I was in the area that Hurricane Beryl just hit last week and I was withiut power for 8 days. I had downloaded your playlist to watch when I was at home. Thanks for keeping me entertained when I i had no power at home. You really helped make it bearable.
I’m so happy that series like this and Clements FF Retrospective exist. These games (even the lesser than good ones) deserve this treatment. Thank You.
The “thanks for watching” segment at the very end with the music and the cartoon characters on your videos - ALWAYS makes me feel nostalgic not just for the OG 1990s RE games but also your very own videos you’ve done previously. Not only do I wish I could go back to the 90s but also before you started your series so I can see them all again as new.
Dude I happened across your videos like 2 weeks ago and have listened to your resident evil series so far like 4 times. Great videos and your jokes are on point!
I actually feel a bit bad for the Umbrella Soldiers at 32:55. The creepy part about this scene is that if you read the Japanese strategy guide for the game, it says that the T-Virus leeches actually transmit a _LOT_ of T-Virus into the creatures they attack. If you pay attention to the dialogue and the train derailment countdown, only six and a half minutes had passed between when the soldiers were killed and when Rebecca and Billy arrived at the front of the train, meaning that unlike the people on the train who were attacked by a smaller number of leeches and took hours to reanimate, or Edward who was attacked by the zombie dogs and took about 30 minutes to turn, the poor soldiers were attacked by so many leeches and pumped with so much T-Virus that they died and became zombies within less than 7 minutes.
People turn as fast as the plot requires. In the ichy scrachy memo it clearly takes days for the virus to turn you and the process is gradual, and now when that realistic timespan is incovenient it happens super fast.
@@maccollo I love how that file is pretty well known just with 2 words, forget "guard's diary", its itchy scratchy now LMAO But yeah, it's a bit twisted, though the other guy is right, it can depend on the dosages a body takes + their anatomy. For example, in RE4 the children died (yeah bc there was gore so Capcom couldn't use that with children) but the reason given was because their bodies couldn't handle the plagas. So I guess you and the other guy are correct. Sometimes it can take days, another just hours or minutes + what virus you're infected with... 🕴️
Yeah... While I love the game the item management HEAVILY grates on me. Luckily the item box mod solves that problem and makes it a crazy good entry. Just wish I knew about it ages ago
This was actually my first resi game that I played completely. I played the ps1 games tho. This item management makes sense to me than the rest of the resi games. But ya ain’t ready to hear that. And I’m a die hard resi fan now.
Train = pick stuff up and drop it if not importan. Will make it drop when train crashes. Training facility = move items of importance to the main hall and classroom area as those rooms are always safe Water treatment = have important items in the elevator. I personally went back and got all Xbox achievements in this title and my original impression went from a 3 to about a 6 after I learned how the game works. I also really only did what I said above in my one and only hard mode run
Can't believe I missed this video when it came out. I started my playthrough of the series and watched these videos all along my journey. Finally passing them some months ago. Now I'm at RE6 and have to wait like everyone else lol
Your reviews are my favorite vids to watch! In my opinion this game needs to reboot the most because story just absolutely is ridiculously all over the place. It's so undercooked that I think they need to start over on it just to make it blend with everything else.
They could have easily made Rebecca Chambers receive 1.5x the healing items. Her special item could allow her to use herbs more efficiently, ensuring no waste. For every second use, a meter could fill up, granting an extra healing item that doesn’t take up inventory space and can be collected. Since Rebecca is smaller, she would require fewer healing items, enabling her to use fewer herbs and save more while making the most of what would otherwise be wasted. This makes sense on a moving train, where creating healing items from herbs without a specialized tool or surface would spill.
I think something like what they'd later do in the Oubreak games with a doctor character being able to make special pills using herbs would've worked best. Green herbs being made into a mixture like the Green+Green, something more I'll just put the things done in outbreak below Combine it with a Green Herb to create an Antidote. Combine it with a Blue Herb to create a Recovery Medicine. Combine it with a Red Herb to create a Hemostat. (maybe make a better healing item with this) Combine it with a Mixed Herb (B+R) to create a Recovery Medicine (L). Combine it with a Mixed Herb (G+B) to create an Anti Virus. (make it be like the Red Green herb mix) Combine it with a Mixed Herb (G+G+B) to create an Anti Virus. Combine it with a Mixed Herb (G+B+R) to create an Anti Virus (L). Combine it with a Recovery Medicine Base to create a Recovery Medicine
@@cillianennis9921 yeah but its a moving train finding herbs should be a challenge already a then preparing it just on your hands should be almost impossible. Thats why i would say the herbs should not heal much and only she can make it but that would requiere Team work and stuff.
@@OK75 You forget the game mainly takes place after the train. I think the Outbreak thing is a way to do what you said but instead of ruining the herbs you just make it a better way. Would make sense though if Billy could only make herbs strong enough to heal Rebecca fully from danger & you need Rebecca to use the kit to make the medical supplies to heal Billy fully (what you said would anyway need a different item anyway)
@@cillianennis9921 if you have symmetric gameplay but if you have different paths you could choose to not even use one of them and take all herbs for one. Also shes smaller so she will get healed more by it. But thats all just fantasy such deep gaming Features will never come.
1:25:00 Ok, the RE2 / RE0 lab. It's a copy. No, it's not the same one. "But it looks the same" Yeah, Umbrella just reuses designs. Like how the Mansion from RE1 also gets reused a bit in RE Code Veronica and the RE5 DLC where you hunt down Spencer with Chris and Jill. Sure, the devs are doing this for fan service but I can understand the argument that Umbrella would want to keep things uniform between different facilities for the benefit of workers/subjects.
I think this other lab makes the most sense being a different place to the lab in RE2. I have a few points to use 1. the magic lift would make the most sense if this isn't the lab from RE2 allowing a more believable idea that the training facility, treatment centre, the lab & the yard. 2. the fact that enemies appear here makes me think its more likely an underground lab like the one seen in RE1 with this just being a part of its entrance & this is the lab that Dr Markus was killed in. It looks similar to the lab in RE2 then only on the outside because Umbrella likely hired the same company to build these biohazard secure labs & its likely that the inside of the RE0 one is very different to the lab in RE2. 3. The fact that Billy could be washed away over to here in no time would make the most sense being close & the fact that a tram can bring Rebecca here with the contradictions to RE2s location. 4. The fact that the leach queen has made its home round here & hasn't caused an outbreak in the main lab would only make sense if this is a disused lab. 5. This lab would be destroyed after the explosion caused by William Berkin at the end of the game which would kill him if its the same lab. I am going to ignore the Wii game events here as they kinda make 3 groups of no sense. Actually lets switch to explaining why that part of wesker's journey in Umbrella chronicles makes no sense 1. The russian guy has a T-003 which wouldn't exist until after RE1s events 2. Why would Wesker leave in the direction of all the dangerous monsters instead of I don't know taking the safe way out. 3. The Russian guy knowing Wesker's betrayal before he's even started? 4. The Russian guy being their. 5. The fact that Wesker has to fight the Proto tyrant as well makes no sense. Ok back to that Lab basically doesn't make sense unless its just a nearly the same place. We have seen that Umbrella has a specific taste in design for these labs. 1 they love making them under mansions or really fancy looking places, 2 they don't hire janitors much, 3 they love weird puzzles for the basic locks. (I'd explain the puzzles as part of the combat tests more than anything to slow the subjects down & allow for the areas to be set up properly)
Im not trying to excuse the lack of item boxes, and your theory of having one per area could make sense but. I think the thinking of it was that the idea behind the two protags was that they had to work together and share items deliver them thru the mini elevators, and they didn’t want problems to be solved by one person putting an item in the box necessary for solving a puzzle and the other being able to have it magically transported to them fully across the map at no cost or effort . That’s just my personal theory tho
I have to agree with your opinion. When I was replaying this game fairly recently, I knew that on my first playthrough the game gave me a hard time. But after completing it for the second time, I'm convinced that it's just poorly designed and features very frustrating gameplay. Didnt't enjoy the enemies, didn't enjoy the inventory management and obviously didn't enjoy the laughable story.
