There are many words that make me think of Code Veronica, and they are: tedious, ugly, charmless, crap, poop, pee, piss, ass, fart, crap (again), and steve.
For years the only way this game has occupied my memory is with the admittedly pretty clever metal detector puzzle, that actually has great tension and payoff to it. Much to my surprise, the actual game is so putrid, so unlikable, so regularly irritating that I can't even say I like it due to it sharing the same disc space as the rest of Code Veronica.
In an act that has baffled many scholars for years, this was considered a particularly GOOD game for a long time. There's a famous 7.0 review of Silent Hill 2 making the rounds right now where Code Veronica is rated HIGHER than it. I don't like to cast wide nets about people's personalities based on what they rate games, but maybe your soul is unclean and heaven's gates will reject you if you believe that.
A fully 3D entry, you might be surprised to see them utilize the third dimension for some truly lifeless, ugly as sin environments that didn't look good AT the time. Silent Hill 1 has more art and beauty than this game, because I guess actual artists worked on it and had ideas, when Code Veronica only had ideas for Steve and the Ashford Twins. The Ashford Twins are such an antiquated and terrible idea on the face of it that I don't even want to discuss them, but fucking Steve. OH I can talk about Steve.
He might be the perfect embodiment of Code Veronica, he fits so perfectly in this game by being so irritating and such a clearly bad idea that in the grand scheme of this game it makes PERFECT sense why he is here. Did they even try to make him likeable? I know his english voice is so famously terrible, so incredibly bad that it is beyond belief, but could you ever actually like this annoying brat even in the japanese dub? If there is an undub, I've never played it, and if there is, I'm not playing THIS game ever again. This one is very firmly going on "Hated Of All Time" piles. This game just flat sucks, it could have had the fucking Soul Reaver voice cast and the gameplay would still be just straight Not Fun.
For the record, I understand why this game has been skipped for a remake: it is so bereft of any good ideas you'd have to essentially make a BRAND new game in its place, there is NOTHING here worth revisiting.
For years the only way this game has occupied my memory is with the admittedly pretty clever metal detector puzzle, that actually has great tension and payoff to it. Much to my surprise, the actual game is so putrid, so unlikable, so regularly irritating that I can't even say I like it due to it sharing the same disc space as the rest of Code Veronica.
In an act that has baffled many scholars for years, this was considered a particularly GOOD game for a long time. There's a famous 7.0 review of Silent Hill 2 making the rounds right now where Code Veronica is rated HIGHER than it. I don't like to cast wide nets about people's personalities based on what they rate games, but maybe your soul is unclean and heaven's gates will reject you if you believe that.
A fully 3D entry, you might be surprised to see them utilize the third dimension for some truly lifeless, ugly as sin environments that didn't look good AT the time. Silent Hill 1 has more art and beauty than this game, because I guess actual artists worked on it and had ideas, when Code Veronica only had ideas for Steve and the Ashford Twins. The Ashford Twins are such an antiquated and terrible idea on the face of it that I don't even want to discuss them, but fucking Steve. OH I can talk about Steve.
He might be the perfect embodiment of Code Veronica, he fits so perfectly in this game by being so irritating and such a clearly bad idea that in the grand scheme of this game it makes PERFECT sense why he is here. Did they even try to make him likeable? I know his english voice is so famously terrible, so incredibly bad that it is beyond belief, but could you ever actually like this annoying brat even in the japanese dub? If there is an undub, I've never played it, and if there is, I'm not playing THIS game ever again. This one is very firmly going on "Hated Of All Time" piles. This game just flat sucks, it could have had the fucking Soul Reaver voice cast and the gameplay would still be just straight Not Fun.
For the record, I understand why this game has been skipped for a remake: it is so bereft of any good ideas you'd have to essentially make a BRAND new game in its place, there is NOTHING here worth revisiting.
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Haha I felt this one. Great review x
Oof! Sorry you couldn’t enjoy this one! One of my favorite RE’s
@BigBossHayabusa: a lot of people i follow with kino taste swear by this one so i'm more willing to give it another go than my other 1 star games.
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