Just wanted to tell you ,but as you know there are a lot of Romanian words in Village , that "Cadou" is the word for gift , what I'm trying to say is that Mother M see's this parasite as a gift (Still cant get over how Mia at the start of the game said "Ciorba de legume" aka Vegetable soup , she said it in a spanish accent and it grind's my gears) Still good video and I cant wait to buy the game now
Ethan is a good character to his core. Not even hesitant when told what he has to do to save his daughter. He just grabs the nearest vaguely dangerous object and says “Cool, who’s dying for this?”
It's also a huge nod to the prototypes of Resident Evil 4. For real, look up the RE4 "Hookman" Demo. It's fascinating how the concepts were adapted to Village.
@@SnoHund2 Because anything to do with Donna is drastically overwhelmed by the "f*ck you" that is her entire stage. I do personally wish there was more to her area than that but there you go.
honestly the ending card where it just says "the father's story is now done." had me both confused, and intrigued. It implies Mia and Rosemary still have a journey ahead of them, as well as cementing that (presumably) Ethan Winters is dead for good. It's really cool as a tiny touch on an already good game, it plays into the fairytale or storybook aspect interestingly.
Honestly if the next game has Mia as a protag I'll be entirely uninterested. She was the worst part of the first game, especially them forcing you to take her if you want the true ending.
@@mythicalthings1796 Shes so awful in terms pof voice actor and just general boringness. Also the little coraline style storybook intro was super lame and had nothing to do with the game.
To be perfectly honest, the idea of RE9 scares me a bit The ending saying that “The father’s story ends here” implies that Rosemary is going to be the protagonist from this point, and judging by how she’s even more powerful than Eveline, I don’t know how they’d be able to incorporate the horror element into it.
There's no chance they'd drop how much everyone loved playing a regular person out of their element for two games straight to do that, I think. I'm curious to see what they do, though! (Just please please please give us another regular person scared, untrained, and barely surviving.)
@@RoseRitonya That is a good point. Personally, I had previously thought that the best way they would have done it would have been her powers being stripped/nulled, but it would have seemed like a plot contrivance I just hope they don't drop the ball is all
man that part about ethan was just PERFECT, it really put my thoughts on him as a character into words. i've always enjoyed his character even if he's fairly stagnant in growth and watching people constantly call him boring wasn't very fun. it's nice to see someone else appreciate him as he is, even if he isn't as fleshed out as others in the series :)
And through his entire fight with Miranda, he doesn't call her a "b****" or any other woman-directed slur, like you might see any other action-game hero call a female boss character. He just repeats the truth, that he loves Rose in a way Miranda's just incapable of understanding.
Yea, I 100 percent agree with Yahtzee Crowshaw here: "The most genuinely terrifying horror experience I´ve had in a long time". I honestly haven´t been this freaked out since playing Outlast and Amnesia for the first time when getting into horror.
The reason why I think it works so much better than similar situations in a lot of other games is how it contrasts with how much relative power you have throughout the rest of the game. Generally you have pretty sufficient firepower to deal with anything in your way, even against giant monster bosses. Not to mention you just came off of fighting a giant gross tentacle dragon-thing at the end of the Manor. So having all that power now gone, you feel even more helpless than you would in a game like Amnesia where you can never fight at all.
I got to the baby in my first night playing the game, it's 11 at night, i'm pump from beating a vampire and her three bats, then i'm getting swallowed by a giant baby. i put the controller down, said FTSIO and put the game down for the night, that is going to be my new nightmare for a while.
To me, the most interesting aspect of House Beneviento is how it manages to truly unite both Ethan and the player in terms of shared fears and memories through their shared experience of RE7. When the player enters the house and begins picking up on the similarities to RE7, Ethan is feeling the exact same thing, because both parties have a connection back to that locale. When Ethan reacts with disgust to the mannequin of Mia, the player feels the same way, because both parties view Mia as a character that we have sacrificed greatly for. It really is cool to see Capcom acknowledge that a lot of the people who were interested in RE7 will have returned for RE8 and actively work that into their level design. Thank you very much for making this video - I've been waiting for it ever since RE8 released, because I knew that only you would you be able to give the project an honest, down-to-earth review amidst all the jokes and memes. I really appreciate how much time you put in to these analyses, and I'm very happy to hear that you enjoyed the game!
RE 7/8: Ethan Winters: Hand abuse simulator. Poor Ethans hands. God House **DOLL HELL** was easily the scariest house. Vamp house was startling but good throwback to 7 with the cold and the mold.
So for the part with the baby, you can hide in the cabinet in the medical room. And it is so much worse than just running away. It gets close to you, way too close, and it's just so horrifying. I hated the Beneviento house, but in a g o o d way. Best part of the game.
@@hilotakenaka but in doing so. In a sad term of events causes him to become less buff. Meaning that he couldn’t punch the Boulder. Causing multiple reality shifting events that he must fix.
