Bernd
06/21/2024 (Fri) 16:26
[Preview]
No.52080
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I bought Resident Evil 1 (a 2015 remaster of a 2005 remaster of the original). Very fun and cool game. Never had console so I never played any RE games until 5 came out, and then when newer titles were coming out I never played them cause fans of the originals werent very happy about them. Anyway this one from what I learned plays exactly like the original, they just refreshed the looks and souns, so its now quite pretty. The "tank" controls are there (there's a more modern control too), there's viewing your character from those fixed angles in the room, you have to stop to shoot, etc. Might sound a bit annoying at first but I see they balanced the encounters around it, especially with zombies who are extremely slow.
There are basically 3 things to do in the game: combat, exploration and puzzles. The real difficulty with combat is that you have to realise that you dont have enough ammo to kill every monster you meet. I actually had to restart the game early on because I got stuck with a basic knife. On higher difficulty levels theres less ammo to find in the game and more monsters so its even more neccessary to avoid enemies. Exploration is quite self explanatory. Puzzles are necessary to progress in the game. They're not super difficult or anything but interesting enough that I might steal their ideas and include them in my tabletop rpg sessions.
The story is about a squad of special forces policemen who are investigating what happened to their missing comrades, who were investigating weird murders where victims were eaten. RE is also one of those games where there isnt much story happening on the screen as we play, but there are notes, diaries etc hidden around the maps that we can gather and piece togher the bigger picture of whats going on.
We can play as either Chris Redfield or Jill Valentine. There are slight story differences depending on which character we pick, but also they differ mechanically a little. Chris is faster, deals more damage, has more hit points and is basically focused on fighting more. Jill has more inventory slots, gets access to lockpick so she can get into certain areas faster, is pretties, and generally makes exploration easier.
Once im done with the game I'll be picking the other remasters (RE 2,3 and 4) cause I heard people are generally very happy about them. Although they made 2 and 3 into 3rd person shooters from what I've seen. Maybe I'll get classic 2 and 3 too if its avaiable on PC.