TheInfamousKira
Reseterror Resettler
So recently, I got the bug up my butt to replay the entire RE/Biohazard series peppering in the games that I hadn't played until now (those being 2R, 3R, 7 and 8) I'm currently up to Salazar's castle in RE4, and this has afforded me some time to let my experiences with the two newest remakes marinade in my head for a bit.
Resident Evil 2 felt to me like a pretty perfect remake. This isn't a fresh or controversial opinion. I thought the changes made to the police station were logical for the more realistic setting. The darkness that covered the station was great for the horror atmosphere, as well.
I'm really pretty impressed with how well Capcom managed to translate the old staples of classic Survival Horror gameplay into the newer over the shoulder perspective. Puzzles were reimagined but remained largely consistent with their debut appearance. Enemy placement and difficulty alongside ammo and health distribution just felt like it was done by people who really understood game design and how to create tension via emergent gameplay.
Mr. X's implementation was really cool, too. He really added a new puzzle solving and horror aspect to traversal of the RPD, and this was welcome considering the scope of the game wasn't gigantic, so finding ways to make these areas exciting and threatening again was really cool.
And one of the coolest elements was the Clock Toweresque segment with Sherry. Not much to say about this, and it was pretty heavily scripted, but the quickest way to instill fear is with helplessness. It was challenging enough, with generous enough checkpoints to make fail states not an exercise in frustration.
Now for 3R...
I've heard A LOT of complaints, from length, to utilization of Nemesis, to cut content, but...I really enjoyed this one, too. It rearranged things far more than 2, but the pacing was pretty masterful and the campaign was very tight. Yeah, Nemesis was more of a setpiece than before, but it's not as if he wasn't heavily scripted in the original either. I think the story and characters were a lot more coherent this time around, as well. It really struck me as the T2:Judgement Day to RE2R's Terminator.
Thoughts? Questions, concerns? Shit posts?
Resident Evil 2 felt to me like a pretty perfect remake. This isn't a fresh or controversial opinion. I thought the changes made to the police station were logical for the more realistic setting. The darkness that covered the station was great for the horror atmosphere, as well.
I'm really pretty impressed with how well Capcom managed to translate the old staples of classic Survival Horror gameplay into the newer over the shoulder perspective. Puzzles were reimagined but remained largely consistent with their debut appearance. Enemy placement and difficulty alongside ammo and health distribution just felt like it was done by people who really understood game design and how to create tension via emergent gameplay.
Mr. X's implementation was really cool, too. He really added a new puzzle solving and horror aspect to traversal of the RPD, and this was welcome considering the scope of the game wasn't gigantic, so finding ways to make these areas exciting and threatening again was really cool.
And one of the coolest elements was the Clock Toweresque segment with Sherry. Not much to say about this, and it was pretty heavily scripted, but the quickest way to instill fear is with helplessness. It was challenging enough, with generous enough checkpoints to make fail states not an exercise in frustration.
Now for 3R...
I've heard A LOT of complaints, from length, to utilization of Nemesis, to cut content, but...I really enjoyed this one, too. It rearranged things far more than 2, but the pacing was pretty masterful and the campaign was very tight. Yeah, Nemesis was more of a setpiece than before, but it's not as if he wasn't heavily scripted in the original either. I think the story and characters were a lot more coherent this time around, as well. It really struck me as the T2:Judgement Day to RE2R's Terminator.
Thoughts? Questions, concerns? Shit posts?