Re: Donna and the flowers, as I understand it, it is both: Donna developed the ability to secrete a psychoactive substance as we learn in Mirandas dungeon, and we know the flowers had hallucinogenic properties from the start, but since Donna took them to the gardener and seemed excited they work and then told him to plant them and she would then show him his family, I think she developed a mold infected flower variant in her little laboratory and through the mold could then access the pollen. She kinda made her own mold network. Angie is the only thing that works apart from the flowers cause she had part of Donna’s cadou implanted, connecting them this way. The flowers being connected to Donna also makes sense since all those growing outside disappear after her death.
Always entertaining to watch your commentary and impressions, more than one hour of video gone in what felt like 20 minutes! With this game Capcom wanted to homage what's considered their most iconic and successful entry, RE4 and so there are lots of callbacks: The Merchant figure, weapon upgrade, and suitcase inventory where first introduced in RE4. A cult leader mind controlling the parasite hive mind of all village. The first swarm survival based fight in the village ending with the bell ringing is almost exactly the same. The general game flow is almost identical starting on the main village, moving to a castle, fighting a giant fish monster (Del Lago RE4, Moreau in 8) and finally ending on a factory/industrial setting (an island lab on the older game).... I feel exactly your way that the best sections were the first, as I felt when playing the original RE4, but they went beat to beat to pay homage to the very last bit.
Great review soul, I haven’t played re8 yet but the doll house definitely seems like the most interesting part of the game, it seems super symbolic of the fears, thoughts and demons that are running through Ethan’s mind and haunting him as he assumes the worst has happened to rose and Mia. This section also reminds me a lot of the movies the conjuring and Annabelle lol. Nothing worse than creepy ass dolls coming to life and giant mutated crying babies… keep it up! 🎠
I gotta say the DLC was so good, the whole doll section was absolutely terrifying! Village is definitely a big switch from biohazard but I loved how almost campy it was and it is just a beautiful game. That shot when you first cross the ridge and see the castle is breathtaking. The character designs were great. Although I gotta give a shoutout to 7 for one thing: Despite 8 being a whole village, castle, factory and reservoir, 7 felt way more disorienting, giant and intimidating. 8 is huge but you always know where you are. 7‘s atmosphere is so suffocating I still panic and get lost in the main house. As for 9, I heard rumors that it’s not going to be about Rose; I always assumed it would since 8 ends with „and so the father‘s story ends“ (or something) which is worded so it implies that Rose and Mia's story continues. Also, trilogies etc. I get that Rose is too overpowered to be a main character now, which is why I was surprised she didn’t lose them in the DLC- I thought for sure 9 would be her getting them back. But I guess the mycete is gone too. I still hope 9 will continue the story, I wouldn’t mind playing Mia again, there’s still so much to tell about her. Also since 8 confirms every game is linked and Rose is now out there, it’d be pretty hard to just put all that asside and start a different story branch 🤔 Anyway: 🐴 (we still need answers about the Duke)
Yeah sadly Rose is too overpowered to be the main character. I just hope she makes some sort of an appearance moving forward whether as a side character or just a brief mention, something. Following Mia would be cool because, as you said, there’s so much still to tell about her story and her pov of events! Some rumors I had heard was that Leon is going to be in RE9 (I’ve only played RE2 so idk how his story previously ended in the later games so I have no guess as to what his story might look like in RE9). I feel like Chris is most likely going to be the main character because of the ending of 8 and how he’s heading to BSAA. He’s mad, he’s looking for answers and revenge and I feel like it just makes the most sense to follow that story through but we’ll have to wait and see how it turns out but either way I’m excited and can’t wait to play it:) Also I love The Duke but I don’t think they’d expand on his story and character sadly.