Something very important to note about the after-credits scene is that as the jeep Rose is in drives away from the camera, a person can be seen walking along the side of the road before the game cuts to black for the last time. By editing some files, people have enabled flycam during that last scene, and have confirmed the figure walking along the road is actually Ethan, and his exact model from the moment of his death. Given the way Eveline was able to manifest as a presence in Ethan's mind even three years after the events in Dulvey, it's safe to say Ethan's consciousness still exists inside the mutamycete in Rose.
If you haven't already I highly recommend watching Nicole Tompkin's streams. She's the actress behind Daniela Dimitrescu and Elena and is currently playing through RE8. She gives a lot of great info regarding how the mocap scenes were done and has been bringing on other actors for the streams as well. The animation work in this game is utterly phenomenal and really ties it all together.
I beat this game three times straight when it released, first on normal, then hard, then on Village of Shadows. At no point in my three continuous playthroughs did I feel bored. There was always something keeping me coming back and keeping me entertained. *That* section in particular was one of the most terrifying sections of any horror game I’ve played in recent memory. I’ll give Capcom their due, this was a great game. Not perfect, but really damn good.
The baby was enough to stop Kojima from thinking of making more psychological horror games. If he had any doubts, the baby will leave no doubt. That is way scarier than anything Silent Hill threw at anyone.
i remember watching somewhere sometime ago that Capcom wanted to reel back the scares in Village because they deemed biohazard a little *too* scary in general and this was aiming to bring a more balanced experience that can be enjoyed by more people, respectable decision, turned out great, however it would be awesome if they decided to go FULL swing in RE:9 and make the whole game as scary as house Beneviento, just a heart-gripping experience all the way trough, could it perhaps be a risky play? sure, but it is fun to think about what lies beneath the "what could have been" and im all for it if it ever happens
@@bennlewis6763 damn. yeah its definitely a genre thats not for everyone, but if it was, it wouldnt have that specific appeal to begin with, such a weird thing to complain for when that's exactly what you get. speaks to the quality of said product, it did it's job right lol scary game scary, who would have thought amirite xd
@@AxisCorpsRep I think it's worth remembering, though, that Resident Evil has always been somewhat scary for its time, but being scary is only a fraction of what the series is. From the very start it's been just as much about action, weapons, shooting, boss fights, puzzles, item management, larger-than-life characters, over-the-top stories and explosions. Making a true, pure, maximum fear horror game would definitely be awesome - but it also wouldn't be Resident Evil, and I think it's fair for people to complain about the series going "too far" into fear when that isn't really what the series has ever been about. I agree that I'd love to see what the team can really do for a full game, they've shown more than enough that they have a masterful grasp of crafting fear experiences, I'm just also an RE fan from the beginning who understands and shares the desire of those who love what RE has always been. I think a good idea could be them alternating third-person classic RE style (like RE2 Remake) with first-person modern horror focus between games.
@@shadowflame68 oh hell yeah m8. i absolutely agree with everything you said there, and yeah pretty much its understandable that the series is not 100% only horror. if it were, it would be remembered very different. but i also just enjoy thinking of the "what ifs". and a what if capcop DID go *FULL* horror, man that would be one helluva experience
In RE7 everything felt pretty scripted and there was the general thought for me the whole game of "I wonder if I get to kill them now." One horror chase section was more than enough for me, I enjoyed exploring the Village itself after the bosses and killing mobs way more. I hope they keep stepping in the direction of survival horror instead of just horror. Put a gun in my hand and give me a chance and I'll love it. Take my weapons away and make me just run like Amnesia or Outlast? There's plenty of games that do that.
You're telling me you... YOU... didn't catch the feet running away-- in the very direction you have to walk-- in the shadowed part of the intro? I refuse to believe it.
This video hasn't even been out long enough for anyone to watch it all the way through, but I can tell already that this is going to be an incredible, detailed, and rich dissection of the game, it's story and it's lore. Incredible job as always.
On the topic of house Beneviento, I really love that it seems almost PT-eqsue. As a huge Silent Hill fan, I was really disappointed when PT was cancelled, like many other people. But the scenes in house Beneviento, especially once the baby is introduced, almost brought back that same claustrophobic confusion that Silent Hills had. Dark, confusing, cramped hallways. The freaky ambience of the baby "crying" and "laughing". Even the baby itself sorta reminded me of the baby in the sink in PT. of course it could all just be unintentional, but I thought it was so cool.
You know what's really great about the scene with the bodies in the crawlspace? The fact that every single body you're able to investigate is already mutilated and dead. Meaning they all were either killed or dying from the attacks by the time they got there. And yet, you wake up there, seemingly unscathed....
What I find brilliant in a meta sense is that the previous game was heavily inspired by 80's films like The Evil Dead and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, while this one takes you on a journey through the old classics from a village full of Wolfmen through the vampire castle to practically Frankenstein's lab before ending in a big action sequence the series has become known for.
