My ONLY problem with this game is the scenario division. I feel it worked way better in the original. No repeat bosses, no contradictory story moments (friggin Annette dies twice or something?), first scenario decisions that resonate on the second one, among other things. I think this game is excellent and a very good sign of things to come in the franchise, but it comes so close to being perfect by such silly details that I can't help but feel just a little disappointed.
Repeat puzzles and bosses. And Birkin is shot dead, even confirmed dead by a professional USS soldier lol. Plus it is very easy to expose the strings behind the game. Like Mr. X giving up or being blocked access to a safe area. Zombies do it too. Characters cuss way too much. Nothing wrong with a good well placed f bomb, but here it is over done and just feels edgy. I think Capcom did an excellent job with the graphics, sound effects/design, and most oif the gameplay. But then utterly dropped the ball and cut corners with: the story, making sure each scenario was unique but still connected, and the lack of great music. RE2 has some of my favorite tracks from the franchise. Very scummy to get some more music it cost extra. But hey, at least they didn't sell us separately Hunk, Tofus, and the infinite ammo weapons as baloney dlc. Capcom just loves to one moment be awesome and than be terrible the next. I'll take that over always terrible like most Western entertainment has become lately.
@@Gruntvc I cuss way more in just an hour than the characters cussed the whole game, lmao and I think the B scenario is more of a "what if" than a complement to the A scenario
@@ChiruKobra Yes of course. On both ends of the spectrum. Resident Evil 2 has some unique features, while other elements are exclusive to Resident Evil 2. In fact it may be fair to say that when added up, Resident Evil 2 is equal to Resident Evil 2.
What surprised me the most was how utterly terrifying and refreshing it was to see ZOMBIES again. After the 2000's and beyond oversaturated the market and RE abandoned them, it was amazing to see classic zombies and in such numbers. The fear this classic rendition of the walking dead instilled was new and nostalgic all at the same time. Brilliant.
@@Dukesparrow1999As long as they stick to just walkers as the enemies, no humans, it could definitely work as a horror game. If not, a dying light, days gone, or dead island type of game could work.
My only problem with the game is the lack of differences between the A and B scenario. The game was pretty much the same both scenarios: same cut-scenes, same boss fights, and more or less same enemy placements. It's too similar and to me, a bit lazy.
They put b in at the last second originally they would have a entirely differentigwme for claire and a entire different game for leon but they at the last sedond realized they would get shit for not putting b scenario
@Dominic dominic for the technology at the time? No. Pre rendered backgrounds was a way to make the game look good without compromises. Do some research
RE2 Remake is the best RE game to date, change my mind also about the library bookcases, you can pull the far left one and it pushes them all together - you're welcome avalanche!
I don't get why people are complaining about Mr. X he is perfect for this game he is supposed to ruin your flow and just when you think u have a route planned out he stops u in your tracks
That's why people complain about it. You can still like the mechanic while still understanding why some people can't handle it. This type of thinking isn't unheard of.
I love him too, I was so hyped for this game and him, I couldn’t wait to see how persistent and crazy he would be. Makes me excited to see how they’ll make Nemesis even scarier in RE3 if they do that.
It's mostly just that he stops being terrifying and starts being annoying after a while, especially since the game will cheat and spawn him in the same wing as you if you are smart enough to get him stuck on the other side of the RPD. I think he's great, just overstays his welcome.
@@blaster702 I have beaten the a campaigns about 7 times now for Leon and it's easier when I know he is gonna spawn as soon as I enter the room with the Jack for the library. It stops being anoyying when I know how he works
I thought the Lab was a snap, particularly on the second playthrough. It's the sewers that felt like they dragged for me. Getting those chess pieces just felt like a slog. A minor blemish on an otherwise amazing game.
Yeah, I finished RE2R 4 times and on each playthrough (apart from the first one of course) I thought to myself "Oh no, those fucking sewers now". This part was fairly brief and enjoyable in the original but in remake it's a chore to go through, especially because of those blob-like monsters which take a lot of damage.
It definitely still takes place on September 29th and 30th, 1998. You can see the date on the helmet-cam footage of the Umbrella team attacking Birkin as just 15 minutes before midnight on September 22nd, 1998. There are other references, but my favorite is the true ending: “next up on this boring Wednesday is a song to get your blood pumping...”. September 30th, 1998 was, indeed, a Wednesday. ....Which means this version of Claire and Leon are still older than me. Which is surreal.
Yeah RE2 takes place on the 29th, because Jill in RE3: Nemisis states RE3 happens on the 28th and Capcom confirmed that RE3 takes place 24hrs before RE2
well don't disagree he makes my heart race so much that it rather shortens play sessions a lot as I get more used to the game tho I will deal with it better and get more enjoyment out of the game...
One thing I'm so happy about RE2 Remake... is proving once and for all that 3rd person OTS can be downright SCARY. Even the most hardcore of survival horror fans can't deny that now. Actually, Dead Space 1 & 2 already proved that, it just took RE2 Remake to finally seal the deal. Looking forward to see RE3 Nemesis and Code Veronica done in RE2 Remake-style.
Sadly, there's still people out there who cling to the old ways in some misguided nostalgia, refusing to believe that this newer design can be just as scary, tense and fun as the original. Welp, it's their loss.
They just dropped this game on game pass so I decided to give it a try. I have never played an RE game, but I’ve always been intrigued. I absolutely loved every second of this game! From the puzzles to the combat and inventory management. Everything was just perfect. Even my wife, who couldn’t care less about video games, loved watching me play. I loved that I practically didn’t need the map to get around the police station by the end of it because it was all second nature. Plan my most effective route based on which zombies I’d left alive was a particularly fun part of the game. I just downloaded the RE3 remake and am having a great time with that as well. Great retrospective as always!
Hold up. If RE7 isn't survival horror because it's 1st person, why are you saying a 1st person mod makes the game more horrifying? Doesn't really make a whole lot of sense there does it?
@@Ideataster By his current definition of survival horror, yes. But he defined survival horror differently in his RE7 review. It was a bad definition, yes,requiring fixed camera angles and tank controls, which are not necessary for survival horror by literally any other definition, but that was how he defined survival horror until his REmake review, where he redefined survival horror as being, essentially, a puzzle game with a horror skin, requiring combat as an option, but also requiring avoidance of combat to be an equally viable option.
@@neurohack9038 He re-evaluated what makes a game survival horror in his REmake review, likely because of everyone's response to him saying RE7 wasn't survival horror. I don't think it actually had anything to do with something REmake did that RE7 didn't.
True they really made it feel like a sequel to REmake, made the storyline path more like Chris/Jill instead of how it was, everything condensed in one playthrough
@@mielipuolisiili7240 You're missing out then. Fans miss the point of what the B scenario in RE 2 Remake is. Think of RE 2 Remakes B scenario like you would with the RE director cut's alternate scenario where it changes up item placement, enemy placement, etc. That's basically what it is, an alternate scenario for players that want more Resident Evil, and a greater challenge. I never understood why anyone would think it hurts the game at all to have extra content. The B scenario (it shouldn't be called that) is not meant to be from the other characters perspective like in the original RE 2. The reason why it has the same exact story beats is because Capcom was never going to include a B scenario to begin with. The game was pretty much finished, but the fans wanted a B scenario, so Capcom chose to add an extra scenario (again, it shouldn't be called a B scenario) as an alternate scenario with more dynamic enemy placement, less ammo, and an extra boss since they could not go back and create multiple new cutscenes from another character's perspective. They were however able to add the final G mutant boss, and the final cutscene without much of a problem. Mr X also arrives much sooner in the B scenario. I have played through it many times, and the B scenario is the best challenge the game has to offer.
@@jelanidacostabest8195 when I would fight these guys I would literally just pop one shot into their weak point and it would stun them long enough for me to run by them. I don't think I had to actually fully kill a single one.
I used flame rounds on a few, before I realized how much easier it is to just jet past them. Except for one or 2 which I just snap real quick with a shotgun blast or a few pistol rounds to their bulbs to stun tgem
My only 2 issues is that all handguns sounds the same, I hated that Wesker's Samurai Edge didn't have it's ionic sound and I just hate the laziness of the B scenarios (2nd run). Mainly cuz there's overlapping story events that bug the ever loving shit out of me lol.
Good say, I agree with both points. Luckily, the one handgun sound they had, sounded really good, but I really wanted the 45 and samurai edge to sound different.
This game means a lot to me. I remember hearing about resident evil all my life and I never tried it until this game was released. At the time I met a guy who was a HUGE fan of the franchise. He persuaded me to try it out and I fell in love with RE. Immediately after I played all the scenarios in 2 remake I bought and played 7. From there I fell in love with the RE universe. Now I’ve played and finished almost every major game in the franchise and I’m exploring the spin offs like code Veronica and revelations. So capcom, thanks for this game!
There is so much from this game and series that nearly every survival horror or zombie game after borrowed from. It balances so many gameplay elements and tactics in such a seamless way that other games miss the mark on. Perfect amount of pacing, storyline to follow, not too many zombies, not too scary where you don't want to explore but tense enough to be on guard, making decisions on inventory or bullets or fighting vs running, it's tough to pull all this off to this level
I think you are intentionally ignoring what many of us were saying Avalanche. You outright used to say survival horror IS tank controls and fixed camera angles. Hell, until a few months ago you, among other purists, were disappointed REmake 2 was ditching fixed angles for an over the shoulder POV. You also refuse to call RE7 a true RE game due to a change in perspective, even though every component of survival horror you praise here was back on track in that game first more or less. What everyone was saying is that FCA and tank controls were a product of their time and survival horror can thrive without them. A sentiment I'm sure watching your retrospectives you didn't share. Capcom proved this twice already in two different ways with RE7 and REmake 2. I'm glad you are enjoying RE2 as much as I do and I hope the series builds on this specific formula for future entries. But I'm also glad RE2 woke many old timers up to the fact survival horror can be more than the limitations of the 90's.
I was cautiously optimistic, but now I am convinced. They did excellent work on RE2’s reimagining. I would love to see RE:outbreak redone with this kind of implementation now.
Thank you; I appreciate his passion with RE and survival-horror in general, but the amount of complaining with any deviation in every video was driving me up a wall, but I couldn't express it in a constructive way
Just imagine this. Capcom releases a "Patch" or DLC for RE2. You launch the game and out of nowhere there's another extra campaign. You start it up and suddenly you're presented with the 90s Capcom intro. And "In another universe... ...at the same time... ...another nightmare erupts" And BOOM FULL RELEASE OF RE1.5 oof. Wouldn't that be nice.
That WOULD be nice. There are so many drastic story differences in the original build for resident evil two that eventually became resident evil 1.5. It was actually intended to be the finale of the entire series which is crazy to think about now.
As cool as that sounds, would it work? 1.5 was totally different in layout wasnt it? With the RCPD being much more in line with an actual police station instead of the converted museum and creepy vibes that 2 went with? That would require them to build an entirely new setting without the vast majority of the assets used in the main game. That just seems like way too much to ask for on that scale.
This game improved on the original in so many ways. I'm glad they decided to ditch the fixed camera for this one. My only gripe is the character movement speed and the "b scenerios" didn't really change much. Overall tho this was everything i wanted in a remake.
After RE7 I knew I'd at least really really like this game. I played the demo, saw my computer could run it and immediately pre ordered the deluxe edition. I pre loaded the game and waited until 3 AM for the game to unlock. I finished it twice in three days, no guides, always in the dark, with headphones and nothing else to distract me.
Funny as hell watching my friend who plays fast paced FPS games where everyone & everything dies in a few shots, try to down every single enemy they come across, and then run out of all their ammo, but still have dogs & lickers to contend with.
Matt Parker yeah it kind of is...but to me at least it was worth paying an additional $10 for the deluxe edition. You get quite a bit for it but I do agree the music should’ve been an unlockable. Edit: so my phone autocorrect the word “unlockable” to unlikable. I fixed it because I thought it changed the context of my sentence.
Kenneth Eaton yea i know but I figured maybe Capcom would test us a little like well for it's main purpose is done but maybe it's still used for something else
Well done yet again. While RE7 renewed my hope in the survival horror genre, this game proves that it was more than just hope. I’ve played it 4 times now, beaten all scenarios. I can’t say much that hasn’t been said before, but I REALLY hope they do a R3make in this style.
Hoping they put as much time and care into an RE3make as they did this one, would be great if they took it as a chance to reboot Resident Evil and avoid the action schlock and wonky plot that dragged the series down.
For the last two days I have played this game four times through and through, twice standard and twice hardcore. This is one of the most satisfying games I have ever played. I am utterly in love with this game.
Stressed out is a good word. I just finished Leon A run(hardcore), and boy this game is awesome at suspense. I got scared maybe once or twice, but my heart raced almost the entire playthrough. Damn masterpiece.
Nostalgias a powerful thing. While I can respect your fondness for fixed camera angles, that's never coming back. It was never an intuitive form of controlling a character and, quite frankly, I don't think that would sell much these days. As both RE7 and this game now proved, horror was never about the camera angles, it was always about atmosphere and gameplay. RE4, 5 and 6's problem was never the OTS camera, it was making their characters too powerful.
