Resident Evil

The gold standard for remaking a game even more than 15 years later. It refines everything about the original and adds so much more. I don't want to say too much because this is a game that deserves to be experienced. It is a damn near perfect game.

The best remaster of a game. The additions were really well done - love Lisa!

[GameCube] Atmospheric, suspenseful, beautiful. Great housekeeping sim with stunning door-swinging action. The camera angles and cumbersome controls are manipulative, yet so effective at amplifying the suspense and terror.

(Gamecube) First played this as a young teen and didn't make much progress. Finally finished it 20 years later using a guide. It looked incredible at the time, and decent nowadays, and the atmosphere at times is unmatched. Controls can be iffy. Inventory system is immersion-breaking in its lack of logic. Frustration kills fear, and wandering around not knowing how to proceed does just that. That said, introducing crimson heads keeps the player on their feet at points. Seminal but aged.

This game is the last hurrah of what used to be the defining aesthetic and rhythms of Resident Evil, before RE4 changed not only Capcom but the industry altogether, and it's a worthy one: the brilliant directorial control of the fixed camera angles, the lavish, painterly backgrounds, the gradual doling out of resources, the intricate puzzle-box construction of the mansion all work together with clockwork precision. It is also perhaps the most straightforwardly substitutive remake in all gaming.

I gave it the sincere and open minded college try for a week or so of gaming nights but I just couldn’t do it. Endless hours making clueless circles around the mansion, dealing with this bizarre “cinematic camera angles” presentation/play control, and the inventory where my character can apparently carry about four pounds of equipment. Had to tap out.

pretty much the gold standard of the survival horror genre (not counting silent hill 2, which is psychological horror, of course! of course? of course!)

Just finished playing this and it took me like near 16 hours to beat. These Resident Evil games need to tell you where to go and what to do. Too many times in this game I missed something and you won't know what right away till hours later when you are totally in another section of the game. The back tracking is really annoying as they should have you figure it out in that room or progress. Never want to play this ever again.

The last good Resident Evil game (before they went all FPS).