My playthrough of House Beneviento was slightly different in the baby reveal, not in how it was done, but in how I responded to it. When I went down the hall, and heard the baby start moving towards me, instead of giving it time to get into the light and see it clearly, I instantly sprinted my ass back, and just ran, remembering the locker I could hide in. And I spent the rest of the time being as careful as possible. I got to the stairs, and heard it coming down, and ran to the bed and hid under it. My first clear look was just the bottom part of it, and I was terrified. And then finally, when I got to the elevator, I hid in the room next to it, and waited for the baby to come then move away, so my first actual look of the whole thing wasn’t until the Elevator jumpscare, and I gotta say, that extra element of me not seeing it for so long made the pay off so fucking rewarding. I love this game so much.
i watched a full no-commentary playthrough of this game, and the player died only once: to the fucking baby thing. i think it caught even them off guard, even though they clearly already played the game.
I'm glad you enjoying House Beneviento and really the game as a whole as much as my friends and I did. Honestly, I never died to the baby until I decided to show it to the friends that weren't going to play the game. I DID show them the entirety of the house instead of just the baby, but I was mostly speedrunning it at that point so it doesn't really get the full experience since the puzzles are always the same. You don't even need the silver key down there.
Would another personification of the fear of a child becoming a monster be the lords themselves? What with all but one of them having a final monstrous form and being a part of her makeshift family of mutants. Not to mention Heisenburg actually turning on Miranda and attempting to kill her by making an entire "metal army", similar to how Eveline transformed the Baker family in pursuit of her own goals. Heisenburg was also kidnapped as a very young child by Mother Miranda as an attempt to make a vessel for Eva, like how Rose is kidnapped as a baby by Miranda for the same purpose.
40:30 That blood splatter on the wall is identical to one in RE2: Remake! Next to the Dark Room save room, there's a bench covered in blood by the vending machines. It's the same pattern. I just randomly decided to reinstall RE2R today to try out the randomizer and because of this video I thought the splatter looked super familiar. Sure enough, same one! Good way to reuse assets without it being too noticeable.
You know Capcom's doing good with their games when Nick does a video on both of the sequels. Personally I like Biohazard better than Village, and honestly it's because of the tapes, I love found footage style things and thus Clancy became an immediate favorite for me, in fact, my only problem with Biohazard was that the killed him in the "Happy Birthday" tape.
beneviento manor is good once, afterwards its a tedious scripted event that makes subsequent playthroughs a drag. Also Heisenberg's factory overstays its welcome. Wish we got to explore the upper floors of the castle you see from its rooftop or maybe extended Moreau's fishing village area that was cut and was pretty much became just a tunnel towards a boss fight
I beat Village already, and have now begun on Biohazard, just because of the respect you gave it. Not sure why I skipped the title but I did..lol because of you, I guess I'm going backwards!
@24:26 I didnt play for 6 days after this part. I kept dreading it. And then on the 7th day, I gobbled Carolina Reaper peanuts, a Steel Reserve, and cranked up the Doom Music Livestream channel. And told myself, "All they fear is *YOU* " Most difficult thing I ever done in a video game. Emotionally...
I did not make it into the elevator. I had to go bck and juke it in the oppressive darkness of the Study, then ran back out of that passage deeper into the house and got lost
House Beneviento was the most stressful, horrifying, and shocking experience I had in recent memory. Possibly even my life when it comes to the horror genre. On my blind run I was following what trailed from the autopsy table down the hall, completely missing that it was an umbilical cord. Then I heard the sound of the baby coming, and I stood there wondering what I was hearing. As soon as it got into the light, my jaw and controller both dropped and I sat there in shock over what I was seeing. Thus was my first death in the game, eaten alive and whole by a giant, malformed fetus. I sat there quietly for about a minute and then shut the game off for a bit. Just something about seeing that baby made me so uncomfortable that I could not continue until I forced myself to endure it later. Then of course it started laughing, and saying momma and dada and I’m thinking “Oh cool it gets worse!”
After your amazing RE7 analysis video, I was hoping for a great RE8 video from you. I was not disappointed! It really is scary in a different but still effective way in comparison to the 7th game, and I absolutely love it. :)
I think a great thing about house Beneviento is that they kinda bait you with the whole "oooOOOOoo spoooOOOoooOOky doooOOOooLLs" only to throw that baby thing at you
I genuinely feel like making village was the best move for Capcom here. Trying to match Resi 7 could have been disastrous. Making a game that is just as beautiful, tense and story driven but with an entirely different mood makes it such a good game.
Damn, I’ve already 100% this game and explored every note in the game and still this video was very enjoyable and gripped me as if I was playing the game for the first time. You are amazing at storytelling and I’m glad I found this channel!
NightMind you certainly done it with this one! The breakdown of the cadou and the lore explaining the betrayal hit so hard for me just now...(Wow) is literally all i can say right now. And now i want to play through 7 and finish and buy Village. Thank you for this analysis.
Great video Nick, I loved watching someone play this game all the way through. Even though there are memes aplenty from this game, the storytelling and environment of the game is top notch, and I’d definitely love to experience it all over again with fresh eyes if I could.
