Congrats on your 20th post! Now onto adding a 0 to that number! :P

What have you been playing?

I’ve recently finished Resident Evil 2 Remake for the first time. I’m a longtime fan of RE entries (the original trilogy being one of the earliest gaming memories that I have), and the remake of the first game is one of my favourite games ever, so I was kind of curious to see how the second one would be.

I’ve never been more torn on a game. The moment-to-moment gameplay is great! The environment is greatly improved from the original, the horror aspect has been done well, and it mostly doesn’t overstay its welcome. I can see why people enjoyed it so much when it was released.

As a remake, it fails spectacularly. The story makes no sense, the writing is abysmal and made me hate most of the characters. And of course there’s that thin-veiled misogyny that’s become (unfortunately) fairly common in most recent entries of the franchise. It’s a sad day when a game from the 90s can boast being more progressive than its counterpart from 2019…