PsychoCarbo Resident Evil HD Remaster Review

Overly attached materialistic characters… Why can’t I drop items! 08/10 Final rating at the end! Graphics ☐ Da Vinci created a new reality ☐ You forget what reality even is ☐ Red Dead Redemption II ☑ Biutchyful ☐ Decent ☐ Don’t look at it for too long ☐ Bad ☐ Atari ☐ Tamagotchi PC Requirements ☐ Does your PC run Paint ☐ Potato ☑ Decent ☐ Fast ☐ Rich Cow ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer Story ☐ Story? What story ☐ One word. Pewpewpew. Three words. Pew pew ☐ Some smooth talk ☐ Average ☑ Good ☐ Beautiful ☐ Isabel Allende, Machado de Assis and Tolkien teamed up to write it ☐ It will replace your life Gameplay ☐ Excellent ☑ Good ☐ Cool, but you can play it with two fingers ☐ Mehh ☐ Might as well watch paint dry ☐ Yeah right ☐ Smash your hand with a hammer, it’s more fun Grind ☐ Not needed ☑ Only if you care about achievements ☐ Not necessary to progress ☐ Average grind level ☐ Grindmaniac ☐ You’ll need a second life to grind everything Difficulty ☐ Just press W ☐ Easy ☐ Easy to learn, hard to master ☑ Significant brain usage ☐ Hard ☐ Dark Souls Game Length ☐ Enough for a cup of coffee ☐ Short ☑ Medium ☐ Long ☐ You start it, your grandkid finishes it ☐ To infinity and beyond Replay Value ☐ Once is enough ☑ Only if you aim for achievements ☑ After a few months… years… mods… ☑ With DLCs it’s worth it ☐ You better have time to waste ☐ Well… you didn’t need a life anyway Bugs ☑ Never heard of them ☐ Small errors ☐ Can be annoying ☐ ARK Survival Evolved ☐ Cyberpunk 2022 ☐ The game itself is one big bug breeding ground Multiplayer ☑ No multiplayer ☐ LAN ☐ Says it has it, but your PC will explode if you try ☐ There it is… a lonely forgotten desert ☐ Meh, it’s kinda fun ☐ Solo mission? What ☐ Basically an MMO Audio ☐ Audiogasmic ☑ Very good ☐ Good ☐ Acceptable ☐ Bad ☐ I’m deaf now Audience ☐ Kids ☑ Teenagers ☑ Adults ☑ Grandma ☐ Everyone Price ☐ No longer available on Steam ☐ Free ☑ Fair price ☑ If it’s on sale ☐ If you have some spare cash ☐ I don’t recommend it ☐ You could also just burn your money 8 / 10 ☐ 1 ☐ 2 ☐ 3 ☐ 4 ☐ 5 ☐ 6 ☐ 7 ☑ 8 ☐ 9 ☐ 10 Attention! This review refers to the remastered version! Since we’re on the subject… Honestly, I don’t remember being this scared when I finished the original! And the difficulty I went through was on Very Easy mode??? What on earth are the other modes like? So here we go. One of my long term gaming projects is playing all the Resident Evil games in chronological story order. I had just finished RE Zero, which I liked, it already scared me a bit and challenged my brain. It was a good start and I thought I had already stepped into the saga’s atmosphere. Hahaha, I was wrong! RE 1 Remastered takes everything much further. It is far darker, more complex, and more demanding than its predecessor. The few people who bother reading my reviews, greetings, my nonexistent friends, already know I am not a hardened gamer and impossible challenges do not bring me joy. I prefer enjoying the story and mechanics calmly in easy mode whenever possible. I do not know if I will ever love a game enough to replay it on a harder difficulty. Anyway. Imagine my surprise when I realized that even so, I was facing quite an ordeal, to the point where I considered quitting several times! Besides fiercer enemies and a much more oppressive atmosphere, one of the main obstacles lies in the mechanics. I know purists may disagree and that it may be part of the original charm, but the concept of NOT being able to drop items on the ground and having to rely on storage boxes and painful sacrifices to manage your tiny six slot inventory made me complain throughout the entire game. Let go, child! And the fact that a rocket launcher takes up the same space as a tiny green herb… eeeeeh… Anyway, I did not intend to install a management simulator. A second criticism, which I already mentioned in Zero and which may also be part of the original charm but still weighs on the experience, is the endless room to room transitions. Knowing that beyond the horror it is also an investigation and puzzle game, and that you will need to go back and forth constantly, this can become tiring. I would honestly be curious to know what percentage of total playtime is spent just opening doors by the end of a run. Still, none of this takes away from the dark brilliance of this masterpiece. If RE 1 was already a milestone in video game history, the remake was incredibly well done. I truly felt like I was playing a different game. It is without a doubt one of my favorites. Since the list is long, I only completed one run with Jill and stopped there, but maybe someday I will return to discover more with Chris. Every aspect of the game invites you to do so. The remastered version makes it possible to enjoy this game today even for those who are not used to 90s graphics. Honestly, I highly recommend it, it is absolutely worth it! And now, RE 2 Remastered, here I go!