I love the idea of "villain OCD" where the villain, Wesker in this case, simply MUST leave keys, cranks, batteries, whatever, in some convoluted but ultimately accessible place or they just can't move on. "Okay, I locked the garage door, put the key in the third flowerpot on the top shelf of the greenhouse, put the ladder back in the living room (where I just used it to change a lightbulb earlier, but it's a good spot for it), and the living room is only accessible if you get the decorative jewel (that's missing from a gargoyle's eye in the lobby) that I just threw in the swimming pool in the backyard. Phew, now I can finally relax and get on with my wor-DAMMIT! I forgot to put the battery to the pump that drains the pool in the storage shed! (That can only be reached by...)
I think it's in character. The man uses everyone as a test subject. The puzzles are just apart of it. And also ways to abuse the characters. Think of Lisa in REmake. She was a monster. But on top of it. Locked behind one of the most convoluted puzzles of the mansion. You're pissing off Jill/Chris. But also Lisa who's been locked down there for god knows how long.
I always assumed there were various secret ways around the mansion that we, the player, never knew about. I mean, Christ, some of the more "public" paths were convoluted enough. I played the original Resident Evil with my sister and we constantly joked about what Umbrella employees had to go through just to get to the toilet; shields, keys, tiger eyes, oh my.
Big ass mansion and only one bathroom. Umbrella is so paranoid that it might just be for show and require the employees to bottle all thier waste for manditory testing.
There's a funny cartoon parody of the architect of all the places where resident evil takes place. It's basically the manager of the building complaining to the builder about why he felt the need to design things like this. "Yeah, in order for us to turn on the lights in the bathroom. The switch is located 3 rooms away and we have to use a suggestively disturbing switch"
The in game explanation is pretty great honestly. Spencer is a Bond level eccentric villain so he hired a famous architect (George Trevor) to design his secret labyrinthian mansion in the mountains only to decide that the architect and his family knew too much and needed to die. George tries to escape the mansion but gets lost in his own creation and slowly begins going mad before he finds a room containing a gravestone with his name on it placed there by Spencer. The whole thing reads like an Edgar Allen Poe horror story.
I always figured Chris found a secret or secondary entrance when separated by the rest and then bumped into wesker who knocked him unconscious. Wesker knew the in and outs of the mansion therefor I just thought there were entrances that the protagonists never found through which wesker moved around like the sly dog he is :)
Actually there was supposed to be a game called *Resident Evil Blast* set between 1 and 2 it would have featured an umbrella agent if i remember correctly wondering around the bliown up ruins of the spencer estate and it would have revealed hidden paths our heroes never found. The game was quickly scrapped though cuz of resident evil 2 being developed at the time sadly but we can assume if there was to be anything taken from it canonically is that there are areas if the soencer estate left unseen.
@@TheRealSephiroth ooohhh I didn't know about this unmade game! That is so cool! But tells us how good and well done the game is cause a bunch of us figured that and filled out the blanks with our imagination just like that 😃
Residence of evil is doing a fan movie called the keepers diary, it's got the original actor who played Chris in it as the guy who wrote the itchy tasty diary entry and they're trying to get funding on Indiegogo. Considering the dreck that is the Anderson movies it's probably the closest we'll get to an actual resident evil movie
@@jeffreymercado2082yeah that was really bad. Its the same with jeepers creepers reborn, the people behind it have no respect for the source material and just view the fans with disgust
@@jeffreymercado2082 Believe it or not, the RE series that came out in 2022 manages to be even worse than Welcome to Raccoon City. Lance Reddick played Albert Wesker, yup no joke. In one scene he looked like a piss poor knock off version of Blade. I bet even hobby cosplayers are more capable of making a better and superior costume than the designers did. There're more plot holes like holes in a Swiss cheese and then Wesker's 2 annoying pain in the ass daughters who acted like spoiled brats are the icing on the shit cake. And don't get me started on the Umbrella CEO who randomly started dancing in one scene because reasons... People assume that the random dance scene was in there because Netflix could better promote the show on TikTok because dance clips are very popular on that sm platform. That's actually very plausible. The overall plot and concept of the show was an absolute mess and I'm still puzzled that this show got greenlit by Netflix. That's a darned cheek if you ask me...
@@nikkili8944 Yeah its pretty funny how they managed to top an already bad movie franchise two times in only a year. Just copy RE1 and you have such a great foundation, but oh well.
@@henriklarssen1331 Apparently that's too much to ask for. Why simple when you can make things more complicated? Netflix really did RE dirty. 2 giant steaming piles of shit within 1 year... That's impressive in all negative ways possible.
