Resident Evil graduates to goopy, vapid slop of popular coop shooters of its time. Complete global saturation.
RE5 is a putrid game in both aesthetics and design. Many of the levels feel too similar to one another with a disgusting yellow and brown haze smeared all over the image. Boss fights are obnoxious and egregiously long for no reason. The mind-boggling approach to the UI and inventory system as it operates in real time like the outbreak games and it's all just so...bland and strict for a game leaning so hard on action. In these aspects, RE5 is a significant regression from not just RE4, but even the games that came before it. Resident Evil 5 is UGLY from start to finish and lacking the atmosphere and artful style that defined the previous entries, which killed me as this game dragged on and on.
The few saving graces is Chris getting a nice and hot redesign, Wesker's matrix-esque characterization, and the absolute cheese on the surface. But at the same time, the game tries to unnecessarily cobble together so many previous threads of prior entries and introduce other bizarre story beats that by the end, the entry just falls hard on its face. Why is the Spencer Mansion stuff resurrected here again that even the latest mainline entries can't help but nudge back to for a connection? Why is Jill brainwashed and blond while doing flips in one of the series most absurd boss battles? Why does the entirety of the last act in the volcano exist?
I get why people like this game as it continues in the footsteps of RE4's fun action gameplay to an even less impressive standard, but I truly hated this and find so much of what it does to be very poor. Considering this is up next in the remake treatment (or Code Veronica because that game is also yikes and deserves way more of another try), hopefully a new take on it can inject some of the personality back in the game because there's no way Capcom can fuck up remaking this. Capcom can also do the easiest and most funniest thing ever with the eventual remake: by not making it comically racist.
RE5 is a putrid game in both aesthetics and design. Many of the levels feel too similar to one another with a disgusting yellow and brown haze smeared all over the image. Boss fights are obnoxious and egregiously long for no reason. The mind-boggling approach to the UI and inventory system as it operates in real time like the outbreak games and it's all just so...bland and strict for a game leaning so hard on action. In these aspects, RE5 is a significant regression from not just RE4, but even the games that came before it. Resident Evil 5 is UGLY from start to finish and lacking the atmosphere and artful style that defined the previous entries, which killed me as this game dragged on and on.
The few saving graces is Chris getting a nice and hot redesign, Wesker's matrix-esque characterization, and the absolute cheese on the surface. But at the same time, the game tries to unnecessarily cobble together so many previous threads of prior entries and introduce other bizarre story beats that by the end, the entry just falls hard on its face. Why is the Spencer Mansion stuff resurrected here again that even the latest mainline entries can't help but nudge back to for a connection? Why is Jill brainwashed and blond while doing flips in one of the series most absurd boss battles? Why does the entirety of the last act in the volcano exist?
I get why people like this game as it continues in the footsteps of RE4's fun action gameplay to an even less impressive standard, but I truly hated this and find so much of what it does to be very poor. Considering this is up next in the remake treatment (or Code Veronica because that game is also yikes and deserves way more of another try), hopefully a new take on it can inject some of the personality back in the game because there's no way Capcom can fuck up remaking this. Capcom can also do the easiest and most funniest thing ever with the eventual remake: by not making it comically racist.