Now that I've had a chance to complete the latest entry in the Resident Evil series, its time to give my full review of Resident Evil 8. Expect some plot spoilers.
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@Nιɠԋƚ'ʂ Eԃɠҽ, It's one of the worst RE games yet. Does neither RE4 or RE2 Remake justice. Under The Mayo did a great video review of RE Village that fully reveals everything wrong with it compared to past great RE games. Gotta broaden the audience too, eh Capcom...
I think what would’ve been awesome is that after you killed her daughter’s and destroyed her castle, she keeps chasing you and looking more and more Monstrous as the game goes on.
@@AncapOtaku thank you, the internet simps that made her popular in life are still trying to make her popular after death. She was the worst/blandest character.
Wait a minute! Do you have a license for that potato? NO?! Off to the gulag u go. Your potato will be appropriated by the state and placed into a communal potato program. After your mandatory 10 years of hard labor, you'll be allowed use of the potato for one day out of the year.
BSAA soldier: "Sir, why don't we just tell Ethan Winters that wasn't really his wife you just killed right in front of him? It couldn't hurt to put his mind somewhat at ease before we head out." Chris Redfield: "Nah, it'll be fine."
@@kazuyakenzaki1320 That would be the case, but it gets harder to defend when he meets Chris for the second time and he has killed 2 lords already, he still acts dismissive and cryptic towards Ethan.
@@blueberryguy8666 now that you've mentioned RE4, I suddenly realize how almost no one noticed that RE8 feels like a hybrid of RE7 and RE4. I mean, seriously, from the inventory management, to collecting rubies from the dead crows and selling them to a merchant, it seems like the devs wanted to combine the best elements of RE4 with the current formula. They've partially succeeded, but as a side effect, they've also brought in the old flaws, like the over-the-top, chaotic action sequences and characters with enemies that seem like powerful, improved B.O.W.s on paper, but during the gameplay come off as pathetic for the sake of the player's convenience...
Imagine going through a horror game known for horrifying monsters and finding a female villain character who looks hotter than that One "girl" from the last of us 2.
Or like all three dark souls and any final fantasy that’s used the four elements... Aka: this is like a lot of Japanese formats lol. But when it’s worked since 1983? Why change what sells? Granted I didn’t buy it as I buy nothing at launch but once I see it down to 20-30 in 1-2 years? Yeah I’ll be trying it.
It's weird to actually hear people talk about the game instead of, "Crush my face Dommy Mommy, I'm gonna use my flyswatter on your dump-truck." These are, confusing times...
I love Lady D’s charm and looks as much as anyone else with a functional sex drive. But after a while of seeing the same old “please step on me dommy mommy” comments over and over and over again became pretty annoying.
Chris: Ethan... Let me make this as clear as I can. This is bigger than you. Hell, it's even bigger than me! Don't you see? Didn't you notice that I left several details unknown to you?! Ethan: Why?! Why go to great lengths just so that I don't get involved?! Chris: Don't you still get it?! Why I didn't tell you about Miranda replacing Mia? Why I took Rose from you? Why keep you in the dark about the whole village thing? Because you are my only hope to continue the Redfield Bloodline! If you die no one will fuck my sister!
Chris just plain sucked in this game. He’s been unlikable since RE6. His only consistent trait is constantly messing up. It really sucks that he’s become the most reoccurring character cause he’s always been the least interesting of the 4 mains.
The entire Resident Evil franchise can be resumed to: We created an entire new story plot with diverse characters and suddenly... CHRIS REDFIELD APPEARS
Chris is old and experienced now, has training to face situations, has faced numerous missions over the years, fought b.o.w.s, punched boulders for a salary and a living, and never was able to save his brothers in battlefield. He's a legend and broken man.
I love the fact that Chris' design always changed in every RE games. It's like Capcom playing The Wheel of Fortune of whatever his design supposed to be.
The last jedi isn't canon . Can movies not be canon ? Maybe if they kill chris the over the top action will stop ... or they just might make a version of resident evil where it's a sand box game ,with prototype attacks and a rpg upgrade system
At least with Chris you can make an argument that he's had a lot of dark moments in the series, to the point where in 6 he got really close to turn into an antagonist. Because of that, a popular theory prior to this game's launch was him being the main villain, and there was not a small group of people who really enjoyed the idea of having to fight Chris. So yeah, having Chris killed can work out without having to do too much mental gymnastics, unlike Luke, who even in the darkest moments of his live he by himself chose to save even the most monstruous of men, so you'll need to put a LOT of work and talent to make his death satisfying
@@jackmesrel4933 bruh it's luke Skywalker! .. that was the only reason why I was interested in the next episodes. I wanted to see luke . I'm disapointed now 😑 ... All those years waiting for THAT . Ugh those movies . How do you do that to star wars ?
@@Modeloman8 Yeh, that's why I said that they needed a LOT of work and talent to pull that off without feeling unsatisfying, things they clearly didn't have, those Hollywood hacks
@@Noperare I mean he probably doubted it a lot that it would happen, when he first hears she can be saved from that he says “From this?!” And states that the duke better not be bullshitting him, she’s dead already and that is his only hope no matter how ridiculous it sounds. But hope that is true is all he has left
Can anyboy explaim to an asian guy why are westerners always talking about Chris' bloodline? I know it's a meme but I don't understand it. You always talk as if Claire is supposed to keep the bloodline alive and not him. Why?
@@Rivershield do you think him punching the Boulder had no cost no he took to much steroids he is infertile plus he always saw Jil as a best friend not a love interest
@@dankmemes8254 So your answer a question with another meme, huh? This doesn't really help much since I have a hard time understanding western sense of humor. Also, is Jill the only woman in the world? The fact that you assumed I was talking about her just goes to show that it would, indeed, make sense for her and Chris to be together romantically.
That looks so stupid, half of the universe was destroyed and they didn’t do anything but now they are going to help in the open? Disney is running out of charters and ideas for marvel,I mean come on you guys own the X men and the fantastic 4 and you are making a movie about characters one cares about
Me expecting Army of the Dead getting what it truly deserves...so far watching reviews has made me seriously questioning the ability of critical thinking by our younger generations.
I loved that Chris section at the end. It was just kind of fun blow-every-thing-away reward with virtually unlimited ammo. It was kind of like the helicopter ride at the end of Far Cry 3.
Same bro! And I felt like it made the boss fight with Miranda harder. You got accustomed to his insane ammo capacity, health, power and got dissappinted when you switched to Ethans corpse. Took me a long time to beat the boss fight...but I loved it. This game was really fun for me.
It was an enjoyable add-on section that barely lasted more than 10 minutes. Why do people have to cry about shootouts in RE games? I loved RE1 but not everything has to be like the old school survival horror at all times.
And the best thing is it made sense how the game changed so much, we aren't fighting with a guy that doesn't want to be here and isnt totally trained anymore, we are fighting as a guy who was molded by this slaughter house called the resident evil franchise, this is Friday late night when the night is still on for him
Heisenberg was the biggest waste of potential he actually showed promise as a character but Ethan was unrealistic in his approach to his section and Heisenberg just become shooty boom boom monster man like all the others instead of an interesting boss fight
@@nickthemage2052 I was disappointed with Heisenberg's fight. He was the most genetically stable out of the 4 and he just chooses to turn into a monster out of nowhere. He could destroy Ethan without even lifting a finger, but he goes Tetsuo on him instead? So much wasted potential.
@@jnoirj3124 right? can you imagine the set piece if you had to battle a telekinetic one on one like maybe the environment changes based on how Heisenberg manipulates it and the whole point of the fight is Ethan trying to kill Heisenberg but Heisenberg is just trying to stop him from doing so and remove Ethan from the fight by incapacitating him rather than killing him since they still have the same goal
I just found out that the actress who played Lady Dimitrescu (Maggie Robertson) is someone I know almost on a personal level. She was a former student at the high school my dad taught Drama at and she was in 3 of the plays that he directed. It's kinda surreal seeing her again and how far she's come.
@@aldente3868 It is, I saw her in a play my dad directed called "Somewhere in between" in which Maggie had a small but no less hilarious role where she and the lead get stuck in the elevator and Maggie's character has a panic attack. Someone actually made a video of it and uploaded it to youtube too. Here, I'll post it. czcams.com/video/D2HjbOraw_E/video.html
When I visited Budapest in the summer a few years ago I thought "wow it's like a city out of a fairytale! I'd love to live here!" Maybe the locals would disagree with me on that.
@@LordHoth_09 People leave Eastern Europe to start a new life elsewhere. It's like having diarrhea and then eating a burrito, hoping that it'll stop you from shitting yourself every 5 minutes.
4:40 - in defense of Japanese idea of Eastern European villages: I grew up in one of such villages (territory that is Ukraine but used to be Romania before WW2). Streets, gates, churches, homes, (both outside and inside) are almost exactly spot on, just need to rewind couple decades back. When I was there in 1990s phones (stationary ones) were present only in 1 in ~3 households, computers - the first one was brought there in 2003, same with mobile phones, everyone had radio though and TV (some were black/white). This game gave me weird sense of nostalgia.
You can actually see it in the room when he and Ethan talked. You can see paper clippings attached to the wall next to Chris's picture. Also, people seem to forget that RE8 is set in the modern world and Heisenburg probably has access to the internet.
Ethen becoming a moderately competent lych/lich seemed liked a natural end point for him, the fact they addressed is ability to not die was rather refreshing honestly.
Classic RE morale: The dangers of corporations and humans playing with genetic editing and mutations for the sake of power. RE4 morale: Stronger more ancient mutant things have lived in the earth thousands of years before. They are intelligent, some are very conscientious and self aware, have their religion. RE VIII: Mutations, ancient beings, magic, misticism. Next RE: ... Just add aliens.