I was hoping to see you go over the whole "Ethan was mold the whole time" thing, but honestly i love everything you said in this video. Absolute perfection. Now if only a new Silent hill game came out and i could watch a video of you going over that. That would be glorious
Something I realized watching the Beneviento intro again....you're so focused on the sudden and unnerving appearance of the intro that you don't notice Ethan no longer has a weapon out, seamlessly transitioning into the weaponless level!
Love the constant breakdown of all the details within this game. sometimes I feel like I’m too in the moment to properly check out everything I want to in the environment and I definitely missed some cool things
a thing i loved about village is how it had such strong RE4 vibes, with its atmosphere and especially its characters! it feels like the makers had a lot of fun with this game and its cast
I think the horror of the baby chase part can really be higher or lower depending on how much things like parenthood are important to you. I'm not a parent, but I can see how someone who is can find that scene hitting really close to home.
I've been putting off watching this video for months but I'm glad I did because now I have NM to keep me company while I'm bored out of my mind counting algae.
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Ever heard of itemlabel, it's still pretty early but people think it's arg
I didn’t even notice the rocking chair during my first play through.
Just wanted to tell you ,but as you know there are a lot of Romanian words in Village , that "Cadou" is the word for gift , what I'm trying to say is that Mother M see's this parasite as a gift (Still cant get over how Mia at the start of the game said "Ciorba de legume" aka Vegetable soup , she said it in a spanish accent and it grind's my gears)
Still good video and I cant wait to buy the game now
Heard Eckva is picking back up again
Dang this vid didnt pop up in my feed... great video as always NM!
Ethan is a good character to his core. Not even hesitant when told what he has to do to save his daughter. He just grabs the nearest vaguely dangerous object and says “Cool, who’s dying for this?”
Sums up every hero from a something violent ever.
He's super simple, but I think that makes him more sympathetic in a way
well
spoiler:
ethan, unfortunately
"So I heard some bitches have my daugher, WHO THE FUCK WANNA DIE?"
Ethan had a great character ark before he died.
House Beneviento is proof of how sorely missed missed Silent hill has been for so long
missed missed
I think the thousands of PT style indie games pointed to that a while ago.
To be completely honest, House Beneviento is a sign that a Silent Hill game made by the Resident Evil team would be a masterpiece
Omg I could never ply a silent hill game. That part was waaayy too intense for me.
It's also a huge nod to the prototypes of Resident Evil 4. For real, look up the RE4 "Hookman" Demo. It's fascinating how the concepts were adapted to Village.
"the wickedly tall woman whose vampirism effected just about all the internet with a different kind of thirst"
_quietly: "lust"_
why cant i find others with that thirst for donna beneviento?
@@SnoHund2 Because anything to do with Donna is drastically overwhelmed by the "f*ck you" that is her entire stage. I do personally wish there was more to her area than that but there you go.
@@talonus202 sure
Same. There aren’t enough with a thirst for Lord Heisenberg 😔
Fun fact:
In early versions of development Donna was the Village's Doctor, that made the doll autopsy fit even better
Cool
honestly the ending card where it just says "the father's story is now done." had me both confused, and intrigued. It implies Mia and Rosemary still have a journey ahead of them, as well as cementing that (presumably) Ethan Winters is dead for good. It's really cool as a tiny touch on an already good game, it plays into the fairytale or storybook aspect interestingly.
I would love mia as a protagonist!
Honestly if the next game has Mia as a protag I'll be entirely uninterested.
She was the worst part of the first game, especially them forcing you to take her if you want the true ending.
@@mythicalthings1796 Shes so awful in terms pof voice actor and just general boringness. Also the little coraline style storybook intro was super lame and had nothing to do with the game.
My theory is that RE9 (when they make it) is going to be centered around dealing with The Connections.
And Rosemary will have some large role in it.
@@ryaniles6203 the story book did have something to do with the game, each monster the girl encounters represent the lords.
Nick, I just finished Village, and I'm sitting here rewatching Everyman Hybrid, stop reading my mind
i was watching everymanhybrid too right before this-
Now I want to re watch. Love EMH
@@bitterlucy8212 I've actually never finished it through yet, almost done though. i fucking love it.
My name is also Nick and I was thinking about rewatching that so you get out of my mind.
stop reading your 'night'-mind...
To be perfectly honest, the idea of RE9 scares me a bit
The ending saying that “The father’s story ends here” implies that Rosemary is going to be the protagonist from this point, and judging by how she’s even more powerful than Eveline, I don’t know how they’d be able to incorporate the horror element into it.
They'll pull out something
The horror of her mutations turning against her, perhaps?
There's no chance they'd drop how much everyone loved playing a regular person out of their element for two games straight to do that, I think. I'm curious to see what they do, though!
(Just please please please give us another regular person scared, untrained, and barely surviving.)