Agreed. He does a pretty good job of dissecting movies, I'd love to hear his take on some classic video games. Critiques, observations, and speculations would be very cool to see.
RE2 was mine...took a couple days to get down the controls. Then I was zipping thru the alleys. I really wanted the reMake for RE2 to actually have separate quest storylines...maybe even a way to co-op communicate thru it.
I always assumed the naked zombies were experimented on and either had an advanced form of the T-Virus that allowed them to keep getting back up or were meant to be a huge horde that were kept in the lab but limitations at the time meant you could only have x number of models loaded per area.
I love it when Drinker nerds out about Resident Evil. It's how I discovered this channel all those years ago and I still regularly revisit those earlier videos.
I remember playing the first RE to the point where I was able to run the whole game without saving and completing it fast enough to unlock the rocket launcher with infinite ammo. Man, good times.
Yeah all that used to pickle my noodle to, you'd go through an increasingly involved set of puzzles involving crests, statue eye jewels, traps, zombies etc to obtain a key hidden in some unrelated part of the mansion only to open a door and find someone was already there lol
if you think thats bad think about how much information you get from examining a pool of blood? "you go jill - ill be examining this" proceeds to stare at blood for 10 mins straight
@@richardd7614The best scene was right after you kill the giant snake with Jill in the room with the piano. Barry walks in the room the very second you kill the snake, then walks right through the snake's burning corpse and says "Jill! Have you found anything interesting!" whilst being completely oblivious to the dead snake. Still makes me laugh to this day. Even the conversation involving a rope they have before Jill goes down the hole in the floor. Hysterical.
Back in '98 my nefew left his PS with me with a copy of Resident Evil. Little did I know then that I would still be playing, and loving, RE games 25 years later
I play RE1 remake every single October as soon as the first day hits. One of my favorite holiday traditions! Also Shaun of the Dead and Army of Darkness are mandatory early on, and as the month goes on it gets more and more serious horror.
The dog keeper’s diary terrified me. There was something about the degradation of the mind put to paper that just shook me so. On another note, my brother’s best friend brought his Playstation and this game over and after seeing it for the first time I had to buy a Playstation of my very own just to play this amazing experience.
Don't ever read the final notes from a miner that got trapped underground and wrote a letter to his wife and daughter in his finals hours. I read it and honestly wonder if the folks at Capcom did too.
Huh similar experience here, first saw RE1 at the home of my sister's friend and then asked my parents to get me a playstation so I could play it myself :P
With Forrest, I always thought it was the snake that got him. Since that boss encounter is near Forrest's body, once you found the necessary keys and all.
Look at his trousers they have scratch marks on it, it's possible he was attacked by the Cerberus before entering the mansion he has similar bite wounds like that of Edward so I would think that an animal of some kind did this to him. He goes upstairs bleeding to the the 2nd floor towards the balcony mortally wounded to signal the others for help! most likely succumbing to his wounds and dying moments after being ambushed by the crows who then finish him off.
You know, on the topic of classic Resident Evil, I feel like talking to Pastra would be an engaging conversation. Particularly in light of his video comparing Nemesis in RE3 versus the Remake. Hell, given the Five Nights At Freddy's movie looking to be a box office slam dunk, his experience with the series would contribute nicely to an Open Bar come that release in October.
Incredible love for OG Resi. Used to wear an Umbrella Corp vest to the gym. It was pretty much a perfect kitsch interactive horror movie. Borrowed heavily from Alone in the Dark but turned it into something much more polished and immersive. I mean, I've *been* to Arklay Mansion. I've *been* to the Umbrella labs. RE2 was also very much of it's time. We had (largely from the X-Files) a healthy distrust of big corporations, big pharmaceutical companies and sinister monster-based mystery adventures and RE2 encapsulated that excellently. I could finish that game in 90 minutes. Itchy. Tasty.
Man I needed this. This videogame came out when I was 10 and it literally changed my life. The only thing I had every played close to as scary at the time was Doom. Seriously if Resident Evil and Doom never came out I probably wouldn't much of a gamer or horror buff at all and I probably wouldn't be a gun nut either..... well that I blame more on Half-Life, Counter Strike and Rainbow Six but still RE and Doom directed me towards those games.
You have to remember it was Wesker's intention to lure STARS to the mansion to test the combat effectiveness of the BOWs. So any obstacle could be explained as 1) Wesker did it to test you, 2) Spencer altered the traps and puzzles invented by Trevor with the intent to challenge the employees that lived at the mansion. I'm not too familiar with the layout of the original game but I got the impression that the elevator to the Helipad is connected to the underground lab, so it makes sense that another entrance would be located need the employee stairs hidden in the fountain. I do wonder what happened to Rebecca during Jill's story though, presumably she didn't make it out of the Umbrella training facility with Billy...
