So I ended up doing my replay of the classic 1-3 early this year, so not really following along per say and don't see myself replaying all the RE titles before Village, because like goddamn...just goddamn, but I actually did something a little different with the first game. I usually do the PS1 Classics on my Vita when I do them, which I did with RE2 and 3 per usual, but dug out my copy of Deadly Silence on DS for the first game to play through it.
I had forgotten how much I enjoyed that version of the game. It has a lot of QoL improvements over all the other releases like skipping cutscenes and door transitions, subtitles and quick turn, and even though I generally am not a big fan of the gimmicky stuff, I actually found the knife game thing kind of fun and all the remixed enemies is a nice change of pace. But you can also just straight up do the classic mode too that has all that QoL but none of the gimmick stuff.
Outside not having Battle Game, it's basically the definitive version of that game. I remember hoping they'd do a DS version in that vein for 2 and 3 as well, but never did. The Remake just overshadows it so much, too, it never gets talked about. Which I understand in some ways, and I love REMake, but there's something charming about the rough edges of the original and I still think it's quite good to go back to even if there's a very distinct prototype feel to it.
I had forgotten how much I enjoyed that version of the game. It has a lot of QoL improvements over all the other releases like skipping cutscenes and door transitions, subtitles and quick turn, and even though I generally am not a big fan of the gimmicky stuff, I actually found the knife game thing kind of fun and all the remixed enemies is a nice change of pace. But you can also just straight up do the classic mode too that has all that QoL but none of the gimmick stuff.
Outside not having Battle Game, it's basically the definitive version of that game. I remember hoping they'd do a DS version in that vein for 2 and 3 as well, but never did. The Remake just overshadows it so much, too, it never gets talked about. Which I understand in some ways, and I love REMake, but there's something charming about the rough edges of the original and I still think it's quite good to go back to even if there's a very distinct prototype feel to it.