If you’re reading this, good job! This is currently work-in-progress and simply contains some notes.

So far, I’m liking Parasite Eve a lot. I find the Mitochondria stuff amusing as well. I wasn’t expecting to hear Richard Dawkins’ name mentioned.

I find the sewer to be a bit disorienting, though I wasn’t as annoyed as I expected myself to be. What I did find quite annoying is the museum, where the random encounters really started to grate on me.

There were times where I had trouble finding stuff and figuring out where to go next, so I did keep a walkthrough around just to refer to every now and again.

Day 5 onwards the game gets really tedious. I think this is a shame, because the rest of it is pretty solid. The enemies start to have a lot of health, have a tendency to do a lot of damage (and have attacks that are difficult or practically impossible to dodge) and you do a bit less damage too. So, seeing as this was the case, I decided to use cheats to beat the game. I determined that I could beat the final boss without cheating, but it would have taken forever (and I only decided this after about ≈45 minutes of me running around trying to fight the penultimate boss).

• Okay, I looked it up after getting confused in the credits. Apparently it’s adapted from a novel? And that this novel was first adapted into a film and two manga series? What?