@@RoseRitonya That is a good point. Personally, I had previously thought that the best way they would have done it would have been her powers being stripped/nulled, but it would have seemed like a plot contrivance
I just hope they don't drop the ball is all
@@NightMind I really hope so too, but the language implies it's continuing with the Winters bloodline
Let's pray we don't have a second RE6
man that part about ethan was just PERFECT, it really put my thoughts on him as a character into words. i've always enjoyed his character even if he's fairly stagnant in growth and watching people constantly call him boring wasn't very fun. it's nice to see someone else appreciate him as he is, even if he isn't as fleshed out as others in the series :)
I particularly liked his twist at the end. Really framed some of his more video game moments in a new light.
And through his entire fight with Miranda, he doesn't call her a "b****" or any other woman-directed slur, like you might see any other action-game hero call a female boss character. He just repeats the truth, that he loves Rose in a way Miranda's just incapable of understanding.
The baby chase part was just the nope part for me, easily the most scariest part and I had to take an hour break after that, props to the devs
Yea, I 100 percent agree with Yahtzee Crowshaw here: "The most genuinely terrifying horror experience I´ve had in a long time". I honestly haven´t been this freaked out since playing Outlast and Amnesia for the first time when getting into horror.
The reason why I think it works so much better than similar situations in a lot of other games is how it contrasts with how much relative power you have throughout the rest of the game. Generally you have pretty sufficient firepower to deal with anything in your way, even against giant monster bosses. Not to mention you just came off of fighting a giant gross tentacle dragon-thing at the end of the Manor. So having all that power now gone, you feel even more helpless than you would in a game like Amnesia where you can never fight at all.
I got to the baby in my first night playing the game, it's 11 at night, i'm pump from beating a vampire and her three bats, then i'm getting swallowed by a giant baby. i put the controller down, said FTSIO and put the game down for the night, that is going to be my new nightmare for a while.
To me, the most interesting aspect of House Beneviento is how it manages to truly unite both Ethan and the player in terms of shared fears and memories through their shared experience of RE7.
When the player enters the house and begins picking up on the similarities to RE7, Ethan is feeling the exact same thing, because both parties have a connection back to that locale. When Ethan reacts with disgust to the mannequin of Mia, the player feels the same way, because both parties view Mia as a character that we have sacrificed greatly for. It really is cool to see Capcom acknowledge that a lot of the people who were interested in RE7 will have returned for RE8 and actively work that into their level design.
Thank you very much for making this video - I've been waiting for it ever since RE8 released, because I knew that only you would you be able to give the project an honest, down-to-earth review amidst all the jokes and memes. I really appreciate how much time you put in to these analyses, and I'm very happy to hear that you enjoyed the game!
RE 7/8: Ethan Winters: Hand abuse simulator. Poor Ethans hands.
God House **DOLL HELL** was easily the scariest house. Vamp house was startling but good throwback to 7 with the cold and the mold.
So for the part with the baby, you can hide in the cabinet in the medical room. And it is so much worse than just running away. It gets close to you, way too close, and it's just so horrifying. I hated the Beneviento house, but in a g o o d way. Best part of the game.
I seriously thought it was just gonna rip open that door and get me, it was terrifying
Can’t wait for resident evil 9. Chris has lost 2 candidates for Claire- so he sets on a adventure to continue the bloodline.
"And that's how time travel finally got introduced into the RE timeline."
@@NightMind He's going back in order to stop himself from taking the steroids that made him infertile
@@hilotakenaka but in doing so. In a sad term of events causes him to become less buff. Meaning that he couldn’t punch the Boulder. Causing multiple reality shifting events that he must fix.
@@blake2521 Holy fuck this is actually turning out to be a decent idea lol
@@blake2521 then we find out Leon is Chris from an alternate timeline so he tries to get Leon to bang Ashley at the end of 4
Something very important to note about the after-credits scene is that as the jeep Rose is in drives away from the camera, a person can be seen walking along the side of the road before the game cuts to black for the last time. By editing some files, people have enabled flycam during that last scene, and have confirmed the figure walking along the road is actually Ethan, and his exact model from the moment of his death. Given the way Eveline was able to manifest as a presence in Ethan's mind even three years after the events in Dulvey, it's safe to say Ethan's consciousness still exists inside the mutamycete in Rose.
*holy shit*
If you haven't already I highly recommend watching Nicole Tompkin's streams. She's the actress behind Daniela Dimitrescu and Elena and is currently playing through RE8. She gives a lot of great info regarding how the mocap scenes were done and has been bringing on other actors for the streams as well. The animation work in this game is utterly phenomenal and really ties it all together.
I beat this game three times straight when it released, first on normal, then hard, then on Village of Shadows. At no point in my three continuous playthroughs did I feel bored. There was always something keeping me coming back and keeping me entertained. *That* section in particular was one of the most terrifying sections of any horror game I’ve played in recent memory. I’ll give Capcom their due, this was a great game. Not perfect, but really damn good.
I ran through village of shadows with an infinite ammo gully upgraded stake, it was a blast. Unfortunately it's not as fun as madhouse in re7
*That* section was the bit by the Waterfall, right?