Resident Evil was my first Playstation game. I bought it at a flea market and it was mixed in with a bunch of Sega CD game that were selling for $5 each. I didn't even have a Playstation at the time and used a buddy's console in the barracks. I had to play it marathon style as I didn't even have a memory card at the time. RE hooked me as a die hard Sony fan ever since.
I always thought about these as well when I was playing Resident Evil as a kid, other characters reaching closed off areas somehow before you even unlock them. For example, when you blow up the entrance to the Police Chief's office in Resident Evil 2, you find him sitting comfortably, he wasn't even startled or anything by the explosion and didn't care to take a look at what happened, he doesn't even ask or mention the explosion to you, shortly after that you find Sherry hiding in his office, how did she get there before you blew the door open? You found her running around the police station earlier so there was no way for her to get there, unless she snuck behind you while you were talking to Chief Irons.. Things like these are a common problem in video games, one of those things that you just have to look past.
I’ve always written off the locked doors as the separation of videogame and reality. Kinda like how bites are supposed to transfer the infection, something that’s more relevant in later entries, but you can heal from herbs or first aid spray. Games need to put fun before extreme realism. Most likely not all the doors are locked in the way we experience it. In a similar way, what character you play as changes the story in a way that is not congruent with the other character, however canonically, both character’s side kicks survive. Ultimately how I choose to reconcile this is that resident evil is a story told in post, despite us playing it in real time. It’s a story that has holes or information that’s sometimes lacking because it’s actually told from memory, and from one person’s perspective, and their role in things can be confused or even exaggerated. Basically you combine the frayed nerves of traumatized special ops with survivors guilt with a mansion that was designed to be like a hedge maze that only the owner knew all of the inner workings of, and you have that person telling the story of what happened, with some rationalization and black fulling happening possibly without the person even fully realizing it. That “story” is essentially what we are experiencing, in short, the narrator is somewhat unreliable, proven by the fact there are canonically 5 survivors.
One day, after someone sacrifices their well being to a monkeys paw, we will get a genuinely good film adaptation to the mansion incident. Something akin to The Thing, leaning more on the isolation and frayed nerves of a team under assault by monsters they didn’t think could really exist, with a traitor or multiple working to divide them and turn them against eachother, where the monsters aren’t there for action scenes but to maintain the tension and isolation(but of course some cool fights and even the bosses could still totally work). You don’t need to 1:1 recreate the game, with locked doors and backtracking for items and stuff, just capture the mansion like a character in itself, the weird layout and traps are part of the experience, most of the weirdness can be explained away by the fact that stars were, in a way, part of the experiment to test the efficacy of the weapons they were engineering. There is a damn good movie in there that’s still faithful to the source and it aggravates me that they seem to intentionally miss the mark so damn hard. The sequel games emulated Hollywood blockbusters more, little by little, but the first game was a slow burn thriller steeped in mystery, and at this point I kinda don’t even want them to even try anymore, just leave my boy be and stop massacring him.
I think Chris made his way into the mansion through another entrance, and came across Wesker first. Wesker being alone with him pointed his gun at him and escorted him to the prison cell. At least that's how I always imagined it.
Finally someone who noticed the newspaper clippings, been wondering about that since like 2000. - I like to think a containment agent(s) came in with those clippings, he tossed the medals and sealed the lab, he went to the guardhouse that contained the armory he was going to just shoot everyone he found the place flooded shrugged and went to the mansion. - people were starting to get sick he was shooting who he could and dragging them away and locking them in a room. -he probably slept in the basement and accidentally left that intel there. it would also explain why the battery was there too. other ppl probably sought refuge in the basement as well- he may have shown symptoms and had his partner locked themselves in. It would be wild if this was the origin of the " first zombie - the guy goes in and dies in the dining room. eventually even the guys in the basement reanimate
Thanks Drinker. A fun little trip down nostalgia street with a game I really love. Prior to the RE series, a game I truly loved that had a very slightly similar tone, was "Realms of the Haunting" by Gremlin (1996) That game was quite difficult and one of the factors was because as you started approaching the final act, you lost opportunity to collect healing potions and eventually ammo as well. Drove me insane dealing with that (fun fact, my young teen daughter beat it before I did!) 🤯 Incredible game for its time though and I HIGHLY recommend it, if you can even find it anymore. Cheers mate!