I feel like the existance of all these facilities that are somehow near the Spenser mansion (despite being a hour train ride away) invalidate the entire reason for it's existance, which is to mask the existence of the laboratory underneeth it. Like, why construct this elaborate facade for such a tiny laboratory when you have this gigantic complex which is litteraly connected to the city by rail?
This is still my favorite save theme music. I loved this game when it first came out, but as time goes on. It is a very frustrating game to go through. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.
Yes. IGN has set the standard for 7/10 = average. Which made no sense. If I'm not mistaken, someone at IGN admitted what we all knew, that 7 is what they eould give bad games who'se publisher they didn't wanna upset. (If they could get away with it)
In RE1, Jill had more slots and a lock pick and help from Barry. Chris had higher chances of critical hits, grenades, lighter, and he could take more damage.
I love the resident evil content, and while you certainly have a lot of work left to do a potential retrospective on capcom's other survival horror game, Dino Crisis would be really cool.
I think it is the same lab as Resident Evil 2 at the end. The inconsistencies have to be accepted like all the other inconsistencies in Resident Evil 0.
Sometimes I think about replaying RE0-I genuinely enjoyed this game-but I always have to ask one deciding question: “Do I want to deal with that bat fight in the church?” As for items, if the locations had been much more intertwined within themselves and with one another, the item-drop system could have been good, strategic fun. It’s not a bad idea, it’s bad implementation.
In my head cannon the events of the mansion incident are caused by an accident & the reason the whole outbreak happens in the other facility is caused by the accidental release of the leaches which leads to the events we see. It makes the most sense since they are only looking into this facility due to the fact that the other one has been deep sixed for a month or two & is just ready to have a combat test before I am assuming its fully exploded. Also I think the other members of the bravo team must be around the facility & learn some tactics that have them locking doors which could explain the oddities of RE1.
The Eliminators vs. Hunters-comparison is extra funny because both enemy types are putrid garbage in 0! God forbid you get to hitstun either type without them tanking shots and keeping your character animation-locked.
something that has always bothered me about billy's backstory is about his fellow soldiers. "some died from the heat, others were killed by THE ENEMY". so even with that supposed wrong information, there WERE enemies in thart part of the jungle. so..... why attack an innocent village? you could simply say you were ambushed by the enemy that was killing your men.
Also to add, I have to presume the Queen was talking during the flashback of Marcus death. Meaning she HAD to have NAME DROPPED Birkin and Wesker. I'm sure they knew that which is why you don't see Rebecca being "wait Captain Wesker?" at any point as that would RUIN the "Surprise" if Rebecca freaking TELLS Chris "Hey I was in another Umbrella Facility PREVIOUSLY and found out Captain Wesker worked for Umbrella" to Chris But then I REALLY feel that MAYBE the game should have been a BILLY affair with Rebecca as a SIDE character (you know Capcom's favorite "have your play the main character then have you play the side character for a small bit" like in the Onimusha Trilogy, RE OG Trilogy, and Dino Crisis 2 & 3) then at least you can PREVENT Rebecca from going into areas or encountering things she SHOULDN'T have Billy got lucky by the fact the Government had BIGGER things to worry about! RE2 Remake CANONIZE RE0 with a Report on Rebecca Desk in the STARS Office reporting Billy as Deceased, also as a Reminder, Raccoon City is DOOMED to get NUKED so it's EASY to go off the grid for Billy! He slipped through the cracks. BUT you do have a point as this is STILL on the mountains far from civilization in a Forest FILLED with Cerberus Zombie Dogs (the VERY reason Alpha didn't just "go out the front door" still have dumbasses who think they could have gone out the front and all would be okay, forgetting they don't know HOW MAN Cerberus are outside, it's FUCKING DARK, and they had to take a HELICOPTER from Raccoon City to GET THERE and "who knows what else is out there beyond the Cerberus! Only way their leaving is via as they got lucky! Brad not being a COMPLETE coward and flying around till they could catch his attention! Hence why the game took place within a couple of hours as that was as long as Brad had enough FUEL to even FLYBY long enough to pick them up AND flyback! Last I remember, the usual procedures if I remember when it comes to Helicopters (could be wrong, FREE to correct me) is to ONLY give enough Fuel under the PRESUMPTION of time to the location and time BACK, and Brad never LANDED again till the Rooftop! So he's been BURNING ALOT of Fuel, unless he found a Safe spot nearby to use backup reserves before trying again. Hell he might have LANDED on the roof previously to refuel before flying by again) and no follow up on him at ALL of course would make people think the WORSE! The fact the crime he was framed for had NOTHING to do with Umbrella and I know there were some who HOPED RE5 might have referenced Billy since you know "Africa" only they didn't. Means Billy was just made SPECIFICALLY to give Rebecca a MAN for her journey because I think this was around when people still held the "Woman can't be the major leads of their own game without no man, plus boys still though girls had cooties and wouldn't play a game with one as the main star without a male alternative" BS (Even back then, I ALWAYS loved choosing GIRL characters mostly because I was BORED playing a GUY all the fucking time! Hell even with JILL'S story, she's always getting BAILED by Barry, A MAN and we know it's cause his GUILT has him keeping an eye on her when she WOULD HAVE DIED! Hence why Wesker looks down on her. He knows she'd be DEAD if Barry wasn't having SECOND THOUGHTS! And it's why I like Chris run better and feel it's the TRUE Classic RE experience LOL! Lots of backtracking and near ZERO safety nets! Also no BAZOOKA/Grenade Launcher) feels so WASTED (I mean as a I said, Rebecca fighting a Tyrant LOOKED badass, but remembering how she was in RE1, it just raises questions and would have been better if that was BILLY! RE0 narrative is ruined by the fact RE1 existed BEFORE it and the character it displays is someone who CANNOT act too far from how she was in RE1 where she was played HEAVILY straight as a Rookie first time on the job! Or maybe it would have been better if we saw MORE of Bravo team then them being an AFTERTHOUGHT EDIT: Yeah I agree, IGN and all other "SELLOUT" Reviews of the past have ruined the spirit of "Number Scores" for people. Happy I got out of that habit back in the PS3 era of gaming after I played a few "5-7 out of 10's" (or 1-2 out of 5 from XPLAY remember that show LOL!) though that was thanks to borrowing and RENTING those games (or getting them used for cheap from Gamestop where if you return them within 7 days, you can get your money back complete!) and suffice to say! Out of every 10 of those, about 6-8 turn out to actually be MISSCORED! Hell I had games that felt like TOP scoring games, only to see them score LOW (and finding out later on that there WAS bias against THOSE games on purpose, which completely made me lose faith in reviewers sans the TH-cam reviewers that started showing up! At least a GOOD many of them are UP FRONT with their bias and don't go out of their way to review in bad faith, though sadly THAT has started to go to the way side largely cause some are going for CLOUT and if they hear a game is "HATED" by a low loud minority, they'll assume it's bad and join the hate train....giving MORE justification for the Haters to hate on ANY fans of that specific game! Sad the Hatedom has become so "Popular" as of late. "It's now COOL to hate on things for the sake of HATE" and I can't WAIT to have FUN conversations with FORMER HATERS when the tide turns and it's no longer "Hip" to be an OPENER hater! Egbert REALLY left a bad legacy behind where it seems the best way to be popular is to be a DICK! I can get being sarcastic when need be on JUSTIFABLE bad stuff, but going out of your way to