I really enjoyed Village. I didn’t think that I would like it that much as I do not like first-person views in video games, but I had a blast. Immediately after finishing it I started a new game, after buying a few things at the special in-game shop. If you’re on the fence, I definitely recommend the game. It was much fun.
RE7: Ethan tries to save his gf in a spooky house RE8: Ethan faces against werewolves and a Big Tiddy Vampire lady, and Chris needs him to continue the Redfield bloodline. RE9: Ethan and Chris join forces to fight *The Boulder* , and ensure the Redfield bloodline.
That's what happens when you listen to the wrong side of the fans.RE7 did horror great.RE8 is more action that horror and they admitted that they dumbed the horror down in RE8 because ''RE7 is too scary'' according to some fans.
@@Mark_Lou nah, i did like RE7. It wasn't a horror masterpiece, but at least it was a million times better than Operation Racoon City and Umbrella Corps.
@@Mark_Lou But at least RE8 is balancing between action and horror while RE6 is totally more focus on action and forgets what horror is by gathering every protagonists from previous games and it didn't work
He really didn’t take center stage until RE5 which was also the beginning of the end for RE’s golden era. Coincidence? No but Chris has always been the weakest of the 4 leads so it certainly didn’t help xD
@@mtb5431 What does that even mean? So games like Dead Aim, Outbreak, Zero, Code Veronica, Gun Survivor 2 are in the "golden age"? RE has never really had era's that were good or bad, they had good games and bad games at steady rates.
Agree on pretty much everything except for the difficulty. Hardcore mode is available from the start, and I personally found it quite challenging. All the inventory space I had was never ever even remotely filled because I simply had no resources. For reference, even during Chris's segments, it takes a hefty amount of bullets to headshot a lycan, not the 2 bullets you see in this video.
That actually pissed me off. Like why the fuck are you complaining about the game being too easy when you don't play on hard? I bet he would have the exact opposite complaint if he played on VoS.
@@meropticon_1651 I think it kind of depends on your approach. I personally hate when a game is not challenging, so by default I play every game on hard, given the option. But I can understand that most player would play on normal, because they just want to try the default difficulty. Some games give you a fair challenge, others don’t, but you can’t know that beforehand. And with a game like Village, by the time you realize that, yes, the game is indeed easy on normal, you’re way past the prologue and restarting the game sounds like a huge pain in the ass, so you hop in and just hope that the difficulty curve ramps up.
Its is hard up until the lycan village fight, right at the bbeinning, after that it is so easy i managed to finsih the game without dying without ever realizing that stupid blocking mechanic (because i couldnt believe they expected me to block giant hammers and shit just by raising my arm). Not to mention Lady D walks around as if she is blind or is high on drugs, shes only a threat when the game decides shes gonna cut your hand off.
@@hanibalking7841 dude. Its.....an odd feeling. Ill be 32 this year and i was pitching a story to my wife because i was trying to convince her that spending 650$ on a ps5 was a great idea. Because my first system was the OG nintendo, i got the privilege of seeing gaming evolve over my life. (Legend of Dragoon is the best game ever, fight me)
I don't see how you can avoid action hero elements with the veteran characters at this point. They've seen and done so much that they would have to be totally badass
Yeah, people hate Ethan, so they want to play as characters like Chris, but they also want it to be a horror game. What are they expecting? This hardened anti-BOW death machine to be whimpering and hiding in lockers?
@@AveryHyena i agree with Drinker though he doesnt come off as frightened and desperate to survive. If they had made him a little more of that, maybe he would be a more memorable protagonist, a regular guy who will endure the worst horrors for his family to the point of dying for them. In 7 that was more the case, in 8 he seems kinda torn between being action hero badass and frightened/desperate. Its one or the other lol... cant be both Edit: im in the camp of Ethan being frightened/desperate because Id rather it be an actual horror game, sorry if that didnt come across. I guess the series has become way too action-y though so maybe we cant go back to that.
@@randomperson8571 But why exactly can't he be both? Seems like a normal reaction to be scared of a fucked up monster, and then be like "get fucked bitch" after you manage to kill it.
Seeing as you're a fan of RE games AND the Alien franchise I would highly recommend playing Alien: Isolation next. It's the perfect mix of terrifying tension, weapon variety without feeling too powerful, and an antagonist that keeps you on your toes all whilst set in Alien 1979s aesthetic. If you couldn't tell yet I'm a big fan of that game!
I really enjoyed the Chris section, because it was really cathartic to actually be prepared for a fight, it was great for Chris to be fully decked out for a fight. It makes sense for him to really have the ammunition and equipment for dealing with this shit at this point xD
I agree, it wouldn't make sense for Chris to go back to the format of the old games with him struggling against simple zombies etc. The mans been fucking up bioweapons for years now.
@@mikeydluffy2718 in all fairness Capcom were taken off guard by her popularity. If they thought she would be popular she maybe would’ve been the main antagonist
A surprise hit, his character brought a certain aura of levity. He was just a guy, like Ethan, only difference is that he wanted the cash (and food) instead of a daughter.
I hope there’s more of the world of Merchants in future games. They obviously are not what they seem on terms of humanity, but their willingness to help us for exchange for cash is definitely something that makes them oddly human.
@@masterzombie161 well if rumours are to be believed that re 4 is being remade I guess they’ll expand on that idea especially if the merchant (re 4 version) will have an expanded role in it.
I loved the Chris segment, gave an energetic lead up to the conclusion and it felt so good to be overpowered and not worried about ammo for a bit since the whole game you are picking your battles, felt good to mow down the lycans with extreme prejudice.
WTH do ya mean she's divided up into separate containers, that's pretty jacked up. That Van Helsing reference was Spot on that was exactly what came to mind.
In all seriousness though Chris and Heisenberg were easily the highlights of the game, while the tall Vampire Lady was thicc she mostly overall was underwhelming.
I am very disappointed with how they treated Chris here. They did him real dirty. And he can't aim down sights or boulder punch stunned enemies that he could in the RE7 dlc, Not A Hero. Wtf... Heisenberg and his Factory were the highlight of this mess of a game. Too bad he wasn't the main villain. Miranda is just a lame discount Saddler from RE4.
Heisenberg was disappointing cause he didn’t even need to transform to kill Ethan, nor Chris. The dude can control metal like nothing, meaning all their guns and weapons are useless. He could kill them any time but chose not too cause he isn’t written well. Walter white: You’re God Damn Right!
The sniper rifle was so good for picking off lycans perched on buildings waiting to ambush you or when they drop down and do their initial howl. The sniper rifle could kill them with one headshot
lol, as a Romanian, it's funny to me when I hear "lady Dimitrescu" :)). Dimitrescu isnt a surname, maybe there are 10 people called like that in Romania, probably by mistake, it's not renowned or has and mystery around it, one thing I can think of is Ilie Dumitrescu, with a "U" a football player, who briefly played for Tottenham in the '90 and was really good in World Cup' 94 :))) :
Drinker you magnificent maniac, Romania actually does have the most Churches and Cathedrals per citizen. And in all fairness the Balkans do FOR REAL have places with no phones and no electricity still. So in all fairness the japanese did their homework right (Only other place with similar setting would be deep Russian tundra)
@@niggardlylad2008 you be surprised if there's parts of America that are the same way that is rarely now but certainly some places around the world still in the dark ages.
Plus the game does say that mother Miranda does go out of her way to seclude the village from the outside world to continue experimenting with the village folk
@@niggardlylad2008 You don’t have to be an American to be surprised that America contains hidden undeveloped communities. When a country is so young that most of its major cities didn’t even exist 200 years ago, it’s hard to believe there are still pockets like that (not counting the Amish)
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@@tmerchead1 yeah but it was an incredible game (for me, best game of the franchise) and classic re formula was getting older these times. And it was a better choice to make the game goofy. Older games take themselves so serious and because of the shitty voice acting and absurd events, story was more funny than thrilling.
Yeah, I was confused. The inventory looks the same as what RE4 did, which was the best inventory system of any RE game. How is that possibly a bad thing?
“yeah I’m that fucking old”" Drinker, you ravishing rambunctious rogue! With the awe inspiring quantities of alcohol you've consumed, are consuming at this very moment, and will consume, I'd question how you could succumb to aging when you're absolutely pickled.
I actually just got around to finish this one tonight. I'm about exactly on the same page as the Drinker. It's a flawed experience to be sure, but still pretty fun. Miranda was basically a non-entity and that was pretty damn disappointing in particular. I do give a couple things more credit than he did, though; Heisenberg's Factory wasn't so bad for me and I thought it worked pretty well as a dungeon. The boss was dumb, but the area itself was fun. And Ethan's attitude was.... bland, but it made sense to me how he kept alternating between being terrified and out-of-his-depth, and spouting off one-liners. Namely because he was always terrified going INTO an encounter, and was spitting out the adrenaline laced, teeth clenched one-liners AFTER. To me, it came off as a guy on the verge of losing it, but using some false bravado to psych himself up and convince himself he had it all under control.
It’s not even that interesting the more you think about it. Like I thought they eluded to that Ethan either killed his family, or that maybe during the time of RE7 Mia was pregnant but being infected by Eve caused the baby to be more of a monster. However that is not the case cause Ethan is just dead and a molded and not a single part of the game felt like it built up to that till later parts of the game.
I was a bit disappointed when I found out Lady D was not the primary antagonist of the game. I think if you just swapped her and Miranda's spots, it would have been improved a good amount.
@@AtticusKarpenter yeah but quite a few if the games don't have particularly interesting main villains, re0 with the queen leech/Marcus is silly and not tbag fleshed out obviously mr x and nemesis don't really have personalities and William birkin is pretty much just an evil scientist trying to sell his research to the military before mutating himself and that's only found out through vhs tapes, because in re2 all your interactions with him are after his transformation. So in re8s defence its not the first game without a particularly interesting antagonist
Even with their flaws, the Ethan saga games will always have a special spot in my heart. Resident evil 7 came out immediately after I propose to my wife, making the game slightly relatable for all of the excitement and emotions I was going through. Resident evil 8 came out 2 months after my first child was born, and through the whole game I absolutely had the feeling of "hell yeah, I would absolutely do that for my family." And the ending to 8 is absolutely the price that any father would pay.