I agree with everything you said except the the nostalgia thing at the beginning. Fans of the fixed camera angles can prefer them without nostalgia being their main reason. Personally I just think there very pretty, unique, and atmospheric.
Tank controls are the best way to control a character with fixed camera angles, and fixed camera angles are a true form of art. It has nothing to do with nostalgia. You're right, it probably wouldn't sell as well, and I don't think it's actually a requirement for horror. But they still do things no other camera style can do, especially regarding atmosphere.
Its not just nostalgia. The best proof that fixed camera angels can be a good design choice is the RE1 remake. That game RELISHES in its fixed camera angles. I love both angles (over the shoulder and static) and I don't think the static camera is outdated if its used right. Both are great for different reasons. My favorite Resident Evil games are RE4 and RE1 remake and they both perfected their styles.
I played REmake for the first time about a year ago and I think that game is still amazing, but it's not because of the angles. I feel RE2 remake might be better than REmake, but that depends on the replayability. First playthrough it was better at least.
You're only defending it because you played it and loved it ever since. That's nostalgia. And it is a powerful thing since you people keep defending it. Hard reality is that fixed cameras were a limitation. Sorry buddy but hey whatever floats your nostalgia boat.@@BadAssMacmillan
the fact that the RPD is used in RE2 and 3, the REmakes are gonna be helped by sharing assets. The RPD is already in the RE Engine, along with parts of Raccoon City. They should be able to make a release a REmake3 sooner than it took to make REmake 2.
Honestly, as a survival horror game, it is magnificent and one of the best experiences i've had in a long time, but does this remake replace the original....no. The RE 1 remake added new elements, expanded on all the characters, introduced new enemies, more locations and a more fleshed out story thus making the original pretty much obsolete besides nostalgia. The RE 2 remake is a more condensed & minimalistic compared to the original, for instance, in the original, Birkin's presence was kept in mystery and when he did infect or kill somebody, you would only see his shoulder eye before moving on, giving the feeling of "WTF WAS THAT".......in the remake, he just pops out with a BOO!
Is it me or is Birkin freakin dead and could not have injected himself with the G virus in this reimagining? They even confirm he's dead lol. Gameplay and graphics are 10/10, but I knock it down to 9/10 because Capcom cut corners and made changes I didn't like. Zombie Brad being a big one. He's replaced with a lame poster. Why does that helicopter randomly kamikaze into the RPD? Why'd they cut the awesome scene of tyrants being air dropped into Raccoon City? Why does a PS1 game have a crazy story that makes more sense than a 2019 reimagining? This is a spot Capcom really got lazy and cut some corners. Really wish they would've improved the characters too. I think only Marvin is presented better. But maybe the dlc will fix this...
Completely agree. RE2 2019 is deeply flawed, and I'm about to write Avalanche a god-damn essay on it, haha. But I do really love it and it gives me strong hope that this team will eventually deliver the classic survival horror conceit in a modern way, but with nearly no flaws whatsoever. This RE2 does feel like a modernised version of classic survival horror, and it deserves high praise for that and many other things; but it's not quite satisfactory in my opinion.
Essentially. Which is why I'm upset people seem to be ignoring or giving Re2make a pass on all of these problems. Re2make really feels like a shallow and bland version of RE2 to me and I just can't get into it for that reason. Remake 1 is still the reigning champion of video game remakes and 2's remake just shows to me that there's no topping it.
Minor detail, but the game definitely does take place in 1998. The timestamps on the video cassette recordings of the U.S.S. members' encounter with Birkin clearly displays Month/Day/Year in the top-left corner. - Lewis
I don't feel like this replaces the original game as much REmake did. Both versions of RE2 are very different in certain ways that make me prefer one over the other. The moment they started removing as much as they add or alter made it more in line with Siren Blood Curse. A reinterpretation of events. This is still one of the best gaming has to offer imo. Next stop: R3make and Mega Man X9. TLDR version - REmake had you experience the Mansion for the first time again vs RE2R is more like a foggy recollection of the events of RE2 where things are generally the same but a lot is changed, added or removed based on memory.
To be fair, when I see over the shoulder, the first thing I think is survival horror. RE4 gave the first time with it and Dead Space perfected it. And while it's certainly true that many action games would come to adopt it as a staple of their series ala Gears of War. Over the shoulder gameplay will always find its roots in survival horror.
@@AvalancheReviews You have a point I suppose. At least as far as RE4 and DS 2 and 3 are concerned. Either way, if one doesn't dwell on semantics, we can all enjoy the fact that over the shoulder was born and perfected while in the genre of horror gaming. And I'm happy to see it return. :)
19:14 Ouch. That moment that most reviewers complain about, when they didn't realize you can pull ALL the cases in one shot. So one clever ring around the rosey is all that's needed. But I understand the logic. Most would think to do one at a time because A) the original cases were. And B) They looked heavy as fuck just moving one! Who thinks to move them all in one shot? I did though :)
Mr X was truly terrifying, never knowing when he would turn up, so much like Alien: Isolation, just makes the anxiety of playing the game so satisfying, great review mate, you have a lot of talent picking apart these games 👍
You know, I bet someone is already working on a tank control/ fixed camera angle mod. Maybe Capcom will release something later on with the Extreme Battle mode.
Fixed camera angles suck. I honestly don’t see the appeal there and I’ve played every game. I like having more control of my environment and viewing radius.
@@travisz11 I think it can work if the game was designed around it like the old ones, but a mod now would undoubtedly be inferior in every way. I also prefer OTS, but I think of fixed angles as just a different type of game, like mario kart vs GT
Your Mom's Creepy Uncle That’s just a false equivalence and this remake is proof of that. You can clearly have as good a survival horror experience in 3rd person with a free camera. It was everything else changing that made the games worse
Mr X reminds me of the Alien looking for you in Alien isolation, the footsteps in the corridors is like the sounds of the Alien in the air ducts 😨 With the creepy music in the background. What is weird for me is I suffer from arachnophobia and I miss the spider's in the sewers?? cannot figure that one out 😂
This is the kind of stuff that really irks me. Movies, re-made games. If it's not an exactly 1 to 1 interpretation the "fanboys" freak out. What's even the point then? If you want the original experience, go back to the original.
You know, people change right? On top never ever anyone expected an actual over the shoulder RE game can turn out to be one of the best survivor horror game as of date...after the downhill RE4 started. Me included thought for so long tank controls and fixed cameras, those limitations meant the spine for survivor horror, i was wrong.
@@DirtyWurm11 It's called Toxic Nostalgia and Gatekeeping. I wish avalanche would stfu about "mY preReNderEd baCKgroUnDs" they only used them because the limitations of the ps1, RE was first imagined at FPS. God this reviewer contradicts himself so much when he talks about "tank controls and pre-rendered backgrounds being the only TRUE survival horror" then takes shots at millenials for never experiencing true gaming or some shit that is true toxic nostalgia.
Watched this and then a bunch of your other vids in the retrospective. Great work! I gotta say, the 'fixed camera/tank-controls is the qualifier by which you have survival horror' was a WEIRD hill to die on, but I'm glad you found something that changed your mind!
Just found your channel from one of Sphere Hunter's vids. HOW DID YT NOT RECOMMEND YOU TO ME BEFORE?! My jaw dropped when I saw your playlist for the RE retrospectives. I'm a relatively new fan who started about 2 years ago. I started with REmake, 4, and 7. I believe 7 did a good job in preparing me for this game. I really didn't die that much in my Leon A run and I never got poisoned by the G-mutants or one-offed by the plants because 7 taught me about frugal resource management, which led me to always have either a grenade or knife on my person.
Imo calling original RE2's story masterpiece is quite an overstatement. It's mostly 90's cheese and undoubtedly entertaining, but it's not like it will blow your mind or a crowing achievement in writing. RE2 2019 was improved a lot in that department, with better characterization, more grounded dialogue etc. but still... it's pretty mundane stuff. When I think about top notch storytelling, at least in the horror genre, games like AW, SH2 or A Machine for Pigs come to mind. I agree about the 2nd runs, I was a bit disappointed they were not designed in a way to be complimentary and better tied to 1st runs' events (like Mr. X still showing in Leon 2nd after a certain event in Claire 1st). Anyway, I can''t blame Capcom since they were upfront about that and stated there will be no zapping system. Indeed, 2nd runs turned out to be like remixed, more challenging campaigns and more content is always welcome. I think the technical aspects that impressed me the most in this game were the lighting and sound design. Especially the latter is the best I've experienced in a AAA game since Dead Space. Also, binaural audio + headphones = astounding immersion! I have completed 3 stories so far (and 4th survivor last night, that was INTENSE) and I can wholeheartedly say that REmake 2 is my favorite in the series, alongside REmake and definetely in the top 3 horror games of 10's. Great and comprehensive review as always :)
dude how dare you, how double dare you? I'm kidding i don't care like that. But i do believe the original RE story was a beauty, and an achievement, as it was super grounded compared to the games on those times, its main strength was it simplicity, sure the story gets a little on the nose here and there, but when it came out everything had to have a crazy twist. In this one you pretty much knew who the antagonist was, and their motivations for a good chunk of the game, but you were so focused on surviving, because you were just a rookie cop with no experience and a random young girl, in a shitshow. That's the beauty of it, and that's how it was revolutionary in it's time, maybe not as much as the original SH, or even the original RE, but it does have something those don't have, SH it has that "magic" element, and in RE1 you were a powerhouse special service cop your team walking around. Those games you mention came out, at least 3 years later, and in one of the golden eras of survival horror where it was still evolving. Im sorry for writing such a long as comment but in summary, you had to play this in 98 to truly appreciate how revolutionary(for it's time) the story as.
My only complaints with RE2 is that I wish the music was more pronounced, it feels like its ashamed of its soundtrack. Whereas REmake 1 was proud of it and still had great sound design, I feel like REmake 2 could have found a happy middle ground, not just shoving the soundtrack to the back. I also would have liked more variation in the B scenarios, a couple notes, the opening and ending are all that stood out as different which is a let down. But that stuff doesn't stop me from loving the game, everything else was firing on all cylinders! Excellent video as always Avalanche :)
I've always been obsessed with the first 3 RE games, especially the mystery behind RE 1.5. As I played through this game I was so happy to see how many elements of that scrapped game was utilized here. The firing range, power outage everywhere, some of the basement concrete walls, shutters, character damage, parts of the parking garage, Birkin, etc. The game just blew me away, and I still can't believe that we got it! Great review, just like all of your other retrospectives👍
It is a little frustrating to watch this because I feel so many people are missing a part of shooting. If you wait for your cross-hair to get to maximum accuracy then your shots do more damage. Most enemies take 3/4 headshots with this in normal mode.
Its like they wanted to include the design of the older titles, which made you stand still to shoot, but re imagined the mechanic, in the new format, and did it really well. Stand still and risk getting bit, but higher chances of hitting the enemy and maybe getting a critical
Jetstream Dan not true. You can still land shots as directed without waiting for reticle to tighten. The damage is only amplified by the tighter reticle..
I’ve played the game too much, and I think it’s pretty inconsistent, really depends on your moment to moment gameplay, you can be safe and feel like you got something locked down and then you’re missing every single shot and backing away to line up some more. The game plays you as much as you play it, the sounds, the atmosphere, Avalanche covered it all, there are a lot of elements working to keep you on your toes... I really fucking side tracked here...
Apparently that's false. I thought that in the demo but it didn't do anything. Apparently someone datamined the code and found that damage is static. Meaning wherever you shoot it does the same damage, that headshots don't do more damage. Along with that, each zombie has their own number of hp and it's not random. You can notice this when you progress where zombies start having higher health.
Love the video as always. The only thing that I really don't understand is some people, including you, complain about headshots being RNG. The only weapon in the game where that is even relevant is the starting handgun, which I think is meant to be a complete peashooter. By the time you get the shotgun / grenade launcher this is a non-issue. If anything, the game is encouraging you to think outside the box & aim for the limbs or God forbid just avoid shooting things you don't absolutely have to. If the handgun was popping heads the entire balance of the game would be broken. It's likely a design decision that in the end improves the experience and gives the handgun a different role in the mid-late game than it has had in the past. Regardless, you're one of the only people in my mind with an opinion on RE worth listening to. Editing to reinforce this point by mentioning that every speedrun of this game right now is almost entirely people using the handgun to stun zombies rather than kill. Most don't even utilize the shotgun or GL until the very end of the game (fun fact: they will spawn those weapons in the lab if you didn't pick them up in the RPD). Also people have mentioned in the comments that letting the crosshair shrink increases the chance of permanently downing a zombie. This is true, but once again it is such a miniscule portion of the game compared to every other weapon that are deliberately more reliable in exchange for scarce ammunition. Survival horror is a balancing act, especially so when you have such direct control of where your bullets go. This game did a brilliant job of it, which is secretly why I think old school fans like you and I enjoy it so much.
agreed by the end of the game i was useing the pistol for head shots to stun and run past or blow there legs off if i needed a bit more room if a zombie needed to die i would use something bigger and 1 shot the head I really like how zombies are a threat in this game and not just a annoyance
Sphere Hunter pointed me in your direction. The love and passion you have for The Resident Evil series is awesome. I especially love the nostalgic way you talk about the original Resi 2 because its my favourite game of all time. I'm 35 and it reminds me of a time when games were half my life. Thank you.
