Really, Capcom?
posted by chaosforce (CLARKSVILLE, TN) Apr 12, 2013
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I don't even know where to start.
The storyline is uselessly convoluted. Okay, it's Resident Evil that happens.
The graphics... are sad. Darkside Chronicles looked better.
But, hey, graphics aren't that important.
GAMEPLAY.
Here, we have fail. So, so much fail.
At one point in Leon's campaign, you have to alternate hitting the right and left triggers to manually make the character climb a rope. Lovely. It's like gym class. And about as entertaining. The sequence carries on for FAR too long. I timed it as about ten minutes. Tedious. Did they play test this game? Also, at points where the camera shifts, Leon's state resets, and reverses his hand position... and if you don't immediately notice that, Leon drops a good ten, twenty feet. Which translates to two minutes of left trigger...right trigger... left trigger...
Also, there are not enough destructible environments. It's like you're walking a character through a doll house, where everything is bolted down. Leon doesn't feel like he's part of the brown and gray world he's stuck in. Also: there are colors beyond brown and gray, guys. Differentiate your settings, please.
Final objection: sexual content. I'm not talking about the femme fatale Ada. She's SUPPOSED to be sexual and I'm cool with that. What I'm not cool with is all the blatant "involuntary sexual contact" imagery. From "Deborah," who is pointlessly wearing a scanty nightgown when initially found (and what were the guards doing besides experimentation on her, hm?) and then wears NOTHING when transformed. She writhes sexually on top of Leon, who thrusts a tentacle through her lower abdomen to push her off. Lovely imagery there, guys. Then there's Sherry.... oi. Stop fetishizing the victimization of women, please. It's gross and unnecessary.
I play survival horror to shoot zombies and solve mysteries. Not to watch my player avatar get molested.
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