@@harrysachs2274 Literally everyone... Prior to this last week, I couldn't swipe through three memes before a meme about slapping her ass with a flyswatter, and other degenerate stuff came up. The most popular word for her seemed to be,"Dommy Mommy Dimitrescu."
I think what would’ve been cool is that in castle there would be a pit where the zombies are praising a painting or statue of Lady D, much like on dark souls 3 where the hollow are begging to end their existence. It would add a lot of weight to how many people they have killed over the years.
I personally liked the Chris Redfield part because with my first playthrough I was reeeaaally bad at conserving ammo, so I didn't have enough ammo to just simply light up every enemy that crossed my path, so when the game said "yo you can do that now" I was happy with it, I have never played a horror game twice, I usually play once and never again, but Village got me into it so much that I played through, beat it on all difficulties, speedran the game (1hr 48 min), and even killed the BIG Lycan at the very start of the game, I had so much fun in Village, more fun than I've had in any horror game ever, so I'm glad I spent the $80 it cost when it came out lol
If you look at it, the devs designed the bosses from fictional horror from things like Frankenstein (heisenburg) and Traditional vampires (Lady Dimitrescu) it’s a nice touch of history
It was scary and fun. Shooting zombies and dodging swipes from lady D and her daughters. Hearing footsteps moving around in the halls puts you on edge as you play a dangerous game of cat and mouse.
Thank you for this excellent review, Drinker. It mirrors my own thoughts and feelings (This game is so much easier than its predecessor. Jack in RE7 had me try again and again, whereas here no boss was really challenging). It's funny that you should mention Rosemary's Baby, as I was somehow reminded of The Fearless Vampie Killers while exploring the Dimitrescu Castle, especially with the rooftops part (the music really reminded me TFVK), Lady D's bathtub, the snowy courtyard, the remote, snowbound village...
I feel like Chris’ behavior in this game could be fixed if it was mentioned that he was under orders not to disclose the mission details to Ethan for whatever reason. He could even moan about it in passing.
Thing is, it is kind of a core part of Chris' character that he is absolutely terrible at making choices for anyone other than himself. He is a remarkable operative with insane survivability, but he absolutely should never be put in a team or, worse, in charge of a team because he is a walking disaster zone. If the BSAA or Blue Umbrella deploy Chris solo or with a single partner to an area, he is pretty much hyper lethal and will kill 80% of everything there. If they deploy him with a group, the same is true, and that 80% definitely includes any poor bastard sent along with him. Chris consistently making horrible decisions, but being the best weapon to deploy against BOWs is as key to his character as his rivalry with Wesker and his obsession with getting his sister laid. Ethan meanwhile is, for all intents and purposes, a civilian out of his depth who Chris, being the absolute bonehead he is, doesn't clue into the events. He was 100% correct that Ethan would force himself into the situation if he was told what was happening, but Chris would likely never have predicted Ethan One Man Armying his way through the village, because, well, he's just a civvie. (His eradication of the Baker mansion and molded was just a fluke I guess)
Well, that's kind out of the question as it was established that Chris and his team went awol after dealing with Lucas, thus not under any sort of chain of command that would prevent him from speaking up about it. In my head, it was that Chris didn't know how to broach the subject without it sounding anymore batshit insane than it was.
At least 60 year, or when ozwald spencer stay there So pre WW1, its bfore miranda or might be miranda hometown The villager are exterminated probably because miranda was migrating, since they serve no purpose anymore other than witness
They had been there forever. That was their home. Some characters said, however, that Miranda promised to protect the villagers (the ones she wasn't using anyway). The attack on the village was only going on for couple days at most, maybe only started that previous day. They probably only survived no more than a day and only because they temporarily barricaded themselves into their home.
same reply for you as person above sorry, what I meant was they have not been there “in that home surviving that attack” Reading back I did not make that clear
I’ve been a RE fan since the original and I absolutely enjoyed the village. It completely embraces the over the top premise. There’s a castle with “vampires “, haunted mansion, werewolves, and robot human hybrids. I played this game 5 times in a row over the span of a few days. New game plus let’s you keep your upgrades on your weapons so you can just basically arcade your way thru. Embrace the game for what it is and most people should have a good time.
@@thelaughingrouge yeah I’m not liking how they just forced that story plot in when there was nothing indicating that the whole game a character that was never mentioned at all until this game
@@vatanak8146 You don’t say lol but sprinkling symbols of umbrella on wall and shit wasn’t how classic resident evil told the story you know it’s umbrella the whole time and not some subtle bs hidden imagery shit
Heisenberg and his factory were my favorite part. The factory was the most Resident Evil-esque part of the game, non linear, having to go between different floors to retrieve things and dodging through thin corridors
Just finished the game and I loved it. The atmosphere, the nonsense story, killung "vampires" with the great outdoors, Chris Redfield doing his day job... loved every moment. Also never realised how attached I got to Ethan "no face" Winters. He's simple enough to be our eyes but complex enough to support 2 games. Who saw that coming? Just a shame the combat still feels clunky and Ethan moves like a three legged llama
15:44 "It all just feels a little too easy, like the games afraid to challenge players too much or they'll get fed up and walk away." What's sad is that, even with the difficulty changes they made by making Standard/Normal mode more accessible to inexperienced players, my buddy still got fed up and quit playing the demo because he felt he didn't receive enough ammo. He also said the Lycans were too bullet sponge and he was upset the shotgun wasn't a one hit kill... even though he left aim assist on, which targets the body, not the head. So there's really nothing you can do to make some players happy. My buddy is such a Karen when it comes to this game. He argued the entire Standard difficulty mode is flawed because it "doesn't fit the model players are used to." Essentially arguing that all games, regardless of genre, should be roughly the same challenge when choosing Normal/Standard difficulty. Then he said something about me not listening enough... I don't know, I wasn't really paying attention.
@@frozetti Totally. My buddy was saying it shouldn’t though, which is dumb. So he thinks “Normal” on a COD campaign should be roughly the same challenge as “Normal” in a Resident Evil game. But that’s just not possible as the genres aren’t analogous at all. Luckily, I convinced him to give RE8 another try and he ended up really liking it. Once he learned he could craft ammo he shut his dumb mouth.
@@Othillde I beat it on Village of Shadows difficulty but it was my fourth play-through so my guns were lit AF so it felt like cheating. Although that Heisenberg fight was a bitch regardless
Aside from ONE level that was creepy as hell. The Dollhouse, the entire game wasn't really scary but it was fun as hell. Japan is always on a roll with making products for their specific customers and damn them if they never bend the knee to western social identity politics. They don't care if the MC if their product is male or female and they defend a male lead to death owing that many of the customers are also females.
@@Excalibur01 if theyre talking about 8, it might be because of her CGI? For some reason her face looked kinda robotic/android-y, dipping into the uncanny valley. Chris looked more human even though for some reason he looked like one of the boulders he likes to punch.
Resident evil games are always going to struggle competing with the original 2 for those who played them back on the PS1 those games are so good and built the success for the all the following games. Its a shame they never used the same feel and characters for the resident evil films.
I liked the Chris part personally. It shows you how a Newby (Ethan) and a Pro (Chris) handle the same situation. I also thought his Not a Hero DLC in RE7 was really good.
Kind of disappointed that you quickly glossed over the baby fetus at the doll house, that was easily one of the creepiest things I've ever seen in a video game.
Resident evil 8 wasn’t perfect but I really enjoyed it. Good god almighty was last of us 2 a mess. It felt like a chore to get through. I completed it out of a sense of obligation cause I liked the first one a lot.
@@johnmclain8437 I finished the game and felt hollow inside. Part 2 was the most depressing game, that I've ever played it's just relentlessly bleak compared to the first game. They botched up Ellie's character badly, and did such a huge disservice to Joel the writing is so ham-fisted
Honestly it’s a bad trend in media these days. Writers performing mental gymnastics to “subvert expectations” just cause something is “surprising” doesn’t make it good and just because something is bleak, depressing, and Radom doesn’t make it “realistic” or “deep”.
@@johnmclain8437 Exactly all the journalists were hyperbolizing the game as a "masterpiece" even though we can see it has major flaws. It's not even groundbreaking as a story doing a cookie cutter revenge trope, that's been done so many times before
I enjoyed this game, its even better the second time around when you keep your weapons from the first play through. Still can't get over the first aid liquid not only reattaching Ethan's hand but also fixing his clothing cuff though 😄
Good review, although I HAVE to handily disagree with everyone's complaints about enemy variety. This game had quite a lot of different enemies and the Factory cyborg's was a neat enemy type that required resource choices and accuracy consideration to take on.
Heisenberg's factory was the best part of the game. It was the only one that required backtracking and that you could get a bit lost in. Felt like resident evil to me.
I used the sniper rifle for the wearwolf dudes when they were sitting there or walking around at a distance. Oh, and I used it on those mechanical dudes with the glowing things in their chest.
I did actually expect Dimitrescu's (you're supposed to say the U) whole thing to be at least *one* of the last areas. Comparative to everything after, it's ridiculously intimidating and awe-inspiring, even if I found other areas more creepy or scary.
@@zinxxo7202 Yeah, I got the gist on another video from someone who claimed to be from the same country she, or at least the name, is supposedly from. Apparently, not a lot of the people whom you'd think should know about it, do. I've picked up on the fact that, at least with foreign names that require accentuation in specific places or where sounds are spoken differently from how one's used to, not everybody cares. I try to but it's not always easy to keep the details and nuances in mind.
It's a romanian name not french, in romanian you always read all the letters, we don't skip letters like in french or english. If a name ends in "-escu" then it's romanian name. Also the most common version of this name is Dumitrescu, not Dimitrescu.