Starting on Hardcore mode is the only way to experience this game at its best...the added stress of not having enough ammo or healing items makes feel like true survival horror. There were times were I also had to walk away from this game because I was fearful and dreaded what horrors awaited me around the corner.
I did the same thing. Almost word-for-word, the same experience. Only I didn't make it to the sewers. I made it to my third medallion and realised I had erred in judgment, so I started over on standard. I had one bullet and one herb to my name and there was no way I was getting past everything that sat between me and the main hall. This game is going to be a massive wakeup call to the modern gamers who are used to their hands being held.
@@Spl4shD4m4ge Shooting Zombies Legs Off Works wonders when playing on hardcore but man its so tedious on that mode tho so i just switched it to Standard mode and had way more fun
Great review! I wanted to hear your opinion more than anyone else's, and was happy to see you get this video out so quick! Though, I kinda disagree of some thing. I don't feel this remake is the definitive version of RE2. I think the most obvious area of improvement over the original should have been the 4 scenarios/zapping system; yet, the team didn't even attempt this. Instead we have 4 redundant scenarios that retcon each other and don't feel complete. If they were to go the RE1 route, I think a more concise way would be to only have one campaign for each character, but you have to earn the B ending through some kind of extra task (like saving Barry/Chris to get the real final battle in RE1). Instead, we got the sloppiest implementation of the mechanic. As far as the story goes, it had great moments (I love the new Leon and Claire), but the overall story isn't as satisfying as the original. It feels empty, and I think that's due to the lack of Leon/Claire interaction. In the original Claire A/Leon B story of the original RE2, we got a far more climatic final act with both main characters working together: Claire gets the cure for Sherry, and Leon gets Sherry out of the lab. There's just more going on, and it makes you feel like the multiple scenarios actually serve a purpose. In the remake, Leon doesn't even know Sherry exists until after he makes it on the train. It's not very satisfying, especially knowing that the story you played isn't even canon and completely contradicts the other character's story (Annette dying twice, fighting all the same forms of Birkin, Mr. X being killed by Birkin, etc.). Granted, the story may not be a big deal to a lot of people, especially when the gameplay is so tight in this remake, but I feel, at the very least, the four scenarios were handled poorly in this game. It's disappointing to wait so long for a remake only to have Capcom cut out the most unique features in order to save time on production, and the scenarios really do feel like an incomplete feature. Why does this remake even have 4 scenarios? Why is the 21 year old original so much tighter in handling 4 stories? It's baffling to me. But what do you think the way the scenarios were handled here?
I heavily agree these issues really made the remake inferior in my eyes, plus I hate the new Irons and Annette Birkin, they were handled very poorly and were overall less fleshed our than the originals
You can clearly see the game takes place in 1998, the date is on the HUNK team records. Jared if you want perfect blacks follow the guide found in PCgamingwiki, believe me the game is in different level once you properly calibrate brightness.
Hey Avalanche, I’ve been anticipating your upload of this Retrospective, and I’m very pleased to see that we share they same views on game. I actually fell in love with RE7, and I had very high hopes for this game. So I was very happy when I got my hands it and finally got to experience RE2 for the first time. After playing the remake multiple times and hearing everything you said about the original, really makes me wanna go back and experience what it has to offer. And I do happen to enjoy those older games, problem arises when just tying to acquire the game and the way to play it. Nonetheless, I’m happy you’re happy with this game.
Oh, I definitely am happy with it. I'll be honest, I went in thinking I might not like it, but Capcom knocked it out of the park. This is one time when I can't go against the popular opinion. This time the popular opinion is absolutely right. This game is amazing!
I'm an old school RE fan so this game was everything I had been wanting for years now. It was incredibly tense and even caught myself holding my breath a few times watching this video. I doubt the series will reach this high again.
As near as we've been able to determine, zombies actually don't have random HP - they have set HP that can vary substantially, but most zombies average around 700-1100 HP (Mr. X has 1500 HP and the first boss has 5000 HP, for comparison.) Player damage varies based on "rank" (the same scaling difficulty system used in RE7 and every game since RE4), but is hard locked to the highest "rank" on Hardcore, for about 67% of normal. At the starting rank of standard, you deal 100% damage, but if you're playing very well it could result in less - probably around 70-80%. Head popping is based on dealing above a certain threshold in a single hit, not random chance - but base handguns will have difficulty breaking this threshold without the random crits (typically for 3x damage.) This is why magnums and the upgraded shotgun will reliably pop heads, but handguns may not. Different handguns deal different damage, but you can expect the A scenario baseline handguns to do around 100-120 damage, while the B scenario handguns deal a bit more. It's also important to note that allowing your reticle to fully aim increases your damage output by as much as 50% depending on weapon - if you want to pop heads, zero in first (this is why Claire's B scenario handgun is so amazing at popping heads - it "reaims" after firing almost instantly.) Weapons with laser sights are considered to be always zeroed in, unless otherwise indicated (Leon's magnum still has a brief aiming period even after the laser sight upgrade.) Zombies in RE2R aren't that big of a deal if you've spent some time "playtesting" to see how they react and interact with different things... let alone fire up Cheat Engine or another memory reader to see actual data. People complaining about zombies not staying down are probably either not used to old-school RE where zombies liked to play dead (in my experience it's pretty rare for a zombie to get back up more than twice in RE2R, and most only get back up once), or haven't been knifing very much - the knife in RE2R is extremely good, basically being the CVX/Krauser knife and not the wimpy REmake knife. Can't say I agree with the complaints about Mr. X, either. I think there are actually too many rooms he can't enter, which makes it too easy to see how limited his AI actually is and can break immersion. I think he's an extremely important part of the game, made to make the game tense and difficult - because otherwise players would be spending hours running back and forth to permanently kill zombies and lickers without a care in the world. Mr. X adds a very important sense of urgency to the whole thing and punishes players who make mistakes in routing and planning ahead. I blasted through Claire A on my first run (also on hardcore, like you I expected HC to be a joke like Madhouse was), but I struggled quite a bit with the followup Leon B and had to seek out some help. I'd still regard Leon B as the hardest campaign - the relative weakness of the shotgun without the upgrades compared to the grenade launcher makes his RPD pretty rough when you still don't have a good route in mind, and I'd argue the placement of enemies in his sewers are the hardest of any campaign's.
Damn, I had no idea about almost all of this. I had s feeling that letting the reticle zero in, would lead to more damage, but I figured that was just me. Ha! Thanks for the insider info. This will help with future play throughs.
how the hell did you get surprised by zombies in og re2? they bleed out when they're dead, and don't get up anymore if bled out. so they cheapend it because now the indicator is gone, but the rng, with crit bullshit, is still there. headshots destroy the brain, no brain = dead zombie. i love the game, but they fucked up in that regard. there had to be 100 other ways to adjust the difficulty, imo.
Resident Evil 2 remake came out? HA! Next thing you're going to tell me is that Kingdom Hearts III actually came out. Oh. Oh wait. Jokes aside, I am just blown away by all the love and attention to detail on display with this game. It's clearly evident that this was the creation of people who absolutely love the original game. Hell, they even brought back frikin' TOFU! As a side note, this is the best looking realistically-styled game I have seen. Ever. Capcom's RE Engine and the talent of their creative staff are simply amazing.
This remake was good but the shitposting it brought was fantastic. Who knew that Chris trying to get his sister laid in various states of aggression mixed so well with Dutch and his “plan” posting.
Wow, just when I think this RE retrospective series can't get any better, I see this video. This may be your best one yet. I' completely obsessed with this series...Great job!
You need more recognition. This retrospective series is so good man! binge watched them all and you did a fabulous job. From one RE fan to another, thank you!
How can you call ada looking for her boyfriend flimsy, it was one of the things that tied RE2 to RE1 in a subtle way that made us who read the files in every Re game smile and maybe tear up a little. I hope they remake this game again 20 years later.
An armed woman, trained to shoot a firearm and dressed like a Chinese spy, never struck me as "looking for my boyfriend" material. That's what I meant. It always seemed like a flimsy part of the story, despite it being tied to the first game.
I'd say REmake 2 didn't replace the original, and that's why i like it, they are both different experiences that i can enjoy without feeling like one is far inferior to the other. as much as i like the first REmake i can't help but feel like it ruined the original RE for me, whenever i play the original more than being scared i'm always like: "this house looks so empty", "Plant 42 room is kinda shit in this", "god, the shark tank is even worse! who thought any of that looked good or tense?", "oh right, there's no Lisa Trevor :(", "well, glad Crimson Heads aren't a thing yet!", "WHY CAN'T I QUICK TURN CAPCOM!", the only thing i come back to the original RE for is the voice acting, but that's not a genuinely good thing. point is, with RE2 i still have something to return to, like the fixed camera angles or the bonus items for taking out mr X.
2018-2019 was a pretty low point in my life. My mother was in her 3rd time in the hospital and I was not feeling it for video games. I knew REmake 2 was coming out but I was waiting to see what happens. Well my friend said he'll preorder the game for me and for us to take turns to play the game. When it came out in January 2019 and we ordered some food and drinks and went back to his place the weekend it came out. And we completed and for the first time since my mother went into the hospital, I was smiling. And since then, I've always come back to play it, with the OG music and the different costumes on Leon and Claire(Injuried Leon and OG RE2 Claire are my faves). REmake 2 will always have a special place in my heart.
Just wanna throw this out there for anyone who didn't know this because as much as I've played this game I only figured this out recently. So for the part on the library where you have to move the bookcases, I thought like a lot of you that you had to move the bookcases one at as time but once you lover the one off the jack, you can go all the way to the left, grab the one all the way at the end and move all three at once to the right.🌈The more you know🌈
Good review, but you should stop moaning about perspective. Fixed camera angles were due to technical limitations. Perspective does not define survival horror experience, it's all about level design and gameplay loops.
@@Gnasheress Captain Obvious here. OP's point still stands. Capcom made a great survival horror with a control scheme that feels natural and makes fucking sense. They just tweaked the level design, mechanics and enemies to match the controls and make it challenging anyway.
You GOTTA see the Out of Bounds video on RE2, those Fixed Angle mods are gonna be tough cause the lighting changes between which character is in focus during the cut-scenes; and they FREEZE animations when the camera sticks to one person 😂
He didn't moan about perspectives once in this entire video. I rolled my eyes in his RE7 vid when he said it isn't survival horror because "muh anglez", but there's none of that here. He admitted he was wrong.
Yeah, adding difficulty by mechanical obfuscation and limitation not representative of the actual entity or character that you're controlling is always ridiculous to me... But then I'm somebody that gets annoyed when I don't have full mechanical autonomy as I would in real life within reason. Let's just say I've been disappointed in games since about 2008 for the most part lol.. oddly enough, resident evil 6 was a title that didn't disappoint in that respect, and it's the only resident evil game that hasn't so far sadly.. Even if it didn't really hold up in a lot of the other respects. It's also one of the reasons the first person mod doesn't really work for me here, it just brings home the fact that you can't crouch or lean... Whereas in third person at the very least there's a disconnect, even if it is annoying as well... At the very least, the presentation has a reminiscence of the things that you're doing or doing the things that you're doing, even if the basic things you should be able to do as well are not options.. unlike resident evil 7 and 8, where there's a severe disconnect between the view model presentation.. as is tradition for a lot of modern games it seems.. I guess we only grow wrists and forearms when the game wants a cutscene moment lol.. making it even worse in first person, as either you're holding the weapon in a way to inspect the serial number.. or trying to see if there's any chips in the folding knife lol.. The first person presentation for the third person in the mod sense actually does alleviate that particular issue by its nature.. But... It's hard to win, as that in it of itself hammers home the fact that You're not actually a human, with basic human capabilities... Even sadder, seven and eight had VR modes... lot of that autonomy comes back, so even then it's like they knew better lol.. and two with the VR mod that's connected to the first person mod... This is well... I really wish some of the VR moders would throw us 2d folk a bone, or someone would hijack their work and translate some of that goodness into just a proper mechanical video game like we used to get back in the mid-2000s, before the PC went away as a development platform Target for good. The various control methodologies for getting around incredibly limited input peripheral, and game design that centered around that has always been an annoyance, made worse by the 20-year time warp that the dual analog controller standard has ingrained.. and made worse even by the even pulled back attempts at bothering with experimentation or even trying, as a game like resident evil 6 to its credit did. But I guess mine nostalgia, it's it's in the advancement of that virtual and immersive reality.. which hit a dead stop towards the end of the mid-2000s, going from games like fear, and crisis, and stalker.. into games like fear 2, and crisis 2, and Metro 2033. If you did what you had to do, with limited resources, that's one thing.. But then when you had more resources.. do better do more lol.. which is.. actually something that resident evil actually did as it progressed to a degree.. Even if it was a little bit behind the times about how it went about that for a while, regarding four and it's incredibly handhold-y limited third person action style, by comparison to the trailblazers of that like splinter cell or manhunt.. The latter being about as mechanically rich as you would want from a survival horror game in the most basics, and the former edging closer to an immersive sim.. which survival horror has always been very much in the same mentality of. The third dimension actually is a feature.. and being able to see where you're shooting is actually a feature.. you can design a better game around that... Mechanical richness is a feature.. you can design a better game with that.. and by better I mean a closer representation to a simulation of the actual events that you're portraying... Which I guess I thought at one point was the goal of all of these kinds of games, but I guess.. either that's changed or that's wrong based on modern development trends and best practices that have completely pervaded the industry. Oh well.
