Resident Evil - The Perfection of Survival Horror 

You did mention Doom and God of war tho

Hey Mayo, try out the new Horde Mod by proteh!, you'll love it man.

I watched your video on the Resident Evil 3 Remake to which I fully agree. I might even be more critical. I watched your addendum to it and still feel you went easy on that "game". Watching this; I got to the part you say "maybe Resident Evil 2 is more famous and maybe Nemesis for the more passionate fanbase which I'm in." I loved hearing that and had to comment and hope you see. I am exactly the same way. Resident Evil 3 is MY ALL TIME FAVOURITE GAME, Above 2, above the remake(RE1), above Super smash bros Melee, Above titanfall 2...Above RE4. Does anyone actually prefer CVX??? lol The remake (RE3) was awful and made me cry a little bit to how frustrating, lacking, and insulting I found it to be. I found the RE2 remake was good for 2-6 playthroughs but to be never played again. In comparison I playthrough (fully unlock all things) the old games once every 2 years. I feel no need to ever play RE2 remake again and you would have to pay me to play RE3 remake again. Why the hell can't they get a decent battle-mode or mini game anymore??? Prices have become ridiculous and DLC is a cash grab with very little enjoyment and something that should have been unlockable to begin with. Thanks for the content and for refuting the doofus class who now enjoy video games that play themselves while the user eats doritos and watches. Also not knocking doritos...

I’m curious what this dude thinks about RE:Zero

@@SadTown99 pretty much the same thoughts as the sphere hunter. Check her video.

I wonder what’s bigger? Mayo’s love for God of War or Doom or Brit’s love for Devil May Cry?

@@miy1925hassun my love for guns, thats the biggest thing ever

The gamecube version looks better than the HD version, what the hell is up with that?

@@michaelrubino5897 It looks the same. The HD RE1 remake is just an upscaled resolution

@@nakasato790 agree

"Don't you know your imperfections are a wonderful blessing?" -Kendrick Lamar

The massive imperfections though....that’s a whole other story.

@@mtb5431 Tank Controls, dude. I hate it with passion.

Capcom is essentially a catering service these days. Just analyzing the hell outta what fans liked in the last game and cranking it up to an eleven. Can’t make them to scary though...that would cut into their profit....the pioneers of survival horror 😞

@@mtb5431 That makes no sense.

@@mtb5431 even though I didn’t like the first person view in RE7 I though it was a huge step in the right scary direction! I thought for sure Capcom was going to double down on this. Capcom is obviously not going down this route. What a disappointment.

@@BarcodeGamez Right? RE7 was to scary for a couple of babies,Capcom panicked, and now it’s back to pandering as usual. Really not looking forward to RE9.

@@mtb5431 Re8 is even less scary than RE4 lol The only good part is the doll house...

It really does make a difference to have the original creator and most of the devs working on a remake.

I dunno why but I've always like RE1 more than 2 and 3. I guess I just like more self contained games. It's the same with Batman Arkham Asylum, liked it more than the sequels.

Remakes have its place Resident Evil remake and The Thing 1982 are the proof of that

"Remake culture" Translation: Game Industry journalists browbeating and gaslighting you and saying 'hello, fellow kids' to get you to buy a product that is a recycled retread of a previous, better product. RE 2002 was a remake before this godawful noxiously anti-consumer marketing trend became popular, at least, for video games. ...at the time, it was all about mis-advertising the graphical fidelity of your games via FMVs. How antiquated!

@@plaguedoctorjamespainshe6009 Wasn’t the thing 1984 actually a sequel, not a remake?

@nick gurr Clunky to a moron. It’s easy once you get used to it. People are just lazy and shallow and don’t understand the hidden benefits that tank controls and fixed camera angles bring to the RE experience that cannot be captured the same with a standard 3rd person camera angle.

That's just it, there is only four ways to move and it feels like shit.

@@thegreatpiginthesky3904 I venerate your opinion, but your rudimentary erudition is destitute.

@@White927 shut up

For me fixed camera is bullshit. Creating frustrating and insufferable navigation. While over the should both making navigation a lot better and creating ONE SHOT CINEMATIC.

