However, his mother, Lorraine, is among the casualties. Ben survives the incident as he left the audience once he started feeling sick. Eve kills the entire audience in an eye-popping, flesh melting scene that sees the crowd turned into a large, writhing blob of cellular matter.

Aya is forced to go it alone.Īya’s journey through the park also includes a trip through the Central Park Zoo, where she discovers that not only have the animals there began mutation, but are also now freed from their cages and pens! Aya finally reaches the concert, but it is too late. Daniel panics as his young son, Ben, is to attend the concert with his mother, Daniel’s ex-wife! The detectives rush to the park (which is shown to be absurdly devoid of human life, especially considering that a concert is to begin momentarily), but Daniel is unable to enter thanks to Eve’s presence, which causes his body to rapidly overheat as he approaches the entrance. It’s soon remembered that Melissa is scheduled to perform at a concert in Central Park on Christmas Day. Aya, however, gets the strong impression that she has met the doctor previously, but can not place where or when.

While notably stand-offish and arrogant towards the detectives, even Klamp seems surprised by what he learns about “Eve” from them. The doctor, Hans Klamp, has indeed been researching and experimenting with mitochondria for some time, but provides little insight into just what actually happened at the opera. After a briefing with the chief, the detectives are informed of a scientist at the Museum of Natural History in Manhattan deemed to be an expert in the field of mitochondrial development. Aya is driven back to the police station by her partner, Detective Daniel Dollis. Eve exits through the back of the stage, and Aya gives chase only to be stopped in her tracks when a rat mutates into a dog-sized, malformed monstrosity right in front of her! This is only the first of many mutated animals that the player will encounter within the game.Īya survives the incident at the opera house, but not before Eve has escaped. Unfortunately, Aya has no clue what this mutated psychopath is talking about. At this point, Aya begins to feel a surge of heat coursing through her body, which leads to “superpowers” of her own, which will be used and developed on her forthcoming quest.Īfter a short battle (the first of many between Aya and “Eve”), Eve warns Aya that the more she uses her newfound powers, the more alike the two women will become. Not only does Eve seem surprised that Aya was not affected, but she also makes the cryptic comment that Aya’s “cells are trying to communicate” with her own. As the the lead actress, a young woman named Melissa, sings her “aria of sorrow”, cast and audience members alike begin to spontaneously combust! The theater quickly becomes a flood of panicked citizens attempting to flee the inferno, many still bursting into flames as they run! And yes… that was a Castlevania reference back there.Īya confronts Melissa, now referring to herself as “Eve”. The evening’s performance is about a young prince’s forbidden romance with a woman accused of witchcraft. Why did she even ask to come here? She’s not a fan of the opera! Even before entering the opera house, things just feel “off” to Aya. In Square’s Parasite Eve, an aspiring actress becomes an angel of death when the mitochondria (structures within the cells of organisms that converts oxygen to energy) in her body decide to take control, replicate, grant her superhuman powers, and determine that it’s time to take over the world! Set during the Christmas season of 1997, the player takes the role of young New York City detective Aya Brea, who must stop the woman from succeeding in her sinister plans, while also discovering that she’s more connected to the case and the assailant than she could have ever imagined.Īs the story opens, Aya is being escorted to the opera on Christmas Eve by her nameless date.

We really aren’t here to talk about them anyway. However, let’s just forget about the novel and the film for a little while.

A manga adaptation of the game, entitled Parasite Eve DIVA, was released in 1998. The novel was also adapted into a film in Japan in 1997. The game may be considered a sequel to Hideaki Sena’s novel of the same name, which was released in Japan in 1995. The game hit US shores later that year on September 9th. Parasite Eve is an action role-playing game with survival horror elements that was released by Square Co., creators of the acclaimed Final Fantasy series, to the original Sony Playstation game console on March 28th, 1998.

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