be a SUPER DICK is just not cool unless it's REALLY unsalvagable stuff that deserves the contempt, but even then, knowing when not to beat the Dead Horse and understand IT'S ALREADY DEAD is important! It's likely WHY hatedom's never last too long and eventually the ATTEMPT to label something as ETERNALLY BAD results in "Second Look" that usually DESTROY what the Hatedom accomplished, like in a "It's not the GREATEST, but it's not the SPAWN OF HITLER AND SATAN it was made out to be" or "Wow, people back then sure were Sheepish followers that likely NEVER played it or they did, but let a FUCKING FORUM tell them what they can and cannot like so went in KNOWING they were going to hate it no matter what" such as video's like this one for RE0 where yeah it wasn't very good as they say! The latter is funny since those same folk are quick to say "Yeah I liked it" the moment the Hatedom's attempt FAILS and it is HUGELY liked! I've found myself replaying 8 and 9 out of 10's only to find they weren't as GREAT as I remembered, likely because I got INFLUENCED back then, my tastes have changed or I experienced an ACTUALY better version of that game and it revealed ALOT of the Flaws of the other game! Just look at "ContraWolf" review of Crysis 1 where he points out ALOT of the "what made it GOOD" was overexaggerated or just people having NOSTALGIA GLASSES and it isn't the classic "It's bad cause I say so" but SHOWING the facts which I EXPECT from Reviews and stuff going forward, if you say "This 15 minutes is just FULL of Plot Holes" then point out 5-10 of them or "you're just saying plot holes cause "it's a Bad Word, so people aren't going to follow up, and have nothing to say when "they follow you up on that" Some people are Lazy and WANT to feel like Egbert WITHOUT putting in the work! It's just pathetic)
You can tell they were really chaffing at the limitations for monster design for fixed camera angle style games. They wanted to make faster enemies since RE3 (nemesis was tedious af) but the slower controls were working against them. I imagine being forced to design nothing but slow, lumbering monsters got tedious over the years.
I felt similarly about this game. I really wanted to like it since so many Resident Evil fans praise it so much. I think a lot of that praise comes from it being the last mainline game to follow the original style of the series, before RE4 came. But yeah, I didn't enjoy my experience with Zero. The playing around with the menu and having to backtrack to gain items really killed the flow of the game. I didn't mind the difficulty for a first time player since I was warned beforehand to keep extra saves and expect Rebecca and Billy to get separated a lot. My displeasure came solely from the gameplay. I also thought the story was dumb with the directions it went and I do not understand how Rebecca's character gets downgraded to damsel in distress in the first Resident Evil if she took on a tyrant all by herself here. I will say though, the Leechman is one of the scariest Resident Evil enemies for me. Aside from Nemesis in RE3 original, no other monster filled me with as much dread as that guy. One of the best Resident Evil monsters, and was equally terrifying when it popped up in Outbreak. Good review! Loved your insights!
I've seen at least a dozen of RE0 reviews over the years and this has to be the most in-depth of them all. Great narration too, as always. I always taught Zero was an ok bonus counterpart-thing to the 2002 remake and I always like re-playing both back to back. Never liked the animal theme though. Yes, it is kind of explained in-game in Marcus's laboratory as him testing the virus on different types of animalia but I still pretty lame, them being just big animals with no other mutations. He lists all the bosses you've fought in one of the diary entries. You can cheese the bat in seconds by spamming the flame rounds so that the little ones never get to spawn properly. Also the funniest cheese in the game is the well known scorpion knife strat, where you just knife the boss every 2-3 seconds and stun lock it.
This game in general sounds like it’s a rough draft that could have used more tweaking. It has a lot of great parts, but it ends up being kind of a mess. It’s not a bad game. Far from it. There’s an interview with Shinji Mikami where he states that RE0 was the series low point. Now that’s definitely debatable, but he also infers that Capcom devs were simply sick/bored of making resident evil games at that time.
Yeah too bad Billy doesn't get mentioned again. Even Carlos got mentioned in an Umbrella document in Resident Evil 5, saying that he was found and liquidated.
Dude, you should've said 32x towards the beginning. Least that metaphor would've hit closer for home(unnecessary addition for console wich slowly goes obsoltete)! Right?
Frankly speaking, they REALLY should have given both character's JILL'S inventory Space instead of Chris's! People whine about his 6 spaces, but MAN did they fuck up here by making some items take more space! I'd be okay with WEAPONS like the Grenade Launcher and Shotgun taking two spaces, but shit like the Hookshot! Honestly alot of those items should have been DONE the moment the Transection ended instead of making them reusable for the Training Ground Section which should have had it's own unique items for it's puzzles And yeah feels like what happened with RE2 Remake and RE3 Remake where they took out the Defense Item system for some "Press X not to take HUGE damage" instead of KEEPING the Defense System (At least RE4 Remake went BOTH routes by giving you a choice between button mashing to LOWER the damage or use the knife to break free right there and then for the cost of durability) so the damage system for RE0 seemed great on paper because it means the two have to rely on each other, but in practise, ESPECIALLY when separated and DEAR GOD using Rebecca alone! They really should have kept the Defense Item system of RE1 Remake with how fast SHE dies (or better yet NOT make her like tissue just to play up RE1 system of Chris having higher HP but a harder run, while Jill has lower HP but an easier one! That obviously worked BECAUSE you had OPTIONS to save yourself if attacked in the right position and having the VERY Inexpensive Defense Items on you to avoid damage) Honestly would have been better to have BOTH character's mix herbs like NORMAL (Billy HAD to have had experience in that field being a Marine for survival cases) and Rebecca unique function is she can CARRY extra Herbs and apply them to Billy if nearby (Sort of like Cindy from the Outbreak Series) or at least make HER mixtures alot stronger then Billy's (though let's be real, people would be LUGGING her ass around to make the LIMITED healing items alot more MEANINGFUL then risk Billy wasting them mixing!) Yeah so much story and character potential lost because this was a Prequel that had TOO MUCH shoved into it a large amount being FANSERVICE that felt WAY out of place (All the RE2 Member Berries being the worst) makes me feel that for one BILLY should have been used for a DIFFERENT Resident Evil Entry, the game should have been COMPLETELY about Rebecca or even better Rebecca AND Richard along with Bravo (since the idea was we didn't get much on them due to DYING and Richard and Enrico not being on screen for more then a second just to DIE in RE1) and since they die anyway, would have been interesting seeing them find stuff Chris, Jill, Barry and even Rebecca find out LATER ON in the Series, but the early knowledge is lost due to DYING before they can really pass it on! I mean need I bringing up how Forest, the team SNIPER got peck to death by Crows and looked like he tried to take them on with a Grenade Launcher (my mistake BAZOOKA!) or Kenneth (The only Black Guy on the team who was the first corpse you came across in RE1 and your FIRST TIME seeing a Zombie in the series MUNCHING on him! Remake REALLY made his death pathetic by the fact you find his body cam recording on his body to view it) died a pretty pathetic death not able to hit a SLOW MOVING ZOMBIE AT CLOSE RANGE! And Marcus, oh dear lord Marcus, they likely had fun making him a Final Fantasy Villain and all his backstory that they likely FORGOT WHY HE'S PLAGUING Rebecca and Billy! Hell he should be HELPING THEM AND BRAVO as if they escape with TONS of events, Spencer is pretty much TOAST, but no, instead he's attacking them for DARING to be in the Training Facility, LARGELY BECAUSE OF