One of the major plotholes that always stuck out to me. How come the protagonists can get bitten by zombies, mauled by hunters and lickers and get covered in corrosive goo and maggots from the William Birkin spawn monsters and not get infected by either T-virus or G-virus at all? We even have a clear precedent of bites causing infection in the form of officer Branagh in Resident Evil 2 as well as the truck driver in the intro, even if the bite doesn't outright kill you. Yet somehow the protagonists can shrug off infection like it's nothing?
Here are some of my own head cannon solutions to these: Wesker has a master key to the mansion so he can unlock any door and move around it a lot easier. All the door were originally unlocked, STARS bravo team locked them as they explored the mansion to try and keep the zombies contained. But they realized they couldn’t unlock them without special keys. Leading to them being separated. Enrico is the leader of Bravo team so he was in league with Wesker and had a master key as well which is why he got as far as he did and why he was executed by Wesker.
Chris campaign is the canon one. What happened to Jill is that she was KO’ed by Wesker but wasn’t taken to the prison immediately, she was kept tied up and gagged in a safe room until Wesker finally dragged her to the prison in the lab
I'm a George Romer fan, obviously, so the Resident Evil games were like a fantasy come to life for me. So many good times with those games. Especially the second scenarios on RE 2.
I've got a pretty reasonable theory for the heliport doors, at least. Those were meant to be the standard entrance, in normal operation, but someone welded them shut either to contain the zombies, or hide the lab. Maybe their inclusion was meant to clue the player in to the fact that there was something important being hidden.
Great video for an all time great game. I've often wondered where all these zombies slept when they were presumably working in the mansion as researchers, maintenance staff, and guards. There's only a handful of beds in the mansion and residence areas, and Umbrella would have needed a barracks to house the number of zombies you put down in a run through. Cheers!
I didn’t play the original 1996 version but I did play the remastered game. The other day I finished Chris Redfield’s campaign. It was pretty cool to see the beginning of Chris’s journey. Also, I want to add two questions to your list here: 9. Who designed this mansion?! Seriously, the original owner must’ve been frustrated that he had to solve multiple puzzles(including getting multiple keys & maps) just to find the bathroom or to just get a snack from the kitchen. 10. is there something going on between Chris and Jill? They always gave some hints here and there in the franchise(mainly the first game, Revelations & 5). If there was, it would make sense because these two have been through a lot together since the late 90s. (If anyone wants to have fun with the “Redfield bloodline” meme here, by all means go for it. Makes me laugh every time. lol 😂)
I care a lot about the plot of Resident Evil. And Drinker, on the off chance you read this, I'd be interested in hearing your thoughts as an author on the way RE4 and 5 dealt with the fall of Umbrella from a storytelling perspective (like if you thought it was fine or, if not, how you'd go about addressing it either back then or even now if, say, Capcom phoned you up tomorrow). Specifically (and pardon me ranting) the two big things I'm talking about are (1) more subjectively, how Lord Spencer was killed in a cutscene flashback in RE5 after so much time as the greater scope villain, and (2), a bit more objectively, the first minute of RE4. Almost ten years (1996-2005) the story had been fighting Umbrella, and RE4 opens with a narration that basically says "Umbrella was dissolved in off-camera legal proceedings. We won't even say if our heroes played a role. Moving on." As great as everything in RE4 is after the intro, I still think that first minute is one of the worst writing fumbles I've seen in *ANY* media. Almost a decade fighting one villain exclusively, and they don't even keep to "Show, don't tell" when they're dealt with. I know they tried to fix it a bit with Umbrella Chronicles, but still...
"there are only three Stars members left now...." yup the first time I played this that line made my skin tighten up. I was prepared for the worst many times over in that house lol
My favorite scene in the original Resident Evil is when Chris starts laughing at the Tyrant and Wesker tells him to stop it the way Wesker say it he sound like a little kid.
Can't wait for a resident evil 5 remake. But I fear it may be a little woke. Capcom recently had diversity training... Not sure why a Japanese studio would need that.
Not just recently(see the associated leaks from years ago by now). As for why,the perceived myth of the global market and western standards. Want them gaijin muniez.
Probably for that reason it wouldn't be touched. People complained about r@cism back when the game was released in the mid 2000s, and no amount of DEI training is going to change the game's setting and characters (though they could just say Kijibi is now in South Africa and make all the enemies white)
I would much rather a Code Veronica remake. The original wasn't great, but it has a ton of potential that could be unlocked in a remake. Maybe they could actually make Steve not an annoying loser.
Biggest plot hole in Resident Evil 2: The RPD fail to mention to Leon, on his first day, that the zombies have been attacking them for days as detailed in the diaries found in the station. They even find time to stop fending off zombies to prepare a welcome party for him.