@@zinxxo7202 It's probably because in a lot of Japanese words (such as "desu"), you don't actually pronounce the final "u", because spelling is done with consonant-vowel pairs, so the "consonant-u" kana are sometimes placeholders for solo consonants.
9:12 Drinker, you probably didn't hear when Ethan mentioned "having to go through some military training nowadays", he mentioned it in the conversation with her at their house before Chris showed up and killed "Mia".
From a gameplay part i feel like they could manage the difficulty spike between "normal" and "hard" a bit better. Like, normal is way too forgiving with plenty of resources and hard is the exact opposite where you have to count bullets. A middle more challenging that normal, but more accessible than hard would be a good thing. I LOVED the atmosphere of the village. Being from the Balkans myself, Greece in specific, it reminded me a bit of some locations in my country with villages almost casted away without any sort of technology. It maybe goes a bit to the extreme, but as far as i understood it's because Miranda isolated the village so much from civilization. Also, have they heard over there at Capcom that iron sights and weapon sights are a thing nowadays?
I had the same thought. Additionally the whole "save my daughter" and then the whole story behind the plot itself once it starts to get fleshed out... Made me feel like it was a rehashed version of Silent Hill done a-la Resident Evil style.. I presumed what was going on with Rose solely based on SH's plot... And what do ya know... To top it off Miranda resembles Dahlia...
I agree with the Drinker on the majority of things, but not this time. I friggin’ *loved* Village and have played through it many times. It’s much fun with unlimited everything, running around and blasting werewolves faces off. And I actually liked Heinsenburg, though his boss battle was a bit of a let-down. Miranda wasc meh, okay for the most part. The creepy fetus chasing after you yelling PAPA PAPA at you? Man, that was the creepiest crap ever. I didn’t know about it until I first ran into it and it ate Ethan. Terrifying stuff!
Boy I sure did enjoy watching you play this, especially as I'd completed it so it wasn't being spoiled for me, but your responses to basically every event was basically the same as mine.
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Meh game.
Can you do a review of Primal the animated series?
Watch attack on titan
@Nιɠԋƚ'ʂ Eԃɠҽ, It's one of the worst RE games yet. Does neither RE4 or RE2 Remake justice.
Under The Mayo did a great video review of RE Village that fully reveals everything wrong with it compared to past great RE games.
Gotta broaden the audience too, eh Capcom...
Please review Andy The Crocodile's music!
Lady Dimitrescu was such a phenomenal design that there is no way Capcom wasn't going to leave us disappointed by her lack of use.
Nah it will be fine.
I think what would’ve been awesome is that after you killed her daughter’s and destroyed her castle, she keeps chasing you and looking more and more Monstrous as the game goes on.
Or even characterization
@@AncapOtaku thank you, the internet simps that made her popular in life are still trying to make her popular after death. She was the worst/blandest character.
@@masterzombie161 Yeah, kind od like Birkin as you progress further she's more and more mutated, unhinged and fixated on Ethan.
Here I am in Eastern Europe, watching this video on my soviet potato, while the local vampire aristocrat is turning my father into a werewolf.
lol third world country
Hate it when that happens.
Wait a minute! Do you have a license for that potato? NO?! Off to the gulag u go. Your potato will be appropriated by the state and placed into a communal potato program. After your mandatory 10 years of hard labor, you'll be allowed use of the potato for one day out of the year.
@@kysier6015 my apologies comrade
Sorry about your father but hey, these things happen in Eastern Europe.
Once Drinker laid his eyes on Lady D, Tatyana never saw him again.
Poor Tatyana..
Who's Tatyana
@@orange_penis Exactly.
NOT TATIANA
@@annabelledee6554 Here in Europe it usually is Tatjana
BSAA soldier: "Sir, why don't we just tell Ethan Winters that wasn't really his wife you just killed right in front of him? It couldn't hurt to put his mind somewhat at ease before we head out."
Chris Redfield: "Nah, it'll be fine."
They're not BSAA, but otherwise correct.
@@joeymobb8438 then again chris thought Ethan was an imposter
@@kazuyakenzaki1320
That too
The soldiers literally ask him that question later in the game. 😂
@@kazuyakenzaki1320 That would be the case, but it gets harder to defend when he meets Chris for the second time and he has killed 2 lords already, he still acts dismissive and cryptic towards Ethan.
"Chris Fuckboulders Redfield"
I loved it 🤣
A 9-year-old joke, but it's still as funny as ever
A boss in the game says he's going to "kill that boulder punching asshole"
@@Hellhound23691 yeah it was a nice reference as well as the duke referencing the merchant from re 4
@@blueberryguy8666 now that you've mentioned RE4, I suddenly realize how almost no one noticed that RE8 feels like a hybrid of RE7 and RE4. I mean, seriously, from the inventory management, to collecting rubies from the dead crows and selling them to a merchant, it seems like the devs wanted to combine the best elements of RE4 with the current formula. They've partially succeeded, but as a side effect, they've also brought in the old flaws, like the over-the-top, chaotic action sequences and characters with enemies that seem like powerful, improved B.O.W.s on paper, but during the gameplay come off as pathetic for the sake of the player's convenience...
Imagine going through a horror game known for horrifying monsters and finding a female villain character who looks hotter than that One "girl" from the last of us 2.
Abbyzilla was a horrifying monster
It was inhumane to make us watch “that” Abby scene
There are 5 villains in this game hotter than Abby - Lady D, Donna, Miranda, Heisenberg and Moreau
@@mfbjo6854 the wear wolves and zombies are hotter than Abby
Are we talking about Gigantor?
This game is like Pokémon. You have to beat The Elite Four and then the Champion Mother Miranda.
LMAO. THAT IS...so true.
Or like all three dark souls and any final fantasy that’s used the four elements...
Aka: this is like a lot of Japanese formats lol. But when it’s worked since 1983?
Why change what sells? Granted I didn’t buy it as I buy nothing at launch but once I see it down to 20-30 in 1-2 years?
Yeah I’ll be trying it.
Yea, and that they keep pumping put more and more of them that makes less and less sense...
@@benjaminkeith1417 yea, it's not worth buying until it goes on sale.
GRIFFITH!!!!!!!!!!
Drinker: "I feel like lady D was supposed to be the big antagonist of the game."
Whatcha talking about? She was! Did you see the size of that women!
Lady D's size is non-negotiable
woman*
Books. Read 'em.
@@CorrectionUnknownI feel like Lady D counts as 2-3 women.
It's weird to actually hear people talk about the game instead of, "Crush my face Dommy Mommy, I'm gonna use my flyswatter on your dump-truck." These are, confusing times...
Those comments were some of the most cringe shit I've ever seen...
Degeneracy is in now bruh. My wife's boyfriend says it's ok for lady d to ste- geez this shit isn't even funny anymore
My wife's boyfriend Tyrone and I are going to play this game this weekend!
I love Lady D’s charm and looks as much as anyone else with a functional sex drive. But after a while of seeing the same old “please step on me dommy mommy” comments over and over and over again became pretty annoying.
Check EFAP for all the hours you want on this
Chris: Ethan you are out of your Depth!!
Ethan: Bro I literally Destroyed the entire Village by myself with only 8 fingers!
Meanwhile chris is smoking a whole box of cubans while playing games on his computer
@@willvermillion1025
Ethan: Chris Can you please help me fight against these werewolves?
Chris: I missed the part where that’s my problem.
Chris:Look at Little Miranda Junior! Gonna Cry?
Chris: Ethan... Let me make this as clear as I can. This is bigger than you. Hell, it's even bigger than me! Don't you see? Didn't you notice that I left several details unknown to you?!
Ethan: Why?! Why go to great lengths just so that I don't get involved?!
Chris: Don't you still get it?! Why I didn't tell you about Miranda replacing Mia? Why I took Rose from you? Why keep you in the dark about the whole village thing? Because you are my only hope to continue the Redfield Bloodline! If you die no one will fuck my sister!
Chris just plain sucked in this game. He’s been unlikable since RE6. His only consistent trait is constantly messing up. It really sucks that he’s become the most reoccurring character cause he’s always been the least interesting of the 4 mains.
The entire Resident Evil franchise can be resumed to: We created an entire new story plot with diverse characters and suddenly... CHRIS REDFIELD APPEARS
It’s like Greek Mythology but Chris is Zeus
Chris is old and experienced now, has training to face situations, has faced numerous missions over the years, fought b.o.w.s, punched boulders for a salary and a living, and never was able to save his brothers in battlefield. He's a legend and broken man.
*A wild Redfield has appeared*
I mean he has to get the Redfield bloodline to continue one way or the other and will not be able to rest until he does.
He didn't appear in RE2, RE3, RE4, RE0 and RE revelations 2, though...
Well that's exactly how we live in Eastern Europe. No phones, lots of vampires, werewolves and shit.
we know
I live on top flour of my building and i gotta say: Gargoyles are dicks.
Is there even a 9 foot tall lady in there?
Shit man, I'm sorry that must suck.
Sad
"F*ck boulders" is officially Redfield's middle name.
He is a Boulder expert according to wesker.
Chris "get in the womb or get in the tomb" Redfield
Mundane "boulders" matt vs Chris "F*ck Boulders" Redfield
"Always has been"
I love the fact that Chris' design always changed in every RE games. It's like Capcom playing The Wheel of Fortune of whatever his design supposed to be.
"Killing off Chris Redfield would've made this game stand out"
Yeah, like killing Luke made Last Jedi stand out.
The last jedi isn't canon . Can movies not be canon ? Maybe if they kill chris the over the top action will stop ... or they just might make a version of resident evil where it's a sand box game ,with prototype attacks and a rpg upgrade system
Let’s not pretend like killing Luke is what was wrong with the last Jedi.