HIMSELF by the way. And to make it MORE stupid he had no reason to CONFRONT them in the end! Feels like they counted on us ASSUMING that it was the Leech Hive Mind ACTING in revenge for Marcus and not the man himself which is why dumb decisions were made (my Theory on ALOT of OG RE4 Saddler's Stupid Villain Decisions for all his LOVE of mocking Leon for being a Cliche of the American Hero, he presents and ACTS like the typical American Action Movie Villain making ALOT of stupid decisions despite not being STUPID since he admits he made the Cult up simply for his Weapon Smuggling business! I just started believing the Plagas in him devoured his will and was ACTING in what it BELIEVED the REAL Saddler would act, like his snark towards Leon and being so arrogant he DIDN'T remove Luis Machine for some damn reason. Honestly this is why I LIKE Remake Saddler who plays the Cult Leader angle straight, he's alot more intimidating and the story has him ALMOST WIN! Even playing around with Leon has more reason then Villain Stupidity and the moment the Plagas almost get Ashley and Leon right before the Machine works in making it MORE desperate and we know he won't die, but it gives you the feel Leon WILL die as he's hit by ALOT of his PTSD from the events of RE2 Remake calling back to everything he and WE the players experienced in that game, where RE4 OG barely calls back to RE2! And hopefully a Code Veronica Remake might do the same for Claire, I mean it takes place like a month or so after RE2 so the PTSD should still be setting in for Claire who unlike Leon IS A CIVILIAN! As much as I like the BAD ASS stuff they did for Claire in OG Code Veronica, I feel a Remake should tone down the Matrix Action pack shit the opening movie leading to how Claire was captured to make it more REAL cause I called BULLSHIT as it went against Claire's CIVILIAN identity which RE2 Remake did a good job making a strong focus! Her gun training CAN be explained with Chris giving her some training and she could do gymnastics, but it felt the writers of Code Veronica forgot Claire isn't FUCKING ADA WONG)
While I really like RE Ø and enjoy playing through it occasionally, that's mainly because I know how to handle the inventory and where to place items in advance to minimise backtracking. I also really enjoy the dumb stupid schlock plot. But I won't claim it's a good game. It is an absolute trainwreck that only gets worse after the trainwreck and I don't recommend it to anyone.
While I don't really disagree with any of your points about this game I think the overall take is a little harsh. I played this recently blind for the first time and had fun; it's flawed for sure, a weak classic era RE game and definitely a frustrating experience at times, but I think there's enough classic RE gameplay here to enjoy if you're a fan of the formula. Standouts were the train sequence, the character swapping mechanic, the puzzles (especially ones that utilised the character swaps) and the resource economy. Might be just luck but this is the only RE game I've played that had me at the perfect level of almost out of resources/ammo but never completely screwed basically the whole game. And as for the story and performances yeah it's terrible but is it really any worse than REmake or any other classic RE title for that matter? It's unobtrusive which is all I really ask of these games.
I like RE0, though I find it hard to disagree with most of your criticisms. It's definitely a flawed game and nowhere near the best entries of the series, but I still find the classic survival horror gameplay RE0 contains to make it well worth playing. That being said, I actually wouldn't mind if the reported upcoming remake makes some big changes to it.
Great review of my least favourite game in the whole series 😂 Gameplay wise, it's grand! All they had to do was make the character someone else other than Rebecca! The writing and plot holes make me despise this game. I hope it's never remade or mentioned again. If Capcom remove it from canon? Good! I know people that like this game. I like the game! I just HATE the story that much!
What baffles me is that there are people in the re fandom that says this is their favorite re game. Like holy shit re6 may be a bad re game but still a decent enjoyable game - re0 is just plain bad all around. Such a shame that rebecca chambers only lead starring role is this shit game. Finishing this once was enough for me. I never want to play it ever again.
This game is the exact reason why RE4 was so desperately needed; the original formula was getting old, like a rotting corpse. This and Code Veronica were pushing the formula to its limits and it was getting on most people's nerves, myself included. I loved CV for the cutscenes and characters but i was so over the gameplay. I beat this one but i barely remember it. I liked the final boss but i think i only played it once back in original release and im good never playing it again. These type of games no longer interest me and i have zero patience for running around backtracking trying to remember what random item or key goes were. So glad RE decided tp ditch this formula for the most part.
I was in the area that Hurricane Beryl just hit last week and I was withiut power for 8 days. I had downloaded your playlist to watch when I was at home. Thanks for keeping me entertained when I i had no power at home. You really helped make it bearable.
I’m from Houston. I evacuated to San Antonio for a week.
Honestly i love resident evil 0. The pre rendered backgrounds, the soundtrack, the environments; all badass
I’m so happy that series like this and Clements FF Retrospective exist. These games (even the lesser than good ones) deserve this treatment.
Thank You.
The “thanks for watching” segment at the very end with the music and the cartoon characters on your videos - ALWAYS makes me feel nostalgic not just for the OG 1990s RE games but also your very own videos you’ve done previously. Not only do I wish I could go back to the 90s but also before you started your series so I can see them all again as new.
You have the absolute BEST retrospective videos for Resident Evil PERIOD.
Dude I happened across your videos like 2 weeks ago and have listened to your resident evil series so far like 4 times. Great videos and your jokes are on point!
The game gets so much hate, but I still really like it ❤
same
Thank you for another fantastic retrospective your channel super underrated and deserves more attention for your series
While I dont disagree with MOST of your criticisms of this game, I still can't help but love it.
Now I get my Witch Taunter Dead Aim video
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Been waiting for this since the last episode ❤ love your vids so much
I genuinely appreciate you brother You're The 🐐💯 When It Comes To Resident Evil Retrospectives.😎 You're Awesome Man I Hope You Know That 😤💪
cant wait for re 4
Hell yeach
After long day of work this is what i needed
Cant wait untill we get to the action era.
I grew up on RE4 & RE5
I actually feel a bit bad for the Umbrella Soldiers at 32:55.
The creepy part about this scene is that if you read the Japanese strategy guide for the game, it says that the T-Virus leeches actually transmit a _LOT_ of T-Virus into the creatures they attack.
If you pay attention to the dialogue and the train derailment countdown, only six and a half minutes had passed between when the soldiers were killed and when Rebecca and Billy arrived at the front of the train, meaning that unlike the people on the train who were attacked by a smaller number of leeches and took hours to reanimate, or Edward who was attacked by the zombie dogs and took about 30 minutes to turn, the poor soldiers were attacked by so many leeches and pumped with so much T-Virus that they died and became zombies within less than 7 minutes.
People turn as fast as the plot requires. In the ichy scrachy memo it clearly takes days for the virus to turn you and the process is gradual, and now when that realistic timespan is incovenient it happens super fast.
@@maccollo I love how that file is pretty well known just with 2 words, forget "guard's diary", its itchy scratchy now LMAO
But yeah, it's a bit twisted, though the other guy is right, it can depend on the dosages a body takes + their anatomy.
For example, in RE4 the children died (yeah bc there was gore so Capcom couldn't use that with children) but the reason given was because their bodies couldn't handle the plagas.
