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From: "Daisaku Kusama" <daisakuk@mailexcite.com>



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            THE PARASITE EVE EX-MODE SURVIVAL GUIDE

                         By Daisaku

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My thanks to siwata@apollo (SHOJI IWATA) for writing the 

Inventory Guide for Parasite Eve, and to Marius 

<lordmarius@bigfoot.com> for writing the Secrets FAQ to 

Parasite Eve.  I have borrowed a bit of knowledge from both

of these FAQs for this guide.  You can find the Secrets FAQ

Inventory Guide at www.gamefaqs.com.



WARNING: Contains spoilers.  It wouldn't be much of a guide 

if it didn't, would it?



INTRODUCTION:  The purpose of this guide is to enlighten the 

reader about how to conquer the Chrysler Building in the EX 

Mode, defeat the final boss, and save the human species.  The 

final boss (Eve) is a major headache, so you need to be prepared 

if you want to win.  This guide assumes that you have a functional 

knowledge of the game and are capable of playing it through to 

its normal ending.  



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IN THE BEGINNING - PRIOR TO EX-MODE:

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When play through the game in regular mode (and others have written 

fine guides about how to do this successfully, if you need help), 

you must keep a few things in mind before taking on the Ultimate 

Being.  When you talk to Wayne on the destroyer, he will give you 

the opportunity to engrave your best weapon and armor.  When you do 

this, it will allow you to carry that weapon and armor over into 

the EX Mode.  You will lose all other items in your inventory.



However, you will also be able to get any items that you left with 

Wayne in the regular game (except for Keys and Lucky Charms).  

Therefore, it is a good idea to keep as many guns and armor stored 

up as possible, and as many medicines and such as you can afford to 

spare before you tackle the Ultimate Being.  You'll be well stocked 

going into the EX Mode if you do this.  



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PLAYING THROUGH IN EX-MODE

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Since you have your engraved gun and armor, playing the game shouldn't 

be a problem (even though you start back at first level).  You will 

also get vast quantities of bonus points during the game in EX-Mode - 

especially whenever the day changes.  You should be able to mow through 

pretty much every monster up to the T-Rex boss at the Museum.  



Do not continue with the regular storyline after the T-Rex boss.  

This is the last point at which you can still control your destiny 

and access the Chrysler Building.  If you go to Eve's chamber on 

the Museum's 4th floor, events will sweep you away from Manhattan, 

and you'll be forced to play through AGAIN.  Not a good thing.



Here are the things you need to keep in mind as you play through 

the game:

      -- Collect Junk (and keep track of how much you've given to Wayne):  

      The birds at Central Park and the little green hopping dinosaurs at 

      the Museum carry Junk.  You can hunt for it there if you like, but 

      these are not the best places.  That comes later.  Collect what you 

      can.

      -- Add Bonus Points to your Inventory:   The maximum number of items 

      you'll be able to carry without armor pockets is 46.  You want to 

      get your inventory to that level as soon as possible.  You'll have 

      plenty of points after you max out your inventory to contribute to 

      other things, so don't worry.

      -- Collect Armor and Weapons:  Do not discard or destroy (with a tool) 

      any armor or weapon you find unless absolutely necessary. By the 

      end, you'll need every little bonus point you can pull off them.  

      Give them to Wayne - you should accrue quite a collection.  If you 

      find a weapon or armor which you know doesn't have any special 

      properties you want, it's okay to dismantle it and get the bonus 

      points.  Those points are what you really want.

      -- Hoard Your Tools, Super Tools, and Trading Cards:  Don't feel 

      compelled to use a tool every time you find one, or a trading card.  

      

Okay, so you've played through to the T-Rex, you've amassed a big collection 

of weapons, armor, and stuff, and now you're ready for (jarring chord!) The 

Chrysler Building.



