Parasite Eve is still among the best horror games of its era.
Now its time for some of my peeves. The soundtrack is awesome...but it's not scary at all. It's fairly upbeat electronic music and it fails to catch the atmosphere of the story/artdirection/ect. As a horror game, it's no where near as scary as it thinks it is. The enemies aren't particularly frightening, and neither are the bosses. It's a linear game, so the mandatory square leveling system is useless because theres no grinding or exploration.... Remember how I said the script was good, well the game could have really benefited from voice overs instead of text-only ingame and cutscene.
...And the games abrupt end doesn't satisfy. Let me explain. This game is two discs, so naturally you'd assume one disc=half the game. Well, Disc 1 took me 9 hours to beat so i was pretty amazed that just 1 disc was longer then re1+2, than i beat the second disc in one sitting in under 2 hours...The plot just goes 'f**k it' and stuff explodes. It just feels like a rushed ending pure and simple... Overall I enjoyed it, but Parasite Eve 2 is better.