Fortunately, most of your foes have exploitable weaknesses that make them easier to kill once you figure them out. Your enemies include a wide assortment of both the fast-and-nimble and the slow-and-powerful variety, and you'll have to dodge and weave or just keep shooting as necessary. Each time you hit your target, a number representing the damage you inflicted flashes onscreen (and tallies up if you're hitting the opponent in rapid succession), which at least gives you an idea of your weapons' relative effectiveness. Other weapons can be enhanced using attachments that increase ammo clip capacity or add new functionality, like the bayonet. The strongest weapons you'll use also tend to be the heaviest, which decreases their effectiveness by making them slower to draw and reload. Aya wields a wide assortment of real-world firearms over the course of the game, and most every weapon fires with its own distinctively satisfying, reverberating boom (accompanied by a Dual Shock thud), which makes it feel powerful. For instance, a submachine gun can fire in burst- or single-fire modes, while an automatic rifle with a bayonet attachment can also be used as a deadly close-quarters combat weapon. She fires her equipped weapon using the right shoulder buttons, the second of which is used for an optional secondary mode of attack. Aya is deadly accurate, and she quickly switches aim between nearby enemy targets each time you press the square button. You'll usually see your enemies onscreen before they attack, and if you manage to sneak up on them, you can actually initiate combat yourself and surprise them by taking the first shot.
Parasite Eve II abandons most of its predecessor's RPG combat elements and instead makes you do battle completely in real time. The original Parasite Eve adopted a tired role-playing game convention that forces you to defend yourself against near-constant and unavoidable monster encounters that come from out of nowhere.
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You'll have no reservations about filling such bizarre monstrosities full of lead the second you see them, and thanks to Parasite Eve II's totally overhauled combat system, it's easy to shoot first and ask questions later. She'll battle against monstrous yet vaguely recognizable humans and animals whose fleshy, elongated limbs and hollow eyes make them look both creepy and dangerous. While Parasite Eve II's Southern California settings are readily recognizable, the various monsters that Aya will have to fight aren't the usual fodder. Nevertheless, it's no simple feat to make a mutant hummingbird blend in with a run-down gas station. Yet while the characters were state of the art by PlayStation standards when the game was originally released close to one year ago in Japan, Squaresoft has since published several games in the US such as Vagrant Story and Chrono Cross, which feature 3D characters that are even more detailed. The scenery actually succeeds at delivering the cinematic appearance that its predecessor aimed for, and Parasite Eve II's evocative motion-captured 3D characters not only look good, but they also blend well with the settings.
The game uses a great mix of both artistic and claustrophobic camera angles that make the scenery look good without making it difficult to navigate through, and because Aya moves forward whenever you push up on the directional pad, you can always naturally compensate for any abrupt camera-angle transitions. However, the detail in Parasite Eve II's settings makes the static backgrounds look especially realistic colored ambient lighting, reflective glossy floors and glass surfaces, skittering bugs and moths, and other such elements all contribute to the game's surprising visual quality.
And while Parasite Eve II is consequently a better, more suspenseful game, it still suffers from a few problems, including ill-conceived puzzles and a few RPG elements that shouldn't have remained.Īs in the first game, Parasite Eve II initially looks just like the Resident Evil games, on account of its polygonal characters that move across static prerendered scenery depicted using unusual camera angles. The sequel takes place shortly thereafter and disowns most of the original's role-playing game elements in favor of action-adventure gameplay reminiscent of Capcom's Resident Evil series. In the original Parasite Eve, which is a role-playing game with action-adventure elements, a young New York cop named Aya Brea has to deal with an epidemic that causes people to either die or mutate as the mitochondria in their bloodstreams awaken with chaotic energy. Parasite Eve II is a consistently good-looking action-adventure game that adopts its predecessor's cinematic style to an even more impressive effect.
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