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THE CHRYSLER BUILDING 

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GENERAL STUFF:  

This is how the Chrysler Building works.  On every tenth level (floors 10, 

20, 30, etc.) is a boss.  That boss has the key which allows you to access 

all the elevators below it.  Every floor leading up to that boss has a 

randomly generated layout, which includes a lot of hallways (in which you 

can encounter monsters), a Treasure Room, an Elevator, and stairs going up 

and down.  Each set of ten floors also has its own theme music, just so 

it doesn't get too monotonous.  



For every set of ten floors, you'll encounter different types of monsters.  

It is IMPORTANT to note that whenever you clear a boss, the monsters stop 

appearing on all the levels below it.  So when you take out the boss on 

floor 10, no monsters will appear anymore on floors 1-10.  This is crucial 

to remember, because there are some monsters which you'll want to fight for 

certain items and experience.  You need to be sure you've done as much 

fighting as you want of these monsters before you take out the boss.



Every key allows you to access the Elevator to all the floors below the 

level on which you found it, so you do not need to carry around more than 

one Chrysler Key at a time.



FLOORS 2-10:  THE JUNK ZONE

Before you start to seriously penetrate the Chrysler Building, you're 

going to want to spend some time on floors 2-10 (floor one is the 

entrance lobby, and there are no monsters).  This is the best Junk-hunting 

zone.  You can rack up the Junk pretty quickly if you use Daisaku's Expert 

Junk-Collecting Technique.  Here's how it works:

      -- The blue birds (species: avius aquus detritus) have Junk.  

      -- The blue birds appear in certain kinds of hallways.  They 

      will often appear in the company of the large rats (Rodents Of 

      Unusual Size).

      -- There is a random chance of a monster appearing in a 

      hallway every time you enter the screen.  Each screen has 

      a "trigger point," which will cause the battle to begin if 

      there is a monster.  You can tell if there's going to be 

      a monster once you pass the trigger point without having 

      to cross the entire screen.

      -- The blue birds appear in greatest numbers in the straight 

      hallways which run north to south.  Note that if the 

      hallway is a dead end, no monsters will appear.  On a good 

      encounter, you can get five birds at a time (and you can 

      annihilate them easily if you have a shotgun effect on your 

      gun - they tend to bunch up).

      -- The trigger points on the north-south hallways are the second 

      line on the floor (no matter which way you enter).  

      -- So, the technique is to go along until you find two adjoining 

      north-south hallways.  Then, you go back and forth between 

      the two of them and search for monsters.  Every time you reach 

      the second line on the floor, you'll know if you have an 

      encounter or not.  If you don't, turn back and check the other 

      hallway again.  Repeat until your inventory is full of Junk.  

      Reject all other items you might pick up along the way (unless 

      they're something TRULY useful, like Revive... I think the 

      rats may carry that on rare occasions).  



Sounds tedious?  Well, it is... but it's the LEAST tedious way to collect 

Junk.  I refined this technique through painful trial and error, and 

believe me, the speed with which you'll accumulate Junk is staggering 

compared to any other method.



So why do you want all this Junk?  Well, when you give Wayne 300 pieces 

of Junk (using the Discard Junk option when you talk to him), he'll 

build you a super-weapon of your choice.  These weapons are superior 

to any other weapons you'll find in the game.  



Which weapon should you choose?  My advice is either to take the handgun 

(if you like the quick firing rate) or the rifle (for more attack power 

and range).  The other guns are too slow.  The LAW Rocket is powerful, 

but is simply too slow and limited to be of much use in conflict with the 

greater bosses (especially since you can't add special properties to it).  

Whatever you do, don't "Leave it to Wayne."  Wayne can be quite a spaz 

when it comes to gun design, and sometimes he'll even give you a big 

lump of utterly useless "Super Junk" for your efforts.  



ASCENDING THE FLOORS:

Once you get your gun made from Junk, it's time to head on up the 

floors.  No reason to tarry on any of the levels until you get past 

floor 60 - the monsters there are not worth a whole lot of experience, 

and they don't have the best items. 



