The mitochondria is the power house of Eve.

The soundtrack was amazing for this game

98 was truly a magical year in gaming

I'm so glad there's a guy giving Parasite Eve the love it deserves!

I get the feeling that the game designers really liked The Thing.

Parasite eve retrospective? "Sorry dad. Cant do lunch today. Nostalgia hit me."

Hopefully the Resident Evil remakes (and FF7) will prove that there is a lasting demand for these older games to be revisited. Hopefully, Parasite Eve will get its own remake. Yeah, I'd buy a PS4 for that.

This was good. I just wanted you to know this video inspired me to play Parasite Eve and I'm now about 4 hours in and having a blast.

fun fact: Aya didn't combust cuz she was already hot

Parasite Eve was my first-ever Playstation game, so it'll always hold a special place in my memories. I still have my original copy in pristine condition. It was unique for its time and the chances Square took mostly paid off. My only complaint is that the game is a little on the short side, probably because it's meant to be played several times to get powerful enough to see the "true" ending. Still, a short game is better than one that overstays its welcome. I'm glad someone else appreciates this game as much as l do.

Very respectable homage to a series that doesn't get a lot of recognition. Thank you.

Parasite Eve is a 90's software gem, like Resident Evil, Silent Hill, or Syphon Filter. Truely unique and a product of its age.

Still my favorite game of all time. Amazing soundtrack, gameplay, n story line

One of my all time favourites. That piano piece is one of the besr videogame pieces ever. And it took me this long to realise it was written with a 3/4 time signature, makes me love it even more.

Easily one of the most "under the radar" PS1 games. My nostalgia is strong for this game, and I still play it on my US-console from time to time. It's an Interesting game, with some unique mechanics, character development, and "modern" setting, made it an experience I don't think I'll ever forget. Thank you for covering it, and have a nice day/night.

This is one of my favorite games of all time.

I am so, so hype about this retrospective. Parasite Eve just doesn't get enough love. Square put out more masterpieces in the PSone era that most companies put out in their entire lifetime

Fuuuuuck I miss pre rendered backgrounds!!!! Makes me so sad we barely ever get them any more :( I really fucking hope this becomes the next nostalgia thing to come back to indie games. Makes me so sad. Also these graphics are top tier on PS1 easily. It almost feels like square is cheating or something lol some younger people may call it ugly but anyone who's played as many PS1 games as we have know what's up. The art is a pure masterpiece IMO.

Aya Brea is THE hottest video game character ever.

This is one series I dream of some sort of remaster. PE1 is absolutely fantastic, and these days seems forgotten and terribly underrated.

I don't think my nostalgia is making me biased, but they sure don't make them like they used to. PE 1's combat system was my favorite. It perfectly blended real time and turn-based. I can't get into today's games for some reason. They're just interactive movies to me where gameplay takes the backseat. Granted, this can be argued as cinematic, but still. This was the golden age of Squaresoft. WTF happened?

Ah, this game. This fucking game. The art style was like nothing else at the time, the gameplay was like nothing else at the time, the music was like nothing else at the time. What a gem.

Parasite Eve is undoubtedly one of the most unique RPG experiences of the decade and maybe even today. The fact it didnt get more love is tragic. I would talk about it to other kids at school like we did with every other game at the time but noone knew what this one was.

Parasite Eve is prolly the single most underappreciated and overlooked gem in gaming history.

This was one of the very first games I fell in love with aside from FF. I truly believe it deserves a well made remake, Parasite Eve has a special place in my heart :D The OST, gameplay, atmosphere was all well done, something different, but not everyone saw that back in the day :(

Great videos. The retrospective series are one of my favorites on KZfaq. Keep up the good work !

Christmas *Eve* Parasite *Eve*

What you say around 8:43... ABSOLUTELY agree with this. Video games taught me a lot when I was younger, and helped shape me in many ways (if even only by a small part)

"A copy should come by around 20 bucks on ebay!" > me checks ebay > 190 Dollar ... how times change within such a short period :D

loving these videos man it just sucks i took so long finding this channel.

Most underrated RPG of all time. Incredible visuals, music, story, writing, and combat. My 2nd favorite RPG after Final Fantasy VIII.

