Hey peeps hope you are all well. This blog is basically a one I wanted to do for a while. If yous probably don’t know. I’m a big video game fan. Have been since the Super NES days watching my brother play Zelda and Mario. But I didn’t play games growing up. Always outdoors skating or doing sports. Til I reach my teens & at 2000 I started playing games for real. I got myself a PS1 and I remember my first games were Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2 and of course Resident Evil. I was hooked on it immediately. I always love horror films and so playing a horror game was like a match made in heaven. The Resident Evil game was Resident Evil 3. I play through it so many times. I was really good on it and the rest is history. Been a hardcore gamer since and I don’t look back.
Now as you see on the title I think the movies don’t count. I don’t want to talk about them since I’ll be dead ranty lol. I really hate the films. So I rather not talk about them. I don’t think their Resident Evil at all. I will say Degeneration, the anime film is really overlooked. I thought that was a decent flick.
Give it a watch. I feel that one was not bad.
But the video games is where is that. And there’s so many Resident Evil games out there:
That’s not all of them but that’s lots. A lot of awesome ones, great ones, ok ones and yeah awful ones too (looking at u Operation Raccoon City). There’s so many. And there’s different, they don’t stay the same. Most change the gameplay and the genre a bit. Not many video game franchise can pull that off well or be successful at it. Look at Star Fox Adventures for example on the GameCube. Ppl remember Star Fox as a Sci Fi shoot em up. But they change everything about it in Adventures, while it was imo an alright game. It didn’t succeed at all. It underperformed. A lot of times changing the format of the game is very risky. And like Star Fox Adventures, they don’t sell well or that good. But there’s Resident Evil that does it well and is very successful at it.
Like this gem for example. This is the proper first one they done where they changed the gameplay and it’s different. But in an awesome way cause it still felt like an Resident Evil game. While they were Resident Evil games that changed their gameplay style before like Survivor & the Outbreak games. Survivor was a on rail shooter and the outbreak games were online co op ones but they weren’t good. They were on rail shooter Resi that came out later in these games:
Which were done way better than Survivor. They were decent games. But as excellent as 4. 4 was so awesome that it influenced other games afterwards. It was awesome. But it was also a sign of mediocre Resi games to come. Cause afterwards Resi lost its ID and it was leaning more towards action. Like Resi 5, 6, Operation Raccoon City & Umbrella Corps. None of them were good like 4. 4 at least still felt like a proper Resident Evil game, it had balance between action & horror. While those ones didn’t. Around that time it wasn’t a good time to be a fan of the franchise. The games were what the films were, over the top action Michael Bay style experience. Is that what Resident Evil is? No it was about horror and survival. Hints created the term Survival Horror. Cause the first games perfected it. They were masterpieces. 5 & 6 weren’t overwhelmingly bad games but weren’t good either. Operation Raccoon City & Umbrella Corps were awful. The only Resident Evil games that were still had good & were proper Resi games was these:
Revelations 1 & 2. Imo underrated games. These were pretty good games but sadly they’ll been hidden gems due the Resi games being mediocre since after 4. So ppl probably thought it was more action Resi games that no one likes. But it’s not, it’s more like proper Resi games if they continue the balance of action & horror that 4 was. But not many ppl played these. It is worth getting. Especially their cheap to get these days. Definitely worth playing. The first ur Chris, Jill again and in the second one you’re Barry, Barry’s daughter & Claire. Among other characters, they are good. Definitely worth a playthrough. But sadly at the time they weren’t popular as they should be & Resi really needed to be saved since the recent games were losing fans, me included and of course the films sucked lol. But luckily we had a rereleases of two awesome games that were on the GameCube originally.
