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Parasite Eve (the movie)
- Executive Meddling: Masayuki Ochiai, the director of the movie, stated that the producers basically forced him into making it more like a love story. He goes on to say that there were so many compromises made that it couldn't be a true horror movie.
Parasite Eve (the games)
- Accidentally-Correct Writing: The first game features a Colt M1911A2 gun, a model that wasn't developed until 2004.
- Approval of God: The author of the original book, Hideaki Sena, loves the games (at least the first two).
- Colbert Bump: Thanks to YouTube's algorithm, this video
by a channel called IFinishedAGame gained a huge spike in traffic with many people having the video show up in their YouTube feeds, causing tons of people to be roused with curiosity about actually playing the Parasite Eve games (and possibly reading the book the games are based on) among other games featured by their channel. - Dummied Out: Game Shark codes will grant you access to a "Debug SMG", which was a gun that had max stats and every attribute in the book on it.
- Refitted for Sequel: The entire "Detective Drama set in New York City" premise of the game was originally envisioned for Final Fantasy VII, with Aya standing in for Cloud and Daniel for Barrett.
- Screwed by the Lawyers: Why all three games in the franchise have presumably been difficult to rerelease or remaster - the amount of Product Placement as well as it actually being a licensed game (A license which Square Enix presumably lost sometime in the 2000s) would result in a lot of things having to be changed.
- What Could Have Been: The Parasite Eve artbook contained a storyboard for the FMV where Aya parachutes down for a final confrontation with Eve on Liberty Island. In the game proper, Eve simply gives a calm smirk towards Aya. But in the storyboard, Eve is described as “her expression changes completely; she frowns like she is growling in a monster-like expression”, as seen here.
- The original plan was to set the games in Tokyo. But a suggestion was made by Hironobu Sakaguchi that it should be set overseas and he suggested New York City.