@@thanhvunhat6995 I find that the fixed camera/tank-controls are a part of the charm and difficulty of the old survival horror games: great for the creators to set up jump-scares, and let the players enjoy literal works of art that our characters traverse through, along with the challenge of limited space and inventory management. Third person, specifically over-the-shoulder, aiming and navigation is far more intuitive and easier, far more aligned for a game with a focus on action (e.g. Resident Evil 6, Gears of War, Army of Two, Max Payne, Red Dead Redemption, Grand Theft Auto 3, 4, etc.). So, while I agree in terms of having comfortable controls, I find the cumbersome fixed-camera and 'tanky' controls actually lends itself well to building a slower survival horror atmosphere, where resources are limited, and every enemy encounter needs to be weighed as a fight-or-flight situation, to conserve whatever health/ammo you have. I wouldn't want to just rush through the RPD station or a nice quiet typewriter room and miss out on that unique ambient experience. P.S. I will say that even almost thirty years later, I am somewhat miffed that the post-game rewards for most survival horror games tend to reward players for speed-running a game, which feels counter-intuitive if you actually want to enjoy the experience. Still, blurring through the Resident Evil 1 gamecube remake in under 3 hours is an interesting challenge, but I prefer to take my time to savor it.

@@AnoNymous-gn6tl Well even if fixed camera make some horror mood, i still can't bear the fact that i could only see one corner of a room, while over the shoulder makes me see the entire view of a room. Thats why i don't enjoy RE1 Remake even if its a masterpiece. But i could enjoy Until Dawn because there's no backtracking, i don't like backtracking with a fixed camera.

​@@thanhvunhat6995 Man them fixed camera angles turned me into a navigation master when played Re1 Remake for the 1st time this past year😂

@@antviper135 Well i found out that i enjoy fixed camera games like Until Dawn but not old Resident Evil games. Why? Well i like backtracking. But with fixed camera angles? No!!!. That's why i like Until Dawn. It don't merge backtracking and fixed camera together.

ONE OF WHATS BETTER?

Better than RE 4.

THE best.

@@joeylol2016 silent hill 2 is the best survival horror game ever made. This game can be considered a second with some other horror games

@@rolan5948 that's just your opinion...

Tank controls are fine. Especially once you get used to them.

I think there is a mod for RE2 remake that turns the camera system into classic RE camera angles. The tank controls are implemented with it as well.

I really don't see how tank controls have a place in this current day. Make it an option to pick, sure, but not as a main control setting. Like how they did with the RE1 HD and RE0 HD

It would be cool if there was like a “classic mode” for the remakes where the option is there for tank controls and fixed cameras. I know that’s not as easy for the devs as it sounds but would be awesome

@@SparcReviews You see, this is the problem with modern audiences!!! Tank controls with fixed camera angles give an exclusive unique experience and perspective on the game that CANNOT happen any other way! If you have convenient controls with a convenient camera perspective, you lose out on that cinematic experience not to mention a unique challenge and strategy that becomes a part of the game through ONLY tank controls and fixed camera angles!!! I CANNOT STAND people who always think “simpler and convenient is ‘always’ better.” That’s simply not true!!! People need to stop wanting everything to be accessible all the fucking time just because it’s “fRuStRaTiNggggg” to have it otherwise!!! Learn to appreciate the benefits and different and SUPERIOR experiences you can get with such a limited control scheme that convenience COULD NEVER BRING!!!

All you have to do is drop the items you want to keep track of in a type writer save room just like you would do with the item box. There's a limit to how many items you can drop per room but it's relatively high. I actually prefer being able to drop items for a key item and be able to come back for it later instead of discarded items just disappearing in to thin air for no reason. They should have had the item box though with the ability to drop and recollect items wherever though. I get having to sacrifice a item to make room for a key item can potentially add to the horror survival factor but in reality most of the time you just have to run all the way back across the map to the item box then come all the way back. I try to keep my items at about 4-5 maximum so I always have several open slots. One firearm, ammo for it, the knife to save bullets and a healing item or a stronger weapon instead of a healing item. The more powerful weapon will protect you from damage but if you're out of shotgun shells, take an herb mix. This should leave you with a few spaces at all times.

Inkribbon as well!

Speaking of Crimson Heads, I imagine that the RE2 Remake could have incorporated them into its gameplay with these changes below. I am curious to know what you would think of them: 1.) Remove the knife fragility mechanic completely and make all knives unbreakable. However, make finding additional knives extremely rare, so there is more pressure to reclaim an embedded knife. Plus, have knives not be able to dismember zombies, as another counterbalance. 2.) Program zombies so that, once they are unconscious, the only additional damage they can take is specifically dismemberment, decapitation, and incineration. That way, players need to expend ammo for that peace of mind. 3.) Because there are far more zombies in the RE2 Remakd, have it be the result of random chance, whether an unconscious-but-intact zombie will rise back up as a Crimson Head. Rather than it being inevitable for certain zombies to become Crimson Heads, like in RE1 Remake, players would need to decide whether it is worth spending ammo to prevent the mere possibility of that zombie getting back up. 4.) Make it possible for zombies to become Crimson Heads, even if they are missing a limb or more. This could be a callback to the Regeneradores in RE4, which even tried to leap at Leon, when a leg was destroyed. 5.) Retcon the lore so that William Birkin’s strain of the T-Virus still makes zombies become Crimson Heads, as a temporary intermediate stage before they fully grow into Lickers.