The sound design around Mr. X was on point. You would get a chill down your spine when running around the RPD and hearing those clunking footsteps above you on the next floor or just around the corner. There were times where I would hear them but find it absolutely impossible to tell where they were coming from and that led to a lot of moments of sheer terror. Sadly I do agree that his AI is very easy to cheese and other than the sound I didn't find him to be as much of a threat as others online led me to believe he would be. I think I got caught by him once through all four of my playthroughs and with the sub-weapons it's very easy to never take damage from him.
My 1st resident evil game was the original RE2 when I was 10 so I was super skeptical about this. But this is definitely (in my opinion) the best Resident evil ever made. An absolute 10/10. And I loved the tank controls and pre rendered backgrounds. In fact my 2nd favourite is RE1 remake that still used those controls and backgrounds
The operating system on those police laptops is also like a weird mix of Windows 98 and Windows 3.11, though the computers in Umbrella's laboratory seem to use something that has more aesthetic resemblance to Windows 8/10, to underline how futuristic their tech is. I had some strong disagreement with your evaluation of RE7 as not being survival horror because of the perspective and all (you might even remember my comment if you saw it at all), but even I will agree that REmake 2 blows it out of the water on all counts. The irony of REmake 2's design is that it weirdly ends up being more straight-up survival horror than the original game, dialing back on Hideki Kamiya's penchant for explosive action and exciting setpieces and balancing that element of RE2 with a lot more tension and quite a bit more explorative gameplay in the second half (which was pretty linear in the original game compared to the way it's structured here--and there's even an optional second foray back into the main RPD building from the sewer just to make things feel even more interconnected). It's breathtaking, really. I can't praise it enough for the design choices made here. Pity about the lack of alternative stories for the A/B campaigns, which I was really hoping to experience again, but between the main game's two campaigns, 4th Survivor, and Tofu mode (now with additional alternate Tofu recolors with alternate loadouts that you can unlock for more flan-tastic fun), I can't really complain much even without factoring in the upcoming Ghost Survivor freebies. Funny point about calibration, tho'. I played the whole game on default brightness and display settings--the only options I changed had to do with HUD and control elements--and the game looks fine on my monitor. I do play on a 1080p PC monitor though so it might be that some of the problems people have with the game's brightness may come from TV settings or the specific model they have (I know, for example, some TVs dynamically change brightness and contrast based on the image on-screen). I suffered no such issues and was able to see fine enough even in the dimmest non-flashlight rooms in the game. On the subject of console comparison, this is the first game that's made me legitimately happy to own a PS4 Pro since I bought it. The vanilla PS4's framerate inconsistencies are (as far as I can tell) almost completely eliminated on the Pro, making for an ideal, silky-smooth experience with the only drawback compared to PC being very slight in terms of performance and the... baffling continuation of console games not supporting the ordinary-ass USB mouses and keyboards that can be used with them (come on, guys, you're making these games multiplatform with PC releases anyway, just include the PC controls in the console games the same way you include the gamepad controls in the PC versions!). Side question: have you seen The Gaming Brit's "Road to the Rocket Launcher" series?
I've played every damn horror game made.. not literally but any horror game you can think of off the top of your head I've probably played it. And RE2 Remake is without a doubt a master piece
@Your Mom's Creepy Uncle i understand not every game is for everyone, but out of curiosity I'm wondering what survival horror game do you think is better?
@Your Mom's Creepy Uncle RE REMAKE is my favorite as well.. and to be honest i thought RE7 was a masterpiece..i absolutely loved that game, i think RE2 is a 10/10 as well. In my opinion RE2 Remake was a masterpiece, i gave it a 10, but i don't disagree with you, i think youre more of a purest when it comes to RE but i dig the new ones to
Man, you did a spectacular job describing this game. I've been having such a hard time getting people to believe that not only does this remake live up to the best of survival horror, it rejuvenates it and almost redefines it. So many people are working on the assumption that this is a watered down bastardization, but once you experience the game, it delivers genuine survival horror so goddam well it's amazing. My only complaint from the entire 4 scenario run was that A and B are essentially the same, especially the boss issue. Anyway, you do superb work on here, thanks for all the great RE content.
I just sat here for several hours and binge-watched this entire Resident Evil Retrospective series in one sitting. To say it was "entertaining" and "interesting" is an understatement. Great video series, Avalanche. And thank you.
12:58 I'm a millennial, and my first console was a PS2 (The Fat Boy Version). 2002 was a good year for me. P.S. 14:08 also, just don't panic and you'll land a good 8 out of 10 headshots.
I need a nickname for Claire Redfield. I've got Leon "The Chosen One" Kennedy, Jill "The Sandwich" Valentine, and Chris "Boulder Punching" Redfield. I don't have one for Claire.
Your Retrospective series is great dude! RE 2 was the first video game I ever played. Way back on the PS1 when I was only 6 years old. Me and my father used to play this on the weekends together until one day I tried picking it up after he gave up. I never made it any farther than he did, but I still enjoyed the game. This remake made me super pleased, and proud of Capcom. Resident Evil is my favorite game series with 2 and 3 being my most favorites. I so hope they do the same to RE3 that they did to RE2. Great job with the retrospective series though. Glad people hold this game so close to heart as much as I do.
Fps always crap for re series. The reason is simple: we wanna see our beloved characters in action, wanna guide them to survive the situation , NOT acting as if we're the character themselves aka 1st person perspective.
Frankly I was kind of expecting you to rail on the game for not having fixed camera angles, and I’m happy to see that I was wrong. Regardless, great video.
I love your channel but this game would not have sold well at all if they'd used fixed camera perspectives. As much as I love the RE one through code veronica they still kinda sucked because of the fixed camera angles and tank controls. Just want to reiterate in the modern day tank controls and fixed perspective would not work at all, the sales would plummet and it would be years before Capcom ever attempted a remake again. I'll agree that the B scenario not really changing much besides your pistol and starting point is a let down for me as well, but it's fine I understand they wanted a canon story for both characters.
It was good but remake does the story way better. If you disagree then you’re just straight up nostalgic. For starters, Kendo is way better presented in the remake as compared to the original. He is a caring father dealing with a heartbreaking situation whereas in the original he just happened to die anticlimactically after just greeting the leon/claire ( he’s even getting his own playable chapter now) Marvin’s role is way better in the remake who helps leon/claire before he passes as compared to the original where he just gave you a recap of what happened and locked the door. Brian Irons was genuinely more creepier and unnerving in the remake.
@@SanguineSpirit616 hell even the truck driver was more fleshed out in the Remake. the freakin "that guy's a maniac! why'd he bite me?!" guy who was in the original for like 5 seconds gets more to do now and it's great. same with Kendo and the rest. I agree with Marvin and Chief Irons as well
I am the only one who misses gigantic moths, spiders, crows, lickers type 2? A great game but that “small” detail is still present on my mind and won’t go away so easily. Also B scenario was kind of repetitive, I don’t know. Music is forgettable, even though the people in charge of it put their hearts on it and I do appreciate that. Still a great game, but some things are pretty obvious when you think of it. Great video btw!
I moved on and started a different game after finishing Leon A/Claire B... and I honestly thought I was done with RE2. But while playing something else, I find myself just wanting to play through RE2 again. I had the exact same “complaints” as you, but I really do believe this is a top tier experience. It’s gonna be tough for any new release to unseat a game cemented in by nostalgia, but RE2 ‘19 has to be a Top 3-5 for me.
Great review! For me RE2 2019 has'nt replaced the orginal, but sucessfully stands beside it hand in hand! RE is back and better than ever!
That’s the perfect way to put it! For some reason I had a hard time expressing that sentiment in an accurate way.
IT'S BACKKKKKKK!!!!!!!!
The campaign system is a MESS👌
@@AvalancheReviews really hoping for an RE3 remake. How about you?
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My ONLY problem with this game is the scenario division. I feel it worked way better in the original. No repeat bosses, no contradictory story moments (friggin Annette dies twice or something?), first scenario decisions that resonate on the second one, among other things. I think this game is excellent and a very good sign of things to come in the franchise, but it comes so close to being perfect by such silly details that I can't help but feel just a little disappointed.
Yeah, I can agree with that. It disappointed me too.
Repeat puzzles and bosses. And Birkin is shot dead, even confirmed dead by a professional USS soldier lol.
Plus it is very easy to expose the strings behind the game. Like Mr. X giving up or being blocked access to a safe area. Zombies do it too.
Characters cuss way too much. Nothing wrong with a good well placed f bomb, but here it is over done and just feels edgy.
I think Capcom did an excellent job with the graphics, sound effects/design, and most oif the gameplay.
But then utterly dropped the ball and cut corners with: the story, making sure each scenario was unique but still connected, and the lack of great music.
RE2 has some of my favorite tracks from the franchise. Very scummy to get some more music it cost extra.
But hey, at least they didn't sell us separately Hunk, Tofus, and the infinite ammo weapons as baloney dlc.
Capcom just loves to one moment be awesome and than be terrible the next. I'll take that over always terrible like most Western entertainment has become lately.
@@Gruntvc I cuss way more in just an hour than the characters cussed the whole game, lmao
and I think the B scenario is more of a "what if" than a complement to the A scenario
@@Gruntvc Really dude? The cursing is what bothered you? I'd be saying fuck too if a rotting corpse just ripped out someone's jugular in front of me.
Yeah I wished the A and B scenarios are canon to each other instead of the alternate universe thingy they have going for it.
Only Resident Evil 2 can be better than Resident Evil 2!
Ha! Fact!
I see your point.
But Resident Evil 2 has some special qualities that Resident Evil 2 lacks.
@@ChiruKobra Yes of course. On both ends of the spectrum. Resident Evil 2 has some unique features, while other elements are exclusive to Resident Evil 2. In fact it may be fair to say that when added up, Resident Evil 2 is equal to Resident Evil 2.
Fuck Resident Evil 2. It ain't got shit on Resident Evil 2
wow that's funny
What surprised me the most was how utterly terrifying and refreshing it was to see ZOMBIES again. After the 2000's and beyond oversaturated the market and RE abandoned them, it was amazing to see classic zombies and in such numbers. The fear this classic rendition of the walking dead instilled was new and nostalgic all at the same time. Brilliant.
Nothing does zombies like Resident Evil. One zombie in a tight hallway is enough to stress you out in this franchise if you're not prepared for it.
A TWD game would possibly play on this remake if done right that is
@@Dukesparrow1999As long as they stick to just walkers as the enemies, no humans, it could definitely work as a horror game. If not, a dying light, days gone, or dead island type of game could work.
My only problem with the game is the lack of differences between the A and B scenario. The game was pretty much the same both scenarios: same cut-scenes, same boss fights, and more or less same enemy placements. It's too similar and to me, a bit lazy.
They put b in at the last second originally they would have a entirely differentigwme for claire and a entire different game for leon but they at the last sedond realized they would get shit for not putting b scenario
@Dominic dominic for the technology at the time? No. Pre rendered backgrounds was a way to make the game look good without compromises. Do some research
RE2 Remake is the best RE game to date, change my mind
also about the library bookcases, you can pull the far left one and it pushes them all together - you're welcome avalanche!
Agreed
can't wait to see Remake Souls 2
It's a pretty good game, but as a remake it's just meh. Original RE2 has much more content, better music, story, enviroments and enemies.
Correction. REmake is the best RE game to date. REmake 2 is just the best in a long time.
Not quite. I'd put it in third place behind 4 and REmake.
I don't get why people are complaining about Mr. X he is perfect for this game he is supposed to ruin your flow and just when you think u have a route planned out he stops u in your tracks
Mr.X is the ultimate casual slayer.
That's why people complain about it.
You can still like the mechanic while still understanding why some people can't handle it. This type of thinking isn't unheard of.
I love him too, I was so hyped for this game and him, I couldn’t wait to see how persistent and crazy he would be. Makes me excited to see how they’ll make Nemesis even scarier in RE3 if they do that.
It's mostly just that he stops being terrifying and starts being annoying after a while, especially since the game will cheat and spawn him in the same wing as you if you are smart enough to get him stuck on the other side of the RPD. I think he's great, just overstays his welcome.
@@blaster702 I have beaten the a campaigns about 7 times now for Leon and it's easier when I know he is gonna spawn as soon as I enter the room with the Jack for the library. It stops being anoyying when I know how he works
Leon is such a babyface here, I love it. They did a great job capturing the rookie in over his head feeling with the facial and voice performance.
He's my little pookie boy🥰🥰🥰
My only nitpick is sometimes when running past zombies, they turn into Usain Bolt with magnet hands and get a cheap attack on you.
Ha! Yeah they do.
It's nearly impossible to run past the Ivy's.
I always shoot their face to stunt then and then run.
@@Synthgamer that's why you snag the flamethrower
🔪 is the true survival horror back up weapon in the game.
