This intro is so good and the game somewhat aged better than some of the other games. It also had a interesting art style balanced between body horror and some adult art themes. What I found the most interesting part of this game was the mix between turn based and action where you can dodge and move around to position along side the atb bar, where you stats and buff sped up how it worked and the upgrading of the weapons you can do, it was such a great game. It's such a shame that Square today will never revisit it or have the creativity to make something this different. Another awesome part of this game is it's holidays in New York City and it had some interesting land marks that I had actually seen in real life being a native and that spoke to me as well.
Now the story and the premise is that we are being undersiege by parasites within (Mitochondria which are little organelles within our cells that create ATP as the currency of energy for our cells which have their own DNA sequence due to being formerly independent organisms that were engulfed by a early eukaryote and adapted to create atp for it's host cell) that now gained sentience under the form of Eve where that mitochrondria took over her body and lead a new race to dominance. But her scheme is foiled when the main character Aya Brea, who's body somehow evolved the ablity to resist the mitochondria and use the mutation to force her self to evolve. (The game is kinda a transhumanist fantasy game where you are an evovled human being)
It also had the best boss music outside of Sega games with this banger:
When I first ran into that crazy ass gator the music hyped me up and I was ready to throw down and send his ass to hell.
Anybody here remember that game? If there was a game I'd like a remake of it's this. Take a retcon of third birthday and give us another sing.
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