This game is a serious embarassment to the name of Squaresoft. This game is just awful, it doesn't even deserve to be made, and it horrible.
There are really three main aspects of any game, and that is game play and technical and story. But this game, not single aspect of this game is a complete winner, and its terrible.
Story is usually the first thing to bring up about this game, but this game's story is horrible, clich'd, and at times, directly copied. This game is literally, a carbon clone of Capcom's survival horror classic Resident Evil 2. There are scenes in Parasite Eve II that are direct copies of Resident Evil II, which i played twice and beat. Parasite Eve II centers around the original's protagonist, Aya Brea, a part of a "mitochondria specialty task force". She ends up investigating a series of deaths that look like they could be connected to her previous work. They rest of the story is simply a mish mash and the force Aya works for contains every stereotypical cop character you can find. The tough talkign black guy, the nerdy gun carrier, and the feminine receptionist who has something to do with the story, they're all there, in a mish mash that makes no sense. Knot a single good thing can be said about the ridiculously incoherent and unprocessed story, that holds no bearing to the original's story, which was based off of a Japanese Best Sellin novel. INstead, we have no nooks, no crannies, nothing. The little bit of story we do get in this game either don't make any type of sense, or are ripped off of Resident Evil 2.
The technical aspect of this game is discraceful. The fact that this game even has the Squaresoft logo. The music is abominable, the WORST squaresoft soundtrack I have ever herad, it's simply horrible. Boring, repetetive, uninspired, awful. The music will seriously make your ears bleed, and to say this disgusting score was the first video game soundtrack domestically released in the US is simply horrible. No wonder video game soundtracks haven't taken off in this country. The graphics in the game are even worse then the first one, with the movies being pixelated and plain, and the in game graphics are just moving squares. To make it worse, the first official cinema in the game, after you play (not including the intro) is taken directly from Resident evil 2, and fans will see the smoking gun of a copycat. The controls aren't bad, but they're a carbon clone again of Resident Evil 2. But again, Aya moves horribly. If you thought it was bad in the first game, Aya is slow and annoying, and at times, in battle, barely mobile. The game engine is a very good idea, and much much MUCh better than the first gun, and is actually more fun. But to make it worse are unfair bosses and enemies, and the appaling use of "magic".
Parasite Eve II is simply a Resident Evil II clone, but the worst part about it is the fact that with such great reference work, this game came out so bad. Resident Evil II is a classic survival horror game, but Parasite Eve II, sorry to say, is simply junk. For this game, worth only about 5 dollars, I give- Half a star out of *****
