
The only survivors are Aya, her date (who runs away never to be seen again after the fire), and the lead actress, Melissa, who just so happens to be harboring a primordial horror inside her body known as Mitochondria Eve.Īya discovers that contact with Melissa/Eve has granted her strange powers, called "Parasite Energy", and so she teams up with Daniel Dollis (her partner) and Kunihiko Maeda (a Japanese scientist and Mr. While Aya is attending an opera performed at Carnegie Hall on Christmas Eve in 1997, all hell breaks loose when both the actors and the audience burst into flames. The story revolves around Aya Brea, a New York City police officer whose mother and sister were killed in a car accident when she was a child. It was unique among RPGs available at the time because of its blend of RPG, Action-Adventure and the then- new Survival Horror genre.

In 1998, Squaresoft released a video game called Parasite Eve, a sequel to the 1995 novel of the same name.
