Parasite Eve
Square Enix’s cult classic answer to Resident Evil will always deserve more attention than it gets. As you’d expect from the makers of Final Fantasy, Parasite Eve added RPG elements to the survival horror genre to great success. You play as Aya Brea, a rookie NYPD cop who, over the course of a lonely week in late December, works to save the city from a mitochondrial outbreak that threatens to destroy the world. It’s pulpy, it’s scary, it’s fun, and it’s worth playing if only for seeing the jaw-dropping opening cinematic.