@@pickybusiness8549 doing a play through without infinite ammo is almost impossible. Seriously the dimitrescu fight is so unfair
@@theequalizer694 what's unfair is the Heisenberg fight on VoS purely for the deprivation of all your suped up guns.
32:46 Holy shit, Miranda was able to live for nearly a DECADE?
PT: "You want scary? How about a horrible screaming worm baby in a sink!"
RE8: "...hold my beer."
The baby was enough to stop Kojima from thinking of making more psychological horror games. If he had any doubts, the baby will leave no doubt. That is way scarier than anything Silent Hill threw at anyone.
Hold my mold
i remember watching somewhere sometime ago that Capcom wanted to reel back the scares in Village because they deemed biohazard a little *too* scary in general and this was aiming to bring a more balanced experience that can be enjoyed by more people, respectable decision, turned out great, however it would be awesome if they decided to go FULL swing in RE:9 and make the whole game as scary as house Beneviento, just a heart-gripping experience all the way trough, could it perhaps be a risky play? sure, but it is fun to think about what lies beneath the "what could have been" and im all for it if it ever happens
Yeah that’s correct, they did dial back the “scary parts” because people complained biohazard was too scary lmao
@@bennlewis6763 damn. yeah its definitely a genre thats not for everyone, but if it was, it wouldnt have that specific appeal to begin with, such a weird thing to complain for when that's exactly what you get. speaks to the quality of said product, it did it's job right lol
scary game scary, who would have thought amirite xd
@@AxisCorpsRep I think it's worth remembering, though, that Resident Evil has always been somewhat scary for its time, but being scary is only a fraction of what the series is. From the very start it's been just as much about action, weapons, shooting, boss fights, puzzles, item management, larger-than-life characters, over-the-top stories and explosions. Making a true, pure, maximum fear horror game would definitely be awesome - but it also wouldn't be Resident Evil, and I think it's fair for people to complain about the series going "too far" into fear when that isn't really what the series has ever been about.
I agree that I'd love to see what the team can really do for a full game, they've shown more than enough that they have a masterful grasp of crafting fear experiences, I'm just also an RE fan from the beginning who understands and shares the desire of those who love what RE has always been. I think a good idea could be them alternating third-person classic RE style (like RE2 Remake) with first-person modern horror focus between games.
@@shadowflame68 oh hell yeah m8. i absolutely agree with everything you said there, and yeah pretty much its understandable that the series is not 100% only horror. if it were, it would be remembered very different.
but i also just enjoy thinking of the "what ifs". and a what if capcop DID go *FULL* horror, man that would be one helluva experience
In RE7 everything felt pretty scripted and there was the general thought for me the whole game of "I wonder if I get to kill them now." One horror chase section was more than enough for me, I enjoyed exploring the Village itself after the bosses and killing mobs way more. I hope they keep stepping in the direction of survival horror instead of just horror. Put a gun in my hand and give me a chance and I'll love it. Take my weapons away and make me just run like Amnesia or Outlast? There's plenty of games that do that.
I think this might be my favorite RE game simply for the atmosphere. The best way I can describe it is "Gothic Opulence".
I agree, although I’d really only use that specific descriptor for Castle Dimitrescu and not for the rest of the game
You're telling me you... YOU... didn't catch the feet running away-- in the very direction you have to walk-- in the shadowed part of the intro? I refuse to believe it.
No, I mentioned it. Just didn't pop the clip into the playthrough footage.
This video hasn't even been out long enough for anyone to watch it all the way through, but I can tell already that this is going to be an incredible, detailed, and rich dissection of the game, it's story and it's lore. Incredible job as always.
Night Mind: The only channel where I don't skip the in-video ad.
That's quite a compliment, thank you!
I agree, his voice is just so good
On the topic of house Beneviento, I really love that it seems almost PT-eqsue. As a huge Silent Hill fan, I was really disappointed when PT was cancelled, like many other people. But the scenes in house Beneviento, especially once the baby is introduced, almost brought back that same claustrophobic confusion that Silent Hills had. Dark, confusing, cramped hallways. The freaky ambience of the baby "crying" and "laughing". Even the baby itself sorta reminded me of the baby in the sink in PT.
of course it could all just be unintentional, but I thought it was so cool.
Ironically, the House Beneviento section is the most Silent Hill we've had in years.
You know what's really great about the scene with the bodies in the crawlspace? The fact that every single body you're able to investigate is already mutilated and dead. Meaning they all were either killed or dying from the attacks by the time they got there. And yet, you wake up there, seemingly unscathed....
"look out the window" nearly gave me a damn heart attack because I was so into the game, I don't know why but I was NOT expecting it.
Yeah that part got me too 😂
they had to know they were just picking up pt's feetus and making it oversized. giant norman feetus was hilarious xD
As a new mother to my first child, this hits in a whole different way than I thought a Resident Evil game could.
This game taught me one thing after my first playthrough: I really want to give Ethan Winters a hug. He needs it.