Amongst the new things you'll find in the treasure boxes in the Chrysler 

Buildings are the Rare Trading Cards.  These are very cool.  If you use 

them to tune up a weapon with Wayne, he'll give you two tune-ups for 

the price of one.  But, even better, you can get some really great 

stuff if you collect a lot of Rare Trading Cards.  If you collect 11 

of them, Wayne will give you a Tool Box, which provides infinite 

Tools (some guides say you need 12 cards - I did it with 11, and it's 

possible that you only need 10).  If you collect all 14, he'll give 

you a Super Tool Box as well, which will allow you to upgrade weapons 

to your heart's content.  



In order to get these special tool boxes, you have to pick the "Rare 

T-Card Collection" option when you talk to Wayne.  He'll show you all 

his cards and brag a bit, then give you the tool boxes if you've 

collected enough.  



Once you get the Super Tool Box, it's time to go back to your gun 

and armor collection and pull all the bonus points off all the stuff 

you've got in storage.  This is truly a wonderful experience.  One 

tip: to save some time, go to the "Store Equipment" option when you 

talk to Wayne, then look at the toolbar on the left.  There's a 

"Tune Up Weapons/Armor" option available, which will allow you to 

tinker with the things you've got in storage without having to put 

them all in your inventory.



Interesting note:  When I created my ultimate armor, Wayne was so 

impressed that he engraved it for me.  



Okay, that's all great and something to look forward to, but I didn't 

find my 14th Rare T-Card until the 68th Floor of the Chrysler Building.  

So you're going to have to be patient.  Meanwhile, you'll have to fight 

your way through the bosses on all the lower levels.  Here are some 

quick guidelines:



      FLOOR 10 - BRAIN-SPIDER:  This is the same beastie you fought 

      on the roof of the Hospital.  It is a big pansy and you 

      can blow it away without breaking a sweat.



      FLOOR 20 - THE CROC TWINS:  These are the same guys you encountered 

      in the reservoir.  They are also very silly and weak.  You 

      should have no problem wasting them.



      FLOOR 30 - CENTIPEDE:  You ran into this ugly bastard in the train 

      tunnels.  You have less space to fight him this time.  He's 

      really not so bad, except when he splits into four bits, the 

      tail segment will Blind you and the head segment will Poison 

      you.  The Blind is most annoying, so take out that segment 

      first.  This shouldn't be too challenging.



      FLOOR 40 - QUADRA-CERATOPS:  It's not a triceratops - it has four 

      horns.   I'm not sure WHAT it really is.  Anyway, you 

      encountered it in the museum before.  Same strategy applies.  

      Shouldn't be much of a problem.  

      

      FLOOR 50 - SUPER-FLY:  This thing is a pest (okay, bad pun.  

      I'm sorry).  It does some nasty damage with its 

      flailing antennae, but its most dangerous property 

      is that it will lay eggs which become new versions of 

      itself.  If you're not careful, this fight could drag 

      out a LONG time.  Your best strategy is to unload on 

      this thing as heavy as possible as early as you can, 

      using Liberate to deal it big damage while there's 

      only one.  



      FLOOR 60 - MEGA-CRAB:  This is a hyped-up version of the crab you 

      encountered in the Warehouse, and it can really take you 

      apart if you aren't careful.  It skitters around faster 

      than its cousin in the Warehouse, making it very hard to 

      stay in the "safe zones" on its sides.  The eye beams are 

      not as devastating (because you're more durable now, and 

      their power hasn't increased), but the bubble spread attack 

      is far, far more powerful.  The only way to take this 

      bad-ass arthropod on is to keep yourself Hasted and stay 

      along side of it, so it can't hit you with the bubbles.  

      Haste is your number one priority for Parasite Energy.  

      Have some Revives on hand, in case you get caught by the 

      bubbles.  Your weapon (which SHOULD have the shotgun burst 

      effect on it, in case you hadn't realized that by now) 

      should take out the claws in fairly short order.  Then 

      you keep working on the head.  When it's done, mail the 

      body to Baltimore and tell them to serve it up Old Bay 

      sauce (just kidding).  