At least with Chris you can make an argument that he's had a lot of dark moments in the series, to the point where in 6 he got really close to turn into an antagonist. Because of that, a popular theory prior to this game's launch was him being the main villain, and there was not a small group of people who really enjoyed the idea of having to fight Chris.
So yeah, having Chris killed can work out without having to do too much mental gymnastics, unlike Luke, who even in the darkest moments of his live he by himself chose to save even the most monstruous of men, so you'll need to put a LOT of work and talent to make his death satisfying
@@jackmesrel4933 bruh it's luke Skywalker! .. that was the only reason why I was interested in the next episodes. I wanted to see luke . I'm disapointed now 😑 ... All those years waiting for THAT . Ugh those movies . How do you do that to star wars ?
@@Modeloman8 Yeh, that's why I said that they needed a LOT of work and talent to pull that off without feeling unsatisfying, things they clearly didn't have, those Hollywood hacks
"The trailers implied she was going to be the big antagonist."
Ha, I see what you did there.
Indeed moreau turned out to be bigger
"Your daughter is in multiple jars."
Guess I'll just go home then.
I love how sure Ethan is that he can just slap the pieces together and she will be fine.
@@Noperare I mean he probably doubted it a lot that it would happen, when he first hears she can be saved from that he says “From this?!” And states that the duke better not be bullshitting him, she’s dead already and that is his only hope no matter how ridiculous it sounds. But hope that is true is all he has left
litterly
@@Noperare Well, in a world with almost unkillable fungi people(and other bioweapon bshit) idea of restore multiple-jared girl not sound so ridiculus
The Redfield bloodline not being continued really hit Chris hard, huh?
"Why should you get a daughter when my sister's loins are dry?"
Can anyboy explaim to an asian guy why are westerners always talking about Chris' bloodline? I know it's a meme but I don't understand it.
You always talk as if Claire is supposed to keep the bloodline alive and not him. Why?
@@Rivershield do you think him punching the Boulder had no cost no he took to much steroids he is infertile plus he always saw Jil as a best friend not a love interest
@@dankmemes8254 So your answer a question with another meme, huh? This doesn't really help much since I have a hard time understanding western sense of humor.
Also, is Jill the only woman in the world? The fact that you assumed I was talking about her just goes to show that it would, indeed, make sense for her and Chris to be together romantically.
@@Rivershield I think the joke is that Chris cant have children because he took steriods, therefore he's trying to make Leon mate with his sister
Me expecting an Eternals trailer vid: "My disappointment is immeasur- Naah it'll be fine"
That looks so stupid, half of the universe was destroyed and they didn’t do anything but now they are going to help in the open? Disney is running out of charters and ideas for marvel,I mean come on you guys own the X men and the fantastic 4 and you are making a movie about characters one cares about
Me expecting Army of the Dead getting what it truly deserves...so far watching reviews has made me seriously questioning the ability of critical thinking by our younger generations.
@@easterriot1916 18 yo here, I loved Army of the Dead haha
@@darthvader4977 I rest my case. Lets see what Drinker has to say and lets meet up in that videos comment section to verbally battle!
@@darthvader4977 it's kid people like you exist who loves garbage movies
I loved that Chris section at the end. It was just kind of fun blow-every-thing-away reward with virtually unlimited ammo. It was kind of like the helicopter ride at the end of Far Cry 3.
Same bro! And I felt like it made the boss fight with Miranda harder. You got accustomed to his insane ammo capacity, health, power and got dissappinted when you switched to Ethans corpse. Took me a long time to beat the boss fight...but I loved it. This game was really fun for me.
It allowed to unwind after that bossfight Heisenberg.
It was a fucken garbage section
It was an enjoyable add-on section that barely lasted more than 10 minutes. Why do people have to cry about shootouts in RE games? I loved RE1 but not everything has to be like the old school survival horror at all times.
And the best thing is it made sense how the game changed so much, we aren't fighting with a guy that doesn't want to be here and isnt totally trained anymore, we are fighting as a guy who was molded by this slaughter house called the resident evil franchise, this is Friday late night when the night is still on for him
Capcom goofed when they made Chris punch that boulder. All his achievements and anything he does, he can never escape that boulder.
Even Heisenberg brings up his boulder punching days.
@@gregsanders61 that was funny He mentioned it
@@gregsanders61 It doesn't make any sense how he would know that though.
@@mongooseunleashed dont matter
@@ReiChiquita567 That's a stupid response.
Lady D, her daughters, and especially Heisenberg should’ve gotten more screen time. They all reek of DLC potential.
You look like the drinker
You look like the Drinker mixed with Sean Murray
Heisenberg was the biggest waste of potential he actually showed promise as a character but Ethan was unrealistic in his approach to his section and Heisenberg just become shooty boom boom monster man like all the others instead of an interesting boss fight
@@nickthemage2052 I was disappointed with Heisenberg's fight. He was the most genetically stable out of the 4 and he just chooses to turn into a monster out of nowhere. He could destroy Ethan without even lifting a finger, but he goes Tetsuo on him instead? So much wasted potential.
@@jnoirj3124 right? can you imagine the set piece if you had to battle a telekinetic one on one like maybe the environment changes based on how Heisenberg manipulates it and the whole point of the fight is Ethan trying to kill Heisenberg but Heisenberg is just trying to stop him from doing so and remove Ethan from the fight by incapacitating him rather than killing him since they still have the same goal
"A michael bay movie edited by zac snyder"
oh crap, that would be a nightmare.
But just imagine if it were also written by Rian Johnson
It's a guilty pleasure of mine
Especially co op
Basically watching the cheesiest action movie ever with a friend, but you actually get to play it lol
@@occultnightingale1106 OMG, now that's a trifecta of cringe.
Convoluted explosions everywhere.
The movie would have 0 awareness and I would laugh at it through its 4 hour run time
I just found out that the actress who played Lady Dimitrescu (Maggie Robertson) is someone I know almost on a personal level. She was a former student at the high school my dad taught Drama at and she was in 3 of the plays that he directed. It's kinda surreal seeing her again and how far she's come.
Damn.
That's crazy and pretty awesome!
@@aldente3868 It is, I saw her in a play my dad directed called "Somewhere in between" in which Maggie had a small but no less hilarious role where she and the lead get stuck in the elevator and Maggie's character has a panic attack. Someone actually made a video of it and uploaded it to youtube too. Here, I'll post it. czcams.com/video/D2HjbOraw_E/video.html
*pinoy pride intensifies
"Made a new life for themselves in Eastern Europe"
Me, from Eastern Europe: *visible confusion*
When I visited Budapest in the summer a few years ago I thought "wow it's like a city out of a fairytale! I'd love to live here!" Maybe the locals would disagree with me on that.
“But..... why?”
@@LordHoth_09 People leave Eastern Europe to start a new life elsewhere. It's like having diarrhea and then eating a burrito, hoping that it'll stop you from shitting yourself every 5 minutes.
@@Jorvaskrr dude lol
@@Jorvaskrr I was adding to the joke
Drinker is going to have a field day with 'The Eternals'... calling it now.
Has he done anything more on invincible I know his opinions are well questionable sometimes but that show is great and I'd like to see his view on it
@@jfoster8624 what do you mean by "anything more?" I thought he hadn't even started addressing Invincible yet. Either way nothing new by him i think
New equalizer series tho🤣🤣🤣
@@jfoster8624 99.99% of the time his opinion(s) is entirely on point and objectively correct from an unbiased-logical & factual perspective 🤷
@@LilC1deep oh I just assumed he made a video on the trailer like he usually does.
I love the Van Helsing comparison, honestly if it wasn't resident evil I'd still love it.
I love that Drinker made a Van Helsing reference in a positive way.
I knew I liked him for a reason.
4:40 - in defense of Japanese idea of Eastern European villages: I grew up in one of such villages (territory that is Ukraine but used to be Romania before WW2). Streets, gates, churches, homes, (both outside and inside) are almost exactly spot on, just need to rewind couple decades back. When I was there in 1990s phones (stationary ones) were present only in 1 in ~3 households, computers - the first one was brought there in 2003, same with mobile phones, everyone had radio though and TV (some were black/white).
This game gave me weird sense of nostalgia.
That Lady D on the 'go away now' is pretty fitting.
It's sad to see her leave, but nice to watch her go.
He knew about Chris punching a boulder because he uses the internet, Sheva put it on reddit
Your profile and name fit each other too well.
@@joeradford1055 thanks bro
You can actually see it in the room when he and Ethan talked. You can see paper clippings attached to the wall next to Chris's picture.
Also, people seem to forget that RE8 is set in the modern world and Heisenburg probably has access to the internet.
@@buggart considering he can communicate through the TV, I would be surprised if he couldn't through the internet.
@@soundrogue4472 Yeah... people just can't see the obvious.
Ethan "my hands are expendable, but mendable" Winters coming back at ya!)
Ethen becoming a moderately competent lych/lich seemed liked a natural end point for him, the fact they addressed is ability to not die was rather refreshing honestly.
Classic RE morale: The dangers of corporations and humans playing with genetic editing and mutations for the sake of power.
RE4 morale: Stronger more ancient mutant things have lived in the earth thousands of years before. They are intelligent, some are very conscientious and self aware, have their religion.
RE VIII: Mutations, ancient beings, magic, misticism.
Next RE: ... Just add aliens.
After all, Umbrella seems to have made business with everything and everyone possible to imagine at this point... So, why not Aliens...
I really enjoyed Village. I didn’t think that I would like it that much as I do not like first-person views in video games, but I had a blast. Immediately after finishing it I started a new game, after buying a few things at the special in-game shop.
If you’re on the fence, I definitely recommend the game. It was much fun.
RE7: Ethan tries to save his gf in a spooky house
RE8: Ethan faces against werewolves and a Big Tiddy Vampire lady, and Chris needs him to continue the Redfield bloodline.
RE9: Ethan and Chris join forces to fight *The Boulder* , and ensure the Redfield bloodline.
