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O tempora: Parasite Eve 1 & 2

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O tempora is a series of retrospective posts where I play games from ages before to see if they stood the test of time.

SquareSoft’s Parasite Eve had a weird fate, probably not something both developers nor its first fans expected. Both of the games in the series were popular, both sold well, both were critically acclaimed. Aya Brea is still considered to be one of the best female game protagonists. Yet, they tend to not appear in “important” lists of “important” gaming websites. Despite being so loved and well known, the games got somewhat forgotten. And I’m actually somewhat confused that Square Enix decided to announce another sequel for this or next year (though it is a spin-off) to arrive on PSP. But today, I’m not talking about that. I’m talking about two games that I love dearly that definitely stood the test of time.

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O tempora: Crash Bandicoot & Spyro

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O tempora is a series of retrospective posts where I play games from ages before to see if they stood the test of time.

For most people from post-soviet countries Playstation was the fifth generation of consoles. All of it. Sega Saturn was barely known, N64 not well known and it felt outdated due to the usage of cartridges instead of CDs, 3DO was known to only a few, no one ever heard about Jaguar and I still don’t know what an Amiga CD even is. That’s why, PS1 titles were so memorable. And most knew that a crazy mascot of PS1 was a bandicoot called Crash. But he wasn’t the only one competing for being the mascot. Apart from Gex, whom I still love due to Gex: Enter the Gecko (best 3D platformer, fight me), Spyro became extremely popular as well. And today, almost 15 years since the original Crash Bandicoot, I’ve finally decided to play these classics for the first time. So I didn’t even have to fight my nostalgic memories.

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