Should you grab this on PSN?
The 3rd Birthday is the third game in the Parasite Eve series, I’ve already reviewed Parasite Eve 1, and Parasite Eve 2, so I thought I might as well finish off the trilogy, continue on to the review of this PSP game.
Original release: March 29th 2011 (NA)
PSN Price: 19.99
Developed by: Hexa Drive
Published by: Square Enix
Parasite Eve 2 Boxart
Once again you play as the protagonist from the first game, Aya Brea, formerly at New York City cop, now working for the Feds after the events of Parasite Eve. This time you’re part of a task force that finds strange mutated monsters and shoots them. This takes you all over to different locations in the States, but it also gets rid of the open world and colourful setting of New York City as seen in the first game. Really, I haven’t played all the way through the title so I couldn’t tell you if the story is worth experiencing or not, but you’ll see my problem with it when you look at the next section.
Box Art for Parasite Eve 2
After months of wait and being the last territory in the world to get the title, Parasite Eve 2 is coming to the PSone Classics this tuesday as part of the weekly Playstation Store update. Parasite Eve 2 follows the story of Aya Brea a New York City detective who somehow got some pretty awesome psychic powers. If you’re looking to see what the first game in the series is like you can check out our review of Parasite Eve 1 here.
Well a while after Europe and Japan got it loyal gamers in North America were waiting for a chance to play the second game in the series on our PSPs. Square said they would try their best to get it out before the third game in the series was released, the 3rd Birthday but didn’t make the date, then the PSN hack happened…
Where is Chrono Trigger?
Games MIA
Before the PSN service was hacked, we had a slew of PSone Classics coming our way, Final Fantasy VI, Parasite Eve 2, and Chrono Trigger. Strangely enough it’s been over a month since the service was restored but sadly NA has not gotten the chance to buy this classic games, but they have been released in the PAL territories. They have released some other PSone Classics, but not the promised ones that everyone is waiting for…
Europe is getting some pretty good updates this week, especially for PSone Classic fans, with two legendary titles that are promised for our territory as well that were already released over there.
Final Fantasy VI was originally a NES title, and considered one of the best FF titles of all time.
Parasite Eve 2 is a survival horror RPG that is the last link in the series between the first game that was released a few months ago, and the third game in the series, The 3rd Birthday, which was also released a while ago, so for anyone who wants to play the series through chronologically and didn’t want to pay a mint for an original PSone copy, they’ve been waiting for this title (like myself for instance).