Resident Evil 3 was the first horror game I played, and it was an awesome experience. Thought the years I've craved for that experience to be replecated with another game, but no game ever managed that. RE2 Remake, RE4 and RE4 Remake were excelent experiences and have a special place in my heart, but are not the same.
The awfulness of the story and dialogue in _Resident Evil_ is the stuff of legends, but the Keeper's Diary is one of the greatest pieces of writing in gaming history. I love how the franchise build its lore around a collection of written notes scattered around the various games, there's even an elaborate timeline to be made up once you piece everything together.
I think the devs didn't even think about a lot of these things. They just wanted the scenario to go a certain way, so they wrote it to go that way. Yeah characters disappear or appear in random locations and a lot of things don't make much sense, but this was at a period in time when video games as a story-telling medium was still quite young. There was certainly more emphasis put on the tone and gameplay than story and plot logic. But the Capcom did realize they needed more story-focus when going into RE2. That's why they hired a novelist to pen the plot and the devs worked hard to make sure things fit together better. I love how the Clare A and Leon B (or vise versa) plots click together perfectly. Capcom didn't even do that for the remake.
It's implied in resident evil 2 that barry and/or chris' disappearance were retconned when talking to marvin. Succeeding RE titles also always mentioned that the 3 of them (chris, jill and barry) uncovered the truth on umbrella in the mansion
I just finished a 6 month marathon of the entire series in chronological order starting with 0, going 0, 1, 2, 3, Code Veronica, 4, Revelations, 5, Revelations 2, 6, 7 and 8. I also watched the CGI movies in their correct place between games. It was an absolute blast. I even appreciated some of the entries I dislike, such as 6 and Revelations 2, more this time round (although I still have no idea who that Claire Redfield impersonator is in Revelations 2 or what she did to the real Claire.) FYI it took me 6 months because I can only play on weekends.
I recall there being some kind of hole in the wall somewhere in the Laboratory basement that they naked zombies would crawl through which was why there were always more coming back every time you killed them. That may be something that was added after the fact in the Director's Cut (or I could just be wrong). All that aside, I def recommend checking out what the dudes over at Residence Of Evil got cooking up. They're currently in the final week of fundraising for a fan film they plan to produce, The Keeper's Diary, that will follow the keeper himself as he spirals down an infection-ridden hole into madness and eventually turns into the zombie. I won't post the link here, but anyone whos interested can find the page(s) if they want. Also, for anyone who's familiar with my account/content, my 2nd Episode of CARRIER has been pushed back to Sept 1st to avoid any kind of scheduling conflict with The Keeper's Diary fundraising. Cheers!
Those are very good unanswered question that maybe only the creators could most likely answer. I think at least a few things might have been answered in the remake but I am not certain about that. There was definitely cut parts to the game that never made it to the finished product, as there is with all games. I too would like to know, I loved the original game.
1. I think you misunderstand how Albert Wesker operates. He is a spy. He doesn't go around knocking people out and dragging them places. Since he's the S.T.A.R.S. leader he just has to tell one of his subordinates what to do and they'll do it. "Hey Chris, Jill is this way. Follow me." 2. Forrest got bitten by a zombie (probably thought it was an injured person and let his guard down as is usual when first meeting a zombie) and blew it up with his grenade launcher. He then sought refuge on the balcony were he was finished off by the birds. 3. This one is kinda obvious. The door was either open or unlocked then Richard locked the door from the inside. 4. You answered this one yourself . Yes, Wesker is a perfectionist. He was the result of a eugenics experiment after all. 5. This is a common misconception about how the mansion incident occurred. The outbreak happened over the course of several weeks from May 11 (lab accident) to July 24 (S.T.A.R.S. arrival). Even after the outbreak spread the scientists continued experimenting, studying the outbreak itself. It makes since that they would collect news articles pertaining to the current situation. 6. Naked zombies were Tyrant prototypes. 7. The horror survival genre is full of random unopenable mystery doors. You just seem to have fixated on one. 8. Not sure, but I always thought the pens were in the lab. Possibly off-screen.
All good questions. The simple yet uninteresting answer is that the game devs expect most players to overlook these details. As for the classic debate of "which scenario is canon, Chris or Jill's?". Capcom has stated that they both are; meaning that both scenarios occur simultaneously and that Chris, Jill, Barry, and Rebecca all survived the mansion incident. Obviously this outcome isn't achievable during a playthrough of the game but this is what the lore of Resident Evil seems to have settled on. Wesker is a traitor in that he's a double agent working for Umbrella and lured the STARS members to the mansion to collect combat data. He probably didn't capture either character; except maybe toward the end of the story....for the purpose of having one STARS member survive long enough to battle the tyrant. As for how certain characters are in areas that the player needs a key for, you sort of have to assume they got there by some other means or a pathway that is inaccessible to the player. The puzzles/key items are there as a game mechanic in order for the player to progress. You essentially have to ignore them or pretend they don't exist when their presence/use doesn't align with the events of the story
Perhaps the naked zombies in the lab were meant to be test subjects who were more 'evolved' than the rest of the zombies you encounter, but not as advanced as the Tyrant.
