Resident Evil 2 REmake (turning zombies into jam)

[Woodlance]

Yeah, I think it’s going to be just fine.

https://www.escapistmagazine.com/v2/2019/01/22/review-resident-evil-2/

It only took 22 years of soul searching, but Resident Evil has finally found itself. The series has from the beginning shifted in tone, scale, and action that it’s never been entirely clear what Resident Evil should be. Is it a first-person thriller? A campy survival spook out? A cooperative blast ‘em up where T-rexes made of old wet hot dogs and eyeballs are exploded by dudes doing motorcycle flips onto their oozing faces? We may have finally reached the end of these identity crises with the Resident Evil 2 remake, a crystal expression of one of gaming’s distinct personalities.

Dogs through windows; dire militias of suppurating, zombified flora and fauna that seem unstoppable as they mutate into increasingly grotesque shapes; guns and typewriters; these are the trappings of Resident Evil but they’re crust on top of a mantle that’s never stopped shifting. All those surface elements are in 2019’s Resident Evil 2 , which finally brings together the idiosyncratic spatial exploration of the original, the soap operatics of its sequels, the style and bodily claustrophobia of Resident Evil 4 , the scale of 5 and 6 , and the bowel-clenching tension and grotesque gore of 7. All of it is packed inside, coherently executed in a game as sharp as a bespoke suit.