In preparation for RE I decided to return to my favorite RE, RE5 to enjoy the stupid shit in that game and laugh at the goofyness, but I can't help but see some people hating the game.I understand some people hate RE5 because it has coop and has more action based gameplay loop but I feel that is missing the forest for the trees. Resident always has been deep down from the start is less a horor game and more a cheesy spy movie with zombies with some shared themes such as sexual tension, Capcom taking the piss with certain references and the subversion of certain tropes in the game in particular is extra funny to me.
The Magnum Opus. This game is goofy as shit and I LOVE it!
For starters there was the original criticism where in this game it looks like you are out there killing black people in droves, when the game's setting is in Africa where most people would be African similar to how in 4 you were killing Spaniards due to being in a weird part of Spain, similarly to that this is in a weird part of Africa. The only part where I will roast Capcom for being really stupid is the mid point switch to the witch doctor mask and crazy ass style mixed with Nilotic type Africans (Which actually was a pretty good representation of those people height wise and body structure since Nihlotes are the tallest group of people on the earth with the women averaging 6'3 and the men near 8 feet. The tallest NBA player Manute Bol is a example of what they are and some of them are a stone away from 8 feet tall, truly an amazing people)
but they are in a region of Africa far away from that part of Africa where you would find those types of people and environment, Capcom was really stupid on that point. But hey Capcom is always stupid as shit.
For Example the Average Niholotes as sfw as I can find them:
And the Giant Manjini:
He is notiably giant and would seem fit with the manjini of the type who would come from a Niholote
But still Capcom should have done more research and could have handled that better, but Capcom can be a very stupid company at times...
Now on to the racism angle, I can say it does look rather racially insensitive, but the game has a rather slick subversion, yes the game is in Africa and you are murdering them enmasse, but the mastermind of the whole thing is a straight up call back to the Colonial era where they have been fucked with by the attentions of a evil blonde English man (Don't make me get into the whole evil English man angle with Wesker as the more evil he gets the more English he gets because that shit kills me)Then you find out Wesker finds out he is as OP as he is because he's the brain child of the OG evil Englishman Spencer's experiment of making overmen and killing him in a masterful cutscene. The other weird thing is how they made Jill English and evil too by making her a Blonde, so now is the comical conflict of a American and a African vs two evil blonde English people:
Another Classical RE trope that the game has in spades is the sexual tension that is always unstated but so thick you can cut it with a knife, where when Chris first gets bodied by Wesker in a past cutscene until Jill sacrifices herself to save him, getting her Japanese/French self kidnapped by Wesker and made into Cammy (Capcom you obvious as shit)
And lets not get into that weird part of the fight where you rip off the control part in a obvious place..
All in all I think RE5 is as much a RE game as the others with some weird choices and comical references to Street Fighter. But all the main points are there, it's a cheese spy movie with zombies and sexual tension and some subversions of the first expectations. Capcom could have done so much better with the subversion but that's beyond what they would have been capable of, so what we got was satisfying and a great game. I am playing through this nuttery in preparation for RE2, who else finds the game interesting if flawed and just over all weird, and how much of you got the Cammy reference?
Discuss
The Magnum Opus. This game is goofy as shit and I LOVE it!
For starters there was the original criticism where in this game it looks like you are out there killing black people in droves, when the game's setting is in Africa where most people would be African similar to how in 4 you were killing Spaniards due to being in a weird part of Spain, similarly to that this is in a weird part of Africa. The only part where I will roast Capcom for being really stupid is the mid point switch to the witch doctor mask and crazy ass style mixed with Nilotic type Africans (Which actually was a pretty good representation of those people height wise and body structure since Nihlotes are the tallest group of people on the earth with the women averaging 6'3 and the men near 8 feet. The tallest NBA player Manute Bol is a example of what they are and some of them are a stone away from 8 feet tall, truly an amazing people)
but they are in a region of Africa far away from that part of Africa where you would find those types of people and environment, Capcom was really stupid on that point. But hey Capcom is always stupid as shit.
For Example the Average Niholotes as sfw as I can find them:
And the Giant Manjini:
He is notiably giant and would seem fit with the manjini of the type who would come from a Niholote
But still Capcom should have done more research and could have handled that better, but Capcom can be a very stupid company at times...
Now on to the racism angle, I can say it does look rather racially insensitive, but the game has a rather slick subversion, yes the game is in Africa and you are murdering them enmasse, but the mastermind of the whole thing is a straight up call back to the Colonial era where they have been fucked with by the attentions of a evil blonde English man (Don't make me get into the whole evil English man angle with Wesker as the more evil he gets the more English he gets because that shit kills me)Then you find out Wesker finds out he is as OP as he is because he's the brain child of the OG evil Englishman Spencer's experiment of making overmen and killing him in a masterful cutscene. The other weird thing is how they made Jill English and evil too by making her a Blonde, so now is the comical conflict of a American and a African vs two evil blonde English people:
Another Classical RE trope that the game has in spades is the sexual tension that is always unstated but so thick you can cut it with a knife, where when Chris first gets bodied by Wesker in a past cutscene until Jill sacrifices herself to save him, getting her Japanese/French self kidnapped by Wesker and made into Cammy (Capcom you obvious as shit)
And lets not get into that weird part of the fight where you rip off the control part in a obvious place..
All in all I think RE5 is as much a RE game as the others with some weird choices and comical references to Street Fighter. But all the main points are there, it's a cheese spy movie with zombies and sexual tension and some subversions of the first expectations. Capcom could have done so much better with the subversion but that's beyond what they would have been capable of, so what we got was satisfying and a great game. I am playing through this nuttery in preparation for RE2, who else finds the game interesting if flawed and just over all weird, and how much of you got the Cammy reference?
Discuss
