The 3rd Birthday is a third person shooter for the Sony PlayStation Portable and was a follow up to the popular survival horror RPGs Parasite Eve and Parasite Eve 2 on the original PlayStation. It was released in Japan in 2010 and the rest of the world in 2011.
The game is set in Manhattan in the year 2013. Creatures called the Twisted appeared below the city and have pretty much destroyed it. A team called the Counter Twisted Investigation (CTI) is formed and you play as Aya Brea, a member of this team. Aya was found unconscious 2 years before the events of the game and has amnesia. Interestingly enough though Aya has an ability called Overdrive which lets her travel to the past to change the outcomes of battles in the future.
The game was intended to be sort of a reboot or reimagining of the Parasite Eve series and Aya Brea character but it had mixed reviews.
The soundtrack was mostly composed by Mitsuto Suzuki and Tsuyoshi Sekito but there was additional work done by Yoko Shimomura who composed the music for the original Parasite Eve games. Yoko Shimomura was involved with the project from the beginning, back when the game was intended to be released for mobile phones.
When asked if she would like to work with anyone Yoko Shimomura picked Tsuyoshi Sekito and Mitsuto Suzuki. They would handle most of the tracks on the soundtrack while remixing old themes and keeping with the style of the original Parasite Eve games. Suzuki took care of most of the track mixing while Sekito mostly helped with instrumentation. Yoko Shimomura was the one in charge of the whole project and wanted to include a lot of themes from the past Parasite Eve games for the fans.
Full Soundtrack Playlist
Full Track List: Disc 1
| Track | Name | Composer |
| 1 | From the End -The 3rd Birthday- | Tsuyoshi Sekito |
| 2 | The Babel : Genesis | Yoko Shimomura |
| 3 | Investigation of the Past | Mitsuto Suzuki |
| 4 | Beginning of Breeding | Mitsuto Suzuki |
| 5 | Joy to the World -for The 3rd Birthday- | Tsuyoshi Sekito |
| 6 | Flashback | Mitsuto Suzuki |
| 7 | Dive into Myself | Mitsuto Suzuki |
| 8 | Wait for the Combustion | Mitsuto Suzuki |
| 9 | Brave New World | Mitsuto Suzuki |
| 10 | Contact, Freeze, Explode | Yoko Shimomura |
| 11 | Unknown Unknown | Yoko Shimomura |
| 12 | Equinox of Insanity | Mitsuto Suzuki |
| 13 | Insanity of the Enraged | Yoko Shimomura |
| 14 | Reaper | Mitsuto Suzuki |
| 15 | Moment of Humanity | Mitsuto Suzuki |
| 16 | Bloody Black | Tsuyoshi Sekito |
| 17 | Frozen Time | Mitsuto Suzuki |
| 18 | The Boss | Mitsuto Suzuki |
| 19 | Arriving Home | Mitsuto Suzuki |
| 20 | Angel’s Time | Mitsuto Suzuki |
| 21 | Dive into Myself -Deep Inside- | Mitsuto Suzuki |
| 22 | dayDreamer | Tsuyoshi Sekito |
| 23 | Light of Time | Mitsuto Suzuki |
Full Track List: Disc?2
| Track | Name | Composer |
| 1 | Memory II -for The 3rd Birthday- | Tsuyoshi Sekito |
| 2 | Ruin | Mitsuto Suzuki |
| 3 | Arise within You -for The 3rd Birthday- | Yoko Shimomura |
| 4 | Moment of Silence | Tsuyoshi Sekito |
| 5 | Time of Insanity | Tsuyoshi Sekito |
| 6 | Queen | Mitsuto Suzuki |
| 7 | Cloud of Aureolin | Mitsuto Suzuki |
| 8 | Girl in the Dream | Mitsuto Suzuki |
| 9 | Unforgettable Man | Mitsuto Suzuki |
| 10 | Out of Phase -for The 3rd Birthday- | Tsuyoshi Sekito |
| 11 | Dive into the Cause | Mitsuto Suzuki |
| 12 | Pain of Assault | Yoko Shimomura |
| 13 | Human seeker | Mitsuto Suzuki |
| 14 | Human seeker -Battle Side- | Mitsuto Suzuki |
| 15 | Uncontrol | Mitsuto Suzuki |
| 16 | Monodrama | Mitsuto Suzuki |
| 17 | Crossing Time, Crossing Mind | Mitsuto Suzuki |
| 18 | Dr.Maeda (or How I Learned to Start Loving DNA) | Mitsuto Suzuki |
| 19 | End of the Investigation | Mitsuto Suzuki |
| 20 | Worm | Tsuyoshi Sekito |
| 21 | Fright Night | Mitsuto Suzuki |
| 22 | Desperation | Mitsuto Suzuki |
| 23 | Ray of Hope | Tsuyoshi Sekito |
| 24 | Triumph of Wing | Tsuyoshi Sekito |
| 25 | Cityscapes | Mitsuto Suzuki |
| 26 | Crimson Eyes | Tsuyoshi Sekito |
| 27 | Unforgettable Man -Return to Me- | Mitsuto Suzuki |
Full Track List: Disc 3
| Track | Name | Composer |
| 1 | King of Closing Time | Mitsuto Suzuki |
| 2 | A Piece of Remain -for The 3rd Birthday- | Tsuyoshi Sekito |
| 3 | The Way Things Are | Mitsuto Suzuki |
| 4 | Into the Babel | Mitsuto Suzuki |
| 5 | Escape from UB -for The 3rd Birthday- | Tsuyoshi Sekito |
| 6 | Terminus Zero | Mitsuto Suzuki |
| 7 | Immortality of Time | Mitsuto Suzuki |
| 8 | Blue of the End | Yoko Shimomura |
| 9 | Dive into Myself -Changing to…- | Mitsuto Suzuki |
| 10 | “Wachet auf, ruft uns der Zeitpunkt Null ?””Based on a cantata BWV140 by J.S. Bach”” | Yoko Shimomura |
| 11 | The End -Back to the Beginning- | Yoko Shimomura |
| 12 | Come Again to Christmas | Mitsuto Suzuki |
| 13 | Screaming | Mitsuto Suzuki |
| 14 | Primal Eyes -for The 3rd Birthday- | Yoko Shimomura |
| 15 | Brea the Brave | Yoko Shimomura |
| 16 | Theme of Aya -The 3rd Birthday Early Essence Arrange- | Yoko Shimomura |