I think the naked lab zombies are supposed to be the original test subjects which is why they don't have clothes, and they don't regenerate like crimson heads from the remake, there's just supposed to be a lot of them from some unseen source wandering back in any time you clear a room. My biggest question is why does the mansion only have one tiny little bathroom in the entire place, but every single bedroom in the guest house has its own bathroom?
As cheesy as it looks today, RE1 scared the piss out of me. I'm a mega fan of the RE franchise. I even read all the books back in the day, written by S.D Perry. Speaking of, I think they resolve the missing characters issue in the first book. it's been ages though, I forget how they went about it.
Resident Evil 0 is one of my 5 Spooktober games this year, and once that's finished, I'm moving onto Resident Evil 1, and so on through the games. I've played 4, 5, 6 and 7, but I haven't played 8
Good video, Drinker. I just like to say that most of your questions can be resume to "gameplay mechanics". But I agree with you, some are really head scratching mysteries! Hahaha
I always figured the mansion had secret tunnels and what not that Wesker knew about, and used to drag Chris' boulder punching arse through. I did spend an awful lot of time thinking, why not just kill the dude, or leave him for the dogs? That would have been easier, and he would still have Jill around so he could brag about the ultimate life form
Hardcore resident evil fan here and has been there since the start and has played and owned every RE game, I really hope 9 is something special since rumour has it it’ll be Chris and Jill again since they’re saying this will be the last main entry game in the franchise which is sad for me cause I’ve literally grown up with the franchise, I was 9 when I played RE1 now I am 34 and I don’t want my most favourite franchise come to a end
You weren't dumb, dude. I got stuck at the fountain too, but for different reasons. I never thought to check the books so I couldn't find the medals. And I was 20 years old in 97, when I bought the game.
The dog pens i would imagine is outside of the mansion area we play in. The welded doors is most likely cut content.. Naked zombies are most definitely not regenerator prototypes as the regenerators are a plagas experiment, and thus technicaly don't have anything to do with the t-virus. What the heck they then are ? Dev oversight or the explanation were cut ? Who knows. I would imagine that people dissappearing, keys getting placed back and doors locked after entry is Wesker's doing. That is at least how i always imagined it. Fun video on some very old content though
Great content. The remake of RE1 raises even more question. Like when you walk through certain rooms there is thunder and lightning. But outside it is never raining, and if you walk back inside there is thunder and lighting again. Would STARS really have flown a helicopter into an impending thunderstorm? Is Brad still flying around waiting to the team in the storm? And there are many lit candles in the background of so many places, who placed and lit all those candles?
Good video. I like to think of it as loose canon, as some things can and don’t happen as well as doors that Richard locks or have x amount of times before they lock themselves and the protag resets the mechanism.
The naked zombies are crawling or crawled out of the bodybags we see in the autopsieroom in the lab. The door is only locked on the outside but likely closes automaticly (weight and angle door) . When we get through is a bit of gom all we need to remain open.
Newspaper clippings: no explanation but they are there for the player to fill in the background story. The player characters would already be familiar with the attacks as they were there specifically to investigate the causes.
Getting to the underground tunnels -- In the novels by SD Perry, Jill climbs down the elevator shaft and just runs through the water fall to enter the tunnels...bypassing the need for the crank and battery, For a cheap game to novel conversion, I found the first book to be fairly well written and it had a lot of interesting takes on how people got around the puzzles....never explains the jail cell, though...that one is, and always will be, impossible to logic.
The first time I came back to the mansion and the cut scene showed something is coming (a hunter) I just froze and thought “damn, I’m dead” and yes! The hunter killed me. To me that was the scariest part.
It's amazing to me that after all this time, people still aim up with the shotty in RE1 because of that demo that plays if you hang on the main menu for long enough. Aiming straight still pops heads, but will at least do damage and not waste your shell if you got the range wrong.
IIRC, "naked zombies" do NOT regenerate. You just get new enemies, when you advance in terms of plot. Simply going in & out of a location doesn't spawn them back. However, if you advance further so to speak (getting the password, quest items, etc), then you get NEW mobs in the lab. But it's the same thing that happens with zombies in the mansion. If you've killed them properly, they're dead. However, as you continue your adventures through it, new zombies will emerge in previously "cleaned" locations.
