The voice cast does as well as can be expected with the unnatural dialogue, and the score shifts adeptly between haunting and thrilling to suit the action. The high production values of the cutscenes make the Twisted's devastating attacks on New York City unsettling. However, even those who find the plot's particulars too esoteric will enjoy watching it be told.
Others will appreciate the way its story abandons any attempt to make literal sense in favor of more poetic explorations of themes like existence, identity, and memory, even if the stilted dialogue often sounds like something out of a bad soap opera. Those who like their narratives to have plots that can be easily followed and understood will be left frustrated by The 3rd Birthday's tale. What starts out as a relatively straightforward tale of sci-fi action becomes increasingly outlandish, convoluted, and metaphysical. Aya's awareness is sent back to the times and places of particular Twisted attacks, where she can possess soldiers, changing the outcome of these past battles to alter the present. Her role is to use a device called the overdive system, which sends her psyche into the past. Aya Brea has been recruited by the Counter Twisted Investigation team. The 3rd Birthday begins in a near-future New York that has been ravaged by creatures called Twisted. But that's just as well because Aya begins The 3rd Birthday with no memory of her previous life, and both the story and the gameplay bear so little connection to the Parasite Eve games that no knowledge of them is needed to jump into this adventure. It's been 11 years since the last Parasite Eve game was released, though, so even many who played them may have fuzzy memories of Aya's earlier adventures. She made her debut in 1997's Parasite Eve as an NYPD cop who waged turn-based battle against mitochondrial creatures that threatened Manhattan. Now Playing: The 3rd Birthday Video ReviewĪya Brea is no stranger to strange situations.
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