I played it 2022 the first time and i already call it my favorite game of all time!

That is very creative and a great way to get the point across , but I am also genuinely interested to see how that would go if while driving the rc car the camera kept changing positions .

I plan on it

@@underthemayo noice my guy

Same. I enjoyed it a lot and the only real gripes I have is that collectibles for 100% completion are kind of a chore, the fact they toned some areas down like the lab (it's pretty anemic compared to the original) and the way B scenario barely even matters unlike the original. They added their own new material so it's forgivable but it wasn't straight upgrades. It was 2 steps forward, 1 back instead of 3 steps forward like the first REmake

Remaster. Not remake

They remade it from the ground up though? A remaster is upgrading the graphics and changing virtually nothing else, but they literally remade the entire game and included cut content, rerecorded voice lines, switched puzzles and item locations around, so I dont see how that qualifies as a simple graphical improvement alonr

Yeah I wanted to talk about this game but so many people have analyzed it to death. I figured a fun way to present it would be to talk about it for young players who were unfamiliar.

@@underthemayo Oh yeah absolutely. This wasn't meant as a dis to younger gamers. Nowadays even I get frustrated when a game doesn't feature an autosave or something. Gaming surely has changed. Fantastic review of the game btw. You laid out all the charming points of it, in a manner most of us couldn't.

There aren't enough critical items to do that though, you can always expend all your ammo or use a health item to free up the slot. I'm still not sure if there's even enough items to pick up (that you can't put back) before the sword key to do this with

@@PlotsAndPoints I couldn’t even pick up the ammo. Here’s what I think was in my inventory Pistol Ink ribbons Golden arrow thing Bronze mask And two knives

@@brianfarrell4987 not sure how you managed to get two knives but that is an annoying situation, the only answer would be to just use all your ink ribbons up, not ideal but not the end of the world

You actually can't, because you can consume ammo, herbs, and ink ribbons to free a slot. Hypothetically, the closest you can get for Chris is Blue Gem, Wooden Crest, Knife, Pistol, and then the other two slots can contain large stacks of valuable resources to waste (handgun clips, ink ribbons). This assuming you're playing on a fresh playthrough, and not carrying any bonus unlocks like the infinite ammo handgun, which sort of moots the point of picking up the handgun clips anyway. (Side note: daggers/grenades do not take up inventory space) But I will still acknowledge that the Ink Ribbon and Wood Crest are literally two of the first items you can pick up and potentially waste/clog your inventory with. I wouldn't say that's a 'bad' thing, it teaches that you have limited inventory, limited resources, and that zombies can kill you very quickly, all in under the first hour of the game--and also that you don't need to pick up every single item you see in your first trip through a room, if it's not critical to expanding the amount of area you have to explore and advance the game state. (Edit): Actually, come to think of it, you 'could' soft lock the game as Chris, if you crammed the handgun, knife, blue gemstone, wood emblem, shotgun shells, and an infinite ammo weapon from the bonus playthroughs into your inventory--but you'd have to either be 'trying', and already have beaten the game at least once, or else be playing on the save file of someone who has.

That's literally never happened to me. Didn't know it was possible.

Me too

You MUST play the REmake. Whichever way you can. I'm a huge RE1 fan, I've always liked it more than 2 and 3. This REmake is basically RE1 but better in every way.

@@Walamonga1313 Will do, thank you for the tip. Would you Suggest RE0 as well?