HELPFUL TIP:  As you travel along, you will pick up some Full Restore 

items, which will bring your Health back up to maximum when used.  

These are terrific, but you want to use them wisely.  When you're in 

a fight and your armor uses its Auto-Medicine power, it will pick 

the strongest medicine first.  So, if you bring a Full Restore into 

a fight with a boss, it will probably get used up.  You do not 

want this to happen.



You can take all the bosses up to this point (and the 70th floor 

one, for that matter) using conventional Medicines.  Be sure to 

unload your Full Restores before you go into any boss fights.  

Either give them to Wayne or (if you don't want to make the trek 

all the way back down just for this) dump them into open boxes 

in a Treasure Room so you can go back and pick them up later.  

The same rule applies for the Full Cures, though they aren't 

quite as crucial.



Still alive?  Great!  Now, you're on to floors 61-70...



THE UPPER FLOORS:

Floors 61-70 are where you might want to hang out for a while and 

hunt down monsters.  The creatures up here are worth a good chunk 

of experience, and you can level up on these floors pretty quickly.  

Furthermore, you can accumulate the hoard of Revives and Medicine 4s 

that you'll require before tackling the final bosses from these 

monsters.



The monsters you'll find on these floors are pretty tough, but 

only up to a point.  The point at which they stop being dangerous 

is when you find the grenade launcher with the Cyanide feature.  

Use a Super Tool to bring that over to your main weapon, and 

watch the results.  You may feel inclined to laugh maniacally 

when use this power on normal monsters - go ahead, you've earned 

it.  Aya officially becomes a Buttkicker Supreme when she gets 

the Cyanide feature.  



You should also round out your Rare Trading Card collection on 

these levels.  I strongly advise that you take the Rare T-Cards 

back to Wayne before tackling the boss on the 70th floor, so you 

can have the Super Tool Kit and create your ultimate weapon and 

armor.  



Once you've leveled up to your heart's content (I was at Level 38, 

in case you were curious), you're ready to take on the final two 

bosses.  The first of these adversaries is... 



      FLOOR 70 - THE WORLD'S MEANEST TERMITE:  Have plenty 

      of Revives and Medicine 4s on hand for this fight.  

      The Termite has one major attack which it employs 

      that comes in two parts.  First, it launches a 

      sickle-shaped energy wave that is almost a third 

      the width of the screen.  It follows up this attack 

      with two deadly energy boomerangs which zigzag back 

      and forth as they fly.  This is not the worst 

      part, though.  In addition, the Termite can summon 

      several lesser bugs, who flutter about and either 

      Heal it or attack you, mostly with status attacks 

      of some kind.  This is also not the worst part. 

            The worst part is that, seemingly out of 

      nowhere, Aya will occasionally be hit by an absurdly 

      large explosion which she has no chance of avoiding.  

      Where this comes from and what it's meant to be, I do 

      not know.  I only know that it was really annoying.

            To fight the Termite, keep using Haste as often 

      as you can.  It will help you avoid its energy attacks.  

      If you're above its head on the screen, it will miss you 

      with the first energy wave, and then all you have to do 

      is duck away from the boomerangs which follow it up.  

      Do not waste your time targeting the lesser bugs, but 

      do try to get them within the spread of your shotgun-burst 

      attack.  They can be killed fairly easily this way, 

      and you don't have to take your attention away from 

      the termite.  

            And when you get hit with the mystery explosions... 

      you explode.  Tough luck.  That's what the Medicines 

      and Revives are for.  You can outlast this ugly termite 

      if you have a good supply of these items... but make 

      sure you have enough for the final battle, too.

      

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After you waste the termite, there are no more monsters in the 

Chrysler Building to fight besides Eve.  From the termite's room, 

you will access a stairway which will lead you through a series 

of increasingly gross rooms, where there are no treasures or 

monsters (just stairways stacked on top of each other).  But 

first...