These were brilliant. Especially the remake of the first. Both getting rereleased on the Xbox One & PS4 was a kick that the franchise needed. Both are the Resident Evil of old. The return to the classic fixed angle camera, survival horror we know and love about Resident Evil. Luckily unlike the underrated Revelations games. They sold and ppl love it & introduce newer fans too. Ppl wanted more of this and I was happy that they rerelease these. They were awesome and the remake of the first is a pure masterpiece. The original first is badly outdated so the remake of the first was needed. And they did originally in 2002 I think and it was awesome then, still is now. 0 was also brilliant too. Which was a prequel of the first game. Where you play as Rebecca Chambers & Billy Coen (not related to the filmmakers btw lol) in that one. And you can swap characters in that one & it was done very well. Had a co op feel to it, even though it was single player lol. Still awesome. So both were awesome games and I just love it. But that was a sign of more awesome things to come. Basically it was a comeback & it’s awesome as ever. Next one was a full on horror and it was very awesome:
This is another a change of the gameplay and style. This time is in first person. But it was a success and it was brilliant. If you play this on PS4 you’ll play this on the VR. Which is a recommendation cause it’s an experience that everyone should have. It really is so awesome and it’s scary. Probably the scariest of all the Resident Evil games imo and it was better for it. It’s what us the fans wanted and gotten & some. It is a really great game. Great atmosphere, solid gameplay, story line is good too and it was Resident Evil. It was a solid game that nobody should overlooked.
And yeah it was back to it’s roots & Capcom was listening to us & giving us the goods. Resident Evil was back. But ppl wanted another remake. We already got the first game remade so what next...in a lot of ppl’s opinion the best one:
Resident Evil 2 and those are my copies of both games. Resi 2 is where my journey into playing video games begin. Still have my original that I got in 99. Still holds up. Still a masterpiece but the remake is a masterpiece too.
This part of my blog is my review of the new remake.
So where to begin. Well ppl (myself included) wanted this remake for years. Hell I wanted it after the first remake back on the GameCube. And now after all these years we got it & its imo the best remake ever. Not just in video games but of all time. It kept the feel of Resident Evil 2 but in a different modern way and it works. It really does. It’s Resident Evil 2 but better. Everything about it is a pure masterpiece. The atmosphere, the characters, the graphics, the gameplay, the horror, the replayablity, the unlockables, how there’s no loot boxes/micro transactions, upcoming free updates , etc. I could keep going but yous get the point lol. I don’t want to spoil it for yous. I feel yous all should play it and you will love it, trust me lol. It really is awesome really. Imo this is what they should’ve done after 4. It’s has the same gameplay style of 4 but it’s more a survival horror than a blend of action & horror. No it’s more survival horror like the original Resident Evil 2. It captures the feel of the original but with its own edge to it and it totally works. It maybe GOTY I’m not kidding. I think this is the standard of how to do remakes. It’s a pure joy and I love everything about it. I will reward it a full 5/5. Pure genius.
Hopefully they’ll remake 3 next or Code Veronica. Either one will satisfy me. Or maybe they’ll make Resident Evil 8 who knows but I look forward to whatever it is as long they don’t do anymore action games with the Resident Evil name then I’m happy. But I want a 3 remake. Since that’s my personal favourite one. And Jill is my favourite character. So who knows but I look forward to it. I’ll do my third playthrough of Resident Evil 2 and unlock the extra modes in the meantime.
I love Resident Evil. It had a rough time but you can always comeback. That goes to everyone. We all have a dark period but never give up. You can overcome and make a comeback. Like Resident Evil, it’s back and better than ever before. More good things on the way. I’m sure of it.
Well that’s it, that’s me done with another blog. Thank you very much for reading as always. Hopefully yous enjoy reading my wee tribute/appreciation blog of one of my favourite video game franchise. I enjoy writing about it. It’s history and why I love it. And if you do love the films (even though I don’t understand why lol) more power to you. I’m glad you enjoy them. I personally hate them with a passion. But good for you lol.
Anyway thank you again for reading my blogs guys. Yous are the best. Until the next one, take care, much love and I hope this is not Chris’s blood! 🧟♂️🧟♀️
@missy @rambo @sean