That's what happens when you listen to the wrong side of the fans.RE7 did horror great.RE8 is more action that horror and they admitted that they dumbed the horror down in RE8 because ''RE7 is too scary'' according to some fans.
@@Mark_Lou nah, i did like RE7. It wasn't a horror masterpiece, but at least it was a million times better than Operation Racoon City and Umbrella Corps.
DON'T WORRY ETHAN I KNOW HOW IT IS SCARY IN THERE BUT DON'T WORRY YOU WILL BE SOON IN MY SISTER'S ARMS
@@Mark_Lou But at least RE8 is balancing between action and horror while RE6 is totally more focus on action and forgets what horror is by gathering every protagonists from previous games and it didn't work
@@Mark_Lou Re8 is like Re4 a mix of Action and Horror
The story focus suddenly switching to Chris Redfield has been a thing since Code: Veronica X.
And that's a good thing?
@@scottroxford5715 Oui, Ja, Da, Si.
He really didn’t take center stage until RE5 which was also the beginning of the end for RE’s golden era. Coincidence? No but Chris has always been the weakest of the 4 leads so it certainly didn’t help xD
@@mtb5431 What does that even mean? So games like Dead Aim, Outbreak, Zero, Code Veronica, Gun Survivor 2 are in the "golden age"? RE has never really had era's that were good or bad, they had good games and bad games at steady rates.
@@mtb5431 coincidentally he’s objectively the strongest physical character
"Errr.. just go with it". This basically sums up the lore of Resident Evil.
Agree on pretty much everything except for the difficulty. Hardcore mode is available from the start, and I personally found it quite challenging. All the inventory space I had was never ever even remotely filled because I simply had no resources. For reference, even during Chris's segments, it takes a hefty amount of bullets to headshot a lycan, not the 2 bullets you see in this video.
That actually pissed me off. Like why the fuck are you complaining about the game being too easy when you don't play on hard? I bet he would have the exact opposite complaint if he played on VoS.
@@meropticon_1651 I think it kind of depends on your approach. I personally hate when a game is not challenging, so by default I play every game on hard, given the option. But I can understand that most player would play on normal, because they just want to try the default difficulty. Some games give you a fair challenge, others don’t, but you can’t know that beforehand. And with a game like Village, by the time you realize that, yes, the game is indeed easy on normal, you’re way past the prologue and restarting the game sounds like a huge pain in the ass, so you hop in and just hope that the difficulty curve ramps up.
Its is hard up until the lycan village fight, right at the bbeinning, after that it is so easy i managed to finsih the game without dying without ever realizing that stupid blocking mechanic (because i couldnt believe they expected me to block giant hammers and shit just by raising my arm). Not to mention Lady D walks around as if she is blind or is high on drugs, shes only a threat when the game decides shes gonna cut your hand off.
The game is brutal
@@roboknobthesnob I play all of my games on the hardest difficulty unless I think it’ll detract from the game or story so I totally feel you here lol
Drinker: “yeah I’m that fucking old”
Me: “me too drinker, me too”
My first game was pong so, yeah, I’m old as f**k and my liver hates me.
Same. O well. Life moves on. Cheers 🍻
Yep I’m in the same boat and fuck, the more games that come out for 1 franchise the older I feel
Likewise, remember seeing previews of it in Gamepro.
@@hanibalking7841 dude. Its.....an odd feeling. Ill be 32 this year and i was pitching a story to my wife because i was trying to convince her that spending 650$ on a ps5 was a great idea. Because my first system was the OG nintendo, i got the privilege of seeing gaming evolve over my life. (Legend of Dragoon is the best game ever, fight me)
I don't see how you can avoid action hero elements with the veteran characters at this point. They've seen and done so much that they would have to be totally badass
Yeah, people hate Ethan, so they want to play as characters like Chris, but they also want it to be a horror game. What are they expecting? This hardened anti-BOW death machine to be whimpering and hiding in lockers?
@@AveryHyena exactly which is why Ethan is perfect for this role he's literally a regular guy lol well until he died but still.
@@jfoster8624 Yeah, he's not a soldier, or super-cop, or a secret agent. He's just an IT engineer who got lucky.
@@AveryHyena i agree with Drinker though he doesnt come off as frightened and desperate to survive. If they had made him a little more of that, maybe he would be a more memorable protagonist, a regular guy who will endure the worst horrors for his family to the point of dying for them. In 7 that was more the case, in 8 he seems kinda torn between being action hero badass and frightened/desperate. Its one or the other lol... cant be both
Edit: im in the camp of Ethan being frightened/desperate because Id rather it be an actual horror game, sorry if that didnt come across. I guess the series has become way too action-y though so maybe we cant go back to that.
@@randomperson8571 But why exactly can't he be both? Seems like a normal reaction to be scared of a fucked up monster, and then be like "get fucked bitch" after you manage to kill it.
“I say old boy, what the dickens is going on here!?” Lmao
Seeing as you're a fan of RE games AND the Alien franchise I would highly recommend playing Alien: Isolation next. It's the perfect mix of terrifying tension, weapon variety without feeling too powerful, and an antagonist that keeps you on your toes all whilst set in Alien 1979s aesthetic. If you couldn't tell yet I'm a big fan of that game!
Great game. A bit too long though. 20 levels of running away wore me out in the end...
@@mikester7834 there's DLC and extra content of like 4 more levels of running away :D
@@germmanator haha, no thanks :)
@@germmanator Then you can re-do it in VR, again :)
Well.....Isolation was quite exciting until mid game, but after a certain point, it becomes low risk and kind of tedious.
I really enjoyed the Chris section, because it was really cathartic to actually be prepared for a fight, it was great for Chris to be fully decked out for a fight.
It makes sense for him to really have the ammunition and equipment for dealing with this shit at this point xD
Exactly like he's not the type to show up with his bare hands all though ask that boulder about those hands
I agree, it wouldn't make sense for Chris to go back to the format of the old games with him struggling against simple zombies etc. The mans been fucking up bioweapons for years now.
Chris is such an inconsistent character personality wise though xD
And, it was actually fun
Yeah lol his guns were fucking awesome lmao
People didn’t have high expectations for this game, they just wanted the sexy dimitrescu mods
She was a huge let down imo. The game was marketed around her but she was an awful opponent tbh.
@@mikeydluffy2718 in all fairness Capcom were taken off guard by her popularity. If they thought she would be popular she maybe would’ve been the main antagonist
I swear everyone on CZcams had a hard on for her . Have you seen markipliers video we’re he’s upset that no one told him about the tall lady
Whys everyone simping for pixels? This world is so fucked.
@@fidelio9301 Better to simp to pixels than 3d meat. Pygmalionism is better than spending your money on someone else's woman.
"The real meat of the game is finding the four pieces of your daughter and putting them together." Dark
I was actually so sad when I saw the ending of Village, anyway I loved it and the series.
The duke was an absolute legend in this game.
A surprise hit, his character brought a certain aura of levity. He was just a guy, like Ethan, only difference is that he wanted the cash (and food) instead of a daughter.
A real heavy weight.
I hope there’s more of the world of Merchants in future games. They obviously are not what they seem on terms of humanity, but their willingness to help us for exchange for cash is definitely something that makes them oddly human.
@@masterzombie161 He also helped Ethan in the end so it looks like it’s not only cash that motivates them.
@@masterzombie161 well if rumours are to be believed that re 4 is being remade I guess they’ll expand on that idea especially if the merchant (re 4 version) will have an expanded role in it.
My favorite character is probably Heisenberg, he's like a cross between Nicholas Cage and Keanu Reeves with Magneto's powers.
And looks like dante on welfare
I'm more disappointed that we fight him in monster form, on a tank, rather than like Wesker's fight (stun/distract him)
I honestly couldn’t stand him as a character. He’s obnoxious, irritating and never shuts the fuck up. His boss fight is easy as hell. Not a fan.
@@jaworski105 Im not gonna lie, his voice reminded me of every other voice I heard in Modern Warfare 2 lobbies back in the day
@@space-cowboy3680 😂😂
I loved the Chris segment, gave an energetic lead up to the conclusion and it felt so good to be overpowered and not worried about ammo for a bit since the whole game you are picking your battles, felt good to mow down the lycans with extreme prejudice.
WTH do ya mean she's divided up into separate containers, that's pretty jacked up. That Van Helsing reference was Spot on that was exactly what came to mind.
In all seriousness though Chris and Heisenberg were easily the highlights of the game, while the tall Vampire Lady was thicc she mostly overall was underwhelming.
I am very disappointed with how they treated Chris here. They did him real dirty. And he can't aim down sights or boulder punch stunned enemies that he could in the RE7 dlc, Not A Hero. Wtf...
Heisenberg and his Factory were the highlight of this mess of a game. Too bad he wasn't the main villain. Miranda is just a lame discount Saddler from RE4.
Heisenberg is daddy honestly
@@Gruntvc Nice parroting of some "critiques" from YT contrarians. Unlucky for you, I've watched the same videos
@@Andriej69 was it really that hard to figure those 2 things out if you played it though
Heisenberg was disappointing cause he didn’t even need to transform to kill Ethan, nor Chris. The dude can control metal like nothing, meaning all their guns and weapons are useless. He could kill them any time but chose not too cause he isn’t written well.
Walter white: You’re God Damn Right!
The sniper rifle was so good for picking off lycans perched on buildings waiting to ambush you or when they drop down and do their initial howl. The sniper rifle could kill them with one headshot
It was a good mid-range weapon as well, if you take advantage of the ridiculous aim assist the game has.
lol, as a Romanian, it's funny to me when I hear "lady Dimitrescu" :)). Dimitrescu isnt a surname, maybe there are 10 people called like that in Romania, probably by mistake, it's not renowned or has and mystery around it, one thing I can think of is Ilie Dumitrescu, with a "U" a football player, who briefly played for Tottenham in the '90 and was really good in World Cup' 94 :))) :
Loving the broadened focus of the channel. Not just films and shows but other media as well. It's awesome
You can FEEL the RE 4 REmake assets that are gonna be used.