![Shadows of Rose [RE8 DLC] Explained](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/hiSVkmAhxtc/mqdefault.jpg)
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Re: Donna and the flowers, as I understand it, it is both: Donna developed the ability to secrete a psychoactive substance as we learn in Mirandas dungeon, and we know the flowers had hallucinogenic properties from the start, but since Donna took them to the gardener and seemed excited they work and then told him to plant them and she would then show him his family, I think she developed a mold infected flower variant in her little laboratory and through the mold could then access the pollen. She kinda made her own mold network. Angie is the only thing that works apart from the flowers cause she had part of Donna’s cadou implanted, connecting them this way. The flowers being connected to Donna also makes sense since all those growing outside disappear after her death.
Always entertaining to watch your commentary and impressions, more than one hour of video gone in what felt like 20 minutes!
With this game Capcom wanted to homage what's considered their most iconic and successful entry, RE4 and so there are lots of callbacks:
The Merchant figure, weapon upgrade, and suitcase inventory where first introduced in RE4.
A cult leader mind controlling the parasite hive mind of all village.
The first swarm survival based fight in the village ending with the bell ringing is almost exactly the same.
The general game flow is almost identical starting on the main village, moving to a castle, fighting a giant fish monster (Del Lago RE4, Moreau in 8) and finally ending on a factory/industrial setting (an island lab on the older game)....
I feel exactly your way that the best sections were the first, as I felt when playing the original RE4, but they went beat to beat to pay homage to the very last bit.
Great review soul, I haven’t played re8 yet but the doll house definitely seems like the most interesting part of the game, it seems super symbolic of the fears, thoughts and demons that are running through Ethan’s mind and haunting him as he assumes the worst has happened to rose and Mia. This section also reminds me a lot of the movies the conjuring and Annabelle lol. Nothing worse than creepy ass dolls coming to life and giant mutated crying babies… keep it up! 🎠
Amazing video as always, Soul! My favorite part was House Beneviento and my favorite character was the Duke. I loved the atmosphere of this game 🐴
I gotta say the DLC was so good, the whole doll section was absolutely terrifying! Village is definitely a big switch from biohazard but I loved how almost campy it was and it is just a beautiful game. That shot when you first cross the ridge and see the castle is breathtaking. The character designs were great. Although I gotta give a shoutout to 7 for one thing: Despite 8 being a whole village, castle, factory and reservoir, 7 felt way more disorienting, giant and intimidating. 8 is huge but you always know where you are. 7‘s atmosphere is so suffocating I still panic and get lost in the main house.
As for 9, I heard rumors that it’s not going to be about Rose; I always assumed it would since 8 ends with „and so the father‘s story ends“ (or something) which is worded so it implies that Rose and Mia's story continues. Also, trilogies etc. I get that Rose is too overpowered to be a main character now, which is why I was surprised she didn’t lose them in the DLC- I thought for sure 9 would be her getting them back. But I guess the mycete is gone too. I still hope 9 will continue the story, I wouldn’t mind playing Mia again, there’s still so much to tell about her. Also since 8 confirms every game is linked and Rose is now out there, it’d be pretty hard to just put all that asside and start a different story branch 🤔
Anyway: 🐴 (we still need answers about the Duke)
Yeah sadly Rose is too overpowered to be the main character. I just hope she makes some sort of an appearance moving forward whether as a side character or just a brief mention, something. Following Mia would be cool because, as you said, there’s so much still to tell about her story and her pov of events! Some rumors I had heard was that Leon is going to be in RE9 (I’ve only played RE2 so idk how his story previously ended in the later games so I have no guess as to what his story might look like in RE9). I feel like Chris is most likely going to be the main character because of the ending of 8 and how he’s heading to BSAA. He’s mad, he’s looking for answers and revenge and I feel like it just makes the most sense to follow that story through but we’ll have to wait and see how it turns out but either way I’m excited and can’t wait to play it:) Also I love The Duke but I don’t think they’d expand on his story and character sadly.
RE Village is awesome
Truly amazing, great job Soul!!!
Great work. Love your videos and live stream. 🐎