What I find brilliant in a meta sense is that the previous game was heavily inspired by 80's films like The Evil Dead and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, while this one takes you on a journey through the old classics from a village full of Wolfmen through the vampire castle to practically Frankenstein's lab before ending in a big action sequence the series has become known for.
Always nice to find yourself in the arms of a tall vampire lady after so long being punished by a man named Daddy.
I've rewatched the Biohazard video more times than I can count, and I can't wait to do that with this video as well
I have a two year old son, and I can tell you, ladies and gentlemen: that demon baby in the game screwed me up.
1 hour long analysis of Heisenberg when?
In all seriousness this video was fantastic. Great work as always my guy.
My playthrough of House Beneviento was slightly different in the baby reveal, not in how it was done, but in how I responded to it. When I went down the hall, and heard the baby start moving towards me, instead of giving it time to get into the light and see it clearly, I instantly sprinted my ass back, and just ran, remembering the locker I could hide in. And I spent the rest of the time being as careful as possible. I got to the stairs, and heard it coming down, and ran to the bed and hid under it. My first clear look was just the bottom part of it, and I was terrified. And then finally, when I got to the elevator, I hid in the room next to it, and waited for the baby to come then move away, so my first actual look of the whole thing wasn’t until the Elevator jumpscare, and I gotta say, that extra element of me not seeing it for so long made the pay off so fucking rewarding. I love this game so much.
i watched a full no-commentary playthrough of this game, and the player died only once: to the fucking baby thing. i think it caught even them off guard, even though they clearly already played the game.
Nick's video on RE7 was how I found his channel and watching his video for RE:Village is a pretty cool experience ❤❤
Everyone: Why do you like Resident Evil.
Night Mind: I like it for the plot.
I'm glad you enjoying House Beneviento and really the game as a whole as much as my friends and I did. Honestly, I never died to the baby until I decided to show it to the friends that weren't going to play the game. I DID show them the entirety of the house instead of just the baby, but I was mostly speedrunning it at that point so it doesn't really get the full experience since the puzzles are always the same. You don't even need the silver key down there.
Would another personification of the fear of a child becoming a monster be the lords themselves? What with all but one of them having a final monstrous form and being a part of her makeshift family of mutants. Not to mention Heisenburg actually turning on Miranda and attempting to kill her by making an entire "metal army", similar to how Eveline transformed the Baker family in pursuit of her own goals. Heisenburg was also kidnapped as a very young child by Mother Miranda as an attempt to make a vessel for Eva, like how Rose is kidnapped as a baby by Miranda for the same purpose.
40:30 That blood splatter on the wall is identical to one in RE2: Remake! Next to the Dark Room save room, there's a bench covered in blood by the vending machines. It's the same pattern. I just randomly decided to reinstall RE2R today to try out the randomizer and because of this video I thought the splatter looked super familiar. Sure enough, same one! Good way to reuse assets without it being too noticeable.
You know Capcom's doing good with their games when Nick does a video on both of the sequels. Personally I like Biohazard better than Village, and honestly it's because of the tapes, I love found footage style things and thus Clancy became an immediate favorite for me, in fact, my only problem with Biohazard was that the killed him in the "Happy Birthday" tape.
beneviento manor is good once, afterwards its a tedious scripted event that makes subsequent playthroughs a drag. Also Heisenberg's factory overstays its welcome. Wish we got to explore the upper floors of the castle you see from its rooftop or maybe extended Moreau's fishing village area that was cut and was pretty much became just a tunnel towards a boss fight
The idea of Nick actually being terrified and S C R E A M I N G is something I need to experience
Wow, the algorithm really buried this video... Which is a shame. I loved the game and this video made me appreciate the ending a bit more.
Where's my king himbo.... Leon Kennedy. Please Capcom I need my emo himbo.
It would be great if you did OMORI. I know its not like a ARG or anything but I would love if you could do it.
I freaking enjoyed this game so much, I'm glad I played it blindly from beginning to end
RE Village was a beautiful game, it's hard to bring me to tears but the post credits scene managed to do that.
This is kind of a great supplement for my craving of old Jordan Go To Sleep, né Underneath videos. Nice work as always, Nick
I beat Village already, and have now begun on Biohazard, just because of the respect you gave it. Not sure why I skipped the title but I did..lol because of you, I guess I'm going backwards!
I'm still disappointed you didn't name this segment DARKADE
@24:26 I didnt play for 6 days after this part. I kept dreading it. And then on the 7th day, I gobbled Carolina Reaper peanuts, a Steel Reserve, and cranked up the Doom Music Livestream channel. And told myself, "All they fear is *YOU* " Most difficult thing I ever done in a video game. Emotionally...
I did not make it into the elevator. I had to go bck and juke it in the oppressive darkness of the Study, then ran back out of that passage deeper into the house and got lost
I'm proud of you.
House Beneviento was the most stressful, horrifying, and shocking experience I had in recent memory. Possibly even my life when it comes to the horror genre.
