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@NivNitroX Canonically you should play re2 before re7. For timeline sake. Re7 his good fun, scary at times, and the dlc is kick ass where you play Chris and joe baker
Personally, the scene were jack asks Ethan to save his family was really touching. It really showed that jack was a really good person just wanted to help people out.
i'm so weirdly endeared by the part in sisters where jack says he always wanted to run a bed and breakfast, it's honestly tragic how much the bakers were robbed of
yeah the fact that in flashbacks Jack is seen as a fairly resonable familly man makes the horrer aspect of him becomeing a giant flesh beast more spooky
It wasn’t intentional. She was obsessed with family due to her programming and it led her to infect them so she could control them, it also meant they would never abandon her. She had no concept of adoption or anything of the sorts... she only know what she was programmed to do.
What I think is the saddest part of Jack pleading with Ethan is he doesn't say "safe my family" he says "free my family" he knows Marguerite already died, the only thing left for her is her conscience to be freed, Lucas is too far gone to be saved and Jack doesn't know that Lucas is being messed up by choice, and Zoe just wants to be free.
Also: I think this scene takes place in some kind of hive mind that the souls of those currently infected with the mold live, so this scene foreshadows so many things 1. Jack's still alive 2. Ethan has been infected with the mold 3. Lucas isn't here bc he's mentally free of the mold And also it has me wondering WHEN the characters can actually get here, like when they fall asleep is this what they dream of? If so that would mean that even for those 3 years Zoe still had access to her real mother and father when she went to sleep. However that prob should've given away to them that Lucas was cured
he literally continued the family bloodline in re8 and then came back from the dead to be a gigachad one last time and be a badass. then he started communitcating with his daught like 18 years later while still in the grave and showed her how to become a gigachad badass with her superpowers like he did. Ethan winters is my favourite resident evil character
Seriously I feel like a crazy person for being the only one who caught that. It was implied, but the file explaining how Evelyn had me putting two and two together. The infected mold people are her "family" and she sees Mia as her mommy. Jack laments that he couldn't be "her father" and Mia didn't remember sending Ethan the email. Evelyn purposely lured Ethan to her, with the intention of brainwashing him to be her father. The way she does this is by infecting Ethan with her mold and psychologically breaking him down with hallucinations.
The game makes you think you're always being watched, or something is around. Floor creaks, pipe thuds, loud sudden sounds. Even when you're alone in the Baker's residence, you do not feel alone. This is the only game I've played that has given me an element of REAL TERROR.
Only played the demos, but so far, Village is no deviation. The sound design in the castle particularly is great. It really makes the first person view pop IMO, and I keep hitting the quick reverse button to look behind me
@@crashingspectacular definitely give the original RE3 a try. It was my favorite until 7 came out and the atmosphere, especially the first 1/3 of the game is pretty thick, even 22 years later.
resident evil has always been great at balancing horror with humor jack is simultaneously one of the funniest and one of the scariest video game characters i can think of
It's honestly heart breaking to replay this game and look around the house. You can really get to know the family and their day to day lives which makes it more tragic that Eveline destroyed that family
I keep meaning to go back and play through it again with the new RT update. But I remember how scary it was the first time, and with RT and a better card now, I'm not sure my heart can take it, lol.
Really? I got the opposite reaction. The dude doesn't look down sights and takes an eternity to fire another round lmao. I always got the impression he wasn't too familiar with firearms to further give him that every man vibe.
Tbh the cop didn't know if Ethan was crazy or not so he gave him something to defend himself just in case he really is a victim but also something that's not to effective if Ethan was crazy and decided to kill the cop.
@@BoulderPunch 1. You can easily kill someone with a pocket knife, obviously the cop didn't know that these are not normal people. 2. The cop obviously didn't believe Ethan and thought that Ethan was a kidnapper or something like that. 3. He didn't believe him so why would he give him Ethan a weapon that Ethan could potentially use to attack and kill him? 4. But just in case Ethan was actually telling the truth he gave him a weapon which he can definetely defend himself with but can't use it to attack the officer since a gun is way better than the pocket knife. That should explain it to you pretty well id say. Edit: Ayo guys don't violate me like that, I didn't remember the quote aight😂
What's crazy is that the scene where you lose your foot is completely optional. You can just never have your foot cut off and be left wondering how your hand got reattached all game.
Late reply but if you dont get seen by jack in the 1st bit he wont smash the wall, on my 3rd playthrough i accidentally triggered it after the garage fight on madhouse instead of before because i picked up the hatch key without being spotted.@Orange_Swirl
@@blooddevil2000 I think it just disappears. The same happened when a peace of the head of the deputy is chopped of. It’s one Jack’s shovel and if you can walk by yourself, it’s just gone.
Just gonna say.. RE7’s inventory is NOT anywhere NEAR “too big”. I’ve always felt it’s insanely annoying to deal with because of how often I was running out of space
That’s one of the great things about RE7 they give you just the right amount of space at the right time. There’s still quite a lot of item boxes to help you. RE8 required pretty much no inventory management whatsoever.
I get you, especially after your first few run throughs, at least until you get a bigger inventory. I had so much crafting stuff I didn't need, and running back to the nearest box every half hour gets super frustrating.
Destroying a perfectly normal comment by thanking people for the likes. It's only a matter of time before people come up with a phrase to describe this so people can comment a single word in place of explaining what I am rn.
I got to admit, some of the lines in this game were cheesy, but funny. Especially when Lucas grabs Mia and Ethan just watches and he goes "Well don't just stand there. Do something!"
The scene with his leg getting cut off, i never saw that in like 8-9 playthroughs then it happened on a more recent playthrough, it’s crazy to me how some games can keep things hidden and a new playthrough can have new things for you.
It didn't actually happen to me until I attempted Madhouse difficulty, I didn't know that cutscene happened until my third or fourth playthrough because of that, and it lead me anticipating additional cutscenes throughout the rest of the game lol
The fight in the garage with Jack can also happen two ways. He can chase you around with the car until he crashes or you can get into the car, then he jumps on and makes you crash.
Zoe getting so angry at you saving your wife, as if you would've saved some random stranger you just met in person 5 minutes ago instead, is enough reason to save Mia every time
You feel so much for Zoe, tho. Which might make you go for her. However the fact they wrap it up with the Uncle’s DLC is great. Play that DLC. Great. Fucking awesome. The uncle and Chris Redfield are two of a kind.
@@BAgodmodeyeah but shes the one who said to use it on jack in the first place. why should mia have to deal with the consequences of someone else's decision
Out of all the villains in the Resident Evil games, Jack Baker is EASILY my favorite. He's intimidating as hell but has the comedic charm to him which gives a lot of personality as an antagonist. I love listening to his banter but at the same time when I see him pop around a corner I have damn heart attack. I do wish he showed up more than just in the first portion of the game tho.
I liked him to. I felt bad at the end when I found out him and his family were just being controlled by Evie. And they were just a normal family before
Seriously how did he die? Like didn't the mold cure him ? How is he Dead? Here's what I think. The mold repairs damaged parts of the body and allows you to survive just like a normal human. I've watched RE village but I don't understand what Evelyn says
@@wingingtundra In RE8 it is revealed you are nothing but Mold No skin or bone just mold I’m assuming that after Jack stomped on your head and dragged you back to the house the mold would have consumed your body and taken it consciousness I rly dk how the mold works
@@theashman4290 if that were the case, how could he have a kid? It's more than likely, the mold is him, the mold just probably mimics his DNA, as in it's still him until he does, plus in the scene when he loses his leg, that's his 2nd time being exposed to the mold, so he was still alive at that point, it's more likely the mold assimilates, so the mold becomes Ethan and Ethan becomes mold, they become 1 , so Ethan is still alive, he just isn't made of Ethan flesh and bones, just mold flesh and bones
*Ethan struggling to put Jack Baker down* Zoe: "Use the serum on him!" Zoe two minutes later: "There's only one serum!? What the hell are we gonna do!!?" It pissed me off beyond belief
The reason why Ethan saw the Bakers in a dream like vision, is that every mold infected person has its personality trapped in a giant storage system (as explained in the RE 8 Village game) so every moldy person 's consciousness is connected. That vision backed up the fact that Ethan is infected, and it happened cause they're all connected and the Bakers wanted to have a final moment of redemption.
I mean...and sorry for late reply, Ethan was kinda hella sus for not taking the antidote I think... everybody around him turned to weird mushroom mutants because of spores, hes been around too but no one even bothered to check him???
My favorite part of the ending reveal of Chris is that there was a page on the resident evil wiki for a while with him as a "mercenary going under the name of Redfield". Not even fans believed that was Chris.
@MrKlassic I was definitely a fan of it being HUNK back when it came out but I now look back and think that would've potentially tainted him. Maybe they could've made the reveal that he's a different USS operative - maybe one from Operation Raccoon City or the one from Umbrella Corps (yeah both mediocre, none-canon I know)
@@PersonalAccountIndeed For me, this is how it should’ve been; RE 7 Chris model should’ve been swapped with RE5’s, then RE5 for RE6, and then RE6 model would’ve replaced RE7’s model. RE8 model looks _very_ similar to 6, with the only difference being that in 8, he just looks a lot older. RE7 Chris resembles the original in my opinion, which is why I think it would’ve been better if only they had used it for RE5 instead
Actually, as someone who played the opening of RE 7 a lot more stealthy than you were supposed to I can tell you it's possible to sneak into the crawlspace without Jack knowing. I didn't know he could bust through walls and cut your leg off until subsequent playthroughs.
Neither did I. I played the game 3 times till i noticed it on TH-cam and decided to try it myself. My lame ass was so scared that i didn't decide to bother jack.
I chose Zoe at first only to watch her immediately get axed by eveline and then the game put me in control of Mia at the wrecked ship, inexplicably because Mia didn't follow us into the bayou So then I was like "ah cool I made the wrong choice" and reloaded to my last save in the boathouse
this comment is the example of someone who uses information and context the game gives you to make the right decision instead of brain rot behaviour and then getting the worst ending
27:53 always cracks me up man. The entire game Zoe sounds normal and the second you decide not to give her the cure and she realizes she’s stuck there she reverts back to her accent.
I've never heard that line from Marguerite where she tells Ethan "Don't leave, cher..." but it's cool to think they improvised that line to make her feel more authentic since it's in Louisiana where French Creole is a common dialect with French words mixed in here and there.
I think that scene where jack cuts off your leg and allows you to run is his final inkling of trying to get you to learn how to live. The medicine fixes even your most brutal of wounds, but Evie wouldn't let him say that blatantly. So he had to do it the horrible, gorey Evie way. Jack was a good man. All of the Baker family were good people (except lucas, the little turd.)
Resident Evil 7 players: Making us choose between Zoe and Mia was a stupid thing to do! Resident Evil 8 players: *Not* making us choose between working with Heisenberg or not was a stupid thing to do!
