Resident Evil: Code Veronica X Retrospective - WitchTaunter 

Did you come down to the comments to say that CVX is worse than RE3? Well guess what, I agree! I gave RE3 a 6/10, and CVX a 5/10. I accidentally put RE3 behind CVX in the conclusion. Whoopsie! Other corrections would include that CVX was not literally intended to be RE3, that info came from a mistranslation that was circulated for the longest time. Claire gets captured in the beginning because she has no ammo, I just never noticed. And no, Rodrigo isn't black, I just thought it was funny.

This is probably my favourite depiction of Wesker in the series. Hes nearly at the peak of his power but still a cog in a much larger nefarious machine, and I like how much he takes delight in how big the gap is between him and a "mortal" like Chris. Its not that he is *not* taking advantage of the opportunity to kill Chris, its that whether he does or not it wont impact his ultimate goal at all so f it he'll 'play with his food' and take advantage of exits to keep it going as long as possible, laughing along the way + Every one of Steves lines is absolute gold

Isn't it weird that both Survivor and Veronica use Umbrella Islands that serve as prisons? YES. It IS weird, my friend. Islands where strange experiments, people whom are captured against their will, and strange rich people controlling the island who are very much so into *freaky thingzzz* (shout to Daylyt) exist under one umbrella. Kinda sounds like maybe Epst... nvm. :P

To this very day I am still convinced that "Galfred" doesn't just change into a dress but rather goes through an anime-esque magic girl transformation. Like Heather from Silent Hill 3.

I love CV, it has a special place in resident evil game lore, and definitely needed a Remake more than RE4.

It sucks that Steve gets so much hate. Given his age and what happened to him his childish personality matches him well. He's one of the most memorable RE characters imo. I would choose Steve over Ethan any day. At least he had a personality

Oh god, I'd forgotten just how terrible Steve's voice acting is. And how great Alfred is. He's evil, and he LOVES it, and you gotta respect that.

Steve was certainly one of the Resident Evil characters of all time

"Somehow this somewhat even looking matchup ended up with her being captured" The slide is conspicuously locked after shooting indicating that the gun is empty. Advantage black man. Great videos!

Code Veronica/X (both Dreamcast versions) are probably my favorite of the whole series, alongside REmake and 4. Something about the weird tone with the royalty and all that, it fits well with the series and also stands on it’s own.

Omg the dogs breaking out in the outside hallway got me so good when I was younger. Dam this was a solid game. Now with the remakes out no one ever mentions these other games. Great retrospective so far man. Liked and subscribed

The knife in Code Veronica is OP. You can use it for half the game and stack some serious ammo.

Praying for a CV remake 😭😭😭

“Steve is suffering” “good”

1:16:35-I don’t get how the stump of a severed tendril could end up not only killing Steve, but turning him back into a human. 1:18:06-And thank you for going over why Claire and Steve’s romance is the worst and was never going to work out.

Fuck yeah! It’s Steve time!

Yessss! I've been patiently waiting for your next RE release! Thank you

I’m pretty sure Rodrigo isn’t “black” but rather Hispanic.

been eagerly awaiting this one. Veronica X was always this weird pariah of the series amongst people ive known, but I never understood why. It was harder, sure. Steve was perhaps one of the most obnoxious characters in the series that makes Ashley seem likable, but I thought the game was still really good and it was exciting to see Claire again!

In defense of Steve, he's a 17 year old kid, with no life experience, feel its a little bit harsh to get mad at him. I couldn't, since he's literally just Tidus from FFX whole sale. I didn't mind him, is sad he died. But Capcom can't let Leon have even imagined competition for Claire's heart. (Despite them having no real chemistry either.)

Been having fun watching these RE Retrospectives ^^ hope to see some of the more obscured re games like Gaiden

The retrospectives’ are awesome, can’t wait for the rest of the retrospectives of the RE’s to cone out Keep, calm am keep retrospective’ing on🎉

Amazing video! Hope this blows up!