I thought the Lab was a snap, particularly on the second playthrough. It's the sewers that felt like they dragged for me. Getting those chess pieces just felt like a slog. A minor blemish on an otherwise amazing game.
Yeah, I can't stand the sewer section. Very boring, in my opinion.
Sewers and desserts in almost any game generally just suck imo.
I agree, the lab section was quick, the sewers were a bloody pain, especially when speed running
Labs were way too brief for ground zero
Yeah, I finished RE2R 4 times and on each playthrough (apart from the first one of course) I thought to myself "Oh no, those fucking sewers now". This part was fairly brief and enjoyable in the original but in remake it's a chore to go through, especially because of those blob-like monsters which take a lot of damage.
It definitely still takes place on September 29th and 30th, 1998. You can see the date on the helmet-cam footage of the Umbrella team attacking Birkin as just 15 minutes before midnight on September 22nd, 1998. There are other references, but my favorite is the true ending: “next up on this boring Wednesday is a song to get your blood pumping...”. September 30th, 1998 was, indeed, a Wednesday.
....Which means this version of Claire and Leon are still older than me. Which is surreal.
You can also notice this with the old technology (notice the computer monitors, for example) and the fact that Claire's motorcycle is an 1998 Harley.
Good God. I was starting COLLEGE. I'm basically Walter Donovan at the end of "Last Crusade" at this point.
@@Enkijamenk I was starting 8th grade :-)
OMG the level of detail they put in the game I didn't even notice! And i've already gone through like 60 hours!
Yeah RE2 takes place on the 29th, because Jill in RE3: Nemisis states RE3 happens on the 28th and Capcom confirmed that RE3 takes place 24hrs before RE2
I'm just glad Mr. X is finally getting the fear and love he deserves.
Exactly! I've always had a soft spot for him.
well don't disagree he makes my heart race so much that it rather shortens play sessions a lot as I get more used to the game tho I will deal with it better and get more enjoyment out of the game...
Mr. X gonna give it to ya!
This needs to be a mod...
m.ua-cam.com/video/2f64pZTM8zw/v-deo.html
@@Bluephantom01XT I was JUST thinking of putting here. how is it you got to it before me... oh wait, you were 5 months earlier.
One thing I'm so happy about RE2 Remake... is proving once and for all that 3rd person OTS can be downright SCARY. Even the most hardcore of survival horror fans can't deny that now. Actually, Dead Space 1 & 2 already proved that, it just took RE2 Remake to finally seal the deal. Looking forward to see RE3 Nemesis and Code Veronica done in RE2 Remake-style.
trust who wants tank control hahaha
go back to 90s
I won't say the last part
Yeah, Capcom pretty much shut the door on that argument. All it took was a little love and care for the genre.
Play the Remake of RE1 that game is still the best!!!
Sadly, there's still people out there who cling to the old ways in some misguided nostalgia, refusing to believe that this newer design can be just as scary, tense and fun as the original.
Welp, it's their loss.
@shassitojn 49 why does it seem like people usually the majority doesn't like Code V and RE0? I hate Steve to lol
They just dropped this game on game pass so I decided to give it a try. I have never played an RE game, but I’ve always been intrigued. I absolutely loved every second of this game! From the puzzles to the combat and inventory management. Everything was just perfect. Even my wife, who couldn’t care less about video games, loved watching me play. I loved that I practically didn’t need the map to get around the police station by the end of it because it was all second nature. Plan my most effective route based on which zombies I’d left alive was a particularly fun part of the game. I just downloaded the RE3 remake and am having a great time with that as well. Great retrospective as always!
Hold up. If RE7 isn't survival horror because it's 1st person, why are you saying a 1st person mod makes the game more horrifying? Doesn't really make a whole lot of sense there does it?
He didn't say RE7 wasn't horror, he said it wasn't _survival_ horror.
@@bloodlustquartet6234 ...but RE7 is Survival Horror.
@@Ideataster By his current definition of survival horror, yes. But he defined survival horror differently in his RE7 review. It was a bad definition, yes,requiring fixed camera angles and tank controls, which are not necessary for survival horror by literally any other definition, but that was how he defined survival horror until his REmake review, where he redefined survival horror as being, essentially, a puzzle game with a horror skin, requiring combat as an option, but also requiring avoidance of combat to be an equally viable option.
RE7 IS a puzzle game though. So why would his definition change just for that game?
@@neurohack9038 He re-evaluated what makes a game survival horror in his REmake review, likely because of everyone's response to him saying RE7 wasn't survival horror. I don't think it actually had anything to do with something REmake did that RE7 didn't.
No, there’s MANY instances of the year being 1998 dropped in files.
The VHS cutscenes show the full date
milkinaction that too.
Shit there being a VHS even present shows it’s 1998 lol. And just look at the goddamn Windows 95 computer in the STARS office.
Yeah, this game just screams 1998. The cars a lone tell you that.
The game is amazing
But the complementary A & B scenarios are missed, there's too much repetition in the remake
oh yes
Rebdy True but it’s still good enough to be overlooked.
True they really made it feel like a sequel to REmake, made the storyline path more like Chris/Jill instead of how it was, everything condensed in one playthrough
To this day I still haven't bothered to play the B scenario because of how much it feels like playing the exact same game with minor tweaks.
@@mielipuolisiili7240 You're missing out then. Fans miss the point of what the B scenario in RE 2 Remake is. Think of RE 2 Remakes B scenario like you would with the RE director cut's alternate scenario where it changes up item placement, enemy placement, etc. That's basically what it is, an alternate scenario for players that want more Resident Evil, and a greater challenge. I never understood why anyone would think it hurts the game at all to have extra content. The B scenario (it shouldn't be called that) is not meant to be from the other characters perspective like in the original RE 2. The reason why it has the same exact story beats is because Capcom was never going to include a B scenario to begin with. The game was pretty much finished, but the fans wanted a B scenario, so Capcom chose to add an extra scenario (again, it shouldn't be called a B scenario) as an alternate scenario with more dynamic enemy placement, less ammo, and an extra boss since they could not go back and create multiple new cutscenes from another character's perspective. They were however able to add the final G mutant boss, and the final cutscene without much of a problem. Mr X also arrives much sooner in the B scenario. I have played through it many times, and the B scenario is the best challenge the game has to offer.
Was anyone losing their mind when he was shooting the plant monsters in the head instead of their weak points?
Question. Can these guys be burnt with the spark shot once downed? I'm on Claire A and I've no flame rounds left...
@@jelanidacostabest8195 when I would fight these guys I would literally just pop one shot into their weak point and it would stun them long enough for me to run by them. I don't think I had to actually fully kill a single one.
Jelani Dacosta Best hit the glowing bulbs, it won’t kill them, but it will down them for several minutes.
I used flame rounds on a few, before I realized how much easier it is to just jet past them. Except for one or 2 which I just snap real quick with a shotgun blast or a few pistol rounds to their bulbs to stun tgem
you want to save flammer or flamme grenades for them....just like in the original game...burn them to a black crisp
My only 2 issues is that all handguns sounds the same, I hated that Wesker's Samurai Edge didn't have it's ionic sound and I just hate the laziness of the B scenarios (2nd run). Mainly cuz there's overlapping story events that bug the ever loving shit out of me lol.
Good say, I agree with both points. Luckily, the one handgun sound they had, sounded really good, but I really wanted the 45 and samurai edge to sound different.
Gotta say*
David Bowie troll
@Corby Dinsburger imagine thinking " hoo that's the best cut off ever!" Only to sound incredibly stupid.
I feel you on that one
This game means a lot to me. I remember hearing about resident evil all my life and I never tried it until this game was released. At the time I met a guy who was a HUGE fan of the franchise. He persuaded me to try it out and I fell in love with RE. Immediately after I played all the scenarios in 2 remake I bought and played 7. From there I fell in love with the RE universe. Now I’ve played and finished almost every major game in the franchise and I’m exploring the spin offs like code Veronica and revelations. So capcom, thanks for this game!
There is so much from this game and series that nearly every survival horror or zombie game after borrowed from. It balances so many gameplay elements and tactics in such a seamless way that other games miss the mark on. Perfect amount of pacing, storyline to follow, not too many zombies, not too scary where you don't want to explore but tense enough to be on guard, making decisions on inventory or bullets or fighting vs running, it's tough to pull all this off to this level
Welcome to RE. One of my favorite game series ever. So many great games to experience. Wish I could experience them again for the first time.
I think you are intentionally ignoring what many of us were saying Avalanche. You outright used to say survival horror IS tank controls and fixed camera angles. Hell, until a few months ago you, among other purists, were disappointed REmake 2 was ditching fixed angles for an over the shoulder POV.
You also refuse to call RE7 a true RE game due to a change in perspective, even though every component of survival horror you praise here was back on track in that game first more or less.
What everyone was saying is that FCA and tank controls were a product of their time and survival horror can thrive without them. A sentiment I'm sure watching your retrospectives you didn't share. Capcom proved this twice already in two different ways with RE7 and REmake 2.
I'm glad you are enjoying RE2 as much as I do and I hope the series builds on this specific formula for future entries. But I'm also glad RE2 woke many old timers up to the fact survival horror can be more than the limitations of the 90's.
I was cautiously optimistic, but now I am convinced. They did excellent work on RE2’s reimagining. I would love to see RE:outbreak redone with this kind of implementation now.
@@wirtsleg340
I'm not even sure you yourself know what you wrote at the end there.
@@wirtsleg340 yeah but times change and so should you
Thank you; I appreciate his passion with RE and survival-horror in general, but the amount of complaining with any deviation in every video was driving me up a wall, but I couldn't express it in a constructive way
Well said.
Just imagine this. Capcom releases a "Patch" or DLC for RE2. You launch the game and out of nowhere there's another extra campaign. You start it up and suddenly you're presented with the 90s Capcom intro. And
"In another universe...
...at the same time...
...another nightmare erupts"
And BOOM FULL RELEASE OF RE1.5
oof. Wouldn't that be nice.
That WOULD be nice. There are so many drastic story differences in the original build for resident evil two that eventually became resident evil 1.5. It was actually intended to be the finale of the entire series which is crazy to think about now.
Well, for now we're getting to play Kendo, Mayors daughters, and some soldier for free. so theres that.
@@mrjtfang2 and I am probably gonna love it! Can't wait for tomorrow!!!
As cool as that sounds, would it work? 1.5 was totally different in layout wasnt it? With the RCPD being much more in line with an actual police station instead of the converted museum and creepy vibes that 2 went with?
That would require them to build an entirely new setting without the vast majority of the assets used in the main game. That just seems like way too much to ask for on that scale.
@@zeroattentiongaming820 I meant the unreleased 1.5. not a full remake. Hence the classic Capcom logo
This game improved on the original in so many ways. I'm glad they decided to ditch the fixed camera for this one. My only gripe is the character movement speed and the "b scenerios" didn't really change much. Overall tho this was everything i wanted in a remake.
After RE7 I knew I'd at least really really like this game. I played the demo, saw my computer could run it and immediately pre ordered the deluxe edition. I pre loaded the game and waited until 3 AM for the game to unlock. I finished it twice in three days, no guides, always in the dark, with headphones and nothing else to distract me.
Funny as hell watching my friend who plays fast paced FPS games where everyone & everything dies in a few shots, try to down every single enemy they come across, and then run out of all their ammo, but still have dogs & lickers to contend with.
Ha! I had the same experience with my wife.
I really love how the original soundtrack still works on this new interpretation of RE2.
Playing it for the first time with the old soundtrack was so satisfying. If anything the old soundtrack amplifies the tension in some instances.
Matt Parker yeah it kind of is...but to me at least it was worth paying an additional $10 for the deluxe edition. You get quite a bit for it but I do agree the music should’ve been an unlockable.
Edit: so my phone autocorrect the word “unlockable” to unlikable. I fixed it because I thought it changed the context of my sentence.
Matt Parker it’s worth it. But I DO understand your point of view.
Right? It doesn't feel out of place at all.
I’ve never played the original and the old soundtrack was 100% superior, the main hall theme still gives me the creeps
ah, i see you also refuse to discard already used key items.
Ha! Yep, it's a habit.
AGREED! Save everything! In the box you go!
i was like that too, like the game says yeah you don't need this anymore and I'm like HOW DO YOU KNOW I DON'T NEED IT WHAT IF ITS A TEST?!?
michael kotlowski a little red checkmark will appear in the bottom right corner.
Kenneth Eaton yea i know but I figured maybe Capcom would test us a little like well for it's main purpose is done but maybe it's still used for something else
Well done yet again.
While RE7 renewed my hope in the survival horror genre, this game proves that it was more than just hope. I’ve played it 4 times now, beaten all scenarios. I can’t say much that hasn’t been said before, but I REALLY hope they do a R3make in this style.
Hoping they put as much time and care into an RE3make as they did this one, would be great if they took it as a chance to reboot Resident Evil and avoid the action schlock and wonky plot that dragged the series down.
For the last two days I have played this game four times through and through, twice standard and twice hardcore. This is one of the most satisfying games I have ever played. I am utterly in love with this game.
Stressed out is a good word. I just finished Leon A run(hardcore), and boy this game is awesome at suspense. I got scared maybe once or twice, but my heart raced almost the entire playthrough. Damn masterpiece.
