It was The Texas Chainsaw Massacre meets Evil Dead 2. But its smartest play was in its villains while it featured generic mold enemies, Ethan spent most of his time hunted by a demented family oozing more energy and personality than almost any series foe to date. Those injuries, a metric ton of gruesome imagery, and a sweaty Louisiana setting gave it this nasty, visceral feel. It used a first person perspective to up the intensity, defining its hero through his constantly injured hands. While it went back somewhat to the series’ roots – in that it trapped its hero, tired everyman Ethan Winters, in a spooky mansion – it was also stunningly fresh. The newest major brand extension came from Resident Evil 7: Biohazard, a 2017 soft reboot that clamped down on RE6 ’s and the series’ most bloated, action-oriented vices. Some fans bristle at the divergent narrative in the films, but they still made bank. While Resident Evil 6, often cited as the worst mainline entry of the series, tried and failed to be all things to all people, the brand as a whole was kind of already there.įrom Resident Evil: Apocalypse, the second (and worst) live action movie. Prefer something traditionally scary? Well, here’s the sumptuous remake of the first game! Want more action? Resident Evil 4, which pretty much reinvented the third person shooter, has you covered! Not action-y enough ? We’ve got movies! Want to play something that’s just really bad? Oh, does Capcom have options for you. Resident Evil is big business, and like most businesses, it sells a variety of tones, looks, and styles. It’s getting a new film, an upcoming Netflix show starring my fave Lance Reddick, and surely many more adaptations, sequels, and spinoffs in the years to come. It had a successful film franchise that cast out most of the series’ tropes and improvised new ones, along with less successful animated movies and an alternate universe series of novels. It has revolutionized video game horror, shooter mechanics, even mechanical systems for saving. Over the course of two decades, Capcom’s legendary survival horror franchise has mutated as many times as the grisly monsters it’s concocted.
Resident Evil knows about shaking things up. I have, however, tried to present them in a way that shouldn’t break the game’s surprises. This article goes into mild details about the plot and setting of Resident Evil Village.
Holism: How Resident Evil Village Went Off-Brand
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