Merry Parasite, fuckers! The audience is definitely listening. Parasite Eve‘s opera scene features a state of the art (again, by 1998 standards) CGI sequence in which half the audience of Carnegie Hall’s Christmas Eve performance bursts into flames and dies horribly. Yes, yes, sure: Final Fantasy VI‘s opera house scene was a milestone in video games’ evolution into a unique form of interactive art with its own unique yeah yeah yeah. And secondly, the first proper in-game cinematic gives us the most memorable opera scene in a SquareSoft game. First of all, the CGI montage during the demo demonstrates a very noticable improvement over Final Fantasy VII‘s cinematics. You can see SquareSoft’s investment paying itself off within the first ten minutes of the game. If you were to punch the names credited as “CG supervisors” into the Internet Movie Database, you would see some familiar movie titles on some of their resumes: Cliffhanger, Die Hard: With a Vengeance, Super Mario Brothers (the movie), Apollo 13, (uh oh) 2001’s Final Fantasy: the Spirits Within. Most of these were developed in the United States by folks with Hollywood experience. If absolutely nothing else, Parasite Eve lives up to its cinematic RPG boast in that it contains a lot of CG cutscenes, and they tend to be on the long side (by 1998 PlayStation standards). ![]() Browsing the staff credits, you’ll notice an unusual abundance of Western names, and they’re not limited to the localization team. And like any good sequel, Parasite Eve (the game) raises the stakes, amps up the danger, and piles the bodies much higher.īut for the “cinematic” element of their new RPG, SquareSoft looked abroad. Rather, it’s presented as a distant sequel. Despite going by the same title, Parasite Eve (the game) is not a conversion of the book or the movie. (Note: Tokita’s name only appears in the credits of Parasite Eve 2 as a “special adviser” and not at all in 3rd Birthday.) Also on board were Yoshihiko Maekawa ( Super Mario RPG director) as battle designer, Shinichiro Okaniwa ( Secret of Mana character designer, Chrono Trigger field graphic designer) as battle effects director, and Yoko Shimomura ( Street Fighter II‘s soundtrack) brings a killer soundtrack that’s a little bit operatic and a little bit 1990s electronica.įor the storyline, Tokita adapted the plot of a 1996 Japanese horror novel called Parasite Eve, which later was made into a movie. It’s an attempt to splice the console RPG with a survival horror game (as popularized by Resident Evil), and also a new phase in SquareSoft’s scheme to make games that behaved more like film – or at least into something commanding more respect than electronic toys.įilling the RPG part of the equation – the hit points, battle mechanics, and storyline/scenario stuff – was director and lead designer Takashi Tokita, who had previously directed Final Fantasy IV and Chrono Trigger. Marketed in the States as SquareSoft’s first post- Final Fantasy VII big-budget title, it was the company’s first game to receive an “M” rating from the ESRB, and possibly the first video game to refer to itself as a “cinematic RPG.” This an amalgamation of amalgamations. Eventually, Sakaguchi had his way and got his NYC detective game, though not in the form of a Final Fantasy title. Sakaguchi obviously had to make a few concessions, and so the first few hours of Final Fantasy VII are set in a squalid metropolitan nightmare from which the player is then ejected to run, ride, and fly around a more familiar RPG world map for the rest of the game. ![]() ![]() ![]() According to interviews with SquareSoft staffers (referenced extensively across cyberspace, but with apparently without magazine scans/transcriptions), Sakaguchi’s original plan for Final Fantasy VII was a detective story taking place in modern-day New York City.
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