Go back to Wayne.   It's time to pick up all that stuff you were 

saving for a rainy day.  If you're carrying around any superfluous 

items (like the lucky charms, extra weapons, and even the Super 

Tool Kit), drop them off now.  You can't rid yourself of Maeda's gun, 

one of his charms, or the Rocket Crate, but you can dump everything 

else on Wayne.  You should be able to carry 50 items total, since 

you maxed out your inventory and put a 4-pocket bonus on your 

armor (didn't you?).  Your inventory should contain the following 

items, in order of priority:



      - Your Gun

      - Your Primary Armor

      - Your Secondary Armor (for use in jump-starting your PE meter)

      - Full Recover items

      - Revives

      - Full Cures

      - Medicine 4s



You all set?  Save your game.  Take a deep breath, and then go back 

to the Chrysler Building for one final time.



FINAL BOSS -  EVE:  

Eve has a nasty surprise waiting for you in her lair.  After she 

reveals the sinister truth about herself, she transforms into a 

version of the angel-like being that Aya becomes when she uses 

Liberate.  And the fight is on.

      This fight takes place in three basic stages.  Note that the 

stages are not distinct like the various forms of the Ultimate Being, 

but the fight definitely shifts in character as it wears on.



      STAGE ONE:  Eve will float around the screen and 

      occasionally teleport.  She does three different attacks 

      in this first stage.  The First type, which is the 

      Touch attack, does incidental damage of about 15 or 16 

      points if you happen to brush into her.  This seems very 

      minor, but it's important to keep it in mind for later 

      in the fight.  The second type, which I'll call the Attack 

      Rush, lets her hit you with a physical blow.  These can 

      be dodged, but it is VERY hard.  At this stage, the blows 

      hurt but are not lethal (about 250-300 damage).  The third 

      attack she has is the Summon Helper (I won't reveal what 

      the Helper is, in order to try to maintain some degree of 

      suspense).  She makes a hand-raising gesture to do this, 

      then her Helper floats down and hits you with a status 

      ailment of some sort.  The Helper cannot be attacked.

            The most important thing to remember is to NEVER 

      attack Eve when her Helper is on screen.  Otherwise, 

      the Helper will Heal her, in increasingly high increments 

      (1000 points the first time, then 2000, then 3000, 

      and so on).  It can be murderously hard to overcome 

      that kind of healing.  

            This is the easiest part of the fight, and your 

      strategy is to inflict as much damage as possible while 

      you have the chance.  But be careful in your attacks - 

      if Eve's Helper starts Healing her, you undermine all 

      your efforts.  So, there are a few safe times to attack.  

      Attack when Eve is beginning a teleport (if you have a 

      Handgun, you should be able to get some shots off before 

      she vanishes entirely).  Attack after Eve has completed 

      her own action.  Attack when the Helper has just left 

      the screen.  If there's any uncertainty, hold back and 

      use the time to heal yourself with Medicines, shift 

      your armors to jump-start your PE, and recharge your 

      PE meter for the Liberates.  Use Liberate as often as 

      you can (remember that time stops when you use a Parasite 

      Power, so you don't have to worry about the Helper 

      floating onto the screen during a Liberate attack).  

      Unload as much damage on Eve as you can during this part 

      of the fight, when she is least aggressive.

      

      STAGE TWO:  You'll know you've entered Stage Two when 

      Eve's Helper starts to do something new.  Instead of 

      hitting you with a Status Ailment, sometimes she will 

      come down and super-charge Eve.  This is a new kind of 

      attack for Eve - she will rear back and begin to glow 

      with energy, until she finally does a Power Charge at you 

      and knocks you down to 1 Health.  There is no way to avoid 

      this attack.  However, you can use it to your advantage.  

            When the Helper super-charges Eve, don't bother 

      trying to shoot her until she does the Power Charge.  