So I guess you and the other guy are correct. Sometimes it can take days, another just hours or minutes + what virus you're infected with... 🕴️
These are the best. Thank you.
Your videos are always a welcome sight for me, thanks for the work that you put into these.
My idea for Billy’s gunshot one liner was “Hey, Marcus! Take revenge on this!”
Idk pretty ehhhh
Oh boy the one mainline Resident Evil game that I gave up on for the item management
Yeah... While I love the game the item management HEAVILY grates on me. Luckily the item box mod solves that problem and makes it a crazy good entry. Just wish I knew about it ages ago
This was actually my first resi game that I played completely. I played the ps1 games tho. This item management makes sense to me than the rest of the resi games. But ya ain’t ready to hear that. And I’m a die hard resi fan now.
I just kept moving my items everywhere even if it took time
Train = pick stuff up and drop it if not importan. Will make it drop when train crashes.
Training facility = move items of importance to the main hall and classroom area as those rooms are always safe
Water treatment = have important items in the elevator.
I personally went back and got all Xbox achievements in this title and my original impression went from a 3 to about a 6 after I learned how the game works. I also really only did what I said above in my one and only hard mode run
Can't believe I missed this video when it came out. I started my playthrough of the series and watched these videos all along my journey. Finally passing them some months ago. Now I'm at RE6 and have to wait like everyone else lol
Glad you’re still doing this.
I have been waiting months for this! And you delivered a fucking feature length film on it. Fantastic!
I loved the first half of this game, then after I fought the giant bat i no longer loved this game.
Your reviews are my favorite vids to watch! In my opinion this game needs to reboot the most because story just absolutely is ridiculously all over the place. It's so undercooked that I think they need to start over on it just to make it blend with everything else.
They could have easily made Rebecca Chambers receive 1.5x the healing items. Her special item could allow her to use herbs more efficiently, ensuring no waste. For every second use, a meter could fill up, granting an extra healing item that doesn’t take up inventory space and can be collected. Since Rebecca is smaller, she would require fewer healing items, enabling her to use fewer herbs and save more while making the most of what would otherwise be wasted. This makes sense on a moving train, where creating healing items from herbs without a specialized tool or surface would spill.
I think something like what they'd later do in the Oubreak games with a doctor character being able to make special pills using herbs would've worked best. Green herbs being made into a mixture like the Green+Green, something more I'll just put the things done in outbreak below
Combine it with a Green Herb to create an Antidote.
Combine it with a Blue Herb to create a Recovery Medicine.
Combine it with a Red Herb to create a Hemostat. (maybe make a better healing item with this)
Combine it with a Mixed Herb (B+R) to create a Recovery Medicine (L).
Combine it with a Mixed Herb (G+B) to create an Anti Virus. (make it be like the Red Green herb mix)
Combine it with a Mixed Herb (G+G+B) to create an Anti Virus.
Combine it with a Mixed Herb (G+B+R) to create an Anti Virus (L).
Combine it with a Recovery Medicine Base to create a Recovery Medicine
@@cillianennis9921 yeah but its a moving train finding herbs should be a challenge already a then preparing it just on your hands should be almost impossible. Thats why i would say the herbs should not heal much and only she can make it but that would requiere Team work and stuff.
@@OK75 You forget the game mainly takes place after the train. I think the Outbreak thing is a way to do what you said but instead of ruining the herbs you just make it a better way. Would make sense though if Billy could only make herbs strong enough to heal Rebecca fully from danger & you need Rebecca to use the kit to make the medical supplies to heal Billy fully (what you said would anyway need a different item anyway)
@@cillianennis9921 if you have symmetric gameplay but if you have different paths you could choose to not even use one of them and take all herbs for one. Also shes smaller so she will get healed more by it. But thats all just fantasy such deep gaming Features will never come.
@@OK75 yeah guess only the games they care to add that complexity to is the outbreak & Revelations 2
"Mom, can I get Parasite Eve?"
"No, you already have Parasite Eve at home."
_the Parasite Eve at home:_
@@ArmedusDoesn’t that apply more to Code: Veronica?
@@giovannirastrelli9821
A little of Column A, a little of Column B. Both games experimented with their formulas and had mixed results.
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Ok, the RE2 / RE0 lab. It's a copy. No, it's not the same one. "But it looks the same" Yeah, Umbrella just reuses designs. Like how the Mansion from RE1 also gets reused a bit in RE Code Veronica and the RE5 DLC where you hunt down Spencer with Chris and Jill. Sure, the devs are doing this for fan service but I can understand the argument that Umbrella would want to keep things uniform between different facilities for the benefit of workers/subjects.
It makes sense. I mean, it's a lot like how most Walmarts or other chains all look the same, despite being all over the country.
YES FINALLY, I"VE BEEN WAITING LOL, FELL IN LOVE WITH THIS SERIES A FEW MONTHS AGO
Why are you shouting tho?
Me too, mate. Easily my favorite Resident Evil Retrospective series on the platform.
This is one review I enjoyed watching.
Finally some more evil residents
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I love the fact that the warning is just " *DO NOT* "
Like shit dawg, Big Scorpo? Don't gotta tell me twice 😂😂
Oh boy i've been waited so long for this!
Oh yeah, it's all coming together.
I think this other lab makes the most sense being a different place to the lab in RE2. I have a few points to use
1. the magic lift would make the most sense if this isn't the lab from RE2 allowing a more believable idea that the training facility, treatment centre, the lab & the yard.
2. the fact that enemies appear here makes me think its more likely an underground lab like the one seen in RE1 with this just being a part of its entrance & this is the lab that Dr Markus was killed in. It looks similar to the lab in RE2 then only on the outside because Umbrella likely hired the same company to build these biohazard secure labs & its likely that the inside of the RE0 one is very different to the lab in RE2.
3. The fact that Billy could be washed away over to here in no time would make the most sense being close & the fact that a tram can bring Rebecca here with the contradictions to RE2s location.
4. The fact that the leach queen has made its home round here & hasn't caused an outbreak in the main lab would only make sense if this is a disused lab.
5. This lab would be destroyed after the explosion caused by William Berkin at the end of the game which would kill him if its the same lab. I am going to ignore the Wii game events here as they kinda make 3 groups of no sense.
Actually lets switch to explaining why that part of wesker's journey in Umbrella chronicles makes no sense
1. The russian guy has a T-003 which wouldn't exist until after RE1s events
2. Why would Wesker leave in the direction of all the dangerous monsters instead of I don't know taking the safe way out.
3. The Russian guy knowing Wesker's betrayal before he's even started?
4. The Russian guy being their.
5. The fact that Wesker has to fight the Proto tyrant as well makes no sense.
Ok back to that Lab basically doesn't make sense unless its just a nearly the same place. We have seen that Umbrella has a specific taste in design for these labs. 1 they love making them under mansions or really fancy looking places, 2 they don't hire janitors much, 3 they love weird puzzles for the basic locks. (I'd explain the puzzles as part of the combat tests more than anything to slow the subjects down & allow for the areas to be set up properly)
Your content is superb. You deserve more views man
I respect your Dedication.
This is the 2nd re game that i finished, i want to play through the rest of the series too.
Excellent retrospective on Zero
Im not trying to excuse the lack of item boxes, and your theory of having one per area could make sense but. I think the thinking of it was that the idea behind the two protags was that they had to work together and share items deliver them thru the mini elevators, and they didn’t want problems to be solved by one person putting an item in the box necessary for solving a puzzle and the other being able to have it magically transported to them fully across the map at no cost or effort . That’s just my personal theory tho
I have to agree with your opinion. When I was replaying this game fairly recently, I knew that on my first playthrough the game gave me a hard time. But after completing it for the second time, I'm convinced that it's just poorly designed and features very frustrating gameplay. Didnt't enjoy the enemies, didn't enjoy the inventory management and obviously didn't enjoy the laughable story.