I've played all Resident Evil, Silent Hill, and other great games similar to them back in the late nineties... but this one (Parasite Eve) flew under my radar! I've just tried it, and I gotta say... I'm having more fun with it than most titles coming out for current consoles nowadays. The atmosphere, characters, soundtrack, settings, and EVERYTHING else you mentioned TRULY made these past games, even to this day, stand out above MOST for current gen consoles. This one and Parasite Eve 2 have just earned their spot in my collection of Survival Horror titles. Thanks for sharing, mate! : )

Great video Avalanche! My cousin had this game when we were little!! We were probably a little to young to be playing this game at that time, but we still thought it was awesome.

I replayed this a few years ago and still enjoyed it just as much as my 90s self did....I can totally see myself playing it again at some point.

It's a shame this one never came to Europe. I remember seeing pictures about it in some gaming magazines, especially coupled with articles about the upcoming sequel, and thinking it looked amazing as hell. I had no idea what the gameplay was like, but now I do. Thanks for that! But it really is a shame we never got it over here, because it looks more fun than the sequel, I think. At least combat does. Reminds me of Koudelka.

The game, OST, story are so awesome back these years. PE4 dudes!

Oh man. I'm so happy you made this video. I'm like one of the biggest fan of the Parasite Eve series. You could even say i'm among the cults that praises this game. This game is the reason why I took AP Bio in high school and pick up electronica music in the early 2000s. I got this game for Christmas at the age of 13 and played over and over 30 times back to back til i was strong enough for the chrysler building. This game is truly a masterpiece!

Thanks for these vids man. I appreciate them a lot. beyond relaxing to watch and so many titles added to my backlog thanks to you haha

Parasite eve omg T_T I’ve mainly been watching the resi vids and just making my way to games outside the series and this game has a special place in my heart I

08:20 - 08:39 You've perfectly articulated my feelings on both this game and video games in general. Great retro!

I wish PS1 games were still made. Lol.

I am glad you made the videos on the Parasite Eve games I was just playing the first two tonight

It's really interesting that gameplay looks a lot like Vagrant Story and the world map is rather reminiscent of Front Missions. Also the menu bar is relatively similar to Final Fantasy 8. Kind of like a relatively unknown (or more accurately unplayed) game that fed into some well known classics.

Despite never beating this game I had a lot of fun with it. I'd love to go back and finish it one of these days. Those scenes in the cop car with the background whizzing by always stood out to me, visually.

LOVE THE GAME & OST- THANKS FOR COVERING A GAME THAT GETS LITTLE RECOGNITION🏆

So glad I found ur channel man I remember having my first gamer nightmare from the mutating rat and the burning people on first cutscene. Great game

Parasite Eve, to me, was when Square Soft and Capcom had a baby, and this was the result. A Final Fantasy RPG mixed with Resident Evil and Silent Hill horror elements. Also, even though the game is 20 years old, it still looks remarkably good.

It harkens back to a day where video game took chances..... I couldn't have said it better!

ive only just found your channel but I am binge watching the shit out of it, even re watching videos I have watched already, your content is nice, real nice and I cant get enough dude. top notch

Alright, you've convinced me to give this game a try.

It's unfortunate that the sequels couldn't hold a candle to the brilliance that is Parasite Eve, it's truly a incredible game with a narrative that sticks with you long after you end the game. In my mind there will never be a game as amazing as Parasite Eve.😔😊👏

A lot of ppl loved it but complained that it was too confusing to play and they didn’t know what to do next. I love this game. Which it was a regular game though not an RPG.

What makes Parasite Eve scary isn't cheap jumpscares or anything of the sort, it's the constant "What the F**K is that!?!" moments throughout the game. Early CGI has always creeped me out due to the unnatural look everything has, and Parasite Eve makes fantastic use of it to emphasize horror through it's character design and atmosphere. Seriously, the mutating rat in particular is the scariest thing I've seen in a video game to date, and that's just one of the minor monsters in the game.

Avalanche .. you just "Liberate" my mind with this one .. *Parasite Eve* .. Parasite Freaking Eve .. my No.1 favorite game of all time got a retrospective , this is everything to me .. thank you for that ;')

Loved this game and I just found out about your channel. Great review and what you said about games was not lame: Happened to me too! Games like this shaped a big part of me. Gonna check the PE2 Right the hell now! Cheers!