One of my favorites in the series. The soundtrack is also quite good. Good video :).

Dude is learning how to write a script. Good job. Been watching your resident evil play list. And is great to see someone improve👍

I love all your Resident Evil retrospectives, as usual, a great video. I made sure my friends knew this came out, so they'll watch it too!

44:04, This tyrant was manufactured especially for military training it's for that reason they decided to modify his arms to something less lethal

15:12 the change of music made me spit out my cereal

You earned a sub from me man, great video

Been waiting on this one

It was about time 😍 😍

Wooo new WT video essayyy!!!

Music in this game is simply outstanding, it actually saved the scene where Steve died, making it somewhat sad. Anyways, I never felt that it was about "feelings" more so that Claire viewed Steve like a silly younger brother. He got such dorky voice and lame lines.. yeah, a kid basically. Claire looks much more mature and capable.

The random black guy line had me dyyyyingg ahahhaha I love it. This is good stuff 👏 I'm def watching ur outbreak retrospective next (havnt looked if u have one yet) but if u do im def watching that. I can remember that game so we'll but no one ever mentions it!

3:53 so she ends up captured because she ran out of ammo. you can see the reciever pulled back and locked in place as the magazine has ran dry. they both know shes out of ammo (Thought i wouldnt put it past RE writers to have claire try to fight her way out of a handgun in her face when she has no ammo anyway. They've already done more ridiculous moves in just the half minute prior)

I can’t unhear the sonic impression comment omg

I've never had to restart a game so many times before reaching the end! I played through it like 9 times, each time trying conserve more firepower and health for later. But it was still worth the challenge! Fun game

The moths were the worst. Hardest resident evil still to this day. Awesome game

Awesome Video. Great Job. Resident Evil Code Veronica X is one of my favorite old school resident evil games. This Game needs a remake.

Code Veronica is one of my favorites behind the original. I own all versions but the Dreamcast stands as my favorite way to experience it. VMU status, and switching between two discs, the whole experience stands strong in my memories.

Rad video, Witch

Actually he didn't call her fat. He said she's heavier then she looks. Like she doesn't look heavy (fat)

hes Puerto Rican, not an Af 4:25

I finished Code Veronica yesterday for the first time ever and I surprisingly enjoyed this game! Sure, I played it on easy because I've heard about its difficulty but despite a lot of backtracking and annoying locations (like the little passage with moths) I had a really good time with it. The story was interesting, characters were goofy in a positive way and it was the classic RE experience that I love so much. I don't think I will replay it again because it's not as replay-friendly like the first three RE games but still, it was a great game!

Dude I love your thumbnail

Those f**king moths killed it for me granted you get free blue herbs in the room they are in but the constant respawning just p*ssed me off anytime that poisonous cum dust attack hit me 🙄 I be like here we go again.....lovely

I died on the concrete slab on my A rank run. That was fun

29:28 that dolphin laugh though. Haha

My favorite Dreamcast game behind power stone.

I am not normally a knit picker but the whole “I love you Claire, even though I’ve known you for like a day” cliche was dumb

I never thought i would get second hand embarrasment from a video game character.... Way to go steve!

Amazing!

Claire runs out of ammo by the look of her gun that's why she was caught.

my brother in Christos Rodrigo is literally latin

Great video on the most ICONIC entry in the RE game. Deserves a decent remake. Alexia is a great villain, and also Alfred, to be honest. It has my favorite plot, though gameplay is weird sometimes.

This was my first RE game and it was the first game that ever truly scared me.

The heart beat isn’t suppose to scare you. It’s supposed to let the player know he or she is going in the right direction.

Bemoaning throughout this so much paints you like a real Steve

What did Steve Burnside give his dad for Father’s Day? 2 mags of lead 😂

Just so you know - 1. There are loads of great games that weren't ported from the dreamcast - illbleed is a good example. 2. Code Veronica X was just a port of the special edition for the japanese dreamcast which has all the changes although doesn't have the ps3 lighting etc.