Nostalgias a powerful thing. While I can respect your fondness for fixed camera angles, that's never coming back. It was never an intuitive form of controlling a character and, quite frankly, I don't think that would sell much these days. As both RE7 and this game now proved, horror was never about the camera angles, it was always about atmosphere and gameplay. RE4, 5 and 6's problem was never the OTS camera, it was making their characters too powerful.
I agree with everything you said except the the nostalgia thing at the beginning. Fans of the fixed camera angles can prefer them without nostalgia being their main reason. Personally I just think there very pretty, unique, and atmospheric.
Tank controls are the best way to control a character with fixed camera angles, and fixed camera angles are a true form of art. It has nothing to do with nostalgia. You're right, it probably wouldn't sell as well, and I don't think it's actually a requirement for horror. But they still do things no other camera style can do, especially regarding atmosphere.
Its not just nostalgia. The best proof that fixed camera angels can be a good design choice is the RE1 remake. That game RELISHES in its fixed camera angles. I love both angles (over the shoulder and static) and I don't think the static camera is outdated if its used right. Both are great for different reasons. My favorite Resident Evil games are RE4 and RE1 remake and they both perfected their styles.
I played REmake for the first time about a year ago and I think that game is still amazing, but it's not because of the angles. I feel RE2 remake might be better than REmake, but that depends on the replayability. First playthrough it was better at least.
You're only defending it because you played it and loved it ever since. That's nostalgia. And it is a powerful thing since you people keep defending it. Hard reality is that fixed cameras were a limitation. Sorry buddy but hey whatever floats your nostalgia boat.@@BadAssMacmillan
So with the re 3 remake being promised. I would love to see Jill's costume as a stars member.
the fact that the RPD is used in RE2 and 3, the REmakes are gonna be helped by sharing assets. The RPD is already in the RE Engine, along with parts of Raccoon City. They should be able to make a release a REmake3 sooner than it took to make REmake 2.
Honestly, as a survival horror game, it is magnificent and one of the best experiences i've had in a long time, but does this remake replace the original....no.
The RE 1 remake added new elements, expanded on all the characters, introduced new enemies, more locations and a more fleshed out story thus making the original pretty much obsolete besides nostalgia.
The RE 2 remake is a more condensed & minimalistic compared to the original, for instance, in the original, Birkin's presence was kept in mystery and when he did infect or kill somebody, you would only see his shoulder eye before moving on, giving the feeling of "WTF WAS THAT".......in the remake, he just pops out with a BOO!
Yeah I can understand that.
Is it me or is Birkin freakin dead and could not have injected himself with the G virus in this reimagining? They even confirm he's dead lol.
Gameplay and graphics are 10/10, but I knock it down to 9/10 because Capcom cut corners and made changes I didn't like.
Zombie Brad being a big one. He's replaced with a lame poster.
Why does that helicopter randomly kamikaze into the RPD?
Why'd they cut the awesome scene of tyrants being air dropped into Raccoon City?
Why does a PS1 game have a crazy story that makes more sense than a 2019 reimagining? This is a spot Capcom really got lazy and cut some corners.
Really wish they would've improved the characters too. I think only Marvin is presented better.
But maybe the dlc will fix this...
Completely agree. RE2 2019 is deeply flawed, and I'm about to write Avalanche a god-damn essay on it, haha. But I do really love it and it gives me strong hope that this team will eventually deliver the classic survival horror conceit in a modern way, but with nearly no flaws whatsoever. This RE2 does feel like a modernised version of classic survival horror, and it deserves high praise for that and many other things; but it's not quite satisfactory in my opinion.
Ei’ríġ Proinsias Dammantaċ Ó Gamhna. You’re an idiot. Who gives a shit about any of that?
Essentially. Which is why I'm upset people seem to be ignoring or giving Re2make a pass on all of these problems. Re2make really feels like a shallow and bland version of RE2 to me and I just can't get into it for that reason. Remake 1 is still the reigning champion of video game remakes and 2's remake just shows to me that there's no topping it.
Minor detail, but the game definitely does take place in 1998. The timestamps on the video cassette recordings of the U.S.S. members' encounter with Birkin clearly displays Month/Day/Year in the top-left corner.
- Lewis
Well no shit
1998... I'll never forget it.
Never
It was the year they first released smartbands and USB drives.
I don't feel like this replaces the original game as much REmake did. Both versions of RE2 are very different in certain ways that make me prefer one over the other. The moment they started removing as much as they add or alter made it more in line with Siren Blood Curse. A reinterpretation of events. This is still one of the best gaming has to offer imo. Next stop: R3make and Mega Man X9.
TLDR version
- REmake had you experience the Mansion for the first time again vs RE2R is more like a foggy recollection of the events of RE2 where things are generally the same but a lot is changed, added or removed based on memory.
Such a good description of how I see it.
To be fair, when I see over the shoulder, the first thing I think is survival horror. RE4 gave the first time with it and Dead Space perfected it. And while it's certainly true that many action games would come to adopt it as a staple of their series ala Gears of War. Over the shoulder gameplay will always find its roots in survival horror.
Fair enough, but dead space and re4 aren't survival horror games. Both capcom and the visceral have said those games are action horror titles.
@@AvalancheReviews You have a point I suppose. At least as far as RE4 and DS 2 and 3 are concerned. Either way, if one doesn't dwell on semantics, we can all enjoy the fact that over the shoulder was born and perfected while in the genre of horror gaming. And I'm happy to see it return. :)
Wow this is a very early "retrospective". I enjoy your series though it's fun to watch how the series evolved over the years.
Anders woa-woah, and dedicated to me /dance
19:14 Ouch. That moment that most reviewers complain about, when they didn't realize you can pull ALL the cases in one shot. So one clever ring around the rosey is all that's needed. But I understand the logic. Most would think to do one at a time because A) the original cases were. And B) They looked heavy as fuck just moving one! Who thinks to move them all in one shot? I did though :)
Thank you for that. I'll remember for next play through
Mr X was truly terrifying, never knowing when he would turn up, so much like Alien: Isolation, just makes the anxiety of playing the game so satisfying, great review mate, you have a lot of talent picking apart these games 👍
You know, I bet someone is already working on a tank control/ fixed camera angle mod. Maybe Capcom will release something later on with the Extreme Battle mode.
I've heard rumors that there is one out there. I will be looking for it in a bit.
@@AvalancheReviews there's some footage on UA-cam of it which I bet you've already seen by this time.
Fixed camera angles suck. I honestly don’t see the appeal there and I’ve played every game. I like having more control of my environment and viewing radius.
@@travisz11 I think it can work if the game was designed around it like the old ones, but a mod now would undoubtedly be inferior in every way. I also prefer OTS, but I think of fixed angles as just a different type of game, like mario kart vs GT
Your Mom's Creepy Uncle That’s just a false equivalence and this remake is proof of that. You can clearly have as good a survival horror experience in 3rd person with a free camera. It was everything else changing that made the games worse
Mr X reminds me of the Alien looking for you in Alien isolation, the footsteps in the corridors is like the sounds of the Alien in the air ducts 😨 With the creepy music in the background. What is weird for me is I suffer from arachnophobia and I miss the spider's in the sewers?? cannot figure that one out 😂
"I wAntEd mY preReNderEd baCKgroUnDs."
Lol, glad they won you over.
Nah
Fak yew
This is the kind of stuff that really irks me. Movies, re-made games. If it's not an exactly 1 to 1 interpretation the "fanboys" freak out. What's even the point then? If you want the original experience, go back to the original.
You know, people change right? On top never ever anyone expected an actual over the shoulder RE game can turn out to be one of the best survivor horror game as of date...after the downhill RE4 started. Me included thought for so long tank controls and fixed cameras, those limitations meant the spine for survivor horror, i was wrong.
@@DirtyWurm11 It's called Toxic Nostalgia and Gatekeeping. I wish avalanche would stfu about "mY preReNderEd baCKgroUnDs" they only used them because the limitations of the ps1, RE was first imagined at FPS. God this reviewer contradicts himself so much when he talks about "tank controls and pre-rendered backgrounds being the only TRUE survival horror" then takes shots at millenials for never experiencing true gaming or some shit that is true toxic nostalgia.
@@JackalK3 geez grow a pair sensible little snowfkake. You need to learn when people are joking.
Watched this and then a bunch of your other vids in the retrospective. Great work! I gotta say, the 'fixed camera/tank-controls is the qualifier by which you have survival horror' was a WEIRD hill to die on, but I'm glad you found something that changed your mind!
Just found your channel from one of Sphere Hunter's vids. HOW DID YT NOT RECOMMEND YOU TO ME BEFORE?! My jaw dropped when I saw your playlist for the RE retrospectives. I'm a relatively new fan who started about 2 years ago. I started with REmake, 4, and 7. I believe 7 did a good job in preparing me for this game. I really didn't die that much in my Leon A run and I never got poisoned by the G-mutants or one-offed by the plants because 7 taught me about frugal resource management, which led me to always have either a grenade or knife on my person.
Imo calling original RE2's story masterpiece is quite an overstatement. It's mostly 90's cheese and undoubtedly entertaining, but it's not like it will blow your mind or a crowing achievement in writing. RE2 2019 was improved a lot in that department, with better characterization, more grounded dialogue etc. but still... it's pretty mundane stuff. When I think about top notch storytelling, at least in the horror genre, games like AW, SH2 or A Machine for Pigs come to mind.
I agree about the 2nd runs, I was a bit disappointed they were not designed in a way to be complimentary and better tied to 1st runs' events (like Mr. X still showing in Leon 2nd after a certain event in Claire 1st). Anyway, I can''t blame Capcom since they were upfront about that and stated there will be no zapping system. Indeed, 2nd runs turned out to be like remixed, more challenging campaigns and more content is always welcome.
I think the technical aspects that impressed me the most in this game were the lighting and sound design. Especially the latter is the best I've experienced in a AAA game since Dead Space. Also, binaural audio + headphones = astounding immersion!
I have completed 3 stories so far (and 4th survivor last night, that was INTENSE) and I can wholeheartedly say that REmake 2 is my favorite in the series, alongside REmake and definetely in the top 3 horror games of 10's.
Great and comprehensive review as always :)
dude how dare you, how double dare you? I'm kidding i don't care like that. But i do believe the original RE story was a beauty, and an achievement, as it was super grounded compared to the games on those times, its main strength was it simplicity, sure the story gets a little on the nose here and there, but when it came out everything had to have a crazy twist. In this one you pretty much knew who the antagonist was, and their motivations for a good chunk of the game, but you were so focused on surviving, because you were just a rookie cop with no experience and a random young girl, in a shitshow. That's the beauty of it, and that's how it was revolutionary in it's time, maybe not as much as the original SH, or even the original RE, but it does have something those don't have, SH it has that "magic" element, and in RE1 you were a powerhouse special service cop your team walking around. Those games you mention came out, at least 3 years later, and in one of the golden eras of survival horror where it was still evolving. Im sorry for writing such a long as comment but in summary, you had to play this in 98 to truly appreciate how revolutionary(for it's time) the story as.
but yeah some of the new changes in the story were definetely welcome
My only complaints with RE2 is that I wish the music was more pronounced, it feels like its ashamed of its soundtrack. Whereas REmake 1 was proud of it and still had great sound design, I feel like REmake 2 could have found a happy middle ground, not just shoving the soundtrack to the back. I also would have liked more variation in the B scenarios, a couple notes, the opening and ending are all that stood out as different which is a let down.
But that stuff doesn't stop me from loving the game, everything else was firing on all cylinders! Excellent video as always Avalanche :)
I actually love that every zombie has a different health pool. Keeps me on my toes for every single encounter.
I've always been obsessed with the first 3 RE games, especially the mystery behind RE 1.5. As I played through this game I was so happy to see how many elements of that scrapped game was utilized here. The firing range, power outage everywhere, some of the basement concrete walls, shutters, character damage, parts of the parking garage, Birkin, etc. The game just blew me away, and I still can't believe that we got it! Great review, just like all of your other retrospectives👍
Dude thanks for recommending that FP mod. it really made my night
My bro are you still gonna do a silent Hill retrospective like these??
That be great
@@Crazelord91 i really hope so
Man, if he does them in order of release, it gets more and more depressing.
DO WANT!
@@GreedAndSelfishness Yeah, there's no comeback story for SH like there is for RE. Just a sad "What if..."
It is a little frustrating to watch this because I feel so many people are missing a part of shooting. If you wait for your cross-hair to get to maximum accuracy then your shots do more damage. Most enemies take 3/4 headshots with this in normal mode.
Its like they wanted to include the design of the older titles, which made you stand still to shoot, but re imagined the mechanic, in the new format, and did it really well. Stand still and risk getting bit, but higher chances of hitting the enemy and maybe getting a critical
It's not that they do more damage... Your shots are just more accurate.
Jetstream Dan not true. You can still land shots as directed without waiting for reticle to tighten. The damage is only amplified by the tighter reticle..
I’ve played the game too much, and I think it’s pretty inconsistent, really depends on your moment to moment gameplay, you can be safe and feel like you got something locked down and then you’re missing every single shot and backing away to line up some more. The game plays you as much as you play it, the sounds, the atmosphere, Avalanche covered it all, there are a lot of elements working to keep you on your toes... I really fucking side tracked here...