The are some "dead ends" in the game, like collapsed passageways or doors that cannot be interacted with at all and they are half destroyed or something. I always figured the other characters (especially BRAVO team) used those and then they broke before the player gets to that point. Hence they didn't necessarily need the keys or get past bosses etc.
Great video...I'm old school so Resident Evil 1 (and the Gamecube remake) are still me favorite in the series, despite its flaws. As for the questions...the dog pen is clearly located behind the welded door you mentioned. 😂 As for the other plot holes, it's all because Wizards. 😅
I remember talking to a friend about this game when it first came out and being utterly blown away and even not believing the description. You can save using a typewriter but you have to find ink ribbons? Nahhhh I don't believe you!
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I love the idea of "villain OCD" where the villain, Wesker in this case, simply MUST leave keys, cranks, batteries, whatever, in some convoluted but ultimately accessible place or they just can't move on.
"Okay, I locked the garage door, put the key in the third flowerpot on the top shelf of the greenhouse, put the ladder back in the living room (where I just used it to change a lightbulb earlier, but it's a good spot for it), and the living room is only accessible if you get the decorative jewel (that's missing from a gargoyle's eye in the lobby) that I just threw in the swimming pool in the backyard.
Phew, now I can finally relax and get on with my wor-DAMMIT! I forgot to put the battery to the pump that drains the pool in the storage shed! (That can only be reached by...)
I feel like Wesker could be someone like that. I get the vibe that he's a extremely fastidious person.
It surprisingly fits the Wesker we see later on. He is a control freak afterall.
I think it's in character. The man uses everyone as a test subject. The puzzles are just apart of it. And also ways to abuse the characters. Think of Lisa in REmake. She was a monster. But on top of it. Locked behind one of the most convoluted puzzles of the mansion. You're pissing off Jill/Chris. But also Lisa who's been locked down there for god knows how long.
Like a less elaborate Riddler!
Liquid Snake, Revolver Ocelot, and Solidus Snake looked at Wesker's convoluted plans and said, "Hold our beers."
I always assumed there were various secret ways around the mansion that we, the player, never knew about. I mean, Christ, some of the more "public" paths were convoluted enough. I played the original Resident Evil with my sister and we constantly joked about what Umbrella employees had to go through just to get to the toilet; shields, keys, tiger eyes, oh my.
Big ass mansion and only one bathroom. Umbrella is so paranoid that it might just be for show and require the employees to bottle all thier waste for manditory testing.
There's a funny cartoon parody of the architect of all the places where resident evil takes place. It's basically the manager of the building complaining to the builder about why he felt the need to design things like this.
"Yeah, in order for us to turn on the lights in the bathroom. The switch is located 3 rooms away and we have to use a suggestively disturbing switch"
The in game explanation is pretty great honestly.
Spencer is a Bond level eccentric villain so he hired a famous architect (George Trevor) to design his secret labyrinthian mansion in the mountains only to decide that the architect and his family knew too much and needed to die.
George tries to escape the mansion but gets lost in his own creation and slowly begins going mad before he finds a room containing a gravestone with his name on it placed there by Spencer.
The whole thing reads like an Edgar Allen Poe horror story.
I always figured Chris found a secret or secondary entrance when separated by the rest and then bumped into wesker who knocked him unconscious. Wesker knew the in and outs of the mansion therefor I just thought there were entrances that the protagonists never found through which wesker moved around like the sly dog he is :)
I always assumed this too
Also, I always thought there was recording cameras hidden in the mansion, so Wesker can exactly pin point where everyone is.
@@Rafesco same!! Back in the day I thought that was exactly the purpose of the fixed camera 😆 took that thought as an absolute 😁
Actually there was supposed to be a game called *Resident Evil Blast* set between 1 and 2 it would have featured an umbrella agent if i remember correctly wondering around the bliown up ruins of the spencer estate and it would have revealed hidden paths our heroes never found. The game was quickly scrapped though cuz of resident evil 2 being developed at the time sadly but we can assume if there was to be anything taken from it canonically is that there are areas if the soencer estate left unseen.
@@TheRealSephiroth ooohhh I didn't know about this unmade game! That is so cool! But tells us how good and well done the game is cause a bunch of us figured that and filled out the blanks with our imagination just like that 😃
Residence of evil is doing a fan movie called the keepers diary, it's got the original actor who played Chris in it as the guy who wrote the itchy tasty diary entry and they're trying to get funding on Indiegogo. Considering the dreck that is the Anderson movies it's probably the closest we'll get to an actual resident evil movie
Lets not forget Welcome to Raccoon City. That movie was even more of an insult than Andersons abominations.
