The 3rd Birthday

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The 3rd Birthday
Official Marketing Poster.
Developer(s)	Square Enix
Publisher(s)	Square Enix
Designer(s)	Yoshinori Kitase (executive producer) Hajime Tabata (game director) Tetsuya Nomura (creative producer, concept design, character designer) Isamu Kamikokuryo (art director) Motomu Toriyama (scenario design) Yoko Shimomura (composer)
Platform(s)	NTT DoCoMo
Release date	TBA
Mode(s)	Single player
Media	Downloadable

The 3rd Birthday is an upcoming video game from Square Enix. The game is being developed for the NTT DoCoMo cell phone platform and will mark the third entry in the Parasite Eve series after Parasite Eve II, which was released in 2000. Very little information about the plot has been released.

The 3rd Birthday is not a sequel, which is why "Parasite Eve" has been excluded from its title. The title references the third appearance of Aya Brea and the significant changes for the design of the game compared to its predescessors. However, as it is the third game in the "Parasite Eve" series, fans have been erroneously referring to the game as "Parasite Eve 3".^[1]

[edit] Plot

Late night on Christmas Eve, Aya and the other members of CTI: New York are called into headquarters in response to an outbreak of attacks in Manhattan by a creature called Twisted. These creatures emerged from a mysterious time contortion, details about which will be revealed later.

Aya is the main focus of this game. Due to her special powers, she still has the body of a woman in her 20s, although in terms of age she should actually be 35 years old. Motomu Toriyama, the scenario director, feels that it is rare to be able to focus on a woman in her mid 30s in a game and is taking the opportunity to properly depict the thinking and lifestyle of a cool woman.^[2].

Square Enix announced the title at their 2007 party in Japan for the gaming press. A promotional teaser has also been released which shows Aya in wedding garb.^[3]^[4]