by planetxleader » Wed Dec 20, 2006 11:09 pm
Let's bump this, shall we? I've been home for Christmas for about two weeks, was originally going to go down to Miami with my bestest chika buddy, but plans changed and I'm kicking it around Bumf**** USA for all of December. So, what to do to cure my boredom? Pick up RE4! Last I left off (so long ago), I was in "round 2", at the castle with hedgemaze and those nasty pooches. I'm almost at the end now, I just finished the fantastic level where Leon and Mike the helecopter pilot blow through the island Ganados's forces. Freakin' exhilirating! And right after the equally exhilirating (and action-movie cliche) fight with Krauser, which followed the suspensful fight with "It," which followed the scary-as-hell Regenerators... I think the Island portion of RE4 is the best.
I also stumbled upon something new: after the awesome helecopter "OH GODZILLA! WHAT TERRIBLE LANGUAGE!", the next building you enter is dark, dingy, and scary. There is a save typewriter, and if you wander a little farther down one passageway you'll meet a Regenerator, but one of the first things I noticed was a small garbage dumpster that could be opened. I opened it, and inside was something wrapped in a bloody white bag. It started jumping and squirming and it was scary as hell (it would have been a lot more unnerving if I had been playing at night). I waited to see if it would do something, but it just kept writhing, so I put a bullet in it. Whatever was in the bag died, and when I examined it, Leon's thoughts read: "What the hell was that?" or something to that effect. Weird!
There is one thing about RE4 that does bug me a little, too, and that is it's Zelda-like adventure game influences. It just seems a little out of place for a wandering merchant to be conveniently located just where you need him. I mean, who goes around selling and buying stuff in a castle, or an island fortress, especially while people are running around shooting at each other? Ah, that's just something that I always thought about...
... Anyway... so yah, RE4 rocks the house and definitely jump-started the franchise, but I'll have to admit, I kinda miss the old Resident Evil setup; the fixed camera angles, the dingy mansions and... most importantly... the zombies! I'm really getting an urge to do some old-school RE; I might re-play RE2 for my N64, the REmake, or perahps Code: Veronica X, which I'm stuck in the middle of and haven't played for the longest time. I also bought RE3 for the PS1 (never played it all the way through before, just peices), and began a play-through, but stopped a third of the way through when college and a social life took top priority. I wonder which one I should play?
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