But in that version you'd betray him at the end, but but you'd have a custom metal arm for a meele at some downside Y know to keep the timeline constant
The difference is that he’s nearly the opposite of Mia in terms of character. He’s clearly not the driving force of the story and clearly has some similar interests against Miranda. I think these two aren’t comparable, I think one could say it would have been to wacky or unbelievable for Ethan to do but it’s nowhere near the same as choosing his now weird wife he went looking for or some smart girl.
@@qwej9341 well, that's the entire point. In RE7, they didn't execute it properly, since the player had no real reason to choose Zoe over Mia, and many said that the part where the player decides which one should be cured should have been removed. And now, in RE8, they executed it properly, and the player had a good reason to work with Heisenberg, but also not to work with him, and now you can't choose whether you work with him or not, which upset many players, saying that it should have been an option to take Heisenberg's deal or not.
@@uncleflagzz Your wording in the initial comment makes it seem like you’re trying to point out some sort of hypocrisy by fans of the game that wanted a choice in one game but not the other.
@J The spider ones were the definition of cheap on madhouse, as when the did their jump attack, the attack would hit you multiple times killing you instantly. Fakkkk
@@TonyMacroni633if you haven't played re village don't click read more "3 years ago in Louisiana the Baker house Jack murdered you your body is nothing but mold" he gets murdered after the second fight with Mia when he says "welcome to the family son" and steps on him
I regretted watching this review before playing RE8 because it spoiled the twist for me It's a great video, don't get me wrong. But holy shit, this but me back in the ass.
Nice, now I'm curious for watching a RE8 walkthrough. Thanks for writing possibly the best spoiler comment I've ever seen, you spoiled it enough for me to know something is gonna happen, but not enough for me to know what's gonna happen. Perfect comment. Most of the times people just comment some stupid quote that spoils everything or something like that, but you, you are a real one, one of the last of the original spolier commenters, before netflix, streaming, Game of Thrones, or whatever it was that made people go completely addicted to spoiling everything for one another. Your comment reminds me of those days, when a spoiler was simply a clue, a tip, a slight spark of curiosity, that good old "I don't wanna ruin the end but... something mad is gonna happen" those were the spoiler one day remember? Now it's all "I don't wanna ruin the end but... here's the list of everyone who dies, when, how at each episode and the minute it happens". Our standards for what to endure as a spoiler have gone down the gutter, we used to have respect for each other, what happen? when did it all go wrong? Sorry I went on a rant, your comment was just impressive to me, bravo, stay like that, mustacheless guy. Thank you.
I knew early in 8 because all the enemies would turn to the same dried up (calcified?) mold that all the bosses in re7 did. Plus I didn't think they could possibly have nothing else return from 7 except Mia and Ethan . I even thought we might see a couple of molded's as a goon in some part of the game. Never did though.
This was already explained in Resident Evil 7, there was a file in the mine that said that infected people could put back cut off limbs after mere minutes, so from that it was obvious Ethan was infected and it explained why he could do that with his leg.
well, to be fair, IF they used the fact that Ethan is infected as a game mechanic, they would automatically throw away this plot point, because only if you really pay attention to the narrative and documents you realise Ethan is indeed infected. even the losing leg scene is a hiden scene.
Im really disappointed that no review mentioned the guard mechanic , its a very crucial part of the gameplay , choosing between running away from the enemy and guarding is a very intense gameplay moment , if you run you risk getting hit by the lunge attacks and receiving full damage , but if you succeed you don't take any damage and now you're away from the enemy which is a good thing , but guarding on the other hand only lessens the damage taken and causes you to stumble but it doesn't have that risk factor , also while i hate the lack of enemy variety i gotta say the enemy types present are super fun to fight
I like how in Re8 with Ethan having training you can “parry” and do a push block with the right timing. I also found that perfect timing in 7 seems to reduce damage taken
Thing is, the sisters dlc makes no sense because because in the main game, there’s a piece of paper that states how after evelyn got there, they gradually went crazy. They didn’t go crazy on day one of evelyn being there.
I read here and there that what happens in it it's like a hallucination or something. Kinda like Evelyn showing zoe what they will become. On the other hand, cause it's a dlc I suppose they couldn't show a more gradual decent into madness since it takes days for things to start or something like that.
years later I’ve been attempting to get all the trophies and doing different runs and im at 80%. I finished RE8 like a week after the game came out and enjoyed it for the most part. I wish I could experience RE7 for the first time again though. While some moments can be cheesy or hell even comical at times this game is just pure dread and tense atmosphere and capcom did an excellent job with the level design. The enemies in 7 are nuts as well. Marguerite’s 2nd form to this day terrifies me. RE8 is a decent game but I definitely felt it took like two steps back from the game that 7 is. Hopefully in the future capcom never decides to “tone down the scary” again because mommy milkers definitely wasn’t cutting it.
I agree, gameplay wise something felt off, like a step back mechanically from what they really worked hard to make in the previous installments (personally there were a lot of elements I loved), but in terms of series progress (and plot/themes), it reminded me a lot of BioShock Infinite. You could tell they were more excited about the story, concepts, and characters more than the actual game (for better and worse). I gotta say though, from how it felt, not every part was designed to be "scary". RE7 was a game built on anticipation and dread, RE8 was a game built on feeling overwhelmed and heavy. Each area was specifically tailored to keep you on your toes, and hit Ethan and the audience where it hurt the most at times. Personally, I loved it more than 7. It was a story than I was much more enthralled in, and definitely emotionally hit me harder. It messed me up for a day. Overall it was a fantastic homage to not only the RE series, but horror as a genre.
@@bradolson8022 After finishing RE8 I think I can divvy them up as RE7 has a better story for fans of the "science" side of RE writing, while RE8 is better for fans who want a more emotional story. I like both so loved both games. I prefer RE7 because the concept of Eveline as a villain is just so terrifying imo and I wish we had maybe an E-002 bioweapon show up in future games. But man RE8 is definitely the story that Ethan deserved after 7, it had me almost crying at the end, how many RE games did that to their audience before?
I will never forget right after the dinner scene, I assumed it was a safe area and I could move around freely. So I'm running around and I see Jack Baker looking out the window. Holy shit did that scare the crap out of me, it set the tone for the rest of the game and I never really felt safe throughout. Definitely the scariest of the RE games
Ethan was murdered by Jack in the opening scene and came back as pure mold. Mind blown. RE Village did a nice job tying things up. "Welcome to the family son" also takes on a whole new meaning, welcome to the family of mold.
I don't think Ethan was 100% mold. Maybe his body was filled with mold that made him look alive, hence why Dimitrescu said "starting to go a little stale" after tasting Ethan's blood, which was blood from a 3 year old dead body
@@uncleflagzz and he still had a seemingly human heart shown in the scene were Miranda ripped it out. Also Ethan was somehow able to make a child with Mia and i don’t think this was possibly when his entire body really was nothing but mold like "Eveline" said in his weird dream. In RE7 it was even noticed when the mold replaced every cell in a human body (so 100% i think) the human would turn into a Molded. So yeah probably not his entire body was just mold. One odd thing I’m interested in is that Ethan‘s and Zoe‘s mental state was not really affected by Eveline or the mold? He saw some hallucinations of Eveline but was not crazy affected like the other Baker’s or Mia. So why were they immune to the mind-control?
@@TRYPH I like to think that the Mold works differently with Ethan, only replacing missing tissue with mold, but still being present across the body. But overall Ethan was a walking regenerative corpse
Chose Zoe, it was so stupid. She immediately dies and then Mia teleports to you anyway despite not having a boat. Except now Mia is stuck infected so you can only get the worst ending. I feel pretty cheated by the devs on that Glad I chose her first tho, if I had chose Mia first I would've been curious what happened if I chose Zoe and would've been extremely disappointed
I saved Mia on my playthrough, and I know that's the cannon ending, but I legit felt bad for Zoe. Like really felt bad IRL. My main reason for this was Mia was Ethen's wife, they have history, however, Zoe really put herself out there to help you, putting herself at risk, and for her, it just felt like a raw deal.
That is why I believe the Choice is in this game, so that the player can feel they way would be feeling in this moment, just a lot of pity and sorrow for Zoe, after all that, still becoming one last victim of all this.
The infection and the mind control are two different things but this isn't explained well. The reason Zoe is not controlled by Evie is because Evie wants to be the only daughter. Zoe isn't a part of her ideal family unit. She's trying to replace Zoe. As we see in Daughters, everyone is controlled the moment they are infected except for Zoe. Evie never wanted to control her and could have done at any point. The reason the email is sent is because Evie realised Ethan was Mias husband, this made him the best candidate for her Father and it was also why Jack wanted you dead. He even mentioned how you would replace him before the chainsaw fight.
Does Evie want to be the only daughter? They did kidnap several women as appeared on those lists you can find in the house, but maybe that was for a mother? I wish the game did a better job of explaining it. The issue I have with the email is why now after 3 years? Why not sooner?
@@BoulderPunch Evie sent Mias footage that she filmed on the laptop in the email. That means at some point she found the laptop containing it. In the video Mia calls ethan her husband. I imagine Mia never revealed this to Evie. My guess is that Evie didn't find out about Ethan via reading Mias mind because either 1. She had amnesia, only remembering events after being reminded of them or 2. Evie didn't have full control over Mia like she did with the bakers. Evie's control was down to her own choice. She wanted her mother to be independant and only took control when she wanted her to do something for her. Personally, I think Mia had forgotten about Ethan until he showed up. How did Evie find the laptop inside the ship when she was a wheelchair bound old lady? Well, that old lady managed to move around quite a bit without help. I guess we can only assume that she was able to turn into mold and move around that way. In the final fight we see Evie melt and turn into sludge like the bakers and the thing that attacks in the swamp before you get to the ship deliberately took Ethan. I'm pretty sure that whatever that was in the swamp, it was Evie or in the very least was under her control as we find Evie as a hallucination in the room with Ethan at the end of the ship section. As for how she was able to power the laptop? There is still power on the ship (for some reason) as we turned the elavator back on and there are numberous lights and even a puzzle that are all still functioning. It's all explainable, but there was clearly nowhere to actually tell us how it happened and they probably just assumed we wouldn't notice or care. Evie had people kidnapped, but ultimately just turned them into molded and merged into her hivemind consciousness. So for whatever reason, she had two ideas of a family, one was melding people with her and the other was a traditional family with two parents and a child. Also the people they kidnapped were related to neither the bakers nor mia and all would have resisted her efforts, which is probably why they were all killed or converted. When Evie realised Ethan wasn't having it she tried to kill him too. The real issue I have with the plot is why Evie didn't just calcify Ethan instantly at the start of the game. The Daughters DLC revealed that the mold infection acts instantly and she gains immediate control. This leads to some plot holes. Originally I was under the impression the infection was gradual and that would have made a lot more sense for the plot but that DLC really makes things hard to explain. I don't think they realised how that story would affect the plot when they wrote it.