Gotta relate to this guy a lot right now. Parasite Eve came to me when I was still figuring out a lot about myself. I didn't really have friends growing up so I had games and PE had a massive influence on me and it deserves far more love than it gets. I'm still beyond hopeful for a proper PE1 + 2 remaster.

I was like 7 years old when I got this game for Christmas. I remember it actually scaring me at the time. I don't think my parents knew what they were buying me lol

Replaying this game for the nth time. It never gets old!

classy game, one of my favorites

Oh shit an Avalanche Retrospective, sign me up.

I really hope and wish that there is a remaster for this game. I mean it still looks good but an HD upgrade would mean the world to me.

I've never played Parasite Eve, and I can't even remember seeing the game back in the days (my brother remembers it well though, he said it's in those game store back then). Around ten years later, I found the game again. Still never played it cuz games are hard to me lol. Yet, I really enjoy the music. I missed the days when I watched the walkthrough clips one by one until the end. It's a really great game. Beautiful music, especially the texture of these 90s sound. I love it.

Glad to know I'm not the only one who loved pre-rendered backgrounds. On an additional note, supposedly Yoko Shimomura's main intent was to make a woefully and jarringly inorganic score, hence the use of synthetic vocals.

i love parasite eve so much, i wish square would ge tthe irghts back and bring us a proper 3rd entry into the series!

One thing that stood out for the PE series was the modern times setting. Before PE, most RPGs at the time had us using swords and magic in an adventure fighting goblins, dragons, and such. PE was able to take a a JRPG game and mix it with horror in modern day NY using the actual names of IRL firearms with their serial #s. Otherwise, great game combining elements of RE and Final Fantasy

this is one of the reasons I pursue music. without this game I wouldn't have discovered Yoko Shimomura

I played PE on my psvita for the first time. really enjoyed the game , I miss old games like that.

Used to watch my dad play this. Definitely just brought back memories 😇😇😇

This was great. I love PE1 and yes even 2.

Recently played and beat this game. Definitely had a tough time with the bosses but this game was so charming and fun. I loved the story too

I love this game so much that I have a tattoo with the main tag line this game. (The worst foes lies within the self) also is my motto in life. You have to make yourself better because you are your own enemy.

it is literally a breach of human rights that this game didn't get an official pal release! it's perfect!

just subbed..great video and im a MASSIVE Resident evil fan. you have the best resi vids. keep em coming :)

Great game and you described it perfectly coming at a time in my life when I was figuring out who I was . Love this review of an amazing game

I am not a jrpg or turn based rpg player at all I like the first game. I haven't beat it but I liked customizing weapons and the combat system is fun. I won a PSP at a work party around the time 3rd birthday came out and the first two games released on PSN. So I thought I would try them all out.

This Game was one of my favorites for sure

Great video! I loved this game , I completely forgot all about it.

Damn, I was not expecting this, a retrospective on one of my beloved series written by a good creator. I knew you and I had a lot in common! XD Great stuff, sir.

This game was so sick and underrated. I remember getting this when I was 13 and fucking loved the game...it was so unique I recall. It was a survivor horror RPG and was WAY ahead of its time for sure.

i'm really looking forward to your next video! Parasite Eve is one of my favourite games but i never got around to play the second one. i hope you will make me want to play it immediately ;)

I was always curious about this game. Good vids by the way. Keep it up.

Awesome look at one of the all-time classics, my man! :D "Parasite Eve" (the sequel included) remains one of my all-time favorite games to this very day, no matter which generation in video game console it was released. :D The story, themes/ideas explored, RPG elements mixed in with Survival-Horror, and of course, the Music is all outstanding! Japanese video game developers understand Atmosphere and Tone unlike any other, utilizing in the most effective way. ^.^ Can't wait for the 2nd part! :D

an HD remake of the first one would be 👌👏

Thank you Jared for this review. I had never even heard of this game before probably due to growing up in the UK. So as a fan of JRPGs and survival horror I had to check it out. Well around 40 hours and two play-throughs later I have finally finished the game with both endings and had a blast. The Chrysler Building maybe got a little bit stale by the top but I still had a great time with it. Parasite Eve has definitely been propelled into my list of favourite games of all time. Only 20 years after it's initial release! Just thought I would come back to this video and say thank you for the recommendation.