Apparently that's false. I thought that in the demo but it didn't do anything. Apparently someone datamined the code and found that damage is static. Meaning wherever you shoot it does the same damage, that headshots don't do more damage. Along with that, each zombie has their own number of hp and it's not random. You can notice this when you progress where zombies start having higher health.
Love the video as always. The only thing that I really don't understand is some people, including you, complain about headshots being RNG. The only weapon in the game where that is even relevant is the starting handgun, which I think is meant to be a complete peashooter. By the time you get the shotgun / grenade launcher this is a non-issue. If anything, the game is encouraging you to think outside the box & aim for the limbs or God forbid just avoid shooting things you don't absolutely have to. If the handgun was popping heads the entire balance of the game would be broken. It's likely a design decision that in the end improves the experience and gives the handgun a different role in the mid-late game than it has had in the past. Regardless, you're one of the only people in my mind with an opinion on RE worth listening to.
Editing to reinforce this point by mentioning that every speedrun of this game right now is almost entirely people using the handgun to stun zombies rather than kill. Most don't even utilize the shotgun or GL until the very end of the game (fun fact: they will spawn those weapons in the lab if you didn't pick them up in the RPD). Also people have mentioned in the comments that letting the crosshair shrink increases the chance of permanently downing a zombie. This is true, but once again it is such a miniscule portion of the game compared to every other weapon that are deliberately more reliable in exchange for scarce ammunition. Survival horror is a balancing act, especially so when you have such direct control of where your bullets go. This game did a brilliant job of it, which is secretly why I think old school fans like you and I enjoy it so much.
agreed by the end of the game i was useing the pistol for head shots to stun and run past or blow there legs off if i needed a bit more room
if a zombie needed to die i would use something bigger and 1 shot the head
I really like how zombies are a threat in this game and not just a annoyance
The game is literally telling you not to try to kill every enemy. You'll just be wasting ammo early on. Stun and run!
Very good points. And as you begin to upgrade your pistols they become way more effective in late game.
Sphere Hunter pointed me in your direction. The love and passion you have for The Resident Evil series is awesome. I especially love the nostalgic way you talk about the original Resi 2 because its my favourite game of all time. I'm 35 and it reminds me of a time when games were half my life. Thank you.
Starting on Hardcore mode is the only way to experience this game at its best...the added stress of not having enough ammo or healing items makes feel like true survival horror. There were times were I also had to walk away from this game because I was fearful and dreaded what horrors awaited me around the corner.
Good to see it wasn't just me.
I did the same thing. Almost word-for-word, the same experience. Only I didn't make it to the sewers. I made it to my third medallion and realised I had erred in judgment, so I started over on standard. I had one bullet and one herb to my name and there was no way I was getting past everything that sat between me and the main hall. This game is going to be a massive wakeup call to the modern gamers who are used to their hands being held.
@@Spl4shD4m4ge Shooting Zombies Legs Off Works wonders when playing on hardcore but man its so tedious on that mode tho so i just switched it to Standard mode and had way more fun
"You can see individual fibers on a characters clothes. I don't think I've ever seen that before."
The Batman Arkham games: Am I a joke to you?
Great review! I wanted to hear your opinion more than anyone else's, and was happy to see you get this video out so quick! Though, I kinda disagree of some thing. I don't feel this remake is the definitive version of RE2. I think the most obvious area of improvement over the original should have been the 4 scenarios/zapping system; yet, the team didn't even attempt this. Instead we have 4 redundant scenarios that retcon each other and don't feel complete. If they were to go the RE1 route, I think a more concise way would be to only have one campaign for each character, but you have to earn the B ending through some kind of extra task (like saving Barry/Chris to get the real final battle in RE1). Instead, we got the sloppiest implementation of the mechanic.
As far as the story goes, it had great moments (I love the new Leon and Claire), but the overall story isn't as satisfying as the original. It feels empty, and I think that's due to the lack of Leon/Claire interaction. In the original Claire A/Leon B story of the original RE2, we got a far more climatic final act with both main characters working together: Claire gets the cure for Sherry, and Leon gets Sherry out of the lab. There's just more going on, and it makes you feel like the multiple scenarios actually serve a purpose. In the remake, Leon doesn't even know Sherry exists until after he makes it on the train. It's not very satisfying, especially knowing that the story you played isn't even canon and completely contradicts the other character's story (Annette dying twice, fighting all the same forms of Birkin, Mr. X being killed by Birkin, etc.).
Granted, the story may not be a big deal to a lot of people, especially when the gameplay is so tight in this remake, but I feel, at the very least, the four scenarios were handled poorly in this game. It's disappointing to wait so long for a remake only to have Capcom cut out the most unique features in order to save time on production, and the scenarios really do feel like an incomplete feature. Why does this remake even have 4 scenarios? Why is the 21 year old original so much tighter in handling 4 stories? It's baffling to me. But what do you think the way the scenarios were handled here?
I heavily agree these issues really made the remake inferior in my eyes, plus I hate the new Irons and Annette Birkin, they were handled very poorly and were overall less fleshed our than the originals
You can clearly see the game takes place in 1998, the date is on the HUNK team records.
Jared if you want perfect blacks follow the guide found in PCgamingwiki, believe me the game is in different level once you properly calibrate brightness.
This is my GOTY 2019....i can say it now that we are december 27th. Now i can't wait for RE3.
RE retrospective is really one of my favorite series about resident evil on UA-cam, thank you avalanche reviews you're doing great ❤
Juat came here to give you a like and a view. Gonna wait until after I play the game to watch the whole thing, but still wanted to show support!
Man you're in for a treat. My only complaint is that they kinda botched the B scenarios, but they're still totally worth a play through.
@@gnarkillguch I'm excited. Going to wait for my next few days off work and just dedicate a few days to it
@@Crazelord91 It's ridiculously good. Just don't make the same mistake I did and try to play on hardcore your first time through lol.
Fear is power and also a warm welcome back into the franchise.
Thanks! Good to be back
Hey Avalanche, I’ve been anticipating your upload of this Retrospective, and I’m very pleased to see that we share they same views on game. I actually fell in love with RE7, and I had very high hopes for this game. So I was very happy when I got my hands it and finally got to experience RE2 for the first time. After playing the remake multiple times and hearing everything you said about the original, really makes me wanna go back and experience what it has to offer. And I do happen to enjoy those older games, problem arises when just tying to acquire the game and the way to play it. Nonetheless, I’m happy you’re happy with this game.
Oh, I definitely am happy with it. I'll be honest, I went in thinking I might not like it, but Capcom knocked it out of the park. This is one time when I can't go against the popular opinion. This time the popular opinion is absolutely right. This game is amazing!
I'm an old school RE fan so this game was everything I had been wanting for years now. It was incredibly tense and even caught myself holding my breath a few times watching this video. I doubt the series will reach this high again.
excited for the re 4 remake in a couple days?
@@-bluejay211 definitely. Day one buy for sure.
As near as we've been able to determine, zombies actually don't have random HP - they have set HP that can vary substantially, but most zombies average around 700-1100 HP (Mr. X has 1500 HP and the first boss has 5000 HP, for comparison.) Player damage varies based on "rank" (the same scaling difficulty system used in RE7 and every game since RE4), but is hard locked to the highest "rank" on Hardcore, for about 67% of normal. At the starting rank of standard, you deal 100% damage, but if you're playing very well it could result in less - probably around 70-80%.
Head popping is based on dealing above a certain threshold in a single hit, not random chance - but base handguns will have difficulty breaking this threshold without the random crits (typically for 3x damage.) This is why magnums and the upgraded shotgun will reliably pop heads, but handguns may not. Different handguns deal different damage, but you can expect the A scenario baseline handguns to do around 100-120 damage, while the B scenario handguns deal a bit more.
It's also important to note that allowing your reticle to fully aim increases your damage output by as much as 50% depending on weapon - if you want to pop heads, zero in first (this is why Claire's B scenario handgun is so amazing at popping heads - it "reaims" after firing almost instantly.) Weapons with laser sights are considered to be always zeroed in, unless otherwise indicated (Leon's magnum still has a brief aiming period even after the laser sight upgrade.)
Zombies in RE2R aren't that big of a deal if you've spent some time "playtesting" to see how they react and interact with different things... let alone fire up Cheat Engine or another memory reader to see actual data. People complaining about zombies not staying down are probably either not used to old-school RE where zombies liked to play dead (in my experience it's pretty rare for a zombie to get back up more than twice in RE2R, and most only get back up once), or haven't been knifing very much - the knife in RE2R is extremely good, basically being the CVX/Krauser knife and not the wimpy REmake knife.
Can't say I agree with the complaints about Mr. X, either. I think there are actually too many rooms he can't enter, which makes it too easy to see how limited his AI actually is and can break immersion. I think he's an extremely important part of the game, made to make the game tense and difficult - because otherwise players would be spending hours running back and forth to permanently kill zombies and lickers without a care in the world. Mr. X adds a very important sense of urgency to the whole thing and punishes players who make mistakes in routing and planning ahead.
I blasted through Claire A on my first run (also on hardcore, like you I expected HC to be a joke like Madhouse was), but I struggled quite a bit with the followup Leon B and had to seek out some help. I'd still regard Leon B as the hardest campaign - the relative weakness of the shotgun without the upgrades compared to the grenade launcher makes his RPD pretty rough when you still don't have a good route in mind, and I'd argue the placement of enemies in his sewers are the hardest of any campaign's.
Damn, I had no idea about almost all of this. I had s feeling that letting the reticle zero in, would lead to more damage, but I figured that was just me. Ha! Thanks for the insider info. This will help with future play throughs.
how the hell did you get surprised by zombies in og re2? they bleed out when they're dead, and don't get up anymore if bled out.
so they cheapend it because now the indicator is gone, but the rng, with crit bullshit, is still there.
headshots destroy the brain, no brain = dead zombie.
i love the game, but they fucked up in that regard. there had to be 100 other ways to adjust the difficulty, imo.
Resident Evil 2 remake came out? HA! Next thing you're going to tell me is that Kingdom Hearts III actually came out.
Oh.
Oh wait.
Jokes aside, I am just blown away by all the love and attention to detail on display with this game. It's clearly evident that this was the creation of people who absolutely love the original game. Hell, they even brought back frikin' TOFU!
As a side note, this is the best looking realistically-styled game I have seen. Ever. Capcom's RE Engine and the talent of their creative staff are simply amazing.
Yeah next your going to tell me that Half life 3 already came out lol that would be the day!
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It was worth a shot.
This remake was good but the shitposting it brought was fantastic. Who knew that Chris trying to get his sister laid in various states of aggression mixed so well with Dutch and his “plan” posting.
Pretty interested in the RE3 remake that should be coming out this year.
Wow, just when I think this RE retrospective series can't get any better, I see this video. This may be your best one yet. I' completely obsessed with this series...Great job!
You need more recognition. This retrospective series is so good man! binge watched them all and you did a fabulous job. From one RE fan to another, thank you!
Very happy to hear that. I'm happy as hell that other RE fanatics get a kick out of these videos!
I've been looking forward to this for about 2 weeks! 😎
How can you call ada looking for her boyfriend flimsy, it was one of the things that tied RE2 to RE1 in a subtle way that made us who read the files in every Re game smile and maybe tear up a little. I hope they remake this game again 20 years later.
An armed woman, trained to shoot a firearm and dressed like a Chinese spy, never struck me as "looking for my boyfriend" material. That's what I meant. It always seemed like a flimsy part of the story, despite it being tied to the first game.
@@AvalancheReviews Funny thing those 2 things are the exact qualifications I look for in a woman.
I'd say REmake 2 didn't replace the original, and that's why i like it, they are both different experiences that i can enjoy without feeling like one is far inferior to the other.
as much as i like the first REmake i can't help but feel like it ruined the original RE for me, whenever i play the original more than being scared i'm always like:
"this house looks so empty", "Plant 42 room is kinda shit in this", "god, the shark tank is even worse! who thought any of that looked good or tense?", "oh right, there's no Lisa Trevor :(", "well, glad Crimson Heads aren't a thing yet!", "WHY CAN'T I QUICK TURN CAPCOM!", the only thing i come back to the original RE for is the voice acting, but that's not a genuinely good thing. point is, with RE2 i still have something to return to, like the fixed camera angles or the bonus items for taking out mr X.
2018-2019 was a pretty low point in my life. My mother was in her 3rd time in the hospital and I was not feeling it for video games. I knew REmake 2 was coming out but I was waiting to see what happens. Well my friend said he'll preorder the game for me and for us to take turns to play the game. When it came out in January 2019 and we ordered some food and drinks and went back to his place the weekend it came out. And we completed and for the first time since my mother went into the hospital, I was smiling. And since then, I've always come back to play it, with the OG music and the different costumes on Leon and Claire(Injuried Leon and OG RE2 Claire are my faves). REmake 2 will always have a special place in my heart.