15:02 "What was that all about?" Was that their best take?

Steve was like FATHERRRR!!! and start spraying the hella out of those guns. Meanwhile Claire also ate a bunch of lead there as well.. lol rip

Alfred’s laugh reminds me of Franny from Studio C

Is there a reason why you repeatedly (and incorrectly) refer to Rodrigo as black

She got captured because she had no ammo

I made it to the fight with Steve a long time ago. The game took WEEKS to figure out. Not only did I make it this far only to not to have enough ammo, but I didn't have it in me to care anymore. To me this game is OKAY but Id rather play the first three games or Outbreak.

If you got a copy of resident evil code Veronica at the time it came out new atrelease for the Sega Dreamcast, you were set!! Aside from Shenmue, one of the first and truly next generation experiences that year and it was phenomenal!! It is the resident evil that I feel Most deserves the remake treatment being as it is the last game in the “true survival horror style format“ and as such it is a no-brainer?!?! The true survival horror of the first three games and code Veronica, in my opinion have always been what “real RE” it is all about!! Sure, I like the third person over the shoulder more action oriented games like the resident evil two remake, but I can only play those games and beat them a couple times and then I am bored, whereas the original games I can run through those hundreds of times over and get enjoyment each time out of trying to get better and better at my run.. I grew up with the originals, what can I say?!

3:54 the cutscene shows that her guns empty and his is not.

rodrigo juan raval isnt black my guy hes obviously south american/latino

I kinda feel like I played true cannon. RE1 og when I was a kid. I would watch my moms boyfriends buddy chuck play the first one and then eventually doing it myself. RE2 shortly after that I no longer had to sneak playing resident evil games lol. Then for my 11th Bday I got code veronica x plus the strategy guide. then a year or 2 later grandma got me re3 which I had no idea existed in my child state lol

Talk about *difficult* this game is the only RE game that frustrated me into quitting! I was only a child 😩 so I’m hoping to avenge myself with a CVX REMAKE.

Alfred's voice always reminded me of Cosmo from the early episodes of Fairly Odd Parents

If they decide to do a remake I hope it doesn’t get the RE3R treatment. It’s a shame really this could make a really good remake as 3 could have.

Dude why did you use emulated at higher res footage for the psx resis? Talk about unfair comparison . In reality those games render at 240p while cv is 480p. over twice the res. yet if you watched your footasage youd think psx resi's rendered at higher than CV.

Wouldve been way cooler to have Goblin Steve live, stay with his senses, and idk becomes a BSAA agent with Chris. Mercenaries mode Goblin Steve?

1:19:07 Well, no. It's called trauma bonding, bro. There are various kinds of conditions related to that, like Florence Nightinggale Effect, among others. The Helsinkiu Syndrom where hostages fall in love with their captors. It's been a high stress, life and death situation. Claire could very easily have had VERY strong feelings for Steve by the time he died.

When I was young I couldnt figure it out, took me 12 years later but was a good game enough

You can do a great Paul Lynde impression.

That thumbnail though :0

I want a Code Veronica remake so bad after RE4 got announced, but I understand why there may be some hesitation from Capcom when it comes to the story and incorporating it into the timeline of the main new canon of the series. I feel like they could really breathe new life into the Ashford family and make them really interesting characters. I already find Alexia to be an awesome villain but at time Alfred felt so goofy. Same with Steve of course, but I also feel that he could be made to be a very fun character with lots of depth that CV at the time wasn’t able to fully capture.