Drinker you magnificent maniac, Romania actually does have the most Churches and Cathedrals per citizen. And in all fairness the Balkans do FOR REAL have places with no phones and no electricity still. So in all fairness the japanese did their homework right (Only other place with similar setting would be deep Russian tundra)
Maybe it's set in the past, because that would be true 10-15 years ago but not so much now, don't know the situation in the russian tundra though
@@niggardlylad2008 you be surprised if there's parts of America that are the same way that is rarely now but certainly some places around the world still in the dark ages.
@@revan1202 I'm talking from experience and who said I'm american anyway?
Plus the game does say that mother Miranda does go out of her way to seclude the village from the outside world to continue experimenting with the village folk
@@niggardlylad2008 You don’t have to be an American to be surprised that America contains hidden undeveloped communities. When a country is so young that most of its major cities didn’t even exist 200 years ago, it’s hard to believe there are still pockets like that (not counting the Amish)
The entire time the prologue scene was playing during my replay of Village I was screaming at Chris through the screen like a psycho 'JUST TALK!!'
Another brilliantly written video, I just want you to know, that this channel is one of the subscriptions im really glad to have. Thanks for the upload.
The inventory system was brought in almost exactly from RE4. And people loved that game more than any other in the franchise.
People forget how goofy and how much Re4 change the formula from the og Re 3 to the point its not even the same genre as the previous titles.
@@tmerchead1 yeah but it was an incredible game (for me, best game of the franchise) and classic re formula was getting older these times.
And it was a better choice to make the game goofy. Older games take themselves so serious and because of the shitty voice acting and absurd events, story was more funny than thrilling.
Shame the feel of it wasn't copied as well.
Yeah but it was done terribly
Yeah, I was confused. The inventory looks the same as what RE4 did, which was the best inventory system of any RE game. How is that possibly a bad thing?
When the Drinker gets 360 no-scoped: “Fuck off sniper rifle.”
“yeah I’m that fucking old”"
Drinker, you ravishing rambunctious rogue! With the awe inspiring quantities of alcohol you've consumed, are consuming at this very moment, and will consume, I'd question how you could succumb to aging when you're absolutely pickled.
👏
"When you have to do some stuff to a mannequin..." - yes, please, continue.
I actually just got around to finish this one tonight. I'm about exactly on the same page as the Drinker. It's a flawed experience to be sure, but still pretty fun. Miranda was basically a non-entity and that was pretty damn disappointing in particular.
I do give a couple things more credit than he did, though; Heisenberg's Factory wasn't so bad for me and I thought it worked pretty well as a dungeon. The boss was dumb, but the area itself was fun. And Ethan's attitude was.... bland, but it made sense to me how he kept alternating between being terrified and out-of-his-depth, and spouting off one-liners. Namely because he was always terrified going INTO an encounter, and was spitting out the adrenaline laced, teeth clenched one-liners AFTER. To me, it came off as a guy on the verge of losing it, but using some false bravado to psych himself up and convince himself he had it all under control.
Resident Evil Village: Rise of The Winters Bloodline
The Winters bloodline rises now, but the Redfield lineage WILL continue.
*LEON I NEED YOU TO SCREW MY SISTER PLEASE!!!*
I swear if there is no Redfield in RE8...
It just means that Chris got the Bad End.
It’s not even that interesting the more you think about it. Like I thought they eluded to that Ethan either killed his family, or that maybe during the time of RE7 Mia was pregnant but being infected by Eve caused the baby to be more of a monster. However that is not the case cause Ethan is just dead and a molded and not a single part of the game felt like it built up to that till later parts of the game.
@@masterzombie161 to be fair every one in that game is quite dense like lady D straight up chops Ethan's arm only for him to casually attach it again
I was a bit disappointed when I found out Lady D was not the primary antagonist of the game. I think if you just swapped her and Miranda's spots, it would have been improved a good amount.
Or just make Miranda more interesting
@@AtticusKarpenter yeah but quite a few if the games don't have particularly interesting main villains, re0 with the queen leech/Marcus is silly and not tbag fleshed out obviously mr x and nemesis don't really have personalities and William birkin is pretty much just an evil scientist trying to sell his research to the military before mutating himself and that's only found out through vhs tapes, because in re2 all your interactions with him are after his transformation. So in re8s defence its not the first game without a particularly interesting antagonist
Even with their flaws, the Ethan saga games will always have a special spot in my heart. Resident evil 7 came out immediately after I propose to my wife, making the game slightly relatable for all of the excitement and emotions I was going through. Resident evil 8 came out 2 months after my first child was born, and through the whole game I absolutely had the feeling of "hell yeah, I would absolutely do that for my family." And the ending to 8 is absolutely the price that any father would pay.
The game where literally everyone was simping over Lady Dimitrescu.
Who the fuck is everyone?
@@harrysachs2274 Literally everyone... Prior to this last week, I couldn't swipe through three memes before a meme about slapping her ass with a flyswatter, and other degenerate stuff came up. The most popular word for her seemed to be,"Dommy Mommy Dimitrescu."
I'l go all in, never to be seen again. What an end.
I think what would’ve been cool is that in castle there would be a pit where the zombies are praising a painting or statue of Lady D, much like on dark souls 3 where the hollow are begging to end their existence. It would add a lot of weight to how many people they have killed over the years.
I simped for the doll lady.......
Last time I was this this early, EDP445 still had a career
Smh
"I just came out here to get a cupcake"
I personally liked the Chris Redfield part because with my first playthrough I was reeeaaally bad at conserving ammo,
so I didn't have enough ammo to just simply light up every enemy that crossed my path, so when the game said "yo you can do that now" I was happy with it,
I have never played a horror game twice, I usually play once and never again, but Village got me into it so much that
I played through, beat it on all difficulties, speedran the game (1hr 48 min), and even killed the BIG Lycan at the very start of the game,
I had so much fun in Village, more fun than I've had in any horror game ever, so I'm glad I spent the $80 it cost when it came out lol
If you look at it, the devs designed the bosses from fictional horror from things like Frankenstein (heisenburg) and Traditional vampires (Lady Dimitrescu) it’s a nice touch of history
Huh? How is Heisenburg like Frankenstein? I dont understand
If anything, Heisenberg resembles Van Helsing, but with sunglasses..
I'll still forever love the old resident evil games from the late 90s early 00s
They were good then, I couldn’t play them now. Not with those controls and fetch quests.
I really enjoyed RE2R and RE3R. Also liked RE7. RE8....was pretty meh for me.
I completely agree the castle was the best part of the game I think the developers noticed that too probably why they marketed Lady D so much.
It was scary and fun. Shooting zombies and dodging swipes from lady D and her daughters. Hearing footsteps moving around in the halls puts you on edge as you play a dangerous game of cat and mouse.
Thank you for this excellent review, Drinker. It mirrors my own thoughts and feelings (This game is so much easier than its predecessor. Jack in RE7 had me try again and again, whereas here no boss was really challenging). It's funny that you should mention Rosemary's Baby, as I was somehow reminded of The Fearless Vampie Killers while exploring the Dimitrescu Castle, especially with the rooftops part (the music really reminded me TFVK), Lady D's bathtub, the snowy courtyard, the remote, snowbound village...
I used the sniper all the time, mostly cause I was constantly low on ammo and it’s great for enemies with high health or small hit points
I feel like Chris’ behavior in this game could be fixed if it was mentioned that he was under orders not to disclose the mission details to Ethan for whatever reason. He could even moan about it in passing.
Thing is, it is kind of a core part of Chris' character that he is absolutely terrible at making choices for anyone other than himself.
He is a remarkable operative with insane survivability, but he absolutely should never be put in a team or, worse, in charge of a team because he is a walking disaster zone.
If the BSAA or Blue Umbrella deploy Chris solo or with a single partner to an area, he is pretty much hyper lethal and will kill 80% of everything there.
If they deploy him with a group, the same is true, and that 80% definitely includes any poor bastard sent along with him.
Chris consistently making horrible decisions, but being the best weapon to deploy against BOWs is as key to his character as his rivalry with Wesker and his obsession with getting his sister laid.
Ethan meanwhile is, for all intents and purposes, a civilian out of his depth who Chris, being the absolute bonehead he is, doesn't clue into the events.
He was 100% correct that Ethan would force himself into the situation if he was told what was happening, but Chris would likely never have predicted Ethan One Man Armying his way through the village, because, well, he's just a civvie.
(His eradication of the Baker mansion and molded was just a fluke I guess)
Well, that's kind out of the question as it was established that Chris and his team went awol after dealing with Lucas, thus not under any sort of chain of command that would prevent him from speaking up about it.
In my head, it was that Chris didn't know how to broach the subject without it sounding anymore batshit insane than it was.
In regards to the idiot villages surviving, I don't think they have been for long were they?
Miranda only gave the kill order once she got Rose
At least 60 year, or when ozwald spencer stay there
So pre WW1, its bfore miranda or might be miranda hometown
The villager are exterminated probably because miranda was migrating, since they serve no purpose anymore other than witness
They had been there forever. That was their home. Some characters said, however, that Miranda promised to protect the villagers (the ones she wasn't using anyway). The attack on the village was only going on for couple days at most, maybe only started that previous day. They probably only survived no more than a day and only because they temporarily barricaded themselves into their home.
@@somechinesedude5466 sorry, what I meant was they have not been there “in that home surviving that attack”
Reading back I did not make that clear
same reply for you as person above
sorry, what I meant was they have not been there “in that home surviving that attack”
Reading back I did not make that clear
@@stickginge You actually made it pretty clear what you meant. No idea how the other two didn't understand.
