Parasite Eve II: Difference between revisions

It can also be found on the [[Playstation Network]].

 

 

* [[Apocalyptic Log]]: A few are found, in particular one left by a researcher over a couple of days describing the evil Dr. Bowman who eventually turned into an ANMC. The second-to-last entry is of her writing about how she let him out of his cage because he wouldn't stop complaining, and noting that he's now over nine feet tall. The final entry is by someone else, noting how the researcher was (unsurprisingly) eaten by Bowman.

* [[Badass Abnormal]]: Aya. Most of her combat is with guns, but she's got deadly magic to back herself up with.

* [[Badass Army]]: The Marines.

* [[Barbie Doll Anatomy]]: Close-up analysis of PE2's "Stranger" NMCs indicates that nipples may just be considered a disadvantageous evolutionary feature. This may, of course, be due to the fact that the "Suckler" NMCs [[Your Head Asplode|detonate their own craniums]] as a self-defense mechanism, making breastfeeding quite the chore.

* [[Bishonen Line]]: The final boss after {{spoiler|absorbing Eve}}.

** [[Just Eat Him]]: Said garbage monster's vacuum mouth attack is an instant game over if Aya gets too close.

** [[Advancing Boss of Doom]]: The creature keeps slowly and implacably moving closer and closer, leaving you with less and less room to run away from it.

* [[Escort Mission]]: PE2's Kyle Madigan is one of those few escortees that can actually hold his own in a firefight (and often comes with some sort of [[BFG|overpowered firearm or another]] to offset being unable to heal).

** {{spoiler|This trope also comes into effect when you have to escape the secret underground lab with Eve. While no enemies are present, Eve will start to cough from the gas filling the room and lose HP.}}

* [[Hoist By His Own Petard]]: {{spoiler|Number Nine is eaten by the very giant monster he was breeding, after finishing his [[Just Between You and Me]] speech and [[Why Don't Ya Just Shoot Him|getting shot]] by Kyle.}}

* [[Hyperspace Arsenal]]: Zig-zagged: In battle, Aya does ''not'' have access to her entire inventory, just what she has equipped to her belt pouches on her body armor, which is fair. However, one item still takes up the same amount of slots whether it's a can of coca-cola, a bunch of bullets, or a grenade launcher.

* [[Inventory Management Puzzle]]: Twenty items max, limited external storage besides, and you can only use stuff that you've loaded onto your current armor beforehand in battle. At least key items no longer counting towards this total helps buffer needing to carry around multiple ammo types.

* [[Inner Monologue]]: Examining objects multiple times often reveals quite a lot of Aya's inner thoughts, some of which are actually pretty insightful.

* [[Magikarp Power]]: The P08 is the lowest priced gun of all the weapons, but it's weak, slow, and has a small clip. Yet if you keep it in your inventory to the point when Aya can explore Dryfield's underground, checking the gun rack in the game room a few times will net Aya the "Snail Magazine". When used on the P08 its strength and clip increases and has an absurdly high critical hit rate.

* [[Metal Slime]]: The Bounty and Nightmare Modes turn the Golems and other [[Elite Mooks]] into ''scripted'' versions of these, [[Demonic Spiders|without the running away part]].

* [[More Dakka]]: The 100-bullet full-auto pistol (among less readily available conventional machine guns)...

* [[Multiple Endings]]: The game has three of them, depending on a few actions that you took. The standard ending has the President talking to his aide about what to do with the mess at the faculty (this is all done in pure text behind a black screen). The better ending expands upon the previous scene and adds more details to the plot without a black screen. The best ending shows even more details of the plot and {{spoiler|shows that Aya adopted Eve as her sister. A year later, they go to a museum where they encounter a man who is presumed to be Kyle.}}

* [[Mysterious Waif]]: The Eve, {{spoiler|Aya's clone}}, who doesn't talk until near the end. {{spoiler|Aya ends up adopting her as a sister afterward.}}

* [[Mythology Gag]]: The targets that Aya is shooting at in the intro are illustrations of the monsters of the first game.

* [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot]]: The Golems, cyborg zombie [[Super Soldier]] [[Elite Mooks]] with ape-like qualities, some types of which have [[Invisibility Cloak|optical stealth]], ninja-esque speeds, the ability to cause [[Standard Status Effects]], lay sneak attacks, some have grenade launchers and others have light-saber-esque weapon. {{spoiler|The [[The Cavalry|US Army]] makes quick work of them, though, as soon as they are caught in broad daylight.}}

* [[No Body Left Behind]]: The monsters all melt when they die, but the cyborg Golems ''do not.'' Not even if you change rooms and come back later, which is especially surprising for a Playstation game.

* [[Noob Cave]]: The shooting range in the MIST HQ, although you can skip it entirely if you wish. Tackling all the challenges and scoring high will net you some nifty items. The highest leveled challenge will cause damage to Aya but the challenge is automatically stopped if her HP gets too low with Pierce commenting "Now if this were real, you'd be dead."

* [[Not Using the Zed Word]]: For clones.

{{quote| '''General''': "{{spoiler|They'll be buried in Arlington. Proud heroes of the country.}}"}}

* [[Older Than They Look]]: Aya is chronologically 28, but still looks like she's in her early twenties. This is explained in that, since her evolved mitochondria have opted to work with her rather than against her (which is the defining difference between Aya and the various monsters around her), they've decided that keeping their host healthy and young is more advantageous to them than allowing her to age.

* [[Scenery Porn]]: For the time in which it was made, ''Parasite Eve 2's'' backgrounds are amazingly detailed. They were all pre-rendered and still-shots were used as the backgrounds, similar to how most [[Resident Evil]] games worked, but with ''much'' more work put into them. These places look like places where people worked, ate and lived; a lot of thought went into them and thus it brings a lot of verisimilitude.

** Most bits of scenery can also be examined, prodding several different lines of description from Aya. That is easily more detail than most old-school adventure games have.

* [[Semper Fi]]

* [[Shooting Gallery]]: The target range in MIST HQ, which also acts as a short tutorial on fighting.

** Cloud and Aerith from ''[[Final Fantasy VII (Video Game)|Final Fantasy VII]]'' are name-dropped, appearing as an computer antivirus and a magazine with a clue on how to enter the files of a computer in the Shelter.

** Looking at a mirror in her room will cause Aya to reference ''[[Casablanca]]'' and ''[[Indiana Jones (Franchise)|Indiana Jones]]''.

* [[Shower Scene]]

* [[Spoiler Opening]]: The opening cinematic shows parts of the [[Cutscene]] where {{spoiler|the US military storms the Ark facility and easily dispatches the [[Elite Mooks]] that you've had difficulty killing upon their release}}, not to mention {{spoiler|the big [[Kill Sat]] scene just before the final bosses}}.