Great video. I didn't play it back in the day, but I saw my brother and another friend plow through the game. I may have to go out and buy this game and try to roll through it on my own.

Pure 90's kino game, excellent vid! Really, really hope they don't try to do a remake though. Let the original 1st game and the franchise rest in peace.

Awesome video, man! I love Parasite Eve. It's one of my favorites on the PS1. I already did my own review of the game a ways back, confessing my love for it. :P I'm looking forward to the rest of your retrospective.

I picked up parasite eve 1 and 2 recently and I'm excited when its delivered to me

Great video man I forgot about how good Eve was!

I LOVED Parasite Eve. Such a refreshing change of pace. When I first played it, I was tired of Final Fantasy. FF is a great series, but I wanted something different from it and the other medieval-setting RPGs. I played Parasite Eve and got that. Then I tried Hybrid Heaven on the N64, which was similarly different, but nowhere near as good. Then I played Persona 2, and fell in love with a new series of games.

My birthday is December 28th (which is in the game lol) I remember I wanted both Brave Fencer Musashi and this, so I got Musashi for Christmas and bought this 3 days later. It was an overload.

I played parasite eve a few years back, I liked it. I remember stopping on the second one mid way through though, can't remember why. I do remember liking that one too.

parasite eve 2 is my favorite classic re style game. the gameplay is just perfect and the visuals are amazing for the time, the graphics still hold up today. i really wish we had gotten a 3rd game with the same gameplay system as 2. the first game was good, but i'm in the minority who thinks 2 blows it away. the first game has a better story, but everything else about 2 is superior.

As a fellow gentleman from PAL regions, I was completely saddened that we completely missed out on the first Parasite Eve game. I heard about it in magazines as a kid but we never had a privilege to buy it in my part of Europe. So I took the opportunity to play it on the emulator. My God, this game is extremely amazing. It has its shortcomings, but you can damn as well ignore them because this is one of the best PS1 action adventure games with surreal horror elements and in-depth RPG mechanics and the music is just exquisite. I'm surprised the story holds up that well even today compared to modern video game stories nowadays and the cinematic presentation and a unique approach to storytelling are astounding for a 90's video game. I got extremely lucky that I bought it used by someone I know for a fair price few years ago and now I'm a proud owner of this game. I also think that PE2 is a pretty underrated gem. I mean it's definitely not as good as the first one and the music is left a lot to be desired but if I take it for what it is, a solid approach to 90's style survival horror games with infinitely deep mechanics, I wouldn't be as disappointed as were the majority of gamers who were big fans of the original. But 3rd Birthday on the other hand....well the story is practically a convoluted pseudo sci-fi horror with a ham-fisted time travel narrative with a female main protagonist who was exclusively designed for the purpose of the anime fan service and teenage male gaze...well in other words, the story sucks donkey dick multiplied by ten. As for the gameplay...well, let's just say that as a third person action shooter it completely missed the platform, especially when that platform lacks the second analog stick. But even as a third person shooter it lacks depth to be a competent one.

This Game Alone Truly Deseverse a Remake! Great Review Dude!

just came across this. Excellent vid. Currently giving 3rd Birthday a second try after it really disappointed me when it came out, which is why I was looking up retrospectives on youtube. Parasite Eve is also a very special game for it and I love it dearly.

Final Fantasy and Resident Evil together sounds like a dream. A wonderful one at that

aya brea is one of my favorite video game heroines of all time. i love this series.

I vividly remember this game on my childhood. I was about 5 years old and was just paying in my room with Max Steel, when my dad come home from work with a PlayStation 1. It was all news to us all (I only knew Super Nintendo and Mega Drive/Genesis and my dad didn't have much knowledge about videogames other than Atari and SNES). With the console he bought 5 games for us to play, but since he didn't know anything, he just bought the ones he thought the cover looks cool. Parasite Eve was the very first game I ever put on my console and the very first cutscene already scared the hell out of me, so we tried another game...which was Diablo 🙃 What were the other 3 games? Silent Hill and Resident Evil haha Ironically the only game that a 5yo could play and not be scared I don't remember which was. Good times...

i'm still angry this never got a PAL release, we got PE2 and 3rd birthday, but never PE1, this needs a remaster as well as it's sequel, but knowing Square they'll likely leave it to die