@@BoulderPunch TL;DR is that Evie found the latop, discovered Ethan was Mias husband and wanted a real family, she lured him to the bakers home and when Ethan tried to help Mia escape with him Eveline turned on him. Zoe was not controlled because Eveline didn't care about her. When Mia woke up Eveline made Mia her mother again, which in her mind made Jack and Marguerite her grandparents. That's why the room with Marguerite's medical notes are in "Grandmas room" and the name itself was a red herring. Personally, I think the DLCs create a lot of plot issues. I'd like them to get retconned, but most likely they will just be ignored and we'll be expected to go along with it.
@@LanaDelReySupremacy getting tired of "best dad award" videogames. Last of us, god of war, now this Best dad ever already belongs to Harry Mason from Silent Hill 1, end of story)
literally 90% of people who were still confused at the end either have actual real brain rot or they just mindlessly threw themselves at the game and tried to pay as least attention possible so they had an excuse to be stupid@@AlshepType
In my opinion, the garage fight with Jack is the best Resident Evil boss fight. I know RE3 had choice making but it always came down to running away or staying to fight which didn’t need a menu to do, just simply make your choice, is what RE7 allows here. This fight had a great setup for the player to interact in this fight. If you go all out and shoot at Jack, you realize he’s not dead after relentlessly spending ammo. Or if you’re clever, you’ll try to enter the car, only to realize you don’t have the car key, to which Jack pulls you out and can start driving your car (a little BS but it’s completely fine in this fight). Then you deal with Jack doing donuts and you are probably amused if the sight while attacking him. OR you can get the keys, space yourself from Jack so he doesn’t pull you out of the car, and start ramming him with free control of the car. This fight has a great combination of both scripted events and player freedom, and just over has a unique premise and great horrifying and hilarious fight. Sadly, this amount of creativity dropped after you beat Jack in the chainsaw fight. Margurite was a huge let down, her house was boring, the fight was same generic RE bossfight except surprisingly worse. The Cabin fight with Jack was meh. And Evelyn was a scripted bullet sponge in a short hallway. This absence of creativity in free form bossfights shows in RE2make and RE3make, and even RE8.
Resident Evil 7 uses terror very well insted of using jumpscares evry 5 minutes it uses atmosphere to cause you dread and stress making you feel like your in Ethan's shoes you feal truly immersed
The first person camera really makes it feel like you’re in the baker house. This is easily the most scary RE for me. I could only imagine what it’s like in VR mode while playing for the first time lol
@@MR.__G Indeed. Also, just walking down the hallways and as you pass the windows, hearing the somehow sinister wind howling outside. The atmosphere, particularly on the 1st playthrough is astonishingly overwhelming. You really do feel like you're in Ethan's shoes. Amazing, terrifying game.
I know I'm a bit late to the party replying to this, but I agree. Capcom actually said they had to tone back RE8 because RE7 was so scary, they had players not finishing the game because of it. It's a completely new breed of horror that we're not used to and don't see often in this day and age, and it really caught a ton of people off guard.
Without having played Village, but having played all the other games sans some spinoffs, I think this is my....favorite Resident Evil game? It's not only scary, but with the DLC it's jam packed with content and it's all replayable as hell.
yeah. Just stop at 7. Village is great gameplaywise...but oh boy...the story is....well. Its a story. If you like dumb and over the top m night shyamalan style plottwists....get ready. if not and youre like me...The plottwist will physically hurt you. And the worst part is. i cant even say it makes no sense cause it actually makes a lot of sense. its just incredible dumb and frustrating and i cant believed i still feel robbed even 2 years later.
@@LaCazaLPcan't believe I'm not the only one who thinks that game's story took a dumpster dive, RE8 left a horrid taste in my mouth and I can't even watch RE7 vids without thinking about how much of an ahole Redfield was.
The first person perspective was a great choice for this game. While I don't like low FOV in first person games, it actually worked really well in RE7. It's a lot scarier when everything feels cramped and claustrophobic like low FOV values tend to do. I'm glad they increased the FOV for RE8 though, since there's a heavy focus on action this time around more peripheral vision is a welcome change. Ethan seems fucking pissed too, not to mention a lot more proficient with weapons since it's not his first time around. Super stoked for that game, it needs to come out now!
The grab from behind bits scare me the most when I’m in the weird mansion being hunted by Jack, and I have him cornered with a perfect plan, I hear footsteps, and can’t wait to shoot this fucker, then he comes out of nowhere and twists me back, and beats the shit out of me
I honestly can not believe this game is 5 years old now. Feels like just yesterday I was eagerly waiting this game by consuming any and all info about it.
Why, after 3 years of his wife being presumed dead, does Ethan just go to where his wife is? Wouldn't he show the evidence to the police? I know this is a nitpick but man it bothers me.
Same as why claire would go looking for chris 2 games in a row by herself. Or why they would send a single operative to find the presidents daughter. Videogames mang...
You could make the argument that if Ethan genuinely thought she was being held against her will that rocking up to the kidnappers house with sirens blaring might just make them kill her. Or if he thinks she left of her own will (free to do so as an adult), as implied by her choosing to warn him not to come then it's probably not the best time to show up with sirens blaring and trigger happy cops if it turns out she'd maybe started a new secret family who don't know about him and has another child involved (SWAT teams have done shit like thrown a flashbang in a baby's crib when they got the wrong address so might not be the best to let them storm into an unknown situation where innocents could get hurt)
One thing I loved about the DLC was expanding upon Clancy Jarvis as a character. I also think his performance was underrated as a voice actor. He really sold an uneasy voice or one riddled with fear.
clancy is an absolute mvp, he technically survived all of Lucas' little games (dlc, the poker game, ...) and only ever lost when the game was unwinnable (the birthday one)
i’ve played pretty much all of the resident evil games and this is undoubtedly my favourite, not only my favourite resident evil but my favourite horror game also. a true masterpiece.
The way Ethan finds Mia is actually different. That video Mia made at the beginning never reached Ethan. At the very beginning of the game, you have a packet revealing the Baker address and Mia simply says "come get me." And the email also has a date of 4 days prior
I seem to be in the minority preferring 7 to Village. One seemed like a clear and consistent vision, while the other to me feels like a weird mashup of conflicting design philosophies. As an action game, the shooting lacks impact and the controls are unresponsive. As a horror game, where weaker shooting and Ethan's slowness make more sense, it throws way too much ammo at you and lacks the sense of internal reality that made the Dulvey Estate and the Bakers so scary. Village is the better game for sure, but the disconnect between the gameplay of each area reminds me of the separate campaigns of 6. Both suggest that Capcom doesn't know how to marry action and horror, and satisfy the different demands of its fanbase, in a single coherent experience.
@@homeoessential2741 I think you’ve misunderstood me. It’s only the “better” game in the sense of being more accessible / having a broader appeal, but that’s because the game throws everything at the wall with no clear direction, throughline or sense of identity. It feels like a collection of demos made by different teams.
@@theconmantube3449 he hadn't been infected at that time and stomping someone at a certain angle can kill them - also considering Jack had insane strength due to the mold, his stomp must be very strong and at the angle Ethan's head fell, those two factors played a role in killing him when he was just a normal human being.
@@oukahershel2931 It’s one of RE8’s biggest plotholes. How can Jack survive being blown up twice and still live up until End of Zoe, but Ethan loses his heart and only has like 30 more minutes to live.
I’m glad to hear that Ethan is going to be more of a character in RE village and have more of a personality than he did in this one which is something that my friend and I would always think was a little funny or off putting sometimes
Not as weird as sending an agent alone in a very secluded village, confirmed that its residents are hostile through his radio communication to one of the government’s radio operator and not send some backup until late in the game with only 1 chopper. I tend to enjoy the game if i just let go of details like that. It is funny tho
@@marksantiago9841 You know what's better? Sending a rookie agent and a madman veteran equipped with bowie knifes and pistols to invade a small country filled with BOW's just to kill a drug dealer and kidnap his daughter.
I speedrun re7 and some fun facts about the start of the game specifically after the meal If your quick enough you can avoid the scene where jack cuts ethans leg off as well as skipping the scene where jack breaks the hallway wall while walking through it and that wall will stay not broken for the entire game
Can't stress enough how amazing this game truly is, it was, to sum it up, a perfect game for me, and will be one of the best games I have played in recent times
Watch MauLer he did another in-depth review. It is around 2 hour long I think (but broken down into smaller videos each covering a different aspect of the game if I remember correctly).
Mauler is far more in-depth for critique. Sure he can be nitpicky and I wish he'd look at more than just capeshit and Disney Star Wars for the most part, but he obviously cares.
@@BoulderPunch Yeah I think Mauler provides good content. His early game reviews (for Amnesia, Outlast and RE7 were great - even if he got a few specifics wrong) mostly because he broke down the games chronologically and then spent a good amount of time to examine other elements (like enviroment design - or in outlast 'subverting expectations'). In some of his film reviews he ends up going over every last detail, although I do appreciate the time he puts into explaining where he thinks films did well or poorly. Still I feel like this your review was a good review for the amount of time spent on the subject (keep up the good work). I just felt that if people appreciated your review of RE7 for its depth that they might also enjoy Maulers review of the game. *edited for spelling
The reason Jack was there in the "End of Zoe" DLC is because when you fight him the second time in the base game, you cut him in half. from there he regens into 2 separate things. the one you fight at the end of the base game in the 3rd jack fight is his lower half. :)
Its so weird what they did to Chris in Re7. Like yeah. he looks a little different every time we see him but there was at least consistency between his different looks. At least he looked like the same person. In RE: Verse. So weird
@@lemon64k49 wouldn't be surprised if Capcom switched his RE7 face with the RE8 one in a future remaster like Insomniac did for Spiderman. I think what makes RE7 chris look weird is how thin the jaw line is, and how the chin and neck kinda "merge", compared to RE7, Chris in other games always had a kinda wide jawline and a stronger chin, RE8 Chris has those features, which is why he kinda resembles his RE5 appearence, which was pretty much the RE1 remake model but more jacked.
I actually prefer RE7 over RE8: Village… In general, RE7 just stands out as the new age/ 1st Person Perspective version of the original Resident Evil format (more akin to the isolated feeling of the mansion). Whereas Village started where RE7 left off, using the same style of approach, only using RE4 as inspiration over the OG formula. And I personally have always preferred the original Resident Evil format to that of RE4.
Same here ! 8 should’ve kept the item box, limited inventory & resource management. Those are key elements in a RE game. 8 is definitely a fun game, plays a lot like 4, but I really love how 7 went back to its origins.
@@UponDemise666 now we must wait & see what 9 brings to the table. This has a chance to be a really good trilogy. Definitely will be better than the second trilogy ( 4-5-6 )
@@MR.__G i think will be a great game and trilogy but i don’t think they’ll be able to do the horror thing that much. cuz we will probs be playing as either Chris/ mia or rose. Chris is military trained (mia too i think) and rose has special powers so kinda be hard to make it super scary with them. Mia might be the best bet. but i know the game will be sad because it will probably end up with rose having to be killed
In the choice between zoe or mia, i instantly chose mia, despite her cutting off our hand it really wasn’t much of an option. We barely know zoe, and more likely than not zoe was only helping us to get herself out. Mia is not only our wife but the sole purpose of why we went to the house in the first place. It feels like a real cop out to go through this entire thing to save mia, then to pick someone who we dont know anything about who dies not 5 minutes later lmao
I chose mia too, I feel like since it’s a very role play focused game. We’re Ethan, no matter how much I felt about Mia, since Ethan cared so much about her still and didn’t seem to care about her.... cutting his hand off, I still felt compelled to choose her above anything else.
