#i hope capcom never remakes re0 or code veronica or does a new remake of re1 instead of a remaster

[wanderingmoonmen]

Maybe hearing about the new trailer of the silent hill 2 remake will put my mind in gear to keep writing (a recent comment motivated me to write most of a next chapter at least), but hate this remake more than any other. I've avoided hearing or seeing anything about it because it makes me so upset and angry. I hate the trend of remaking these games. It's so shallow and a passionless money making scheme bc companies are too scared to do anything original so they go and fuck up a perfectly good game instead. From the little I've seen I'm amazed they've somehow made it look worse than the original. Sure the in game model James looks pretty busted in the original but all the prerendered cutscenes are great and then they put out this crisp ugly shit instead?? Being able to see characters' pores and having "good graphics" means fuck all if you miss the point of the story. You know why the originals were good? Because people had an idea and a passion and they had to put together something that didn't need good graphics to sell.

If anyone comes here from a03 I just want to emphasize that everything has been written and inspired from the original games. I despise the remakes and how they've butchered the original material. Everytime I see something else from the remakes I hate it more. There was nothing wrong with the original. Just fucking remaster it ffs.

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[sapphire-weapon]

Honestly, it's why I'm relieved that the new timeline is taking a different direction. OG Leon was fucked up, they completely ruined his character, in a way that came across as "nobody at our writers table can agree on what he's like". He declares/shows his belief in something. Self sabotages and does something hypocritical. It doesn't get mentioned again. The cycle continues. You can't complain because Cool Action Hero. I want to like OG Leon and Ada but like... it's really fucking hard to, even outside of Aeon, lmao. The arc is hot garbage with too many plotholes. I genuinely regard Aeon as some of the worst writing in RE history and boy that's a HEAVY statement.

It's not just them though. Chris has had so many iffy stories too... I'll never get over the fucking amnesia thing. It was so stupid imo. Alex was a thing that like... succeeds in her plans but never gets mentioned again. Revelations 1... well... happened. I do enjoy the games. I've had RE brainrot for MONTHS now, but sweet jesus there's so much that annoys me (cough the RAGING racism in RE5, original Ashley and Jessica being more sexist than even Ada, RE6 story deserving to be dumped entirely, Jake the superpowered secret son who just up and left, Sherry being underwhelming). Anyway... love your blog. To stay on topic, god I hope remakes continue keeping Leon consistent and actually making sense! lol

He is an incredible character with a great story at his core, but seeing him immediately being reduced to a total moron that can't keep his opinions or goals straight at the sight of someone he doesn't know? Ruins him. Completely ruins everything he could be. Capcom, fix it.

You really touched on the issue with RE in general: it's been passed through so many dev teams and writing teams, all of whom have had their different visions and interpretations of the canon and the characters, that nothing feels coherent. Because it isn't.

I could write a fucking dissertation on what Mikami's departure from Capcom actually did to RE as a series tbh -- because THAT is ultimately what ruined RE's consistency. RE was Mikami's baby, and he oversaw all of it... until RE0 and REmake flopped and Capcom was ready to pull the plug on the series and then also refused to let him develop RE4 on the PS2 and that was kind of the beginning of the end.

Because RE0 -> RE1 -> RE2 -> RE3 -> Code Veronica is actually VERY VERY coherent. It's stupid and filled with 90s-era writing and dialogue, but it's consistent and logical and makes sense.

But with RE4 being developed under extreme duress and then becoming an overwhelming cultural phenomenon despite that -- but then losing Shinji Mikami's vision and direction almost immediately after launch? Led to Capcom just trying to replicate RE4's success for the better part of a decade, throwing as much shit against the wall re: Leon's character as they could to try to recapture that.

This is why the Remake series is so important. This is Capcom's opportunity to restructure the series under a unified vision again, because it hasn't had one since about 2006.