PsychoCarbo Resident Evil 0 HD Review

07/10 Well, there are secret outfits... Thank you Japan! ---{ Graphics }--- ☐ DaVinci created a new reality ☐ You forget what reality is ☐ Red Dead Redemption II ☑ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Don’t stare at it for too long ☐ Bad ☐ Atari ☐ Tamagotchi ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☐ Can your PC run Paint? ☐ Potato ☑ Decent ☐ Fast ☐ Rich Ox ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{ Story }--- ☐ Story? What story? ☐ One word. Pewpewpew! Three words. Pew pew! ☐ Some smooth talking ☐ Average ☑ Good ☐ Beautiful! ☐ Isabel Allende, Machado de Assis and Tolkien teamed up to write it ☐ It will replace your life ---{ Gameplay }--- ☐ Excellent! ☐ Good ☑ Nice, but you can play it with two fingers ☐ Mehh ☐ Instead, 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 ☐ Medium level of grind ☐ Grindmaniac ☐ You will need a second life to grind ---{ Difficulty }--- ☐ Just press “W” ☑ Easy ☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☑ Significant use of the brain ☐ Hard ☐ Dark Souls ---{ Game Length }--- ☐ Enough time for a cup of coffee ☑ Short ☐ Medium ☐ Long ☐ You start, your grandchild finishes ☐ To infinity and beyond! ---{ Replay }--- ☐ Once is enough ☐ Only if you aim for achievements ☑ After a few months... Years... Mods... ☑ Worth it with DLCs ☐ You’d better have time to waste ☐ Well... you didn’t really need a life anyway! ---{ Bugs }--- ☑ Never heard of them ☐ Small glitches ☐ Can be annoying ☐ ARK: Survival Evolved ☐ Cyberpunk 2022 ☐ The game itself is a giant bug farm ---{ Multiplayer }--- ☑ No multiplayer ☐ LAN ☐ It says it has it, but your PC will explode if you try ☐ There it is... a lonely and forgotten desert ☐ Meh, it’s kind of fun ☐ Solo mission? What? ☐ Basically an MMO ---{ Audio }--- ☐ Audiogasmic ☑ Very good ☐ Good ☐ Acceptable ☐ Bad ☐ I am deaf now ---{ Audience }--- ☐ Kids ☑ Teenagers ☑ Adults ☑ Grandma ☐ Everyone ---{ Price }--- ☐ No longer available on Steam ☐ It’s free! ☑ Fair price ☑ If it’s on sale ☐ If you have some spare money ☐ I don’t recommend it ☐ You can also just burn your money ---{ 7 / 10 }--- ☐ 1 ☐ 2 ☐ 3 ☐ 4 ☐ 5 ☐ 6 ☑ 7 ☐ 8 ☐ 9 ☐ 10 Years ago, on the PS2, I finished RE4. And at some point I think I also played the first one. But this time I decided I would play all the games in the series, in the chronological order of the story. And that didn’t seem like an easy task, since horror games tend to block me, even though I love the theme and I LOVE, but LOOOOOVE zombies. That’s how I jumped into Resident Evil 0. Compared to other entries in the series, I had never heard much about this episode, so I didn’t really know what to expect. And honestly, overall it was a nice surprise. It feels like it preserves the gameplay, atmosphere and style of the classic Resident Evil games. In other words, it should reasonably satisfy both nostalgic players and newcomers like me. The difficulty level can be relatively low on easy, but the puzzles remain quite challenging. After all, these are truly investigation games. And the story turned out to be surprisingly short, which I actually found to be a good thing! New modes are unlocked once you finish the story for the first time, but I decided not to dive into them, since my goal is to continue through the rest of the series, along with a multitude of other games waiting for me. But since nothing is 100% perfect, there are a few caveats. First of all, there is something that really tests your patience, especially nowadays with everything being so immediate and fast: the transitions that feel looooooooong every time you open a door or climb stairs. Okay, I know, it’s not that serious and it’s part of the charm. But in puzzle-focused games like this, where you need to try multiple things and revisit many places, it can start to weigh on you. Considering I played the HD version, maybe there could have been an option to disable this, I don’t know. Secondly, the story. It’s not bad, I don’t think they ever are, but for a “where it all began” entry in such a well-known franchise, I expected something more developed. That said, these issues do not take away from the quality and experience one expects from this title. So if what you want is a Resident Evil game, knowing that it belongs to the old-school era, go for it! I recommend it!