First time I played RE7 was also the first VR game I played. In 20+ years of gaming, it was the first time I actually had to take some breaks because I was to stressed out.
Combining Mia and Zoe's role in the story makes a lot of sense. Just finished the game and found Zoe more interesting due to the phone calls and her insight on her family
25:10 I never understood the controversy. It's your wife. Your life partner. Literally, the whole reason you came here in the first place, of course, I'm giving the serum to her, it's not even a question or debate. Doesn't make sense to hold anything against her if she's clearly influenced by the infection. It's such a nonargument. It makes sense to me that it just wouldn't even be a choice.
That was my man's argument too lmao Ethan even says "who else was I gonna pick?" Zoe was great and all, but she did offer up one of the serums to kill Jack. If she really wanted it there are other ways to take a tyrant down. Her "quick thinking" was her ration and she said to use it up.
Everyone who has ever said they held the chainsaw event or her constant changing personalities against her in this scene just tells me that they weren't paying attention to the plot. At that point in the game, 100% of her antagonistic behavior was clearly and obviously caused by the infection... that you're holding the cure for. "I didn't give her the cure to the infection, because she hurt me with the symptoms of the infection." It makes no sense. If they wanted to make the choice feel real, Ethan needed to have reason to believe Mia was a willing participant in the experiments, while Zoe was an innocent victim. But, given that plot-wise picking Zoe isn't a canon choice anyway, they really should have just made it a cutscene.
SO TRUE like it's just such a weird thought to have ethan forsake everything he'd gone through for mia alone just for some woman he met that day who decided to help him out. even then, he still managed to get help for zoe afterwards anyway.
But the whole reason you could save your wife was because of Zoe... if it wasn't for Zoe Ethan would have no idea there was a serum or how to make it. After Zoe's help you managed to get the serum but Zoe can't even benefit from it. It's really weird if you didn't at least feel sad for her and like you betrayed, that kind of selfishness is kinda psychopathic tbh
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I noticed that too lmao but it’s really no biggie it’s funnier then anything
After all that work to miss something like that...
Ah, my favorite youtuber, Boudler Punch
You worked so hard on this video and then didn't realize the first word in the entire video is misspelled. Boudler punch lmfao
Jack is slasher movies, Margiette is body horror, Lucas is the Saw franchise.
Eveline is supernatural horror
So dang true that can’t say anything else
/torture pron
This is why I love RE7. It felt like an homage to all my favorite horror movies.
Playing through that section really made me mad we don't have a saw video game
"welcome to the family son" This was the same way my father in law greeted me when I married his daughter. Straight jab to the face.
*hold up*
Hell of a family welcome.
Makes me appreciate mine even more. But the guy is awesome anyways, I dubbed him "Batman", just so you get the idea ;)
idk why this made me laugh 😂
meanwhile subtitles "Welcome to the family song" lmao
Can we talk about how Zoe literally tells Ethan to use the serum on jack then acts surprised when there’s only one left
I WAS HOPING SOMEONE WOULD BRING THIS UP.
Yo trueee
@NivNitroX RE7!
@NivNitroX RE7 is my favorite Resident Evil besides the new remake.
@NivNitroX Canonically you should play re2 before re7. For timeline sake. Re7 his good fun, scary at times, and the dlc is kick ass where you play Chris and joe baker
Personally, the scene were jack asks Ethan to save his family was really touching. It really showed that jack was a really good person just wanted to help people out.
I always liked that scene
The only time RE managed to feel more than a meme and had depth in it's "villains"
Jack > all Re Village villains. Change my mind
I was way more anxious and intense about fighting Jack than any of the re village bosses. I think he's one of the best villains in the re franchise.
I felt for the baker's, minus Lucas of course
i'm so weirdly endeared by the part in sisters where jack says he always wanted to run a bed and breakfast, it's honestly tragic how much the bakers were robbed of
yeah the fact that in flashbacks Jack is seen as a fairly resonable familly man makes the horrer aspect of him becomeing a giant flesh beast more spooky
Yeah the fact that it shows that deep down they were good hearted and kind people, makes it more horrific what happened to them in the end.
god, i hate og umbrella corp
yeah its super sad
@@therideneverends1697 yeah the fact that this all happened because they helped a little girl that was unconscious and out in the bog makes it sadder
What hurts even more is that the Bakers probably would've adopted Eveline or help her get adopted, and yet she still infected them
It wasn’t intentional. She was obsessed with family due to her programming and it led her to infect them so she could control them, it also meant they would never abandon her.
She had no concept of adoption or anything of the sorts... she only know what she was programmed to do.
I feel so bad for the Bakers, they were so nice
@@tarlok6936 except for Lucas...
@@ShaneLee3292 yeah, fuck lucas
Yeah Lucas definitely had some mental issues even before he got infected.
What I think is the saddest part of Jack pleading with Ethan is he doesn't say "safe my family" he says "free my family" he knows Marguerite already died, the only thing left for her is her conscience to be freed, Lucas is too far gone to be saved and Jack doesn't know that Lucas is being messed up by choice, and Zoe just wants to be free.
Also: I think this scene takes place in some kind of hive mind that the souls of those currently infected with the mold live, so this scene foreshadows so many things
1. Jack's still alive
2. Ethan has been infected with the mold
3. Lucas isn't here bc he's mentally free of the mold
And also it has me wondering WHEN the characters can actually get here, like when they fall asleep is this what they dream of? If so that would mean that even for those 3 years Zoe still had access to her real mother and father when she went to sleep. However that prob should've given away to them that Lucas was cured
“Welcome to the family, son”
This line hit me so much differently after playing through RE8.
Ehh no.
@@Xiter2024 What do you mean no lol
he literally continued the family bloodline in re8 and then came back from the dead to be a gigachad one last time and be a badass. then he started communitcating with his daught like 18 years later while still in the grave and showed her how to become a gigachad badass with her superpowers like he did. Ethan winters is my favourite resident evil character
Seriously I feel like a crazy person for being the only one who caught that. It was implied, but the file explaining how Evelyn had me putting two and two together. The infected mold people are her "family" and she sees Mia as her mommy. Jack laments that he couldn't be "her father" and Mia didn't remember sending Ethan the email. Evelyn purposely lured Ethan to her, with the intention of brainwashing him to be her father. The way she does this is by infecting Ethan with her mold and psychologically breaking him down with hallucinations.
@@Xiter2024how is it "no" he literally did become part of the family. like.
Knowing who Ethan is now, "Welcome to the family son" is so much more telling.
Omg yeah. I need to replay 7 after finishing 8
Mold super colony in Ethan shape
That's the real Tragedy of Ethan Winters
My boy Ethan the mold god
It really doesn't make sense.
He wasn't infected as long as Mia or Zoe and yet Ethan became a mold super hero? What.
Eveline won in the end. Ugh.
The game makes you think you're always being watched, or something is around. Floor creaks, pipe thuds, loud sudden sounds. Even when you're alone in the Baker's residence, you do not feel alone. This is the only game I've played that has given me an element of REAL TERROR.
Only played the demos, but so far, Village is no deviation. The sound design in the castle particularly is great. It really makes the first person view pop IMO, and I keep hitting the quick reverse button to look behind me
@@crashingspectacular have you played 7 all the way through?
@@stolenname94 Yes, it was my first RE game and I love it, it's got me going through the series for the first time now
@@crashingspectacular definitely give the original RE3 a try. It was my favorite until 7 came out and the atmosphere, especially the first 1/3 of the game is pretty thick, even 22 years later.
@@goobermagoob9160 ill give it a shot, the remake was kind of fun but I'd love to try out the original
Jack and the Baker family were absolutely perfect. They were scary, nasty, slightly comedic and absolutely memorable. Love them
resident evil has always been great at balancing horror with humor jack is simultaneously one of the funniest and one of the scariest video game characters i can think of
Too cringe for me
It's honestly heart breaking to replay this game and look around the house. You can really get to know the family and their day to day lives which makes it more tragic that Eveline destroyed that family
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I keep meaning to go back and play through it again with the new RT update. But I remember how scary it was the first time, and with RT and a better card now, I'm not sure my heart can take it, lol.
I like the fact ethan knows how to use a gun so well even though he's a civilian, cool detail which shows he is texan
I do think it's silly that he knows how to use a flamethrower and a rocket laucher
@@Bsjs7uu they teach all of us Texans how to use them in 7th grade for Texas history brother
Really? I got the opposite reaction. The dude doesn't look down sights and takes an eternity to fire another round lmao. I always got the impression he wasn't too familiar with firearms to further give him that every man vibe.
@@LeOneToyotaI was doing the joke
@@mitchelltrotter8406 I think he was responding to OP
I still laugh when the cop gives him a pocket knife
Tbh the cop didn't know if Ethan was crazy or not so he gave him something to defend himself just in case he really is a victim but also something that's not to effective if Ethan was crazy and decided to kill the cop.
A fucking pocket knife?
@@BoulderPunch 1. You can easily kill someone with a pocket knife, obviously the cop didn't know that these are not normal people.
2. The cop obviously didn't believe Ethan and thought that Ethan was a kidnapper or something like that.
3. He didn't believe him so why would he give him Ethan a weapon that Ethan could potentially use to attack and kill him?
4. But just in case Ethan was actually telling the truth he gave him a weapon which he can definetely defend himself with but can't use it to attack the officer since a gun is way better than the pocket knife.
That should explain it to you pretty well id say.
Edit: Ayo guys don't violate me like that, I didn't remember the quote aight😂
I play the game with friends and we quote the shit out of the game the whole way through. It’s so funny
@@thefan1629 it’s just a quote son calm down
I like how a Japanese studio makes better southern characters than most american writers
"Japan isn't cultured"
@@RealShrimpu said none ever
@@RealShrimpu nobody has ever said that stfu
Most major American writers are coastal snobs.
@@AzureSymbiote This 100%
What's crazy is that the scene where you lose your foot is completely optional. You can just never have your foot cut off and be left wondering how your hand got reattached all game.
So is the breaking through the wall. On my first playthrough I never got my foot cut off, and on my second, I prevented Jack from smashing that wall
@@isaywhateveriwantandyougot7421
How'd ya do that?
impossible its a scripted event so youre lying or you modded the game making your achievement invalid@@isaywhateveriwantandyougot7421
Late reply but if you dont get seen by jack in the 1st bit he wont smash the wall, on my 3rd playthrough i accidentally triggered it after the garage fight on madhouse instead of before because i picked up the hatch key without being spotted.@Orange_Swirl
"Daddy's coming"
I'll take 100 for things you don't want to hear from your wife.
well Daddy's story is now done
@@TimeBomb014X Lol.
