident Evil, and that was all I needed. A friend loaned it to me before the sequel released and while I was familiar with RPGs before this, the only one I had really devoted any time to before was Super Mario RPG. Call it fate, destiny, karma, or simple dumb luck. The tale about how I chanced across such a wonderful thing is not a very interesting one I assure you. Allegedly it was not meant to be released in the West at all, but it somehow still made its way here.
But the story of its origins are rather confusing, as it served as a test bed for techniques and technologies that would be implemented in other titles later. It is a title of remarkable quality and pedigree. That boulder that I attempt to push up a hill every so often. Today’s topic of discussion is a title that holds a special place of reverence even here in my Reliquary, and if you are familiar with ancient mythology then you might understand what I mean when I say this is my Sisyphean challenge. Such events can be rare… But I’m also a hunter of such items, and when I find them they wind up here in my Reliquary. It’s existence compounding the story and allowing it to grow more and more as a result. Sometimes, however, these stories exist before the item, and actually bring the item itself into existence. More often than not these stories exist because of the deeds they were used in. It is not unusual for ancient items to have incredible stories surrounding them, how they came to be, how they became renown, why they are held in contempt, and sometimes why they must be avoided.
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