On my blind run I was following what trailed from the autopsy table down the hall, completely missing that it was an umbilical cord. Then I heard the sound of the baby coming, and I stood there wondering what I was hearing. As soon as it got into the light, my jaw and controller both dropped and I sat there in shock over what I was seeing. Thus was my first death in the game, eaten alive and whole by a giant, malformed fetus.
I sat there quietly for about a minute and then shut the game off for a bit. Just something about seeing that baby made me so uncomfortable that I could not continue until I forced myself to endure it later.
Then of course it started laughing, and saying momma and dada and I’m thinking “Oh cool it gets worse!”
After your amazing RE7 analysis video, I was hoping for a great RE8 video from you. I was not disappointed! It really is scary in a different but still effective way in comparison to the 7th game, and I absolutely love it. :)
With the game’s atmosphere and tone, I really think this time could make a great Hellboy game
I was thinking that too!
I think a great thing about house Beneviento is that they kinda bait you with the whole "oooOOOOoo spoooOOOoooOOky doooOOOooLLs" only to throw that baby thing at you
Heck yes, just what I needed, a new video from you, exactly to hear while I do some tasks!
Thanks, perfect timing
so stoked to see you post
I genuinely feel like making village was the best move for Capcom here. Trying to match Resi 7 could have been disastrous. Making a game that is just as beautiful, tense and story driven but with an entirely different mood makes it such a good game.
Damn, I’ve already 100% this game and explored every note in the game and still this video was very enjoyable and gripped me as if I was playing the game for the first time. You are amazing at storytelling and I’m glad I found this channel!
The only scary thing in that video is your satisfaction while talking about killing Donna
Loved this vid! Great job, Night Mind!
Glad to see another video like this! Your RE7 video is what helped me find you and made me subscribe.
Just realized that Angie sounds almost exactly like Spinel
It was a matter of time, im so happy you did this.
NightMind you certainly done it with this one! The breakdown of the cadou and the lore explaining the betrayal hit so hard for me just now...(Wow) is literally all i can say right now. And now i want to play through 7 and finish and buy Village. Thank you for this analysis.
I loved your video on Resident Evil 7. One of my favorites.
Just started this video and im already excited for your review/analysis
:)
Been waiting for a video like this from you
the fetus monster scared me so viscerally while watching a lets-play that i actually reconsidered buying the game myself. it was that terrifying
Great video Nick, I loved watching someone play this game all the way through. Even though there are memes aplenty from this game, the storytelling and environment of the game is top notch, and I’d definitely love to experience it all over again with fresh eyes if I could.
I was hoping to see you go over the whole "Ethan was mold the whole time" thing, but honestly i love everything you said in this video. Absolute perfection. Now if only a new Silent hill game came out and i could watch a video of you going over that. That would be glorious
I been looking for a video about this! Thanks Nick!
Thanks for your timely upload my nocturnal friend. Its a big help during a rough time.
Love these kind of breakdowns!! Would love to see your take on what the story in Returnal is about.
9:47 at this point if you couldn't see it there is a silhouette of another lycan eating in the background making that jump scare all the better
Nick, I’ve never played resident evil except for the first game on emulator but this makes me want to try the whole series
Something I realized watching the Beneviento intro again....you're so focused on the sudden and unnerving appearance of the intro that you don't notice Ethan no longer has a weapon out, seamlessly transitioning into the weaponless level!
Thank you for this upload, sir. I love your work into the world of Resident Evil.
Love the constant breakdown of all the details within this game. sometimes I feel like I’m too in the moment to properly check out everything I want to in the environment and I definitely missed some cool things
I knew you would make a video covering this game! Great as always
Finally! Was waiting for this
ooooo a new Night Mind video? Don't mind if I do
For me, House Beneviento was Capcom saying to Konami: "You don't want to make Silent Hill? Fine, we will."
I loved your video about RE7, and I've been waiting for this video as soon as RE8 dropped!
Hey, I'm actually seeing this video some what close to it's upload, lol.
Love you Night Mind, keep up the good work with your amazing voice ☺️.
a thing i loved about village is how it had such strong RE4 vibes, with its atmosphere and especially its characters! it feels like the makers had a lot of fun with this game and its cast
I think the horror of the baby chase part can really be higher or lower depending on how much things like parenthood are important to you. I'm not a parent, but I can see how someone who is can find that scene hitting really close to home.
Yes yes yes yes yes- I needed this amazing voice in my life tonight!
Night Mind, one of the only people who mentioned Dimetresu, but didn't shrimp for her.
Mmmmm shrimp 🍤
Gawr Guraaa
@Chris Moliere good point
How many shrimp do you have to eat, before you make your skin turn pink.
good stuff man! excited to see more!
I've been putting off watching this video for months but I'm glad I did because now I have NM to keep me company while I'm bored out of my mind counting algae.
Been waiting for a month. THE KING IS BACK!
mann time to rewatch a ton of your videos after this one
Dangit. I wish you recorded yourself with the baby scene. Is my favourite moment on the whole game.
I just woke up and got the notification almost immediately after picking up my phone. Guess that's a sign to watch
One of your better works! Great job.
Babe wake up new night mind dropped