![]() ![]() All of this horror is even more enjoyable when shared, and while the game lacks coop, my girlfriend and I had a brilliant time solving puzzles and braving blood-bathed hallways together. Regular autosaves do help lessen these setbacks and for the majority of the game survival feels fair. Healing items, however, seem increasingly scarce in the late game making for some infuriating, cheap deaths. Your pistol and shotgun remain your go-to firearms throughout, receiving upgrades at a perfect pace to keep encounters tense while ensuring you feel just capable enough to stand a chance of survival. A newly added sub-weapons systems allows you to counter enemies with knives and grenades, giving you one more chance at survival whilst deepening the excellent combat. Tearing through limbs and viscera with your arsenal of weapons is satisfyingly gruesome fun and the extraordinary physics system allows shockingly realistic dismemberment and blood splatter. Resi 2’s zombies are terrifyingly lifelike, their pallid flesh and milky eyes concealing the human that once was. This is what happens when your country doesn’t have free health care An indispensable map which marks items and colour-codes cleared rooms also helps maximise efficiency when backtracking. However, the busy work involved in gathering X amount of parts to complete a puzzle is rarely tedious thanks to satisfying, responsive combat and methodical level design. Yet in typical Resident Evil fashion the next section of the map is usually locked behind a Crystal Maze style puzzle mechanism, the solutions to which are often convoluted. True to this formula, revisiting areas with new key items unlocks previously inaccessible rooms and pathways making exploration constantly rewarding. Unlocking a door to find a shortcut back to a familiar area offers immense relief and the MetroidVania structure of the game’s level design serves the dynamics of its horror the pacing of its progression excellently. As your ammo dwindles and your health withers, tension builds, and desperation grows with each enemy acting as a potentially lethal obstacle between you and momentary safety. Exploring new areas often strikes a thrilling risk/rewards balance with uncharted territory both yielding precious supplies and harbouring ravenous foes. The labyrinthine layout of the police station and the vast network of tunnels which lay beneath it is sublimely designed. Despite narrative flaws, Resident Evil 2 exceeds my expectations in almost every way. Shady government research and biomutants are a staple of the series and while this signature absurdity is in full effect here, I found Resident Evil 7’s tale of the Baker family to be much more compelling. These human stories, which find poignancy amongst the fantastical horror, are generally neglected in favour of Leon’s generic action movie arc. Written files and notes help out the world before the outbreak, but hammy writing often makes these accounts more comical than haunting. ![]() The upcoming Ghost Survivors DLC promises to explore some of these supporting characters, elaborating on their fates during the Raccoon City outbreak. The game’s main antagonist also has a tragic tale which helps add humanity to his grotesque, abominable form. A fleeting interaction with a fellow survivor, a gun shop owner who has to deal with his own zombie daughter, provides the most affecting moment in the story. “Why am I wearing sunglasses at night you ask?”Īda is a similarly unlikeable character with her role and relationship to Leo and his story feeling forced. He does feel genuine and actor Eduard Badaluta presents him with the disposition a naive rookie cop would likely have, but his dead-eyed stare and banal remarks make him annoying rather than endearing. Despite a new voice actor and a vastly more lifelike appearance, Leon remains a dull character. Leon is an odd protagonist lacking enough personality to be relatable or likeable yet being too defined as a character for you, the player, to project onto. Thus far I have only played Leon’s A story so can only speak first hand to his thread of the story. My first playthrough took roughly 5 hours, and with three more potential playthroughs, the ultra-hard 4th survivor mission, hardcore difficulty, and speedruns to complete, this remake is a comprehensive package, brimming with content and replayability. Consisting of two protagonists, Leon and Claire, each with an A and B scenario offering slight variations on the same events and a “true ending”, Resident Evil 2’s is ambitious in how it structures its narrative. ![]()
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