RESIDENT EVIL REMASTERED - THE REMAKE

UNDERSTANDING WHAT MAKES A GOOD GAME

It was with mixed feelings that I went into buying and playing this game on my Xbox One:

- Is it really sane to pay for the "same" game 4 times by now?

- Wow! - Finally a game that makes me feel excited again!

- Well, at least here I know exactly what I will get for my money.

- I am sure they did the absolute minimum and there will be lots of issues with it...

- Yay! Finally something that will make me turn on my Xbox One for a change!


By now I have almost finished it and I absolute don't regret anything about it! This was probably the best game I played on my XB1. - Except Alien Isolation maybe. Resident Evil also is the game with the best price-performance ratio if you ask me. In 2002 this very remake (only released for Gamecube) did already blow my mind. There was nothing they could have done better at that time. Given the current remake... well, there probably are a few things they could have done better; like for example also remaking the short video clips that occur sometimes during the game (when you drain the water from the pool in the gardens). Overall there are like five or six of these small cut scenes in the game and I think it is rather cheap to leave those at the 640x480 resolution when instead, with a minimal crew, those could have been brought up to date as well... but ok...

For the rest: There's nothing - no more to criticize and nothing more to tell you, cause you surely know this game anyway! Go and get it (if you don't have your old Gamecube plugged and ready to play)! This game is awesome and the best Resident Evil remake of the best Resident Evil game every made! It comes at a super fair price and you won't regret playing a good game again for change!

As I have just read with my morning coffee at +Fangirl Review  (my dear colleague's site), this remake is already Capcom's fastest selling digital title in the history across North America and Europe. Furthermore it already blasted the PlayStation Network and now also holds the record of the biggest selling digital title on the first day! Somehow that's really no surprise to me and I hope that now some people will finally realize that instead of feeding us ridiculously lame "new" games, we would all be much happier if they would just give us perfectly executed remakes of "old" classics for a fair price! We are still waiting for a remake of Resident Evil 2... how about doing this and scrapping any plans of a Resident Evil 7? - Look, Capcom, Resident Evil 7 will be a bad game anyway. You have lost the edge of what Resident Evil is long time ago. With a remake of Resident Evil 2, which you could easily sell for 60€ and thus more than cover your expenses, you would be stinking rich! But even more importantly you would probably understand again what makes a good Resident Evil and therefore continue the path one day with a good new sequel. Seriously... if you need a game director for that, or an insider/expert for the European or American market just contact me. I'll pack my bags and work with you on this remake instantly. My Japanese might be a bit rusty but we would manage somehow. :)

Many congratulations on your well-deserved success!

Play more! Remake more!