Damned if you do, damned if you don’t.
Law is a matter of perspective
I was looking forward to doing a more comprehensive write up on my replay of the Resident Evil 3 remake, but time has not been on my side the last two days. I’m so crunched for it at the current moment, it feel like I have negative minutes at hand in order to do share my thoughts, which is beautifully ideal, obviously. Though the notion of even starting another game when I just started Echoes of Wisdom, and The Plucky Squire, and Cult of the Lamb, and the expansion of Elden Ring…etc.. seems like a self-defeating idea, I never claimed I was a smart man.
But I do know what love is
Plus, yesterday was September 28th, the day Jill Valentine staged her iconic escape from the destruction of Raccoon City, so starting a replay of RE3 felt appropriate. I won’t say I’ve made it an official tradition of doing so, but it has come up so often around this time a year, it has become something of a previously unrecognized habit of sorts. Playing the remake reminds me of a few brief points of what frustrated me about it vs…at least the Resident Evil 2 remake.
Which isn’t what you might think, though there is a heavy irony
in the RE2 remake pulling off stalker gameplay better than RE3…
Firstly, RE3 has no sense of decency in terms of how to pace events like the original, to the point where it feels like the game is attempting to speedrun itself. It feels like before the game even starts, it’s like: remember Brad Vickers? Well here he is and he’s already dead. Didn’t forget Nemesis, did you? Well he already punched you through a wall. You recall Carlos Oliveira, right? Too bad, because you both already have 12 children together and have been married 39 years. The RE3 remake has absolutely no sense of pacing, and it totally butchers the suspension of the survival horror involved, and the general vibe. 
Not unlike a rigged game of Russian Roulette
Honestly, there was more I thought I was going to have time to discuss here, but the negative minutes I had to share here are already up. To be continued…
~Pashford
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