Better the RE3?! I mean it is subjective but 3 had a lot more gameplay editions while Veronica just has regressions. It's still a very good video but some things worth pointing out. CV was never meant to be RE3. Both CV and Nemesis were both spin offs originally, just because one wasn't supposed to be 3 originally doesn't mean the other was. Actually the real 3 was a game Kamiya worked on that was canceled because it would come out after the PS2 so they then had him develop RE4 while a game closer to completion was made into RE3. And honestly Nemesis deserves it more than CV. It felt like it added a lot more to the gameplay then CV did, and what CV did add wasn't necessarily good (like 3D environments). But to also defend the game a bit, I think a lot of the issues aren't as bad as people say. The tyrant on the plane is only a problem if you rushed through everything and didn't pick up some slightly hidden ammo, but you also fought everything in your path since even without the extra ammo you should have enough if you evade enemies. But if you did that one would assume you'd have extra healing items since if you attacked everything to be safe you shouldn't have used herbs that much, so you can either spam healing items and use the knife or stall and kill him with several catapult shots alone. Actually most bosses one hit moves aren't that bad. Especially with the checkpoints. And Alexia's third form can be melted with the gun powder bolts. Also the method to dodge Steve is really easy to do. To get through it with no damage you need to be almost perfect, but if you come in with full health you can easily get away with only one hit. Lastly the trap before Steve has really generous timing (at least on dreamcast, not sure if they made it worse in other versions.). I never had a problem running from one side to the other or dropping and picking up the card. And the fire extinguisher is a mistake on the players end. In RE the second an item is not needed the game tells you so and gets rid of it. Since it never does that here you should assume it will be useful later.

the count of lemongrab from adventure time reminds me of Alfred.

Great video, but this game was never supossed to be the true Resident Evil 3

Is Claire Redfield Jubilee from the 90’s X-Men show because she sounds almost exactly like her

i liked this video.

IT'S HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERE

1:31:45 Steve's dad is Senator Armstrong from Metal Gear Rising Revegeance?

Yeaaaaa❤

Nice...

22:28 Steve is suffering

"starting part two" soon after I got this part of the game.. as i'm running around the cold lab, the game froze while I was playing it. nothing happened had to hard reset the game. Then I found that the save file got corrupt. After that, I didn't bother restarting the game, gave up playing, and then later found out the rest of the game. Sad that the black guy dies though. Anyway, that sucked for me. I wonder if that was common on the PS2 port of the game that the game was prone to freeze during the antarctic area.

Still love that game

Needs a remake. There's a lot to work with here. I remember the Tyrant fight on the plane, and Alexia, giving me serious trouble back in the day.

maybe the Bandersnatch was destroyed by the Decontamination or it escaped through the shutter to the area we firstly meet them. Like maybe Alfred let it out. When replaying this game I originally thought the Albinoids killed that Scientist but replaying it I saw a Bandersnatch & just guessed the one you kill in the training centre was the same one that killed the scientist but upon seeing there is no other exit it does seem odd but you can make a few weak guesses. Edit: 1:11:48 damn that part it made me question should I restart when I was so close to the end but had barely any ammo or health to try & do the Alexia boss fight so I gave up & restarted (I also forgot the damn Fire extinguisher) It made me quite the game for so long till I realised something I think I commented on another one of these reviews about the d-pad making tank controls so much more easy but that still made me take up like an hour to do it as I'd keep dying to the stone as at first I remembered to you know run under it & back but I was getting confused by controls of the PS1 game Resident evil 3 Nemesis & it where the run button on that was now my attack & pick up button. my inventory was now the pause button & all this lead to that part taking forever but once I finished I had to deal with mister Steve a few times but once I beat him it felt amazing just to finally see him die meaning no more trouble. Then I realised I'd no health Items & had doomed Chris without the grenade launcher so I just restarted it.

CV need a HARD REMAKE. Good retrospective.

I missed so many items in this game lmao 🤣

Love this game. Sadly if you play this on ps4 hope you have night vision goggles coz those darker areas are literally pitch black at times. Might just be my moniter but I can't find a way to increase brightness correctly

Alexia's first form when she's in her bug mountain mode is easy... Explosive arrows, it takes less than thirty seconds

This game was a huge step down from RE3: Nemesis.

one pf those resident evil games that have good jump scares but at the time people are still afraid of playing horror ganes. maybe if code veronica was release with current graphics technology and amp it up. it will be loved by ganers who likes the scare like outlast