Great Video! Can't wait for the Dead Aim one! This might be a really dumb question, but do you think you'll cover Darkside Chronicles in the future?
I am reviewing every RE game in order of release, so yeah, I definitely will be doing it.
@@WitchTaunter ooh, great to hear! I love DSC, keep up the good work!
I feel like the existance of all these facilities that are somehow near the Spenser mansion (despite being a hour train ride away) invalidate the entire reason for it's existance, which is to mask the existence of the laboratory underneeth it. Like, why construct this elaborate facade for such a tiny laboratory when you have this gigantic complex which is litteraly connected to the city by rail?
oh I never noticed how her face design was changed as a kid. Honestly, I prefer the Re1 remake version. Her RE0 face looks a bit like a doll to me.
Hey I just watched all these last week nice timing
This is still my favorite save theme music. I loved this game when it first came out, but as time goes on. It is a very frustrating game to go through. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.
Damn that Willaim Barko!
Guys guys it’s a new retrospective from witchtaunter!!!! GRAB THE POPCORN!!!!!!!
This game has so much potential for a remake solely based on the potential of actually fleshing out the Rebecca and Billy dynamic
this is my fav game in the series and will stay that way, it just has its own inseparable charm ykyk
cant wait for the next few games retrospect! im here till the very end. honestly really want thoughts on re4, remakes, chronicals, and operation city
I LUV DIS GAMEEEEE
Yes. IGN has set the standard for 7/10 = average. Which made no sense. If I'm not mistaken, someone at IGN admitted what we all knew, that 7 is what they eould give bad games who'se publisher they didn't wanna upset. (If they could get away with it)
Am I the only one who thinks the Proto Tyrant's got it goin' on back there?
Another great vid.
Pleeease do a retrospective for Outbreak and Outbreak File 2
@@SilentHill4Life Those are right after Dead Aim
In RE1, Jill had more slots and a lock pick and help from Barry. Chris had higher chances of critical hits, grenades, lighter, and he could take more damage.
58:27 DK Donkey Kong!
I love the resident evil content, and while you certainly have a lot of work left to do a potential retrospective on capcom's other survival horror game, Dino Crisis would be really cool.
The leech theme reminds me of the uroboros theme from re5
I think it is the same lab as Resident Evil 2 at the end. The inconsistencies have to be accepted like all the other inconsistencies in Resident Evil 0.
Sometimes I think about replaying RE0-I genuinely enjoyed this game-but I always have to ask one deciding question: “Do I want to deal with that bat fight in the church?”
As for items, if the locations had been much more intertwined within themselves and with one another, the item-drop system could have been good, strategic fun. It’s not a bad idea, it’s bad implementation.
In my head cannon the events of the mansion incident are caused by an accident & the reason the whole outbreak happens in the other facility is caused by the accidental release of the leaches which leads to the events we see. It makes the most sense since they are only looking into this facility due to the fact that the other one has been deep sixed for a month or two & is just ready to have a combat test before I am assuming its fully exploded. Also I think the other members of the bravo team must be around the facility & learn some tactics that have them locking doors which could explain the oddities of RE1.
Wooo! Yes
The Eliminators vs. Hunters-comparison is extra funny because both enemy types are putrid garbage in 0! God forbid you get to hitstun either type without them tanking shots and keeping your character animation-locked.
something that has always bothered me about billy's backstory is about his fellow soldiers. "some died from the heat, others were killed by THE ENEMY". so even with that supposed wrong information, there WERE enemies in thart part of the jungle. so..... why attack an innocent village? you could simply say you were ambushed by the enemy that was killing your men.
RE1: 🧟♂️
RE2: 🧟♂️ 🧟♀️ 👨⚕️🕵♂️
RE3: 🧟♀️ 🧟♂️ 🧟 🚁 🕵🚀 💥
REØ: 🐌 🐌 🐌 🐌 🚂 🐌 🐌 🐌 🐌 🐌 🐌 🐌 🐌 🐌 🐌 🐌 🐌 🐌
Also to add, I have to presume the Queen was talking during the flashback of Marcus death. Meaning she HAD to have NAME DROPPED Birkin and Wesker. I'm sure they knew that which is why you don't see Rebecca being "wait Captain Wesker?" at any point as that would RUIN the "Surprise" if Rebecca freaking TELLS Chris "Hey I was in another Umbrella Facility PREVIOUSLY and found out Captain Wesker worked for Umbrella" to Chris
But then I REALLY feel that MAYBE the game should have been a BILLY affair with Rebecca as a SIDE character (you know Capcom's favorite "have your play the main character then have you play the side character for a small bit" like in the Onimusha Trilogy, RE OG Trilogy, and Dino Crisis 2 & 3) then at least you can PREVENT Rebecca from going into areas or encountering things she SHOULDN'T have
Billy got lucky by the fact the Government had BIGGER things to worry about! RE2 Remake CANONIZE RE0 with a Report on Rebecca Desk in the STARS Office reporting Billy as Deceased, also as a Reminder, Raccoon City is DOOMED to get NUKED so it's EASY to go off the grid for Billy! He slipped through the cracks. BUT you do have a point as this is STILL on the mountains far from civilization in a Forest FILLED with Cerberus Zombie Dogs (the VERY reason Alpha didn't just "go out the front door" still have dumbasses who think they could have gone out the front and all would be okay, forgetting they don't know HOW MAN Cerberus are outside, it's FUCKING DARK, and they had to take a HELICOPTER from Raccoon City to GET THERE and "who knows what else is out there beyond the Cerberus! Only way their leaving is via as they got lucky! Brad not being a COMPLETE coward and flying around till they could catch his attention! Hence why the game took place within a couple of hours as that was as long as Brad had enough FUEL to even FLYBY long enough to pick them up AND flyback! Last I remember, the usual procedures if I remember when it comes to Helicopters (could be wrong, FREE to correct me) is to ONLY give enough Fuel under the PRESUMPTION of time to the location and time BACK, and Brad never LANDED again till the Rooftop! So he's been BURNING ALOT of Fuel, unless he found a Safe spot nearby to use backup reserves before trying again. Hell he might have LANDED on the roof previously to refuel before flying by again) and no follow up on him at ALL of course would make people think the WORSE! The fact the crime he was framed for had NOTHING to do with Umbrella and I know there were some who HOPED RE5 might have referenced Billy since you know "Africa" only they didn't. Means Billy was just made SPECIFICALLY to give Rebecca a MAN for her journey because I think this was around when people still held the "Woman can't be the major leads of their own game without no man, plus boys still though girls had cooties and wouldn't play a game with one as the main star without a male alternative" BS (Even back then, I ALWAYS loved choosing GIRL characters mostly because I was BORED playing a GUY all the fucking time! Hell even with JILL'S story, she's always getting BAILED by Barry, A MAN and we know it's cause his GUILT has him keeping an eye on her when she WOULD HAVE DIED! Hence why Wesker looks down on her. He knows she'd be DEAD if Barry wasn't having SECOND THOUGHTS! And it's why I like Chris run better and feel it's the TRUE Classic RE experience LOL! Lots of backtracking and near ZERO safety nets! Also no BAZOOKA/Grenade Launcher) feels so WASTED (I mean as a I said, Rebecca fighting a Tyrant LOOKED badass, but remembering how she was in RE1, it just raises questions and would have been better if that was BILLY! RE0 narrative is ruined by the fact RE1 existed BEFORE it and the character it displays is someone who CANNOT act too far from how she was in RE1 where she was played HEAVILY straight as a Rookie first time on the job! Or maybe it would have been better if we saw MORE of Bravo team then them being an AFTERTHOUGHT
