A certified good girl

FFVIII-Style graphics!
Real time movement and ATB combat!
(Mitochondria-powered) Magic!
People catching on fire!
People turning into goo!
Body horror mutations!
Killer music!

This one truly has it all! 😌

PE will always have a special place in my heart and luckily it’s relatively short to replay it. A relic of a time when Square was still trying things out and before Tetsuya Nomura became the Steven Moffat of video games. 😬

I even spend my pocket money on a Japanese dictionary, despite not knowing how the language worked, to try and translate some of the text. Luckily - since the game is taking place in NYC - it’s full of katakana so I could actually make some sense of it. Very neurotypical behavior. 🌚

A year after its release, I managed to get a pirated copy of the Japanese version and was obsessed with it. I was 13 or 14 back then in pre-internet times, lol. It was the first time I finished a game in Japanese despite being unable to read the text. Talk about a lot of trial and error.

I first learned of Parasite Eve in a local game magazine and was immediately captivated. It’s one those games (like Resident Evil and Clock Tower) that incited my love for horror videogames at a much too young age. Funnily enough, it was never officially released in Germany.

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