      You'll only do 1 or 2 points of damage to her.  While it's 

      no fun to be knocked down to 1 Health, this attack will 

      never kill you.  You are guaranteed to survive the Power 

      Charge.  Furthermore, Eve takes a few moments to recover 

      from the Power Charge, and she is vulnerable.  You can 

      really open fire on her with impunity at this point, until 

      she regains her composure and starts to float around again.  

            An important tip:  If you are on the opposite side of 

      the screen when Eve does the Power Charge, you are in 

      danger of getting hit with the incidental Touch attack 

      after it's done.  This attack, which is normally negligible, 

      will kill you after the Power Charge, since you have a 

      mere 1 Health remaining.  When Eve starts to juice up for 

      the Power Charge, get to the middle of the screen and take 

      it on the chin.  Then open fire when she's vulnerable.

            Your auto-medicine feature will heal you as long as 

      you have Medicines, but you are going to run out.  This is 

      fine - you have plenty of Revives, and now you're going to 

      use them.

            Furthermore, Eve's Attack Rush becomes much more 

      dangerous now, because she strikes at you twice.  The second 

      attack does 500-700 damage or so, which means you probably 

      can't even survive if you're at full Health, unless you still 

      have Medicines.  

            Eve will settle into a pretty consistent attack 

      pattern, from which she rarely varies.  First, she'll have 

      her Helper super-charge her, and perform the Power Charge 

      attack.  Then, she'll have her Helper come down and hit 

      you with a status attack.  After that, she teleports away, 

      then returns and performs the Attack Rush.  And she repeats 

      the pattern.

            You need to settle into a counterattack pattern 

      to match Eve's attack.  First, you let the Power Charge 

      hit you (if you run around and dodge, sometimes it seems 

      to take her longer to orient on you, so it is a good idea 

      to keep on the move and give your PE meter time to recharge).  

      Then, you open fire after you've been reduced to 1 Health 

      and inflict as much damage as you can before Eve recovers.  

      You endure the status attack from the Helper (your Armor 

      will frequently negate these attacks, and you should have 

      some Full Cures - even if you're affected, it usually 

      doesn't matter).  When Eve teleports away and comes back 

      for her Attack Rush, you have a couple of options.  If 

      your PE meter is full, unload on her with Liberate.  If 

      your PE meter is not full, you can use either Energy Shot 

      to inflict strong damage (you won't have much time to fire 

      conventionally, but since the Parasite Powers stop time, 

      you can get the Energy Shot off before Eve hits you with 

      the Attack Rush), or use PreRaise on yourself to conserve 

      a Revive.  I would only recommend the latter if you're 

      running low on Revives.  Once you use your Parasite Energy 

      attack (whatever it is), Eve will hit with the Attack Rush 

      and kill you.  Your Revive will kick in, and you'll come 

      back ready for more.

      

      STAGE THREE:  Eve picks up the pace of her attacks here.  

      She gains three attacks in her Attack Rush, and there really 

      is no way to survive.  She also begins to do the Power 

      Charge without having to summon her Helper to power her 

      up.  However, she still gives you ample warning by charging up.

            Your strategy does not change.  You get knocked down, 

      but you get up again ("Never gonna keep me down!").  You make 

      use of all those Revives that you stored up, and you hit 

      her with the Liberate (when you can) and the Energy Shot 

      (when you aren't at full PE).  Note that if you're not at 

      full PE but the meter is high, if you're worried about 

      running out of Revives, you can use the multiple action 

      feature on your gun to cast PreRaise and then Energy Shot 

      before Eve hits you with the Attack Rush.  The Energy Shot 

      won't do as much damage, but this strategy will prolong 

      your ability to fight.  

            And eventually, you'll wear her down.  She's tough 

      as a dump-truck full of nails, but you will eventually 

      prevail.

      

Congratulations!  Check out the true ending to the game, and bask 

in the knowledge that you have saved the human race!  And then, 

wait for Squaresoft to put out its next game to devour all your 

free time!



Daisaku

daisakuk@mailexcite.com

10/98