Resident Evil Village (Capcom) [PS5, XBSX|S, PC]

The mutated baby thing came from the 70's movie called It's Alive, apparently.

 

It's closer to a shooter with mild horror/puzzle elements. This RE really focuses on the action to a greater extent than previous RE games. There's a couple sections of the game that feel like a wave based "survive the waves of monsters" shooter experience.

That said, there are some sections that are genuinely creepy/horror-y, like the one that London Geezer mentioned.

Regards,
SB

 

The musical box puzzle was quite easy. It took me about 5 minutes to solve it. That section of the game was like Silent Hill or The Evil Within.

 

Finished it, very good like 9/10 game for 3/4 and then rather weak final with elements more like Wolfenstein than resident and many silliness. Still good game 8/10, kudos for capcom.

 

I completed the game on PS5 a few days ago. My favorite section was the house with the evil dolls. That was like a mini Amnesia experience.

I played it on Italian language mode with english subs. I started it on english but once I got into the village and found the villagefolk lamenting in a standard english dialect I had to do something about it.

It was a solid game. Some problems with the cheese at times but it had that RE vibe.

 

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I bought this digitaly, and I cant play it because of motionsickness. Ive been playing fpses on consoles for like 20 years. Never felt something like this. Ive tried turning of the camera acceleration and wobble but it didnt help.

Do anyone know if its possible to get a refund from microsoft?

 

Personally, I think this game is a kick in the balls for every true RE fan who remembers growing up with titles like 2, 0, 3: Nemesis, the first remake, CVX, and yes, even RE4, which this game clearly wants to be. I mean, the story is sad.

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Ethan is so mundane. Chris is just there... because. The idea that RE has vampires, a Transformer, and a living doll, it's... oh man. Why the hell would, A, Chris put Ethan in the vicinity of Miranda anyway? And B, what do you make of his "reason" for not telling Ethan the truth right away?

The whole game is a cash grab product. Had it been something else entirely, then okay. But it has a legacy title behind it, and felt like a downgrade. Rosemary is pretty, though...

They even link it to the first game, because

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Miranda took Spencer under her wing.

 

Spoiler alert

 

Sorry. I cannot go back and tag it now.

I just assumed this was old news already.

 

Seems stuttering on the PC version is down to DRM

https://www.dsogaming.com/news/resident-evil-village-crack-completely-fixes-its-stuttering-issues/

 

I was actually relieved when I learned it was coming to the PS4. I haven't had much money for a long time. New consoles can be expensive. But it didn't resemble a next gen game to me anyway. Looked like RE7 2.0 to me, really.

Anyway, I haven't heard anything so far about the planned DLC. I wasn't the biggest fan of the game, but it was okay to play through just once. I don't think it has the longevity of the old ones intact. In fact, it doesn't really feel like a RE game. Expect for RE7, of course.

 

So, thanks to my fellow countryman, calling undocumented machine code instructions within game loop is no longer an 'optimization'.
'The true Horror is in the source code.' sigh...

 

Awesome job here from Richard in both the analysis and the forcefulness of the criticism. We're lucky to have Digital Foundry cheerleading the quality of games to developers in this fashion.

 

And now Capcom have announced the PC versions stuttering will be fixed in an imminent patch:

https://wccftech.com/resident-evil-village-pc-performance-fixed/

I love it when a plan comes together...

 

The PS5 version stutters slightly in town and in some other areas like the crystal cave section. I figured they pushed the hardware slightly too hard with some raycasting but I never bothered to try disabling it in the menu.

 

That garbage looking multiplayer mode got delayed. LOL.

All I care about is the DLC that concerns the main game. Hopefully it will be post ending content, and not some pointless nonsense about that Lady D.