Sega Saturn Neon Genesis Evangelion 1st Impression SKUSS4

Sega Saturn Neon Genesis Evangelion 1st Impression SKUSS4 is the first video game based on the popular anime. The game features RPG elements and FMV clips for combat; most of the animation is original to 1st Impression (with the voices of the original Evangelion voice actors and some other content recycled from the TV series).  This was the first Evangelion video game, produced for the Sega Saturn shortly after the TV series and released in 1996. Set after Episode 08 ASUKA STRIKES!, Shinji is badly injured by an Angel which appears only in 1st Impression and suffers amnesia. After attempting to regain his memory by sparring with Asuka in Unit-02, he must defeat the Angel. It features RPG elements and FMV clips for combat; most of the animation is original to 1st Impression,  with the voices of the original Evangelion seiyū as well as content recycled from the TV series.

The hot tempered Asuka had just arrived to Japan in Episode 8: Asuka Strikes!. But after the new Unit-02 had been installed into NERV headquarters, a new Angel appears. This is a new Angel designed by Sega which did not appear in the TV series. For ease of reference, I will call it the 7.5th Angel (which it is). Unit-01 is immediately sortied and it enters combat with the Angel. However, it is much more powerful than NERV anticipated and Shinji gets beaten up pretty badly by it. So bad that the trauma causes Shinji to lose his memory. Misato and Ritsuko decide that the best way for Shinji to regain his memory is for him to get into Unit-01’s cockpit and enter “virtual” combat against Asuka in Unit-02. This is where you, playing as Shinji Ikari, take control.

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