I don’t have a ton to say about this game. It’s a relatively fun light gun shooter with Resident Evil theming. Game contains 4 different scenarios: abridged versions of RE1 (2002) and RE0, a very strange faux retelling of RE3 and an original story “Umbrella’s End” that involves Chris Redfield and Jill Valentine giving the killing blow to Umbrella by leading a raid on one of their last facilities. These scenarios are narratively linked in a fun way. They’re all set up as Albert Wesker studying and recounting reports that Umbrella compiled on all of these events. The game also contains bonus missions related to these scenarios that show events not featured in the original games like how Wesker escaped the Arklay facility, what Rebecca was doing in the Arklay mansion before everyone else arrived, how Ada Wong escaped Raccoon City after the events of RE2. None of these added scenarios contribute a ton of new information (probably a good thing) but they’re generally fun levels to play through and can feature some nice character moments like with Rebecca’s added RE1 scenarios.
Don’t have any big complaints about the light gun gameplay. It can be a fun challenge and was entertaining throughout my play through. I even enjoyed going back through a few of the levels to get better scores.
My favorite thing about this game as a fan of the RE series was definitely getting to revisit the nicely recreated locations from RE1 and RE0 from a first person perspective. I would add RE3 to this but this game’s RE3 scenario doesn’t feature any iconic locations from that game except the police station and doesn’t follow the plot of RE3 like the other games do with RE1 and RE0. Unsure why this happened but feels like this scenario got rushed for whatever reason and is definitely kind of disappointing given how much I like RE3.
The retelling of the stories of the games featured is also a little bit disappointing due to how little time gets spent on each game. There are only 3 main levels per game featured so there’s just not enough time to go through all the memorable moments and plot points from those games. For comparison the Darkside Chronicles - the other RE light gun game for the Wii features retellings of RE2 and Code Veronica and dedicates 8 surprisingly long levels to each of them which allows for the space to have a condensed but complete retelling of these stories.
Despite its flaws and the things I wish it did differently this is still a fun light gun game, which is all it really needs to be, and I overall enjoyed my time with it.
Don’t have any big complaints about the light gun gameplay. It can be a fun challenge and was entertaining throughout my play through. I even enjoyed going back through a few of the levels to get better scores.
My favorite thing about this game as a fan of the RE series was definitely getting to revisit the nicely recreated locations from RE1 and RE0 from a first person perspective. I would add RE3 to this but this game’s RE3 scenario doesn’t feature any iconic locations from that game except the police station and doesn’t follow the plot of RE3 like the other games do with RE1 and RE0. Unsure why this happened but feels like this scenario got rushed for whatever reason and is definitely kind of disappointing given how much I like RE3.
The retelling of the stories of the games featured is also a little bit disappointing due to how little time gets spent on each game. There are only 3 main levels per game featured so there’s just not enough time to go through all the memorable moments and plot points from those games. For comparison the Darkside Chronicles - the other RE light gun game for the Wii features retellings of RE2 and Code Veronica and dedicates 8 surprisingly long levels to each of them which allows for the space to have a condensed but complete retelling of these stories.
Despite its flaws and the things I wish it did differently this is still a fun light gun game, which is all it really needs to be, and I overall enjoyed my time with it.
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@miramiraotw
That’s interesting! Thanks for sharing. Yeah have heard bad things about the RE3 remake so it makes sense it wasn’t their main team. Kind of disappointing since I really like RE3 and have a kind of inexplicable fondness for it. Also curious what it is about Nemesis people don’t like specifically. Curious if it’s his implementation into the game, the character design and concept or both. I don’t think I’ve seen any western fans criticize him too much.
That’s interesting! Thanks for sharing. Yeah have heard bad things about the RE3 remake so it makes sense it wasn’t their main team. Kind of disappointing since I really like RE3 and have a kind of inexplicable fondness for it. Also curious what it is about Nemesis people don’t like specifically. Curious if it’s his implementation into the game, the character design and concept or both. I don’t think I’ve seen any western fans criticize him too much.
MiraMiraOTW
2 months ago
Take this with a grain of salt but during my time being an active RE Fan last decade, I repeatedly heard from East Asian players that RE3 isn't particularly well liked in Japan for myriad reasons, up to and including a dislike for Nemesis compared to other monsters. Dunno how true it is and am not gonna pretend to speak authoritatively but it does explain why Jill keeps getting shafted in crossover/nostalgia-bait media and why the RE3 Remake was farmed out to the MP team while everyone with talent was moved onto RE4.