@@TimeBomb014X lmao
@@drakenpage6776
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Unless your wife is talking about you 😏
I think it's hilarious that when Jack cuts off Lucas's arm, he says not again which means its happened multiple times.
Also by the fridge there’s a note that says “has anyone seen my leg” which implies jack cuts off his his limbs and hides them
My question is what happens to the arm he has it walking around the table and then it vanishes
@@blooddevil2000 I think it just disappears. The same happened when a peace of the head of the deputy is chopped of. It’s one Jack’s shovel and if you can walk by yourself, it’s just gone.
@@bart5653 power of the e series
@@blooddevil2000 of course😂
That footage of the dev team reenacting the dinner scene was adorable. What a neat way to see if it works.
Just gonna say.. RE7’s inventory is NOT anywhere NEAR “too big”. I’ve always felt it’s insanely annoying to deal with because of how often I was running out of space
That’s one of the elements that made resident evil so great. Inventory management. Very glad 7 brought it back.
I agree, had the same problem in both of my playthroughs
That’s one of the great things about RE7 they give you just the right amount of space at the right time. There’s still quite a lot of item boxes to help you. RE8 required pretty much no inventory management whatsoever.
Laughs in re2
I get you, especially after your first few run throughs, at least until you get a bigger inventory. I had so much crafting stuff I didn't need, and running back to the nearest box every half hour gets super frustrating.
As a teen growing up in the south I can confirm "Dat boy's gotta eat, he gotta have his suppa" is the way suppa is.
suppa chain
suppa
@@scipioafricanus133 No it gets stabbed with a fork tho.
Destroying a perfectly normal comment by thanking people for the likes. It's only a matter of time before people come up with a phrase to describe this so people can comment a single word in place of explaining what I am rn.
@@maximusstorm1215 Bro wtf u talkin bout.
I got to admit, some of the lines in this game were cheesy, but funny.
Especially when Lucas grabs Mia and Ethan just watches and he goes "Well don't just stand there. Do something!"
Nearlyy every Lucas line is quotable.
Yeah, that one legitimately cracked me up.
If it doesn't have cheesy lines, it ain't an RE game.
Groovy! That's not groovy.
Whole game feels like a mix of comedy and horror. The fights with jack are insane
The scene with his leg getting cut off, i never saw that in like 8-9 playthroughs then it happened on a more recent playthrough, it’s crazy to me how some games can keep things hidden and a new playthrough can have new things for you.
It happened to me on my first playthrough it scared the living crap out of me
Happend on my first play through but I didn’t know what to do so I died
It didn't actually happen to me until I attempted Madhouse difficulty, I didn't know that cutscene happened until my third or fourth playthrough because of that, and it lead me anticipating additional cutscenes throughout the rest of the game lol
I actually had a molded cut my leg off in the basement. I had no clue that could happen.
The fight in the garage with Jack can also happen two ways. He can chase you around with the car until he crashes or you can get into the car, then he jumps on and makes you crash.
Zoe getting so angry at you saving your wife, as if you would've saved some random stranger you just met in person 5 minutes ago instead, is enough reason to save Mia every time
You feel so much for Zoe, tho. Which might make you go for her. However the fact they wrap it up with the Uncle’s DLC is great.
Play that DLC. Great. Fucking awesome. The uncle and Chris Redfield are two of a kind.
@@BAgodmodeyeah but shes the one who said to use it on jack in the first place. why should mia have to deal with the consequences of someone else's decision
@@boinqity4621 Technically Mia went there on her own accord and lied about it.
@@ok.4720it was her job she had to lie as it was classified
@@goreandhoodies3626 Still went there on her own accord. So it's still Mia's consequence.
Out of all the villains in the Resident Evil games, Jack Baker is EASILY my favorite. He's intimidating as hell but has the comedic charm to him which gives a lot of personality as an antagonist. I love listening to his banter but at the same time when I see him pop around a corner I have damn heart attack. I do wish he showed up more than just in the first portion of the game tho.
They struck gold with him.
Yeah he's funny, but Wesker is an OG who would be every RE player's favorite villain
I liked him to. I felt bad at the end when I found out him and his family were just being controlled by Evie. And they were just a normal family before
Some of the animations with Jack are nightmare inducing, like the one where he lifts you in the air and the scissor chainsaw hybrid death.
@@mahmood6149 it's true you can't beat the og.
“Welcome to the family son”
Still can’t believe Ethan actually died in this scene
Same😭
Seriously how did he die? Like didn't the mold cure him ?
How is he Dead?
Here's what I think. The mold repairs damaged parts of the body and allows you to survive just like a normal human. I've watched RE village but I don't understand what Evelyn says
@@wingingtundra
In RE8 it is revealed you are nothing but Mold
No skin or bone just mold
I’m assuming that after Jack stomped on your head and dragged you back to the house the mold would have consumed your body and taken it consciousness
I rly dk how the mold works
@@theashman4290 same. It's still confusing for me. Thank you for answering my question btw
@@theashman4290 if that were the case, how could he have a kid? It's more than likely, the mold is him, the mold just probably mimics his DNA, as in it's still him until he does, plus in the scene when he loses his leg, that's his 2nd time being exposed to the mold, so he was still alive at that point, it's more likely the mold assimilates, so the mold becomes Ethan and Ethan becomes mold, they become 1 , so Ethan is still alive, he just isn't made of Ethan flesh and bones, just mold flesh and bones
*Ethan struggling to put Jack Baker down*
Zoe: "Use the serum on him!"
Zoe two minutes later: "There's only one serum!? What the hell are we gonna do!!?"
It pissed me off beyond belief
Fr i was so mad at her stupidity
Then she says you’ve got to make a choice on who to give it to. The player decides. And we get a passive aggressive and selfish response.
lmao women am I right?
and then she makes us chose and then if we choose mia she gets mad. girl WHAT were you expecting?
@@jannytrash6171WORD!!!!
To this day the safe room music still gives me chills, it's such a unique jingle. Re7 stands out so well
The reason why Ethan saw the Bakers in a dream like vision, is that every mold infected person has its personality trapped in a giant storage system (as explained in the RE 8 Village game) so every moldy person 's consciousness is connected. That vision backed up the fact that Ethan is infected, and it happened cause they're all connected and the Bakers wanted to have a final moment of redemption.
basically....
M O L D
P A T H S
@@Ligam3731 I see what you did there. You sly human being.
I mean...and sorry for late reply, Ethan was kinda hella sus for not taking the antidote I think... everybody around him turned to weird mushroom mutants because of spores, hes been around too but no one even bothered to check him???
@@cactusmann5542 he's just an alpha male
@@Ligam3731 whose memories are those
My favorite part of the ending reveal of Chris is that there was a page on the resident evil wiki for a while with him as a "mercenary going under the name of Redfield". Not even fans believed that was Chris.
The drastic change to Chris was and still is stupid. They fixed it with Resident Evil 8 but RE7 Chris definitely feels false.
@MrKlassic I was definitely a fan of it being HUNK back when it came out but I now look back and think that would've potentially tainted him. Maybe they could've made the reveal that he's a different USS operative - maybe one from Operation Raccoon City or the one from Umbrella Corps (yeah both mediocre, none-canon I know)
@MrKlassic Capcom were inhaling crack when making those games.
I thought maybe it was a clone.
@@PersonalAccountIndeed For me, this is how it should’ve been;
RE 7 Chris model should’ve been swapped with RE5’s, then RE5 for RE6, and then RE6 model would’ve replaced RE7’s model. RE8 model looks _very_ similar to 6, with the only difference being that in 8, he just looks a lot older. RE7 Chris resembles the original in my opinion, which is why I think it would’ve been better if only they had used it for RE5 instead
Actually, as someone who played the opening of RE 7 a lot more stealthy than you were supposed to I can tell you it's possible to sneak into the crawlspace without Jack knowing. I didn't know he could bust through walls and cut your leg off until subsequent playthroughs.
Neither did I. I played the game 3 times till i noticed it on TH-cam and decided to try it myself. My lame ass was so scared that i didn't decide to bother jack.
i am always a stealth player cuz i get so scared jsbdidhs and yeah there were some things i did that i noticed not a lot of lets plays experienced
I knew you could avoid losing your leg but how do you keep him from breaking through the wall?
I chose Zoe at first only to watch her immediately get axed by eveline and then the game put me in control of Mia at the wrecked ship, inexplicably because Mia didn't follow us into the bayou
So then I was like "ah cool I made the wrong choice" and reloaded to my last save in the boathouse
Literally my exact experience 😂
I still choose Zoe on replay Just out of spite for Mia(she also dies in the end).
this comment is the example of someone who uses information and context the game gives you to make the right decision instead of brain rot behaviour and then getting the worst ending
😊😅
27:53 always cracks me up man. The entire game Zoe sounds normal and the second you decide not to give her the cure and she realizes she’s stuck there she reverts back to her accent.
Yeah that scene and when Ethan says “A fucking pocketknife?” always crack me up
"Dat boy's gotta eat, he gotta have his suppa"
“What about you Patrick, hmmmm? A big boy’s gotta eat”
I fucking love supper!!
Pretty much every line from him is quotable.
Here come dat boi
"This was supposed to be a very special feast! Come here boy..."
I've never heard that line from Marguerite where she tells Ethan "Don't leave, cher..." but it's cool to think they improvised that line to make her feel more authentic since it's in Louisiana where French Creole is a common dialect with French words mixed in here and there.
I think that scene where jack cuts off your leg and allows you to run is his final inkling of trying to get you to learn how to live.
The medicine fixes even your most brutal of wounds, but Evie wouldn't let him say that blatantly. So he had to do it the horrible, gorey Evie way.
Jack was a good man. All of the Baker family were good people (except lucas, the little turd.)
Oh shit I didn’t think about like that also fuck lucas😂
One of my favorite Ethan quotes from 8 was “In death as he was in life. Disgusting.”
He was just trying to impress mother Miranda, don't do him like that🙁😕
And then we have the Duke “ lady dimitrescu! Beautiful even in death. That waistline, yes!” :)))
Actually it's "In death as he was in life. The exit's up ahead."
@@FinneousPJ1 No.
@@angelashinner based cultured duke
Resident Evil 7 players: Making us choose between Zoe and Mia was a stupid thing to do!
Resident Evil 8 players: *Not* making us choose between working with Heisenberg or not was a stupid thing to do!
But in that version you'd betray him at the end, but but you'd have a custom metal arm for a meele at some downside
Y know to keep the timeline constant
The difference is that he’s nearly the opposite of Mia in terms of character. He’s clearly not the driving force of the story and clearly has some similar interests against Miranda. I think these two aren’t comparable, I think one could say it would have been to wacky or unbelievable for Ethan to do but it’s nowhere near the same as choosing his now weird wife he went looking for or some smart girl.
@@qwej9341 well, that's the entire point.