EDIT: Yeah I agree, IGN and all other "SELLOUT" Reviews of the past have ruined the spirit of "Number Scores" for people. Happy I got out of that habit back in the PS3 era of gaming after I played a few "5-7 out of 10's" (or 1-2 out of 5 from XPLAY remember that show LOL!) though that was thanks to borrowing and RENTING those games (or getting them used for cheap from Gamestop where if you return them within 7 days, you can get your money back complete!) and suffice to say! Out of every 10 of those, about 6-8 turn out to actually be MISSCORED! Hell I had games that felt like TOP scoring games, only to see them score LOW (and finding out later on that there WAS bias against THOSE games on purpose, which completely made me lose faith in reviewers sans the TH-cam reviewers that started showing up! At least a GOOD many of them are UP FRONT with their bias and don't go out of their way to review in bad faith, though sadly THAT has started to go to the way side largely cause some are going for CLOUT and if they hear a game is "HATED" by a low loud minority, they'll assume it's bad and join the hate train....giving MORE justification for the Haters to hate on ANY fans of that specific game! Sad the Hatedom has become so "Popular" as of late. "It's now COOL to hate on things for the sake of HATE" and I can't WAIT to have FUN conversations with FORMER HATERS when the tide turns and it's no longer "Hip" to be an OPENER hater! Egbert REALLY left a bad legacy behind where it seems the best way to be popular is to be a DICK! I can get being sarcastic when need be on JUSTIFABLE bad stuff, but going out of your way to be a SUPER DICK is just not cool unless it's REALLY unsalvagable stuff that deserves the contempt, but even then, knowing when not to beat the Dead Horse and understand IT'S ALREADY DEAD is important! It's likely WHY hatedom's never last too long and eventually the ATTEMPT to label something as ETERNALLY BAD results in "Second Look" that usually DESTROY what the Hatedom accomplished, like in a "It's not the GREATEST, but it's not the SPAWN OF HITLER AND SATAN it was made out to be" or "Wow, people back then sure were Sheepish followers that likely NEVER played it or they did, but let a FUCKING FORUM tell them what they can and cannot like so went in KNOWING they were going to hate it no matter what" such as video's like this one for RE0 where yeah it wasn't very good as they say! The latter is funny since those same folk are quick to say "Yeah I liked it" the moment the Hatedom's attempt FAILS and it is HUGELY liked! I've found myself replaying 8 and 9 out of 10's only to find they weren't as GREAT as I remembered, likely because I got INFLUENCED back then, my tastes have changed or I experienced an ACTUALY better version of that game and it revealed ALOT of the Flaws of the other game! Just look at "ContraWolf" review of Crysis 1 where he points out ALOT of the "what made it GOOD" was overexaggerated or just people having NOSTALGIA GLASSES and it isn't the classic "It's bad cause I say so" but SHOWING the facts which I EXPECT from Reviews and stuff going forward, if you say "This 15 minutes is just FULL of Plot Holes" then point out 5-10 of them or "you're just saying plot holes cause "it's a Bad Word, so people aren't going to follow up, and have nothing to say when "they follow you up on that" Some people are Lazy and WANT to feel like Egbert WITHOUT putting in the work! It's just pathetic)
31:00 😂😂😂😂
The leech man is actually called "one of the many"
Would love to see Rebecca in another Resident Evil game.
You can tell they were really chaffing at the limitations for monster design for fixed camera angle style games. They wanted to make faster enemies since RE3 (nemesis was tedious af) but the slower controls were working against them. I imagine being forced to design nothing but slow, lumbering monsters got tedious over the years.
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A 2 hour video on a game I don't like from a series I love?? Why am I not subbed???
I felt similarly about this game. I really wanted to like it since so many Resident Evil fans praise it so much. I think a lot of that praise comes from it being the last mainline game to follow the original style of the series, before RE4 came. But yeah, I didn't enjoy my experience with Zero. The playing around with the menu and having to backtrack to gain items really killed the flow of the game. I didn't mind the difficulty for a first time player since I was warned beforehand to keep extra saves and expect Rebecca and Billy to get separated a lot. My displeasure came solely from the gameplay. I also thought the story was dumb with the directions it went and I do not understand how Rebecca's character gets downgraded to damsel in distress in the first Resident Evil if she took on a tyrant all by herself here. I will say though, the Leechman is one of the scariest Resident Evil enemies for me. Aside from Nemesis in RE3 original, no other monster filled me with as much dread as that guy. One of the best Resident Evil monsters, and was equally terrifying when it popped up in Outbreak.
Good review! Loved your insights!
I really like this game
I've seen at least a dozen of RE0 reviews over the years and this has to be the most in-depth of them all. Great narration too, as always. I always taught Zero was an ok bonus counterpart-thing to the 2002 remake and I always like re-playing both back to back. Never liked the animal theme though. Yes, it is kind of explained in-game in Marcus's laboratory as him testing the virus on different types of animalia but I still pretty lame, them being just big animals with no other mutations. He lists all the bosses you've fought in one of the diary entries. You can cheese the bat in seconds by spamming the flame rounds so that the little ones never get to spawn properly. Also the funniest cheese in the game is the well known scorpion knife strat, where you just knife the boss every 2-3 seconds and stun lock it.
actually i think the eliminators add an interesting challenge to the game, and they keep you on your toes :)
you have never even played this game
@@WitchTaunter proof?
LET'S FUCKING GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
They should have made it so that umbrella wasn't evil till they killed ol'Fezziwig(Marcus)
I hope the remake doesn't have Crimson Heads
This game in general sounds like it’s a rough draft that could have used more tweaking. It has a lot of great parts, but it ends up being kind of a mess. It’s not a bad game. Far from it. There’s an interview with Shinji Mikami where he states that RE0 was the series low point. Now that’s definitely debatable, but he also infers that Capcom devs were simply sick/bored of making resident evil games at that time.
Yeah too bad Billy doesn't get mentioned again. Even Carlos got mentioned in an Umbrella document in Resident Evil 5, saying that he was found and liquidated.
ah the only re game where rebeca is a main carachter
I definitely would not have completed this game as a kid
Im still pissed we never got RE2 on Sega Saturn. Also the RE Zero Demake fan game on PS1 is sooo good & although its just a demo, its a must play
Dude, you should've said 32x towards the beginning. Least that metaphor would've hit closer for home(unnecessary addition for console wich slowly goes obsoltete)! Right?
