Parasite Eve [Any%] by CarcinogenSDA -  

Parasite Eve development history: FFVII began development in 1994 as a SNES title and was ultimately released in 1997; development of Parasite Eve began in 1996 and the game released in 1998. It is built in the Final Fantasy engine, but not as a pre-dev build for VII; my understanding is that Square was looking to push the full limits of the hardware as a bit of a tech demo for Sony. It is also Square's first M-rated game. It was co-developed by their Japanese and US studios. If I remember what was happening at the time correctly, Sony was originally set to collaborate on console hardware with Nintendo, but that deal went sour, leading to the development of the PS1 (and was possibly why the N64 stuck with carts instead of moving to CDs), and prompted Square to make the console leap. Considering IV, V, and VI all released between 1991-1994, this was a huge commitment, pushing VII to a three year dev time, and Square was determined to commit to their new engine. So, they picked up the 1995 horror novel and conceived a sequel. They wrote the script with minimal involvement from the novel's author Hideaki Sena. Parasite Eve had two sequels and was the inspiration for the 2021 single and album by British metal band Bring Me the Horizon.

Carci's commentary is 10/10. Could listen to an audiobook if he had one.

Couch is painfully disrespectful towards the runner. Sure, we are all old, but really no reason to keep on babbling about IRC or runescape. Unless they're just completely unprofessional randos picked from the crowd or something, you would've expected them to at least do minimal research on the game they're going to couch.

Carci is a legendary gamer, top tier speed runner, and I was sad to see the couch be so unprofessional.

Man I love this game. I want to really get into speed running. I put sooooo many hours into this game.

No way they got Carci on here 😂

Good commentary overall but 2 hours in and no one has mentioned the god tier OST? Heresy, i tell you. Each track is great.

i come back to this game every christmas. i got the game for christmas and its christmas in the game, it's closer to me than that rudoplh claymation shit

"Somehow her date manages to survive".... Eve with the assist knowing that tragedies usually lead to comfort sex. Nice big sis moment there.

They got my boy playing a classic.

To my understanding the game is actually a pseudo-sequel to a *movie* which is either an adaption or pseudo-sequel to the novel, which makes it even weirder, but I could be wrong about that since there's a lot of misinformation about it

Spent Christmas morning watching this run and having a wonderful time.

Carci is great, but the couch sucks.

I used to really like Carci because his commentary is top tier. But, his personality has changed so much over the years. He's so angry and gives off such negativity now.

That worm fight looks aggravating af

If anything, Its nice to hear genuine disgust and fear from people when they see the creatures transformation FMV as well as U.B. by the end. It is some of the most disturbing imagery on a PS1 game and the sound design of flesh tearing up and melting makes it all the better (?)

Best game ever made.

THE POWERHOUSE OF THE CELL

Tony Stark, faces some generic aliens in new york: I´ve been traumatized for life and won´t rest until the people responsible are eliminated. Aya Brea, faces constant avenger level threats for 6 days leading to a massive monstrocity threatening the world: People eventually forgot, but it was kinda hard those 6 days. Giga Chadina!

very vivid memories of this game as a kid

Woah!!! Carcii heree 👀🥳

PE is on PSN. I love seeing a favorite growing up being speedrunned!

Thank god for the pronouns! EDIT: Damn, didn't realize this is ESA. Since when did ESA do this stuff?

No Chrysler tower ?

its weird seeing carci be so uneducated about little things in a game like this

that mithocondria bit was very annoying and boring

Carci wondering why PE never came to EU might be due to how Square was very hesitant with RPGs on the western market. Square most likely did not want to gamble on making PAL releases, as PAL usually required localization in several languages, which is a lot of money. PAL region missed out on lot of huge RPGs, not receiving any FF games until the PS1 releases. So yeah, 90s PAL RPG fans were kinda screwed over, and with internet shopping being also rather uncommon, importing games was a rare thing. It wasn't uncommon for Europeans to know 90s Square games simply from having emulated them in the early years of emulation. It's kinda sad that Europe never got a Front Mission 1 release, until the recent Switch remake. Or Chrono Trigger until the DS port.