What order did I play the Resident Evil games in? I’m glad you asked!
RE 4 “(2005)” - wow yes nice but so weird
RE “HD” - retro, I like it. Scary af in places
RE 7 - FPP in a classic Evil Residence setting chef’s kiss
RE 5 - trying to blend in too much cover shooter bullshit
RE 6 - see RE 5 except it outstays its welcome about 3x over
So here we are, the RE2make? REmake 2? Resident Evil 2 HD? whatever.
It’s good, like really good. Classic survival horror vibe in that you’re essentially just solving puzzles in a building full of dickheads who want to bite you. Losing the fixed camera in lieu of an over-the-shoulder-view hasn’t lessened the feeling of dread as you squeak open a door, hoping the Licker in the next corridor is on coffee break, Mr. X’s footsteps pant-shittingly close.
Leading me into one of my nitpicks, sometimes the AI doesn’t really play fair. Mr. X occasionally just haunts the corridors immediately outside the safe room you’re in which can be flow breaking when you’re just trying to get shit done. He also seems to haul ass to corral me into rooms with Lickers in. I don’t know if this is on purpose but it is very annoying.
The story is kind of a non-point, it’s barely coherent enough to support most of the characters' motives but I’ll take a good game with a bad plot over the opposite. Playing the game twice with maybe 10% different content and story beats just to get to the “True Ending” felt a little jarring to me. I touched on RE 6 outstaying its welcome and R2make really cut it close for me.
Ultimately I had fun with Resident Remake 2: Evil; controls are tight and predictable, enemy variety is enough for a game of this size and boss encounters are usually reasonable (even if they only seem to appear when you’re least prepared). Do I want to soak up all the extra content? Not immediately and I think that is telling enough.
RE 4 “(2005)” - wow yes nice but so weird
RE “HD” - retro, I like it. Scary af in places
RE 7 - FPP in a classic Evil Residence setting chef’s kiss
RE 5 - trying to blend in too much cover shooter bullshit
RE 6 - see RE 5 except it outstays its welcome about 3x over
So here we are, the RE2make? REmake 2? Resident Evil 2 HD? whatever.
It’s good, like really good. Classic survival horror vibe in that you’re essentially just solving puzzles in a building full of dickheads who want to bite you. Losing the fixed camera in lieu of an over-the-shoulder-view hasn’t lessened the feeling of dread as you squeak open a door, hoping the Licker in the next corridor is on coffee break, Mr. X’s footsteps pant-shittingly close.
Leading me into one of my nitpicks, sometimes the AI doesn’t really play fair. Mr. X occasionally just haunts the corridors immediately outside the safe room you’re in which can be flow breaking when you’re just trying to get shit done. He also seems to haul ass to corral me into rooms with Lickers in. I don’t know if this is on purpose but it is very annoying.
The story is kind of a non-point, it’s barely coherent enough to support most of the characters' motives but I’ll take a good game with a bad plot over the opposite. Playing the game twice with maybe 10% different content and story beats just to get to the “True Ending” felt a little jarring to me. I touched on RE 6 outstaying its welcome and R2make really cut it close for me.
Ultimately I had fun with Resident Remake 2: Evil; controls are tight and predictable, enemy variety is enough for a game of this size and boss encounters are usually reasonable (even if they only seem to appear when you’re least prepared). Do I want to soak up all the extra content? Not immediately and I think that is telling enough.