As for RE0, I think The Sphere Hunter’s review does a good job at breaking down its strengths and weaknesses for you to judge. From what I myself recall, I would probably rate my own experience with RE0 an 8/10, while the RE1 Remake gave me a 10/10 experience. If you would like to read my own mini-review below... One on hand, RE0’s general visuals and atmosphere were on par with the RE1 Remake’s presentation, in my opinion. There was a lot of great puzzles and soundtracks in it. I especially loved the inventory controls in that game, with RE Revelations 2’s being the only one that comes close to RE0’s versatility with the inventory. Also like RE Revelations 2, I found the partner zapping system to be an interesting experiment, which allowed some decent creativity with the level design. As far as new monsters go, I especially like the “Mimicry Marcus” leech monsters and the strategies needed to fight them. However, my main issues personally were the lack of convenient item boxes to save time (I agree with Sphere Hunter that the option to either place an item on the ground or put it in a universal item box would be perfect), certain aspects of the story, and the caliber of monsters compared to RE1/RE2/RE3. *spoiler alert below, if you care* I think I would have preferred if James Marcus came back after Spencer’s assassination attempt, because he specifically implanted himself with a Nemesis Alpha Parasite. I would rather have this, than a “Queen Leech” monster just happening to crawl down his throat, which also just happens to have that same ability to duplicate a person’s intellect for no clear reason. That way, it would tie in with RE3, offer a new meaning to those parasites being named after the Greek goddess of divine vengeance, give Marcus a reason to have tentacle attacks in his first form, and make those Nemesis Parasites feel more integrated into the RE lore, rather than the game throwing in “magic leeches”. Granted, I still loved the Mimicry Marcus monsters, more so than Sphere Hunter apparently did. I think they could have still worked beautifully, as monsters that James Marcus unleashes and controls more indirectly, making him a “Queen Leech” in a more figurative rather than literal sense. Speaking of the plot, it kind of creates this gaping continuity problem, unless you go with a canon, in which Rebecca Chambers never met with Chris Redfield early on in the Arklay Mansion. Sphere Hunter complained about Rebecca Chambers being so vulnerable in RE1, after she would have supposedly taken on monsters like a Proto-Tyrant by herself. But that did not bother me much, since I can believe that sleep deprivation, exhaustion, and compounding psychological trauma from the previous 24 hours could weaken her in the short term. But what I do have trouble believing is why Rebecca would not immediately catch Chris up to speed upon meeting him, since she should now know about the Umbrella Corporation and its monsters. RE1 acts like she is just as unsure about the monsters as Chris/Jill. Regarding the variety of monsters, I feel that too many of the bosses not only felt like simple enlarged animals, but more specifically feel like enlarged common backyard pests. That contributed to the variety feeling narrower. I know the RE1 Remake had a few simple enlarged animal mutants as bosses, but it at least had Plant 42, Lisa Trevor, and the Elder Crimson Head (if you count that as a boss) to keep things varied. Plus, one of those three enlarged animal bosses was the Mother Neptune, a mutated shark, which is not exactly a backyard pest. The Proto-Tyrant is literally a failed weaker equivalent to the T-002 Tyrant in RE1, and if it was portrayed as a recurring heavyweight enemy rather than a boss, then it would at least have a more distinct niche. I already alluded to how I would have preferred Marcus being a uniquely grotesque zombie-like mutant, with a Nemesis Alpha Parasite preserving his speech/consciousness and being the source of his tentacle attacks, rather than a Queen Leech impersonating him. To finally talk about the other enemies, that was a mixed bag. The iconic Cerberus, Infected Crows, and Giant Spiders do make a return, but only in a few short segments. The zombies cannot turn into Crimson Heads, which may be a relieving or disappointing thing for some players. The Hunter Alphas from RE1 come back and appear a decent amount of times, which was nice. I loved the Mimicry Marcus and thought the Plague Crawlers were a decent new enemy. However, the Eliminator monkeys were a bit annoying with their attack patterns and had a ridiculous amount of health for something so small. The Lurker frogs just feel like a much more generic equivalent to the RE3 Remake’s reimagined Hunter Gammas, they only seem to appear once or twice, and they feel like yet another big backyard animal.

They’re both my top too haha

I can break down RE this way. Favorite RE PS1: RE3 Nemesis. Favorite Remake: RE1 Remake 2002. Favorite Action Horror RE: RE4.

@Genome Soldat Literally the same opinion as mine. :D

@@ultrairrelevantnobody1862 i need to play 3. Imma just emulate it on gcn at some point

RE 4 is 🤙 hands down the best RE game ever created! 🙂. Just joking, Re 4 is 👎 it's a bad RE game and it ruined the franchise.

Its one of the GOATs.

Nah re2 remake, re2 og and re4 are better

@@nickcassar9552 RE2 (1998) is a strong #2 for me. No way RE2: Remake and RE4 is better... they are good RE games tho.

Sorry bro but you're straight up wrong

You don't play a lot of games, do ya?

I dont feel lost because most of doors are locked or locked from otherside . :D

RE8 is so bad it’s depressing. Best play the remake instead.

You mean remaster

I also feel RE2 remake is in the top three for how it made the RPD darker and felt even more horror.