Just reaching Truebred Eve takes about as long as the entire length of a playthrough of the main game, nearly seven hours. All of this payoff is hidden behind the toughest challenge in the game. Truebred Eve is connected to Aya’s dead twin sister Maya as well as the plot of the original Parasite Eve novel from which the game was born. It also is a narrative culmination of many plot threads left hanging in the first playthrough to tantalize the player.

The fight is rightfully hard, demonstrating how powerful Truebred Eve is. At the very tip of the Chrysler Building, in one confined room dotted with the signature triangular windows, the final boss lies: Truebred Eve. This transforms the new game+ into a dungeon crawler akin to Persona 3’s Tartarus more than anything experienced in the first playthrough of Parasite Eve.

All the other floors in the Chrysler Building are randomized dungeons full of difficult enemies. Square EnixĮvery tenth floor, as well as floor 77, is a boss fight. Inside one of New York’s most iconic landmarks, Aya faces off with the toughest boss in Parasite Eve. There are 77 floors in the Chrysler Building, an accurate ode to the 77 actual floors in the real Chrysler Building. The Chrysler Building is not just another mission location, but instead, a massive multi-level dungeon that the player must progress through to reach a final boss at the top. They enter and begin the most challenging piece of content in Parasite Eve. What greats the player is a beautiful if eerie art deco lobby. They will also be able to travel to the Chrysler Building at the first opportunity to open the map. If the player starts a new playthrough, called EX-Game, they will begin from the story’s start but with the majority of their weapons, armor, and times from their completed save. The conclusion to the main story occurs on Liberty Island, with Aya defeating the villain Eve and saving New York from a dangerous evolution of mitochondria. However, the player never actually enters the Chrysler Building. This is again suggested to the player by cutscenes that show protagonist Aya Brea looking at the building and observing a strange glow coming from its upper level. It is a suggestion that something lies in wait for you there. Prominently featured on the map is the Chrysler Building. All of this is represented by a 3D map of the island that the player uses to travel to different locations to progress the story.

The game’s beautiful opening cinematic starts with a shot of the Statue of Liberty with downtown in the background and the Twin Towers looking out above everything else, then it quickly dives into the streets of the city passing Rockefeller Center on the camera’s way towards Carnegie Hall.

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