Just wanna throw this out there for anyone who didn't know this because as much as I've played this game I only figured this out recently. So for the part on the library where you have to move the bookcases, I thought like a lot of you that you had to move the bookcases one at as time but once you lover the one off the jack, you can go all the way to the left, grab the one all the way at the end and move all three at once to the right.🌈The more you know🌈
A+ tip thank you
Good review, but you should stop moaning about perspective. Fixed camera angles were due to technical limitations. Perspective does not define survival horror experience, it's all about level design and gameplay loops.
Every single game ever made is based on limitations, dummy.
@@Gnasheress Well, no shit
@@Gnasheress
Captain Obvious here. OP's point still stands. Capcom made a great survival horror with a control scheme that feels natural and makes fucking sense. They just tweaked the level design, mechanics and enemies to match the controls and make it challenging anyway.
You GOTTA see the Out of Bounds video on RE2, those Fixed Angle mods are gonna be tough cause the lighting changes between which character is in focus during the cut-scenes; and they FREEZE animations when the camera sticks to one person 😂
He didn't moan about perspectives once in this entire video. I rolled my eyes in his RE7 vid when he said it isn't survival horror because "muh anglez", but there's none of that here. He admitted he was wrong.
Congrats on the latest video. Now off to reviewing Milla Jovovich's movies. 😈
"Beloved tank controls" is a wild phrase 😂
Yeah, adding difficulty by mechanical obfuscation and limitation not representative of the actual entity or character that you're controlling is always ridiculous to me... But then I'm somebody that gets annoyed when I don't have full mechanical autonomy as I would in real life within reason. Let's just say I've been disappointed in games since about 2008 for the most part lol.. oddly enough, resident evil 6 was a title that didn't disappoint in that respect, and it's the only resident evil game that hasn't so far sadly.. Even if it didn't really hold up in a lot of the other respects.
It's also one of the reasons the first person mod doesn't really work for me here, it just brings home the fact that you can't crouch or lean... Whereas in third person at the very least there's a disconnect, even if it is annoying as well...
At the very least, the presentation has a reminiscence of the things that you're doing or doing the things that you're doing, even if the basic things you should be able to do as well are not options.. unlike resident evil 7 and 8, where there's a severe disconnect between the view model presentation.. as is tradition for a lot of modern games it seems.. I guess we only grow wrists and forearms when the game wants a cutscene moment lol.. making it even worse in first person, as either you're holding the weapon in a way to inspect the serial number.. or trying to see if there's any chips in the folding knife lol..
The first person presentation for the third person in the mod sense actually does alleviate that particular issue by its nature.. But... It's hard to win, as that in it of itself hammers home the fact that You're not actually a human, with basic human capabilities... Even sadder, seven and eight had VR modes... lot of that autonomy comes back, so even then it's like they knew better lol.. and two with the VR mod that's connected to the first person mod... This is well... I really wish some of the VR moders would throw us 2d folk a bone, or someone would hijack their work and translate some of that goodness into just a proper mechanical video game like we used to get back in the mid-2000s, before the PC went away as a development platform Target for good.
The various control methodologies for getting around incredibly limited input peripheral, and game design that centered around that has always been an annoyance, made worse by the 20-year time warp that the dual analog controller standard has ingrained.. and made worse even by the even pulled back attempts at bothering with experimentation or even trying, as a game like resident evil 6 to its credit did.
But I guess mine nostalgia, it's it's in the advancement of that virtual and immersive reality.. which hit a dead stop towards the end of the mid-2000s, going from games like fear, and crisis, and stalker.. into games like fear 2, and crisis 2, and Metro 2033.
If you did what you had to do, with limited resources, that's one thing.. But then when you had more resources.. do better do more lol.. which is.. actually something that resident evil actually did as it progressed to a degree.. Even if it was a little bit behind the times about how it went about that for a while, regarding four and it's incredibly handhold-y limited third person action style, by comparison to the trailblazers of that like splinter cell or manhunt.. The latter being about as mechanically rich as you would want from a survival horror game in the most basics, and the former edging closer to an immersive sim.. which survival horror has always been very much in the same mentality of.
The third dimension actually is a feature.. and being able to see where you're shooting is actually a feature.. you can design a better game around that... Mechanical richness is a feature.. you can design a better game with that.. and by better I mean a closer representation to a simulation of the actual events that you're portraying... Which I guess I thought at one point was the goal of all of these kinds of games, but I guess.. either that's changed or that's wrong based on modern development trends and best practices that have completely pervaded the industry. Oh well.
The sound design around Mr. X was on point. You would get a chill down your spine when running around the RPD and hearing those clunking footsteps above you on the next floor or just around the corner. There were times where I would hear them but find it absolutely impossible to tell where they were coming from and that led to a lot of moments of sheer terror. Sadly I do agree that his AI is very easy to cheese and other than the sound I didn't find him to be as much of a threat as others online led me to believe he would be. I think I got caught by him once through all four of my playthroughs and with the sub-weapons it's very easy to never take damage from him.
My 1st resident evil game was the original RE2 when I was 10 so I was super skeptical about this. But this is definitely (in my opinion) the best Resident evil ever made. An absolute 10/10. And I loved the tank controls and pre rendered backgrounds. In fact my 2nd favourite is RE1 remake that still used those controls and backgrounds
The operating system on those police laptops is also like a weird mix of Windows 98 and Windows 3.11, though the computers in Umbrella's laboratory seem to use something that has more aesthetic resemblance to Windows 8/10, to underline how futuristic their tech is.
I had some strong disagreement with your evaluation of RE7 as not being survival horror because of the perspective and all (you might even remember my comment if you saw it at all), but even I will agree that REmake 2 blows it out of the water on all counts. The irony of REmake 2's design is that it weirdly ends up being more straight-up survival horror than the original game, dialing back on Hideki Kamiya's penchant for explosive action and exciting setpieces and balancing that element of RE2 with a lot more tension and quite a bit more explorative gameplay in the second half (which was pretty linear in the original game compared to the way it's structured here--and there's even an optional second foray back into the main RPD building from the sewer just to make things feel even more interconnected). It's breathtaking, really. I can't praise it enough for the design choices made here. Pity about the lack of alternative stories for the A/B campaigns, which I was really hoping to experience again, but between the main game's two campaigns, 4th Survivor, and Tofu mode (now with additional alternate Tofu recolors with alternate loadouts that you can unlock for more flan-tastic fun), I can't really complain much even without factoring in the upcoming Ghost Survivor freebies.
Funny point about calibration, tho'. I played the whole game on default brightness and display settings--the only options I changed had to do with HUD and control elements--and the game looks fine on my monitor. I do play on a 1080p PC monitor though so it might be that some of the problems people have with the game's brightness may come from TV settings or the specific model they have (I know, for example, some TVs dynamically change brightness and contrast based on the image on-screen). I suffered no such issues and was able to see fine enough even in the dimmest non-flashlight rooms in the game.
On the subject of console comparison, this is the first game that's made me legitimately happy to own a PS4 Pro since I bought it. The vanilla PS4's framerate inconsistencies are (as far as I can tell) almost completely eliminated on the Pro, making for an ideal, silky-smooth experience with the only drawback compared to PC being very slight in terms of performance and the... baffling continuation of console games not supporting the ordinary-ass USB mouses and keyboards that can be used with them (come on, guys, you're making these games multiplatform with PC releases anyway, just include the PC controls in the console games the same way you include the gamepad controls in the PC versions!).
Side question: have you seen The Gaming Brit's "Road to the Rocket Launcher" series?
The Kendo Gun shop scene in RE2 remake is a real tear jerker. Excellent story!
I've played every damn horror game made.. not literally but any horror game you can think of off the top of your head I've probably played it. And RE2 Remake is without a doubt a master piece
Agreed!!
@Your Mom's Creepy Uncle i understand not every game is for everyone, but out of curiosity I'm wondering what survival horror game do you think is better?
@Your Mom's Creepy Uncle RE REMAKE is my favorite as well.. and to be honest i thought RE7 was a masterpiece..i absolutely loved that game, i think RE2 is a 10/10 as well. In my opinion RE2 Remake was a masterpiece, i gave it a 10, but i don't disagree with you, i think youre more of a purest when it comes to RE but i dig the new ones to
Man, you did a spectacular job describing this game.
I've been having such a hard time getting people to believe that not only does this remake live up to the best of survival horror, it rejuvenates it and almost redefines it.
So many people are working on the assumption that this is a watered down bastardization, but once you experience the game, it delivers genuine survival horror so goddam well it's amazing.
My only complaint from the entire 4 scenario run was that A and B are essentially the same, especially the boss issue.
Anyway, you do superb work on here, thanks for all the great RE content.
I just sat here for several hours and binge-watched this entire Resident Evil Retrospective series in one sitting.
To say it was "entertaining" and "interesting" is an understatement. Great video series, Avalanche. And thank you.
That's a huge compliment! Thank you so much!
No problem, man. Thanks again for the vids.
12:58 I'm a millennial, and my first console was a PS2 (The Fat Boy Version). 2002 was a good year for me.
P.S.
14:08 also, just don't panic and you'll land a good 8 out of 10 headshots.
I'm a millennial too, and my first console was a super nintendo.
I can fully say now that this is officially the best game in the series!
Or rather my favorite I guess.
I need a nickname for Claire Redfield.
I've got Leon "The Chosen One" Kennedy, Jill "The Sandwich" Valentine, and Chris "Boulder Punching" Redfield.
I don't have one for Claire.
Claire I'll get you you fuck redfield
Claire "Bad Taste in Men" Redfield. Mostly going off of Steve from CV and Neil from Rev 2.
Claire ‘bike chick’ redfield
@@respectthosewhodeserveit5192 Ah! I like this one!
I really wish they’d make a more modern rehaul like this for the first game
Your Retrospective series is great dude! RE 2 was the first video game I ever played. Way back on the PS1 when I was only 6 years old. Me and my father used to play this on the weekends together until one day I tried picking it up after he gave up. I never made it any farther than he did, but I still enjoyed the game. This remake made me super pleased, and proud of Capcom. Resident Evil is my favorite game series with 2 and 3 being my most favorites. I so hope they do the same to RE3 that they did to RE2. Great job with the retrospective series though. Glad people hold this game so close to heart as much as I do.
Thank you man. I love that so many fans of the original games, like the retrospective so much.
In regards to headshots this game was made to rarely kill zombies... incapacitating them is the way to go.
Kneecaps ftw.
Back into the depths of Racoon City we go
Kaz Bandicoot once again, we enter the survival horror
That first person mod looks amazing, too bad the game isn't a survival horror anymore once ya play it that way 😉
Fps always crap for re series. The reason is simple: we wanna see our beloved characters in action, wanna guide them to survive the situation , NOT acting as if we're the character themselves aka 1st person perspective.
Your voice and style are very similar to Reycevik. That's a compliment!
Super high quality and well put together content. Glad I found this channel!
Frankly I was kind of expecting you to rail on the game for not having fixed camera angles, and I’m happy to see that I was wrong. Regardless, great video.
Is it just me or does Avalanche Reviews sounds *A LOT* like fellow gamer enthusiast Raycevick?
people have been saying that lately, and while I don't hear it myself, it's an awesome compliment.
I love your channel but this game would not have sold well at all if they'd used fixed camera perspectives. As much as I love the RE one through code veronica they still kinda sucked because of the fixed camera angles and tank controls. Just want to reiterate in the modern day tank controls and fixed perspective would not work at all, the sales would plummet and it would be years before Capcom ever attempted a remake again. I'll agree that the B scenario not really changing much besides your pistol and starting point is a let down for me as well, but it's fine I understand they wanted a canon story for both characters.
Resident Evil 2 original story was a masterpiece? Really?
Yes it was
It was good but remake does the story way better. If you disagree then you’re just straight up nostalgic.
For starters, Kendo is way better presented in the remake as compared to the original. He is a caring father dealing with a heartbreaking situation whereas in the original he just happened to die anticlimactically after just greeting the leon/claire ( he’s even getting his own playable chapter now)
Marvin’s role is way better in the remake who helps leon/claire before he passes as compared to the original where he just gave you a recap of what happened and locked the door.
Brian Irons was genuinely more creepier and unnerving in the remake.
I view both as great honestly. RE2 remakes is very much it’s own thing as far as it’s approach to storytelling goes.
@@SanguineSpirit616 hell even the truck driver was more fleshed out in the Remake. the freakin "that guy's a maniac! why'd he bite me?!" guy who was in the original for like 5 seconds gets more to do now and it's great. same with Kendo and the rest. I agree with Marvin and Chief Irons as well
Yeah I found that laughable. The remake has a better story and even that isn't a masterpiece.
I am the only one who misses gigantic moths, spiders, crows, lickers type 2? A great game but that “small” detail is still present on my mind and won’t go away so easily. Also B scenario was kind of repetitive, I don’t know. Music is forgettable, even though the people in charge of it put their hearts on it and I do appreciate that. Still a great game, but some things are pretty obvious when you think of it. Great video btw!
I moved on and started a different game after finishing Leon A/Claire B... and I honestly thought I was done with RE2. But while playing something else, I find myself just wanting to play through RE2 again. I had the exact same “complaints” as you, but I really do believe this is a top tier experience. It’s gonna be tough for any new release to unseat a game cemented in by nostalgia, but RE2 ‘19 has to be a Top 3-5 for me.
I have the same issue. While editing this video, I started a new game with Claire. It's just too damn good!