Chronicles Retelling Ranking?
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Maybe I will replay some of these tomorrow I remember not liking Darkside because for some reason they thought it would be cool to add “drunk guy holds the camera wobble”. It’s hard for me to hit anything in that game I loved Umbrella chronicles though. There is a lot to love in Umbrella chronicles especially the extra scenarios with Wesker and Lisa, Rebecca having a nightmare about Yawn and then fighting with Richard, as well as the additional hunk and Ada sections.
I think the Chronicles games did a better job of being faithful, though. Yeah, I get that everybody wanted a fully fledged remake like Shinji's remake, which we sadly didn't get and probably never will now, but to say they're gonna "remake" something, that later ends up being a reimagined experience, they've technically kind of lied, because they've taken the basic premise, and kind of gutted the rest of it.
I agree. It was false advertisement, and they didnt even give it a new title, they just called it Resident Evil 2 as if it was exactly like the original. I like the gameplay, but the story feels so disconnected and janky that I lose interest in it. Darkside, while having a wobbly camera, is extremely faithful to the original, yet 2make was a different team who wanted to take an already established story and make it their own.
I would probably rank the retellings in the Chronicles games as:
1. Re2
2. Code Veronica
3. Re0
4. Remake
5. 4th Survivor
6. Re3
The Re2 retelling was the most faithful of them all, both retelling the major points while also conjoining them in a way that makes sense. The gameplay is a bit off with the wobbly camera, but its easy enough to get the critical hits. The CV retelling kind of rushed through its story a bit, leaving out some of the plot, but its still cohesive enough to get the point across. The Re0 retelling was pretty faithful, but cut off some of the "fat" of the original to get through it rather quickly. Remake is kind of lacking. We only see Rebecca, and Barry is left out entirely. Other than that we still see most of the bosses other than Lisa, though she shows up in Wesker's chapter. Re3 was awful in terms of faithfulness. The Nemesis is saved for the last chapter, and the Lickers look so wimpy as well, something I didnt like in Outbreak either. I like that there are callbacks to Outbreak in it, but it just feels lazy when its used like this.
1. Re2
2. Code Veronica
3. Re0
4. Remake
5. 4th Survivor
6. Re3
The Re2 retelling was the most faithful of them all, both retelling the major points while also conjoining them in a way that makes sense. The gameplay is a bit off with the wobbly camera, but its easy enough to get the critical hits. The CV retelling kind of rushed through its story a bit, leaving out some of the plot, but its still cohesive enough to get the point across. The Re0 retelling was pretty faithful, but cut off some of the "fat" of the original to get through it rather quickly. Remake is kind of lacking. We only see Rebecca, and Barry is left out entirely. Other than that we still see most of the bosses other than Lisa, though she shows up in Wesker's chapter. Re3 was awful in terms of faithfulness. The Nemesis is saved for the last chapter, and the Lickers look so wimpy as well, something I didnt like in Outbreak either. I like that there are callbacks to Outbreak in it, but it just feels lazy when its used like this.
