Oh my fucking god I had tears in my eyes from how hilariously racist this game is. The level of incompetence you could get out of Capcom between 2007-2015 was chefs kiss. And momma-mia this game is a spicy fuckaroni.
Great joy comes at the thought of culturally isolated Japanese people not thinking twice about having their zombie game take place in Africa and have the virus operate like Ebola. Don't worry, the main character is an out-of-place porcelain white dude dressed like Team America World Police agent soldier shooterman. The main villain is a nazi who cosplays as a netrunner from The Matrix. This concept will go really well guys trust me.
The actual fucked thing is the game doesn't do anything cool with it's African setting. Just favela-style infrastructure with melanated folks with huge bloodshot eyes. A majority of the game is just bland building structures that could be anywhere in the world. Boring.
Sheeva is a cool character that should have been the main character, but nothing is done with her other than to spout quips and be the living embodiment of "I'm not racist I have a black friend." as Chris tests Stand Your Ground laws by roundhousing a dude into a ramshackle fish market stand.
Aside from mowing down tribalists in wooden masks who chuck spears at you with a machine gun, the game's racism greatly tones down from Chapter 2 on. The game does a good job of making YOU feel racist by having the pacing fun slow way down after you stop slitting the throats of people and dogs in the street in exchange for some brain-dead puzzles and unengaging co-op platforming.
This game doesn't see color, because everything is brown as fuck. This game was peak sepia-toned nonsense. Fear not, because some sections are instead straight-up gray. You were supposed to be impressed by the HD textures and console performance instead of the color palette. Time has been unkind to that choice.
If this game didn't have good co-op for it's time I think this would have been...not as well received. It's co-op is still fun, but I played through the first couple chapters by myself and I was bored out of my mind. The game structure and setting are mind-numbingly dull compared to RE4. The trends it chased didn't pay off.
This is the perfect Steam gift for that divorced uncle who loves bringing up that Africans owned slaves too.
Great joy comes at the thought of culturally isolated Japanese people not thinking twice about having their zombie game take place in Africa and have the virus operate like Ebola. Don't worry, the main character is an out-of-place porcelain white dude dressed like Team America World Police agent soldier shooterman. The main villain is a nazi who cosplays as a netrunner from The Matrix. This concept will go really well guys trust me.
The actual fucked thing is the game doesn't do anything cool with it's African setting. Just favela-style infrastructure with melanated folks with huge bloodshot eyes. A majority of the game is just bland building structures that could be anywhere in the world. Boring.
Sheeva is a cool character that should have been the main character, but nothing is done with her other than to spout quips and be the living embodiment of "I'm not racist I have a black friend." as Chris tests Stand Your Ground laws by roundhousing a dude into a ramshackle fish market stand.
Aside from mowing down tribalists in wooden masks who chuck spears at you with a machine gun, the game's racism greatly tones down from Chapter 2 on. The game does a good job of making YOU feel racist by having the pacing fun slow way down after you stop slitting the throats of people and dogs in the street in exchange for some brain-dead puzzles and unengaging co-op platforming.
This game doesn't see color, because everything is brown as fuck. This game was peak sepia-toned nonsense. Fear not, because some sections are instead straight-up gray. You were supposed to be impressed by the HD textures and console performance instead of the color palette. Time has been unkind to that choice.
If this game didn't have good co-op for it's time I think this would have been...not as well received. It's co-op is still fun, but I played through the first couple chapters by myself and I was bored out of my mind. The game structure and setting are mind-numbingly dull compared to RE4. The trends it chased didn't pay off.
This is the perfect Steam gift for that divorced uncle who loves bringing up that Africans owned slaves too.
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If RE5 is racist against Africans then RE4 is racist against Spaniards no cap.
We’re still going on about this? That the story about the exploitation of Africa by a group of nazis is racist? Spencer and co. disguise their intent to use Africa and her people as lab rats through pretending they’re helping them with “TRICELL”, Wesker’s ideology and his virus, the Ouroboros, are very clearly meant to echo fascist sentiments since his plan is literally just global eugenics. And the ironic part about it all is Ouroboros is rejecting his perfect, “pure” aryan blood and he keeps delaying the inevitable through shots that slow the virus’s progress through the entire game, it’s even how Chris and Sheva manage to beat him. The other part to this is Spencer, the man who’s responsible for the series’s events to begin with, a man who’s part of a cabal of nazis and employs fleeing WW2 nazi scientists, his search for godlike power had led him to the Stairway to the Sun flower in Africa which is the progenitor to all viruses in the series. Ironic, isn’t it? The one thing he needed to prove he is above those who he deems not worthy was in a land of people he scorns. Ironic more is that his first physical appearance in the series is one where he’s a frail, pathetic, coping, old man on a wheelchair who proclaims he was to be god only to immediately die to Wesker. RE5 at its heart is a simple story about how a beautiful, culturally rich land can be abused for gain by the whims of a corporation. Almost like this entire fucking series is anti-corpo. Almost like the sentiment around RE5 being racist is a knee-jerk reactionary take on the game and it’s politics.
@Limp_Mantis thank you for pretending to read my review. Seeing a more unhinged reply than my review warms my heart
Don't do accurate potrayals of real world places chud it's racist
@typhoonswell Do you actually care to contribute to the conversation and tell me exactly what is unhinged about anything I said?…. Are you seriously trying to play this off as a “roflmao chill out bro I was only pretending” ? Whatever.
@Limp_Mantis I like you. Do you want to come over and play Settlers of Catan.
Lol. Nice deflection I guess.
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@Limp_Mantis this review is being tongue in cheek is what Typhoon is getting at. He states what his real problems with the game are if you actually read the review instead of having a knee jerk reaction to his jokes.
The person I played with was 10x more racist than the game lol
@Lesturr we all play video games bro. We are all guilty as fuck until proven innocent when it comes to being racist. A natural conclusion to a lifestyle where you don't go outside and talk to people to gain newfound perspectives and appreciation for your fellow man. We are in this fucking trap house of a culture where we're here to play games yes but a lot of motherfuckers are in the corner mainlining hard R's into their veins to feel something. I personally am in the trap to buy weed and play Marvel vs Capcom 2 but we in this bitch together. You know what I'm saying? Do you know what I'm saying to you right now @Lesturr. If I tag you multiple times will you get more than one notification @Lesturr.
@Username8 Nice! I earned the pinged badge
reread this banger, it might be weed but it made me laugh pretty hard. You're a real one
RedBackLoggd
6 months ago
LMAO, what a line to end a review on.