In RE7, they didn't execute it properly, since the player had no real reason to choose Zoe over Mia, and many said that the part where the player decides which one should be cured should have been removed.
And now, in RE8, they executed it properly, and the player had a good reason to work with Heisenberg, but also not to work with him, and now you can't choose whether you work with him or not, which upset many players, saying that it should have been an option to take Heisenberg's deal or not.
@@uncleflagzz Your wording in the initial comment makes it seem like you’re trying to point out some sort of hypocrisy by fans of the game that wanted a choice in one game but not the other.
@@qwej9341 Well, seems like it but I'm pointing out the irony
For me personally, the molded remained terrifying throughout the entire game.
especially those spider ones
@@LanaDelReySupremacy reminds me of those mimic creatures in the game Preu.
@J The spider ones were the definition of cheap on madhouse, as when the did their jump attack, the attack would hit you multiple times killing you instantly. Fakkkk
I still found them terrifying but I thought there could've been a bit more variety in their designs.
Going back and playing Resident Evil 7 after 8 is an insane experience.
Why?
@@TonyMacroni633if you haven't played re village don't click read more
"3 years ago in Louisiana the Baker house Jack murdered you your body is nothing but mold" he gets murdered after the second fight with Mia when he says "welcome to the family son" and steps on him
@@TonyMacroni633the plot makes more sense I presume. Res8 reveals a lot abt the res evil plot
Little did we know that the events in Resident Evil 7 would play a giant role in the end of Resident Evil 8
I regretted watching this review before playing RE8 because it spoiled the twist for me
It's a great video, don't get me wrong. But holy shit, this but me back in the ass.
Fuck you and your spoilers.. maybe if you had a job..a kid..or a life ,you wouldn't have beat it in one day,don't ruin it for the rest of ys
Nice, now I'm curious for watching a RE8 walkthrough. Thanks for writing possibly the best spoiler comment I've ever seen, you spoiled it enough for me to know something is gonna happen, but not enough for me to know what's gonna happen. Perfect comment. Most of the times people just comment some stupid quote that spoils everything or something like that, but you, you are a real one, one of the last of the original spolier commenters, before netflix, streaming, Game of Thrones, or whatever it was that made people go completely addicted to spoiling everything for one another. Your comment reminds me of those days, when a spoiler was simply a clue, a tip, a slight spark of curiosity, that good old "I don't wanna ruin the end but... something mad is gonna happen" those were the spoiler one day remember? Now it's all "I don't wanna ruin the end but... here's the list of everyone who dies, when, how at each episode and the minute it happens". Our standards for what to endure as a spoiler have gone down the gutter, we used to have respect for each other, what happen? when did it all go wrong? Sorry I went on a rant, your comment was just impressive to me, bravo, stay like that, mustacheless guy. Thank you.
I see you on every comment section. How
I knew early in 8 because all the enemies would turn to the same dried up (calcified?) mold that all the bosses in re7 did. Plus I didn't think they could possibly have nothing else return from 7 except Mia and Ethan . I even thought we might see a couple of molded's as a goon in some part of the game. Never did though.
8 really explains why Ethan seems to just shrug off becoming an amputee.
People just really don't like him having hands
This was already explained in Resident Evil 7, there was a file in the mine that said that infected people could put back cut off limbs after mere minutes, so from that it was obvious Ethan was infected and it explained why he could do that with his leg.
you mean it bullshitely retconned RE7.
God i hate what the story became.
@@LaCazaLPthey didnt "retcon" re7 you just didnt pay attention to the documents in the lab lol
you are part of the 90% of resident evil players that are brain rotted @@LaCazaLP
well, to be fair, IF they used the fact that Ethan is infected as a game mechanic, they would automatically throw away this plot point, because only if you really pay attention to the narrative and documents you realise Ethan is indeed infected. even the losing leg scene is a hiden scene.
Im really disappointed that no review mentioned the guard mechanic , its a very crucial part of the gameplay , choosing between running away from the enemy and guarding is a very intense gameplay moment , if you run you risk getting hit by the lunge attacks and receiving full damage , but if you succeed you don't take any damage and now you're away from the enemy which is a good thing , but guarding on the other hand only lessens the damage taken and causes you to stumble but it doesn't have that risk factor , also while i hate the lack of enemy variety i gotta say the enemy types present are super fun to fight
I've never blocked a day in my life
@@thesilliestgooseonneptune5285
Play on Madhouse. I never blocked on normal, but you have to block on hard.
Same thing but now I want to try@@thesilliestgooseonneptune5285
I like how in Re8 with Ethan having training you can “parry” and do a push block with the right timing. I also found that perfect timing in 7 seems to reduce damage taken
Every time I get the red dog head I hear Jack say:
...I will find him, and I will make him *supper*
They really had something special with Jack.
Never come between a deranged man and his suppa.
@@szechuon6971 the boy needs to have his suppa!
Man just wanted to open a bed and breakfast.
I thought he said suffer
7 is the game that brought back some horror elements. 5 and 6 just went Fast and The Furious and Michael Bayish.
Thank goodness they did.
5 and 6 were fun
@Gibram Rivera yes
omg yes
And 4
Thing is, the sisters dlc makes no sense because because in the main game, there’s a piece of paper that states how after evelyn got there, they gradually went crazy. They didn’t go crazy on day one of evelyn being there.
I read here and there that what happens in it it's like a hallucination or something. Kinda like Evelyn showing zoe what they will become.
On the other hand, cause it's a dlc I suppose they couldn't show a more gradual decent into madness since it takes days for things to start or something like that.
years later I’ve been attempting to get all the trophies and doing different runs and im at 80%. I finished RE8 like a week after the game came out and enjoyed it for the most part. I wish I could experience RE7 for the first time again though. While some moments can be cheesy or hell even comical at times this game is just pure dread and tense atmosphere and capcom did an excellent job with the level design. The enemies in 7 are nuts as well. Marguerite’s 2nd form to this day terrifies me. RE8 is a decent game but I definitely felt it took like two steps back from the game that 7 is. Hopefully in the future capcom never decides to “tone down the scary” again because mommy milkers definitely wasn’t cutting it.
I agree, gameplay wise something felt off, like a step back mechanically from what they really worked hard to make in the previous installments (personally there were a lot of elements I loved), but in terms of series progress (and plot/themes), it reminded me a lot of BioShock Infinite. You could tell they were more excited about the story, concepts, and characters more than the actual game (for better and worse).
I gotta say though, from how it felt, not every part was designed to be "scary". RE7 was a game built on anticipation and dread, RE8 was a game built on feeling overwhelmed and heavy. Each area was specifically tailored to keep you on your toes, and hit Ethan and the audience where it hurt the most at times.
Personally, I loved it more than 7. It was a story than I was much more enthralled in, and definitely emotionally hit me harder. It messed me up for a day. Overall it was a fantastic homage to not only the RE series, but horror as a genre.
Get the dlc some of the best dlc in gaming
@@helpmombeatsme9260 trash.
Factss
@@bradolson8022 After finishing RE8 I think I can divvy them up as RE7 has a better story for fans of the "science" side of RE writing, while RE8 is better for fans who want a more emotional story. I like both so loved both games. I prefer RE7 because the concept of Eveline as a villain is just so terrifying imo and I wish we had maybe an E-002 bioweapon show up in future games. But man RE8 is definitely the story that Ethan deserved after 7, it had me almost crying at the end, how many RE games did that to their audience before?
I will never forget right after the dinner scene, I assumed it was a safe area and I could move around freely. So I'm running around and I see Jack Baker looking out the window. Holy shit did that scare the crap out of me, it set the tone for the rest of the game and I never really felt safe throughout. Definitely the scariest of the RE games
What area were you in that you saw Jack looking out the window? I don't remember that ever happening.
Maybe I just wasn't perceptive enough.
Ethan was murdered by Jack in the opening scene and came back as pure mold. Mind blown. RE Village did a nice job tying things up. "Welcome to the family son" also takes on a whole new meaning, welcome to the family of mold.
I'm guessing Jack killed him with that stomp that we assumed knocked Ethan out.
@@mikeamber2528 yeah
I don't think Ethan was 100% mold. Maybe his body was filled with mold that made him look alive, hence why Dimitrescu said "starting to go a little stale" after tasting Ethan's blood, which was blood from a 3 year old dead body
@@uncleflagzz and he still had a seemingly human heart shown in the scene were Miranda ripped it out. Also Ethan was somehow able to make a child with Mia and i don’t think this was possibly when his entire body really was nothing but mold like "Eveline" said in his weird dream. In RE7 it was even noticed when the mold replaced every cell in a human body (so 100% i think) the human would turn into a Molded. So yeah probably not his entire body was just mold.
One odd thing I’m interested in is that Ethan‘s and Zoe‘s mental state was not really affected by Eveline or the mold? He saw some hallucinations of Eveline but was not crazy affected like the other Baker’s or Mia. So why were they immune to the mind-control?
@@TRYPH I like to think that the Mold works differently with Ethan, only replacing missing tissue with mold, but still being present across the body. But overall Ethan was a walking regenerative corpse
Chose Zoe, it was so stupid. She immediately dies and then Mia teleports to you anyway despite not having a boat. Except now Mia is stuck infected so you can only get the worst ending. I feel pretty cheated by the devs on that
Glad I chose her first tho, if I had chose Mia first I would've been curious what happened if I chose Zoe and would've been extremely disappointed
Zoe is a scam. The devs couldn't be bothered to do anything with it so the game kind of just ignores it and then hands you a bad ending.
I saved Mia on my playthrough, and I know that's the cannon ending, but I legit felt bad for Zoe. Like really felt bad IRL. My main reason for this was Mia was Ethen's wife, they have history, however, Zoe really put herself out there to help you, putting herself at risk, and for her, it just felt like a raw deal.
Zoe didn’t chop off my hand.
@pyroshayniac1090 I never understood this argument. She clearly wasn't herself.
That is why I believe the Choice is in this game, so that the player can feel they way would be feeling in this moment, just a lot of pity and sorrow for Zoe, after all that, still becoming one last victim of all this.
But at least the menacing uncle Joe is here to save the day
The infection and the mind control are two different things but this isn't explained well. The reason Zoe is not controlled by Evie is because Evie wants to be the only daughter. Zoe isn't a part of her ideal family unit. She's trying to replace Zoe. As we see in Daughters, everyone is controlled the moment they are infected except for Zoe. Evie never wanted to control her and could have done at any point.
The reason the email is sent is because Evie realised Ethan was Mias husband, this made him the best candidate for her Father and it was also why Jack wanted you dead. He even mentioned how you would replace him before the chainsaw fight.
Does Evie want to be the only daughter? They did kidnap several women as appeared on those lists you can find in the house, but maybe that was for a mother? I wish the game did a better job of explaining it.
The issue I have with the email is why now after 3 years? Why not sooner?
