Tuesday 10 December 2019

Resident Evil: Remake





i kinda knew I would really enjoy this because ive been a big fan of RE for a long time. its practically better than the original release in every way, the graphics are stellar and the backgrounds are incredibly atmospheric and immersive, the sound design is amazing it truely is a survival horror game. every step you take into a new location, every new camera angle is all carefully designed with the player and emotion in mind. it grips you in many ways and makes you fight to survive to even be able to feel good about saving your progress.

story is actually really interesting, the new lisa trevor sub-plot is really awesome, the notes hidden around the mansion are classic as hell and really ghostly, I played it on original tank controls, on the hardest difficulty avalible to start, as Jill. I will eventually replay as Chris, but even my Jill playthrough was 20 hours..so much replayability. I guess my only complaint is sometimes you need to do "fake" runs, as in, you load a save file, run around for a bit trying to figure out what to do next, take damage, use items - whatever.. then reload your save after you've planned a route. because you can't afford to lose ANY resources or health items, at least thats how I felt. so a good 5 hours of gametime was just doing bullshit trial runs trying to plan successful routes etc...but it really is a minor gripe i guess, just shows the level of satisfaction and immersion into the whole experience of wanting to survive as best as you can.

All the different locations are really cool. Who would of guessed you would even go as far to explore a  big underground aquatic flooded bunker, complete with crazed killer sharks! its awesome. you go to labratories, the woods, residences, cave systems...etc...the locations are incredibly memorable and I will forever have this game engrained into my head.
Each zombie encounter is always fresh and exciting, figuring out how to get past them without taking hits, or wasting your precious ammo..then theres the Crimson heads, which if you kill a zombie without burning them, they start sprinting and being even more crazed. The game is out to fucking get you. its really badass actually, a game in which you need balls and brains to successfully get through..not that theres just zombies either, the enemy variety is both horrifying and awesome at the same time (if you live long enough you'll see...fucking Hunters)

An amazing game! maybe the best of all Resident Evil series?
"Itchy, tasty"

9/10

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