riiiiiiight, because somehow videogames are allowed to circumvent disbelief....even if said game series was derived from a book WRITTEN BY A MICROBIOLOGY PROFESSOR. If you're going to pull that "oh, it's beyond our comprehension!" crap then why was so much of the dialog in the first game devoted to explaining the theories behind these occurences? Again, SCIENCE fiction, some kind of clear grounding. The time warp magic is grossly out of place for this series.

*sigh* I don't know why you're so flustered about the introduction of a seemingly benign sci-fi element to the series. So far, we have no way of knowing how it relates to the original mitochondrial input of the PE series, or if it has any.

Anyway, Nomura himself (you know, the person actually developing the game, kinda knows more about it than you do, probably) said that 3rd Birthday will have tie-ins with the previous story developed in PE and PE2 and that the 3rd Birthday motto has a huge significance for Aya and her condition (freely controlling the mitochondria within her).

Kyle, Ben and even Eve will be present in 3rd Birthday, further enhancing the presence of the overall lore of PE in 3rd Birthday.

Then you might as well make a new IP instead of just reskinning an old one. It's a bit disrespectful to the series, Sena, and Sakaguchi (who started the game series) to just basically throw the main concept out for no adequate reason. I ADORE Aya, I was glad she came back, but I'm not going to support this blindly. Yeah, great, I get to see some old characters again, but it still doesn't detract from the fact that a series based in Dave Cronenberg body-warping going into time warps is a bit jarring, even IF both are under the (perhaps overly) broad umbrella of science fiction. Resident Evil for instance never did something like this (even the later ones)

I don't see how it's disrespectful because of one single aspect: We don't know how it fits the story.

The problem of making assumptions based on few seconds of footage shown is that they're a bit pre-empted attempts of trying to convey feelings of annoyance or bashful disappointment of a pre-conceived idea that you've may have had of a possible return of the series. 

I'm not going to get into a detail war about PE, because I love and respect my second favourite video game series enough, and the people behind them, to make my judgment after I played, seen and comprehended the implementations and the way that they fit into the PE lore. 

If didn't respect and love this series myself I wouldn't be arguing with you. And the thing is, it's NOT that unfair to go "HUH????" when one hears something that bloody radical. Even in the fantastical there's only so far you can go before asking the audience to suspend their disbelief no longer works. Again, love Aya, love this series, but I'm not charging in blindly just because I liked the previous games.

I don't disagree nor disrespect your opinion in this matter. I too have some questions and issues regarding some material being introduced in the series as well, like the Overdrive system (does Aya take control of the Mitochondria inside the target's body or does she shifts the entire cellular content in both bodies?) or the Twisted (Are they the evolution of the NMC's  or a whole new Mitochondrion mutations?).

My only point is regarding the fact that we have way too few information regarding these new implementations, to formulate any kind of assumption about them yet. That's why I'm giving the benefit of the doubt, until further explaining is made, because I feel that's the fairest thing to do.