Frankly speaking, they REALLY should have given both character's JILL'S inventory Space instead of Chris's! People whine about his 6 spaces, but MAN did they fuck up here by making some items take more space! I'd be okay with WEAPONS like the Grenade Launcher and Shotgun taking two spaces, but shit like the Hookshot! Honestly alot of those items should have been DONE the moment the Transection ended instead of making them reusable for the Training Ground Section which should have had it's own unique items for it's puzzles
And yeah feels like what happened with RE2 Remake and RE3 Remake where they took out the Defense Item system for some "Press X not to take HUGE damage" instead of KEEPING the Defense System (At least RE4 Remake went BOTH routes by giving you a choice between button mashing to LOWER the damage or use the knife to break free right there and then for the cost of durability) so the damage system for RE0 seemed great on paper because it means the two have to rely on each other, but in practise, ESPECIALLY when separated and DEAR GOD using Rebecca alone! They really should have kept the Defense Item system of RE1 Remake with how fast SHE dies (or better yet NOT make her like tissue just to play up RE1 system of Chris having higher HP but a harder run, while Jill has lower HP but an easier one! That obviously worked BECAUSE you had OPTIONS to save yourself if attacked in the right position and having the VERY Inexpensive Defense Items on you to avoid damage) Honestly would have been better to have BOTH character's mix herbs like NORMAL (Billy HAD to have had experience in that field being a Marine for survival cases) and Rebecca unique function is she can CARRY extra Herbs and apply them to Billy if nearby (Sort of like Cindy from the Outbreak Series) or at least make HER mixtures alot stronger then Billy's (though let's be real, people would be LUGGING her ass around to make the LIMITED healing items alot more MEANINGFUL then risk Billy wasting them mixing!)
Yeah so much story and character potential lost because this was a Prequel that had TOO MUCH shoved into it a large amount being FANSERVICE that felt WAY out of place (All the RE2 Member Berries being the worst) makes me feel that for one BILLY should have been used for a DIFFERENT Resident Evil Entry, the game should have been COMPLETELY about Rebecca or even better Rebecca AND Richard along with Bravo (since the idea was we didn't get much on them due to DYING and Richard and Enrico not being on screen for more then a second just to DIE in RE1) and since they die anyway, would have been interesting seeing them find stuff Chris, Jill, Barry and even Rebecca find out LATER ON in the Series, but the early knowledge is lost due to DYING before they can really pass it on! I mean need I bringing up how Forest, the team SNIPER got peck to death by Crows and looked like he tried to take them on with a Grenade Launcher (my mistake BAZOOKA!) or Kenneth (The only Black Guy on the team who was the first corpse you came across in RE1 and your FIRST TIME seeing a Zombie in the series MUNCHING on him! Remake REALLY made his death pathetic by the fact you find his body cam recording on his body to view it) died a pretty pathetic death not able to hit a SLOW MOVING ZOMBIE AT CLOSE RANGE! And Marcus, oh dear lord Marcus, they likely had fun making him a Final Fantasy Villain and all his backstory that they likely FORGOT WHY HE'S PLAGUING Rebecca and Billy! Hell he should be HELPING THEM AND BRAVO as if they escape with TONS of events, Spencer is pretty much TOAST, but no, instead he's attacking them for DARING to be in the Training Facility, LARGELY BECAUSE OF HIMSELF by the way. And to make it MORE stupid he had no reason to CONFRONT them in the end! Feels like they counted on us ASSUMING that it was the Leech Hive Mind ACTING in revenge for Marcus and not the man himself which is why dumb decisions were made (my Theory on ALOT of OG RE4 Saddler's Stupid Villain Decisions for all his LOVE of mocking Leon for being a Cliche of the American Hero, he presents and ACTS like the typical American Action Movie Villain making ALOT of stupid decisions despite not being STUPID since he admits he made the Cult up simply for his Weapon Smuggling business! I just started believing the Plagas in him devoured his will and was ACTING in what it BELIEVED the REAL Saddler would act, like his snark towards Leon and being so arrogant he DIDN'T remove Luis Machine for some damn reason. Honestly this is why I LIKE Remake Saddler who plays the Cult Leader angle straight, he's alot more intimidating and the story has him ALMOST WIN! Even playing around with Leon has more reason then Villain Stupidity and the moment the Plagas almost get Ashley and Leon right before the Machine works in making it MORE desperate and we know he won't die, but it gives you the feel Leon WILL die as he's hit by ALOT of his PTSD from the events of RE2 Remake calling back to everything he and WE the players experienced in that game, where RE4 OG barely calls back to RE2! And hopefully a Code Veronica Remake might do the same for Claire, I mean it takes place like a month or so after RE2 so the PTSD should still be setting in for Claire who unlike Leon IS A CIVILIAN! As much as I like the BAD ASS stuff they did for Claire in OG Code Veronica, I feel a Remake should tone down the Matrix Action pack shit the opening movie leading to how Claire was captured to make it more REAL cause I called BULLSHIT as it went against Claire's CIVILIAN identity which RE2 Remake did a good job making a strong focus! Her gun training CAN be explained with Chris giving her some training and she could do gymnastics, but it felt the writers of Code Veronica forgot Claire isn't FUCKING ADA WONG)
Can you do a video on resident evil outbreak file 1 and 2?
say you think you wanna check out the RE inspired Crow Country?
I do, I just don't exactly have the time or money to spend on buying it or making a video on it.
I would love an item box mod for this
While I really like RE Ø and enjoy playing through it occasionally, that's mainly because I know how to handle the inventory and where to place items in advance to minimise backtracking. I also really enjoy the dumb stupid schlock plot. But I won't claim it's a good game. It is an absolute trainwreck that only gets worse after the trainwreck and I don't recommend it to anyone.
While I don't really disagree with any of your points about this game I think the overall take is a little harsh. I played this recently blind for the first time and had fun; it's flawed for sure, a weak classic era RE game and definitely a frustrating experience at times, but I think there's enough classic RE gameplay here to enjoy if you're a fan of the formula. Standouts were the train sequence, the character swapping mechanic, the puzzles (especially ones that utilised the character swaps) and the resource economy. Might be just luck but this is the only RE game I've played that had me at the perfect level of almost out of resources/ammo but never completely screwed basically the whole game. And as for the story and performances yeah it's terrible but is it really any worse than REmake or any other classic RE title for that matter? It's unobtrusive which is all I really ask of these games.
I like RE0, though I find it hard to disagree with most of your criticisms. It's definitely a flawed game and nowhere near the best entries of the series, but I still find the classic survival horror gameplay RE0 contains to make it well worth playing. That being said, I actually wouldn't mind if the reported upcoming remake makes some big changes to it.
19:36 Also your gay 😂
I was abou to comment that. 😂😂
Im gay and played both ways so... counter argument i guess lmao
Great review of my least favourite game in the whole series 😂
Gameplay wise, it's grand! All they had to do was make the character someone else other than Rebecca! The writing and plot holes make me despise this game.
I hope it's never remade or mentioned again. If Capcom remove it from canon? Good!
I know people that like this game. I like the game! I just HATE the story that much!
And here thought that nintendo hawen't made stupid descisions like sega! Please say basically anything, case being wrong. Can take like champ.
What baffles me is that there are people in the re fandom that says this is their favorite re game. Like holy shit re6 may be a bad re game but still a decent enjoyable game - re0 is just plain bad all around. Such a shame that rebecca chambers only lead starring role is this shit game. Finishing this once was enough for me. I never want to play it ever again.
This game is the exact reason why RE4 was so desperately needed; the original formula was getting old, like a rotting corpse. This and Code Veronica were pushing the formula to its limits and it was getting on most people's nerves, myself included. I loved CV for the cutscenes and characters but i was so over the gameplay. I beat this one but i barely remember it. I liked the final boss but i think i only played it once back in original release and im good never playing it again. These type of games no longer interest me and i have zero patience for running around backtracking trying to remember what random item or key goes were. So glad RE decided tp ditch this formula for the most part.
dude i love your videos but you gotta put "spooky zombies!" to rest, man
One of the most underrated games ever made. Gets way too much flak for no good reason. wow their is no item box big deal.