"They look like a group stumbled out of a nightclub in Aberdeen" (port city in Scotland) LOL this made my day hahahaha
I’ve been a RE fan since the original and I absolutely enjoyed the village. It completely embraces the over the top premise. There’s a castle with “vampires “, haunted mansion, werewolves, and robot human hybrids. I played this game 5 times in a row over the span of a few days. New game plus let’s you keep your upgrades on your weapons so you can just basically arcade your way thru. Embrace the game for what it is and most people should have a good time.
I like how we learn how umbrella Corp started near the end of this game in Miranda’s lab
Except we've already had that moment before. At least once if not twice. You can't keep going "Nah, here's the REEEAAAL genesis of all this."
Yeah by picking up a note and reading a few lines of text...Felt like an afterthought of a very weak attempt at a plot point.
@@thelaughingrouge yeah I’m not liking how they just forced that story plot in when there was nothing indicating that the whole game a character that was never mentioned at all until this game
@@ahmadtrip4623 TBH the umbrella symbol is there in the walls and shit
@@vatanak8146 You don’t say lol but sprinkling symbols of umbrella on wall and shit wasn’t how classic resident evil told the story you know it’s umbrella the whole time and not some subtle bs hidden imagery shit
Heisenberg and his factory were my favorite part. The factory was the most Resident Evil-esque part of the game, non linear, having to go between different floors to retrieve things and dodging through thin corridors
Just finished the game and I loved it. The atmosphere, the nonsense story, killung "vampires" with the great outdoors, Chris Redfield doing his day job... loved every moment. Also never realised how attached I got to Ethan "no face" Winters. He's simple enough to be our eyes but complex enough to support 2 games. Who saw that coming? Just a shame the combat still feels clunky and Ethan moves like a three legged llama
15:44 "It all just feels a little too easy, like the games afraid to challenge players too much or they'll get fed up and walk away."
What's sad is that, even with the difficulty changes they made by making Standard/Normal mode more accessible to inexperienced players, my buddy still got fed up and quit playing the demo because he felt he didn't receive enough ammo. He also said the Lycans were too bullet sponge and he was upset the shotgun wasn't a one hit kill... even though he left aim assist on, which targets the body, not the head.
So there's really nothing you can do to make some players happy. My buddy is such a Karen when it comes to this game. He argued the entire Standard difficulty mode is flawed because it "doesn't fit the model players are used to." Essentially arguing that all games, regardless of genre, should be roughly the same challenge when choosing Normal/Standard difficulty. Then he said something about me not listening enough... I don't know, I wasn't really paying attention.
it's true tho that "Normal" differs from game to game
@@frozetti Totally. My buddy was saying it shouldn’t though, which is dumb. So he thinks “Normal” on a COD campaign should be roughly the same challenge as “Normal” in a Resident Evil game. But that’s just not possible as the genres aren’t analogous at all.
Luckily, I convinced him to give RE8 another try and he ended up really liking it. Once he learned he could craft ammo he shut his dumb mouth.
@@Othillde I beat it on Village of Shadows difficulty but it was my fourth play-through so my guns were lit AF so it felt like cheating. Although that Heisenberg fight was a bitch regardless
Aside from ONE level that was creepy as hell. The Dollhouse, the entire game wasn't really scary but it was fun as hell. Japan is always on a roll with making products for their specific customers and damn them if they never bend the knee to western social identity politics. They don't care if the MC if their product is male or female and they defend a male lead to death owing that many of the customers are also females.
@Tano we still talking about RE8?
@@Excalibur01 if theyre talking about 8, it might be because of her CGI? For some reason her face looked kinda robotic/android-y, dipping into the uncanny valley. Chris looked more human even though for some reason he looked like one of the boulders he likes to punch.
@Tano maybe it was a meta hint like "woah dude she was miranda. no wonder she was so creepy"
Resident evil games are always going to struggle competing with the original 2 for those who played them back on the PS1
those games are so good and built the success for the all the following games. Its a shame they never used the same feel
and characters for the resident evil films.
I wish we got more of Beneviento's house. Favorite section of the game.
I liked the Chris part personally. It shows you how a Newby (Ethan) and a Pro (Chris) handle the same situation. I also thought his Not a Hero DLC in RE7 was really good.
Kind of disappointed that you quickly glossed over the baby fetus at the doll house, that was easily one of the creepiest things I've ever seen in a video game.
He's called the "critical drinker" and not the "flattering drinker" for a reason
I think they should’ve kept the fetus a constant throughout the game. It would’ve given the game a background monster like silent hill 3.
Totally agree. I found it especially disturbing.
Ethan got a more meaningful send-off than Joel Miller. Stayed true to Ethan's character Capcom did a better sequel than Last of Us Part 2
Resident evil 8 wasn’t perfect but I really enjoyed it. Good god almighty was last of us 2 a mess. It felt like a chore to get through. I completed it out of a sense of obligation cause I liked the first one a lot.
@@johnmclain8437 I finished the game and felt hollow inside. Part 2 was the most depressing game, that I've ever played it's just relentlessly bleak compared to the first game. They botched up Ellie's character badly, and did such a huge disservice to Joel the writing is so ham-fisted
Honestly it’s a bad trend in media these days. Writers performing mental gymnastics to “subvert expectations” just cause something is “surprising” doesn’t make it good and just because something is bleak, depressing, and Radom doesn’t make it “realistic” or “deep”.
@@johnmclain8437 Exactly all the journalists were hyperbolizing the game as a "masterpiece" even though we can see it has major flaws. It's not even groundbreaking as a story doing a cookie cutter revenge trope, that's been done so many times before
Franchises that disrespect they're legacy are a disease to the entertainment world. It ruins great media when it's ran by greed and Selfishness
I enjoyed this game, its even better the second time around when you keep your weapons from the first play through.
Still can't get over the first aid liquid not only reattaching Ethan's hand but also fixing his clothing cuff though 😄
The first aid is like a placebo, Ethan has regenerated since he stepped foot in the Bakers' houses. Yea, the fungus can even regen clothing!
Good review, although I HAVE to handily disagree with everyone's complaints about enemy variety. This game had quite a lot of different enemies and the Factory cyborg's was a neat enemy type that required resource choices and accuracy consideration to take on.
Heisenberg's factory was the best part of the game. It was the only one that required backtracking and that you could get a bit lost in. Felt like resident evil to me.
I used the sniper rifle for the wearwolf dudes when they were sitting there or walking around at a distance. Oh, and I used it on those mechanical dudes with the glowing things in their chest.
I did actually expect Dimitrescu's (you're supposed to say the U) whole thing to be at least *one* of the last areas. Comparative to everything after, it's ridiculously intimidating and awe-inspiring, even if I found other areas more creepy or scary.
Capcom and game characters don’t pronounce the U in Dimitrescu in the game but the name in real life does pronounce the U
@@zinxxo7202 Yeah, I got the gist on another video from someone who claimed to be from the same country she, or at least the name, is supposedly from. Apparently, not a lot of the people whom you'd think should know about it, do. I've picked up on the fact that, at least with foreign names that require accentuation in specific places or where sounds are spoken differently from how one's used to, not everybody cares. I try to but it's not always easy to keep the details and nuances in mind.
It's a romanian name not french, in romanian you always read all the letters, we don't skip letters like in french or english. If a name ends in "-escu" then it's romanian name. Also the most common version of this name is Dumitrescu, not Dimitrescu.
@@L4zyC4t Yes, someone told me already but I don't mind having it confirmed, so your comment isw not wasted :)
@@zinxxo7202 It's probably because in a lot of Japanese words (such as "desu"), you don't actually pronounce the final "u", because spelling is done with consonant-vowel pairs, so the "consonant-u" kana are sometimes placeholders for solo consonants.
"Michael Bay movie edited by Zach Snyder"
So basically dark explosions in slowmotion
with weird saturation and focus
9:12 Drinker, you probably didn't hear when Ethan mentioned "having to go through some military training nowadays", he mentioned it in the conversation with her at their house before Chris showed up and killed "Mia".
Yeah, that’s the point. Ethan is a dork whose trying to be a badass but is too human and vulnerable to be someone like Chris.
@@RegularassguyJoey well.. not really human
From a gameplay part i feel like they could manage the difficulty spike between "normal" and "hard" a bit better. Like, normal is way too forgiving with plenty of resources and hard is the exact opposite where you have to count bullets. A middle more challenging that normal, but more accessible than hard would be a good thing.
I LOVED the atmosphere of the village. Being from the Balkans myself, Greece in specific, it reminded me a bit of some locations in my country with villages almost casted away without any sort of technology. It maybe goes a bit to the extreme, but as far as i understood it's because Miranda isolated the village so much from civilization.
Also, have they heard over there at Capcom that iron sights and weapon sights are a thing nowadays?
I thought Miranda looked like a Silent Hill reject right down to the priest robes and supernatural powers.
I had the same thought.
Additionally the whole "save my daughter" and then the whole story behind the plot itself once it starts to get fleshed out... Made me feel like it was a rehashed version of Silent Hill done a-la Resident Evil style..
I presumed what was going on with Rose solely based on SH's plot... And what do ya know...
To top it off Miranda resembles Dahlia...
I agree with the Drinker on the majority of things, but not this time. I friggin’ *loved* Village and have played through it many times. It’s much fun with unlimited everything, running around and blasting werewolves faces off. And I actually liked Heinsenburg, though his boss battle was a bit of a let-down. Miranda wasc meh, okay for the most part. The creepy fetus chasing after you yelling PAPA PAPA at you? Man, that was the creepiest crap ever. I didn’t know about it until I first ran into it and it ate Ethan. Terrifying stuff!
Finally. It makes more sense if you figure chris is trying to preserve the redfield bloodline
"Under the Mayo" does a really good review of Resident Evil Village also.
Boy I sure did enjoy watching you play this, especially as I'd completed it so it wasn't being spoiled for me, but your responses to basically every event was basically the same as mine.