@@BoulderPunch Evie sent Mias footage that she filmed on the laptop in the email. That means at some point she found the laptop containing it. In the video Mia calls ethan her husband. I imagine Mia never revealed this to Evie. My guess is that Evie didn't find out about Ethan via reading Mias mind because either 1. She had amnesia, only remembering events after being reminded of them or 2. Evie didn't have full control over Mia like she did with the bakers. Evie's control was down to her own choice. She wanted her mother to be independant and only took control when she wanted her to do something for her. Personally, I think Mia had forgotten about Ethan until he showed up.
How did Evie find the laptop inside the ship when she was a wheelchair bound old lady? Well, that old lady managed to move around quite a bit without help. I guess we can only assume that she was able to turn into mold and move around that way. In the final fight we see Evie melt and turn into sludge like the bakers and the thing that attacks in the swamp before you get to the ship deliberately took Ethan. I'm pretty sure that whatever that was in the swamp, it was Evie or in the very least was under her control as we find Evie as a hallucination in the room with Ethan at the end of the ship section.
As for how she was able to power the laptop? There is still power on the ship (for some reason) as we turned the elavator back on and there are numberous lights and even a puzzle that are all still functioning. It's all explainable, but there was clearly nowhere to actually tell us how it happened and they probably just assumed we wouldn't notice or care.
Evie had people kidnapped, but ultimately just turned them into molded and merged into her hivemind consciousness. So for whatever reason, she had two ideas of a family, one was melding people with her and the other was a traditional family with two parents and a child. Also the people they kidnapped were related to neither the bakers nor mia and all would have resisted her efforts, which is probably why they were all killed or converted. When Evie realised Ethan wasn't having it she tried to kill him too.
The real issue I have with the plot is why Evie didn't just calcify Ethan instantly at the start of the game. The Daughters DLC revealed that the mold infection acts instantly and she gains immediate control. This leads to some plot holes.
Originally I was under the impression the infection was gradual and that would have made a lot more sense for the plot but that DLC really makes things hard to explain. I don't think they realised how that story would affect the plot when they wrote it.
@@BoulderPunch TL;DR is that Evie found the latop, discovered Ethan was Mias husband and wanted a real family, she lured him to the bakers home and when Ethan tried to help Mia escape with him Eveline turned on him. Zoe was not controlled because Eveline didn't care about her. When Mia woke up Eveline made Mia her mother again, which in her mind made Jack and Marguerite her grandparents. That's why the room with Marguerite's medical notes are in "Grandmas room" and the name itself was a red herring.
Personally, I think the DLCs create a lot of plot issues. I'd like them to get retconned, but most likely they will just be ignored and we'll be expected to go along with it.
But eveline in thr true ending of daughters she says hello sister
@Kira The Renegade the three vaccines part doesnt really work since the exteme healing Ethan has is from the Mold.
The: "Welcome to the family son" hits different after resident evil 8 ending 😔
😔
To be honest, who gives a shit about ethan? Most boring character ever
So yeah, he's a mold, whatever
@@AydarBMSTU Leave ethan alone. Best dad ever
@@LanaDelReySupremacy getting tired of "best dad award" videogames. Last of us, god of war, now this
Best dad ever already belongs to Harry Mason from Silent Hill 1, end of story)
@@AydarBMSTU Ethan is harry mason
Y'know, the whole "Ethan died when he was kicked back Jack", makes a lot of sense considering the shit he survives in RE8.
I'm gonna miss him.
Or 7. Dude put back his severed leg with a bit of healing juice, no way in hell he was still human XD
@@jackmesrel4933 he did the same thing with his hand in re8
You can glue your hand back in two separate instances in RE7 it was clear he wasn't human anymore lmao
literally 90% of people who were still confused at the end either have actual real brain rot or they just mindlessly threw themselves at the game and tried to pay as least attention possible so they had an excuse to be stupid@@AlshepType
In my opinion, the garage fight with Jack is the best Resident Evil boss fight. I know RE3 had choice making but it always came down to running away or staying to fight which didn’t need a menu to do, just simply make your choice, is what RE7 allows here. This fight had a great setup for the player to interact in this fight. If you go all out and shoot at Jack, you realize he’s not dead after relentlessly spending ammo. Or if you’re clever, you’ll try to enter the car, only to realize you don’t have the car key, to which Jack pulls you out and can start driving your car (a little BS but it’s completely fine in this fight). Then you deal with Jack doing donuts and you are probably amused if the sight while attacking him. OR you can get the keys, space yourself from Jack so he doesn’t pull you out of the car, and start ramming him with free control of the car. This fight has a great combination of both scripted events and player freedom, and just over has a unique premise and great horrifying and hilarious fight. Sadly, this amount of creativity dropped after you beat Jack in the chainsaw fight. Margurite was a huge let down, her house was boring, the fight was same generic RE bossfight except surprisingly worse. The Cabin fight with Jack was meh. And Evelyn was a scripted bullet sponge in a short hallway. This absence of creativity in free form bossfights shows in RE2make and RE3make, and even RE8.
That garage fight was annoying AF I died quite a few times during that fight lol
Resident Evil 7 uses terror very well insted of using jumpscares evry 5 minutes it uses atmosphere to cause you dread and stress making you feel like your in Ethan's shoes you feal truly immersed
It uses dread to build up, with jumpscares for release, while the jumpscares also helping reinforce that dread. It understands atmosphere very well
The first person camera really makes it feel like you’re in the baker house. This is easily the most scary RE for me. I could only imagine what it’s like in VR mode while playing for the first time lol
@@MR.__G Indeed. Also, just walking down the hallways and as you pass the windows, hearing the somehow sinister wind howling outside. The atmosphere, particularly on the 1st playthrough is astonishingly overwhelming. You really do feel like you're in Ethan's shoes. Amazing, terrifying game.
@@grndmst9 I was a bit upset 8 went away from the scariness, even tho I had a lot of fun playing 8.
I know I'm a bit late to the party replying to this, but I agree. Capcom actually said they had to tone back RE8 because RE7 was so scary, they had players not finishing the game because of it. It's a completely new breed of horror that we're not used to and don't see often in this day and age, and it really caught a ton of people off guard.
Went from "welcome to the family son" to "Ethan Winters, welcome"
Or “So we finally meet”
Or " he's aWAakke! "Will you shut the fuck up?"
@@conorkiddell9245 "BOTHOFYOUSHUTTHEFUCKUP"
SHUTYOURFUCKINHOLE
(Sorry bout that)
Without having played Village, but having played all the other games sans some spinoffs, I think this is my....favorite Resident Evil game? It's not only scary, but with the DLC it's jam packed with content and it's all replayable as hell.
yeah. Just stop at 7.
Village is great gameplaywise...but oh boy...the story is....well. Its a story.
If you like dumb and over the top m night shyamalan style plottwists....get ready.
if not and youre like me...The plottwist will physically hurt you.
And the worst part is. i cant even say it makes no sense cause it actually makes a lot of sense.
its just incredible dumb and frustrating and i cant believed i still feel robbed even 2 years later.
@@LaCazaLPcan't believe I'm not the only one who thinks that game's story took a dumpster dive, RE8 left a horrid taste in my mouth and I can't even watch RE7 vids without thinking about how much of an ahole Redfield was.
Joe is the best character in the entire series and you cannot convince me otherwise. Hope we see more of him
I love Joe but I hate Joe Must Die with a passion
Well, Ethan losing limbs is just part of his character arc in all games.
wish he would have said something to the effect of "oh no, not again" when Lady D takes off his right hand.
@@warderjack "oh no, you cut my hand off, what a nightmare"
Its so weird seeing him with all fingers
In all 2 of them
This game freaks me out more then the RE 2 & 3 remakes cause that grab form behind mechanic is scary as hell
...boo
I have flashbacks to PT now...ugh.
@@BoulderPunch man pt was like the paranormal while resident evil was the science fiction if the same coin
The first person perspective was a great choice for this game. While I don't like low FOV in first person games, it actually worked really well in RE7. It's a lot scarier when everything feels cramped and claustrophobic like low FOV values tend to do.
I'm glad they increased the FOV for RE8 though, since there's a heavy focus on action this time around more peripheral vision is a welcome change. Ethan seems fucking pissed too, not to mention a lot more proficient with weapons since it's not his first time around. Super stoked for that game, it needs to come out now!
The grab from behind bits scare me the most when I’m in the weird mansion being hunted by Jack, and I have him cornered with a perfect plan, I hear footsteps, and can’t wait to shoot this fucker, then he comes out of nowhere and twists me back, and beats the shit out of me
I honestly can not believe this game is 5 years old now. Feels like just yesterday I was eagerly waiting this game by consuming any and all info about it.
Did anyone notice how they foreshadowed Jack still being alive in the “free my family” scene?
Why, after 3 years of his wife being presumed dead, does Ethan just go to where his wife is? Wouldn't he show the evidence to the police? I know this is a nitpick but man it bothers me.
Eh video game logic. Maybe he just wants to deal with it personally.
Same as why claire would go looking for chris 2 games in a row by herself. Or why they would send a single operative to find the presidents daughter. Videogames mang...
Then we wouldn't have a game.
You could make the argument that if Ethan genuinely thought she was being held against her will that rocking up to the kidnappers house with sirens blaring might just make them kill her.
Or if he thinks she left of her own will (free to do so as an adult), as implied by her choosing to warn him not to come then it's probably not the best time to show up with sirens blaring and trigger happy cops if it turns out she'd maybe started a new secret family who don't know about him and has another child involved (SWAT teams have done shit like thrown a flashbang in a baby's crib when they got the wrong address so might not be the best to let them storm into an unknown situation where innocents could get hurt)
Because Ethan is a badass. He doesn't need no cops to explore a spoooky house.
One thing I loved about the DLC was expanding upon Clancy Jarvis as a character. I also think his performance was underrated as a voice actor. He really sold an uneasy voice or one riddled with fear.
I agree.
clancy is an absolute mvp, he technically survived all of Lucas' little games (dlc, the poker game, ...) and only ever lost when the game was unwinnable (the birthday one)
I love how when you go to grab the chainsaw, Jack says “Groovy!” A callback to Evil Dead 2
i’ve played pretty much all of the resident evil games and this is undoubtedly my favourite, not only my favourite resident evil but my favourite horror game also. a true masterpiece.
A 56 minute game review? Just when I think I'm out they pull me back in
Our true enemy has yet to reveal himself.
@@BoulderPunch JOEY ZASA!! YOU SON OF A BITCH
Fuckin' spitting image
The way Ethan finds Mia is actually different. That video Mia made at the beginning never reached Ethan. At the very beginning of the game, you have a packet revealing the Baker address and Mia simply says "come get me." And the email also has a date of 4 days prior
The video is the one she filmed on the ship
I seem to be in the minority preferring 7 to Village. One seemed like a clear and consistent vision, while the other to me feels like a weird mashup of conflicting design philosophies. As an action game, the shooting lacks impact and the controls are unresponsive. As a horror game, where weaker shooting and Ethan's slowness make more sense, it throws way too much ammo at you and lacks the sense of internal reality that made the Dulvey Estate and the Bakers so scary.
Village is the better game for sure, but the disconnect between the gameplay of each area reminds me of the separate campaigns of 6. Both suggest that Capcom doesn't know how to marry action and horror, and satisfy the different demands of its fanbase, in a single coherent experience.
You just explained how it's not better lol
@@homeoessential2741 I think you’ve misunderstood me. It’s only the “better” game in the sense of being more accessible / having a broader appeal, but that’s because the game throws everything at the wall with no clear direction, throughline or sense of identity. It feels like a collection of demos made by different teams.
As a Up and coming Game dev, I love videos like these where they breakdown the Development process as well. Help's us beginners learn a lot!
"Welcome to the family son..." were the last words ethan heard before his official death...
Well he join the family because he was infected and resurrected at that point.
@@xbaumann he wasn’t infected, he WAS the infection
Can’t believe he survived getting stabbed dozens of times, his hand cut off, and several chainsaw slashes, but one Jack stomp killed him
@@theconmantube3449 he hadn't been infected at that time and stomping someone at a certain angle can kill them - also considering Jack had insane strength due to the mold, his stomp must be very strong and at the angle Ethan's head fell, those two factors played a role in killing him when he was just a normal human being.
@@oukahershel2931 It’s one of RE8’s biggest plotholes. How can Jack survive being blown up twice and still live up until End of Zoe, but Ethan loses his heart and only has like 30 more minutes to live.
This was my first Resident Evil game and boy was it an introduction
same lol
It's so awesome to see the live-action test/reference versions of cutscenes, like how Capcom did in RE2 and eventually way later DMC5.
Love that footage of them practicing the dinner scene. Good job 👏
That shit was cool
I hope Joe returns sometime, he's like... the coolest character in resident evil since wesker lol
Would love if he randomly showed up in 8 to mess stuff up.
He would be way too strong, even for vampires to handle. The man is Louisiana incarnate. A force of nature.
a hunk to rival chris.
Hit me with it
Who's joe?
@@ieatplainbread3776 Joe Baker. Jacks estranged Brother and the protagonist of The End of Zoe DLC for RE7
I’m glad to hear that Ethan is going to be more of a character in RE village and have more of a personality than he did in this one which is something that my friend and I would always think was a little funny or off putting sometimes
Ethan chads keep winning.
Dude I died of laughter when you used the antique coin on the shadow puzzle
Hands down my favorite resident evil game! I really can't wait to see what the future has in store for us.
I think one of my biggest problems is the timeline Ethan gets a message 3 YEARS later?! And decides there’s no way this is a bad idea.
Not as weird as sending an agent alone in a very secluded village, confirmed that its residents are hostile through his radio communication to one of the government’s radio operator and not send some backup until late in the game with only 1 chopper. I tend to enjoy the game if i just let go of details like that. It is funny tho
-he doesn't take a gun
-he doesn't know that his wife is a bioweapon smuggler
Ethan isn't the brightest
@@marksantiago9841 You know what's better? Sending a rookie agent and a madman veteran equipped with bowie knifes and pistols to invade a small country filled with BOW's just to kill a drug dealer and kidnap his daughter.
@@mahmood6149 What game is that ? 5 ? I still haven't played 5 or 6.
@@Gatorade69 Re1, Code Veronica, umbrella chronicles, ans 5
0:00 “Soap trusted you. I thought I could too. So, why in bloody hell, does Makarov know you?!”
Roses are red,
violets are blue,
*Soap trusted you,*
*And I thought I could too*
*So why in bloody hell*
*Does Makarov know you*
What kind of a name is Soap eh? How’d a muppet like you pass selection?
I speedrun re7 and some fun facts about the start of the game specifically after the meal
If your quick enough you can avoid the scene where jack cuts ethans leg off as well as skipping the scene where jack breaks the hallway wall while walking through it and that wall will stay not broken for the entire game
I never got the scene of Jack cutting Ethans legs in 2 playthroughs. Was surprised when I watched videos to see that it's a common occurence
Can't stress enough how amazing this game truly is, it was, to sum it up, a perfect game for me, and will be one of the best games I have played in recent times
"The game didn't have enough item management"
-Masochist
Backpacks were a godsend.
Most indepth review of the game.Ya even covered the dev stuff.Nice
Watch mauler's critique if you want something really in-depth
Watch MauLer he did another in-depth review. It is around 2 hour long I think (but broken down into smaller videos each covering a different aspect of the game if I remember correctly).
Mauler is far more in-depth for critique. Sure he can be nitpicky and I wish he'd look at more than just capeshit and Disney Star Wars for the most part, but he obviously cares.
@@BoulderPunch Yeah I think Mauler provides good content. His early game reviews (for Amnesia, Outlast and RE7 were great - even if he got a few specifics wrong) mostly because he broke down the games chronologically and then spent a good amount of time to examine other elements (like enviroment design - or in outlast 'subverting expectations').
In some of his film reviews he ends up going over every last detail, although I do appreciate the time he puts into explaining where he thinks films did well or poorly.
Still I feel like this your review was a good review for the amount of time spent on the subject (keep up the good work). I just felt that if people appreciated your review of RE7 for its depth that they might also enjoy Maulers review of the game.
*edited for spelling
@@BoulderPunch Yeah I also kinda missed when he did more video games. His current stuff isnt bad just wish he reviewed more things im interested in.
that line about chris finding killing Mia to continue the Redfield bloodline was the funniest thing I have heard all year!
I’ve seen multiple people play and have played re7 myself and I have never seen the leg getting cut off
The reason Jack was there in the "End of Zoe" DLC is because when you fight him the second time in the base game, you cut him in half. from there he regens into 2 separate things. the one you fight at the end of the base game in the 3rd jack fight is his lower half. :)
but the upper half exploded
@@the-interloper Which left the blood and giblets of the upper half still around
Somehow I highly doubt that is the case. I think the huge monster just had some "core" that regenerated into that DLC monster.
Its so weird what they did to Chris in Re7. Like yeah. he looks a little different every time we see him but there was at least consistency between his different looks. At least he looked like the same person. In RE: Verse. So weird
At least in Village he looks back to "normal".
he goes back to normal in village, i bet his look in re 7 is no longer canon lmao they realized their mistake
@@lemon64k49 Best decision
@@lemon64k49 wouldn't be surprised if Capcom switched his RE7 face with the RE8 one in a future remaster like Insomniac did for Spiderman.
I think what makes RE7 chris look weird is how thin the jaw line is, and how the chin and neck kinda "merge", compared to RE7, Chris in other games always had a kinda wide jawline and a stronger chin, RE8 Chris has those features, which is why he kinda resembles his RE5 appearence, which was pretty much the RE1 remake model but more jacked.
@@IssJa_ i think i'm the only one who liked the that design
I actually prefer RE7 over RE8: Village… In general, RE7 just stands out as the new age/ 1st Person Perspective version of the original Resident Evil format (more akin to the isolated feeling of the mansion). Whereas Village started where RE7 left off, using the same style of approach, only using RE4 as inspiration over the OG formula. And I personally have always preferred the original Resident Evil format to that of RE4.
Same here ! 8 should’ve kept the item box, limited inventory & resource management. Those are key elements in a RE game. 8 is definitely a fun game, plays a lot like 4, but I really love how 7 went back to its origins.
@@MR.__G I wholeheartedly agree
@@UponDemise666 now we must wait & see what 9 brings to the table. This has a chance to be a really good trilogy. Definitely will be better than the second trilogy ( 4-5-6 )
@@MR.__G absolutely!!! Couldn’t have said it better myself!!
@@MR.__G i think will be a great game and trilogy but i don’t think they’ll be able to do the horror thing that much. cuz we will probs be playing as either Chris/ mia or rose. Chris is military trained (mia too i think) and rose has special powers so kinda be hard to make it super scary with them. Mia might be the best bet. but i know the game will be sad because it will probably end up with rose having to be killed
Examining the examination of resident evil 7, 3 years later
In the choice between zoe or mia, i instantly chose mia, despite her cutting off our hand it really wasn’t much of an option. We barely know zoe, and more likely than not zoe was only helping us to get herself out. Mia is not only our wife but the sole purpose of why we went to the house in the first place. It feels like a real cop out to go through this entire thing to save mia, then to pick someone who we dont know anything about who dies not 5 minutes later lmao
@Joseph Dematas But who’s cheeks was Ethan missing ? Mia or Zoe’s ?
And Mia was being controlled by lil' girl Eveline at that point
I chose zoe because she helped me
Also I felt she deserved it more since she had to live with seeing her family like that
I chose mia too, I feel like since it’s a very role play focused game. We’re Ethan, no matter how much I felt about Mia, since Ethan cared so much about her still and didn’t seem to care about her.... cutting his hand off, I still felt compelled to choose her above anything else.
Zoe is also the one who told you yo use one of the 2 serums on Jack. In my eyes that was her serum
First time I played RE7 was also the first VR game I played. In 20+ years of gaming, it was the first time I actually had to take some breaks because I was to stressed out.
I'm not kidding, I full on cackled when you made the Skyrim reference in the finale portion of the video. full cackled and rewatched several times.
The Nostalgia and the music hits me so hard!
Combining Mia and Zoe's role in the story makes a lot of sense. Just finished the game and found Zoe more interesting due to the phone calls and her insight on her family
Wish they fleshed her out more.
25:10 I never understood the controversy. It's your wife. Your life partner. Literally, the whole reason you came here in the first place, of course, I'm giving the serum to her, it's not even a question or debate. Doesn't make sense to hold anything against her if she's clearly influenced by the infection. It's such a nonargument.
It makes sense to me that it just wouldn't even be a choice.
I agree with that
That was my man's argument too lmao Ethan even says "who else was I gonna pick?" Zoe was great and all, but she did offer up one of the serums to kill Jack. If she really wanted it there are other ways to take a tyrant down. Her "quick thinking" was her ration and she said to use it up.
Everyone who has ever said they held the chainsaw event or her constant changing personalities against her in this scene just tells me that they weren't paying attention to the plot.
At that point in the game, 100% of her antagonistic behavior was clearly and obviously caused by the infection... that you're holding the cure for. "I didn't give her the cure to the infection, because she hurt me with the symptoms of the infection." It makes no sense.
If they wanted to make the choice feel real, Ethan needed to have reason to believe Mia was a willing participant in the experiments, while Zoe was an innocent victim. But, given that plot-wise picking Zoe isn't a canon choice anyway, they really should have just made it a cutscene.
SO TRUE
like it's just such a weird thought to have ethan forsake everything he'd gone through for mia alone just for some woman he met that day who decided to help him out. even then, he still managed to get help for zoe afterwards anyway.
But the whole reason you could save your wife was because of Zoe... if it wasn't for Zoe Ethan would have no idea there was a serum or how to make it. After Zoe's help you managed to get the serum but Zoe can't even benefit from it. It's really weird if you didn't at least feel sad for her and like you betrayed, that kind of selfishness is kinda psychopathic tbh
I think Jack's liquified top half became the big monster, and his intact bottom half became the punchy monster