@@jeffreymercado2082yeah that was really bad. Its the same with jeepers creepers reborn, the people behind it have no respect for the source material and just view the fans with disgust
@@jeffreymercado2082 Believe it or not, the RE series that came out in 2022 manages to be even worse than Welcome to Raccoon City. Lance Reddick played Albert Wesker, yup no joke. In one scene he looked like a piss poor knock off version of Blade. I bet even hobby cosplayers are more capable of making a better and superior costume than the designers did. There're more plot holes like holes in a Swiss cheese and then Wesker's 2 annoying pain in the ass daughters who acted like spoiled brats are the icing on the shit cake. And don't get me started on the Umbrella CEO who randomly started dancing in one scene because reasons... People assume that the random dance scene was in there because Netflix could better promote the show on TikTok because dance clips are very popular on that sm platform. That's actually very plausible. The overall plot and concept of the show was an absolute mess and I'm still puzzled that this show got greenlit by Netflix. That's a darned cheek if you ask me...
@@nikkili8944 Yeah its pretty funny how they managed to top an already bad movie franchise two times in only a year.
Just copy RE1 and you have such a great foundation, but oh well.
@@henriklarssen1331 Apparently that's too much to ask for. Why simple when you can make things more complicated? Netflix really did RE dirty. 2 giant steaming piles of shit within 1 year... That's impressive in all negative ways possible.
The Drinker poking fun at plot holes and consistency in genuinely good media with a sweet hit of nostalgia? There needs to be more of this content.
Agreed. He does a pretty good job of dissecting movies, I'd love to hear his take on some classic video games. Critiques, observations, and speculations would be very cool to see.
@@faesword7063 hes only ever really done resident evil reviews
@@randomt800kiddo2he has
@@calmdownbeavis7039 shit im stupid, i completely forgot he made that vid
Just knowing that Will is a Resident Evil fan makes me love him even more. He should review the CGI movies.
The Drinkers original Resident Evil videos from years ago will always hold a special place in my heart.
RE1 was the first video game that got me hooked to the PS1 and gaming in general. I’ve never looked back since then! 😊
Remember memory cards…
@@GIBBO4182 128KB storage space per card. Jump forward to Baldur's Gate 3 and I've already racked up nearly 2GB worth of save files lol.
Good call. Real life is vastly overrated tbh.
RE2 was mine...took a couple days to get down the controls. Then I was zipping thru the alleys.
I really wanted the reMake for RE2 to actually have separate quest storylines...maybe even a way to co-op communicate thru it.
Same-this and metal gear solid
I always assumed the naked zombies were experimented on and either had an advanced form of the T-Virus that allowed them to keep getting back up or were meant to be a huge horde that were kept in the lab but limitations at the time meant you could only have x number of models loaded per area.
I love it when Drinker nerds out about Resident Evil. It's how I discovered this channel all those years ago and I still regularly revisit those earlier videos.
I remember playing the first RE to the point where I was able to run the whole game without saving and completing it fast enough to unlock the rocket launcher with infinite ammo. Man, good times.
Yeah all that used to pickle my noodle to, you'd go through an increasingly involved set of puzzles involving crests, statue eye jewels, traps, zombies etc to obtain a key hidden in some unrelated part of the mansion only to open a door and find someone was already there lol
Barry: “Would you take a look at this!”
Jill: “Oh, Barry..”
Barry: “It’s made to kill living things.” 😎
if you think thats bad think about how much information you get from examining a pool of blood? "you go jill - ill be examining this" proceeds to stare at blood for 10 mins straight
@@richardd7614I hope it’s not Chris’s blood!!
"It Forest! Hoh MAH COAWD"
@@richardd7614The best scene was right after you kill the giant snake with Jill in the room with the piano. Barry walks in the room the very second you kill the snake, then walks right through the snake's burning corpse and says "Jill! Have you found anything interesting!" whilst being completely oblivious to the dead snake. Still makes me laugh to this day. Even the conversation involving a rope they have before Jill goes down the hole in the floor. Hysterical.
Back in '98 my nefew left his PS with me with a copy of Resident Evil. Little did I know then that I would still be playing, and loving, RE games 25 years later
I play RE1 remake every single October as soon as the first day hits. One of my favorite holiday traditions!
Also Shaun of the Dead and Army of Darkness are mandatory early on, and as the month goes on it gets more and more serious horror.
The dog keeper’s diary terrified me. There was something about the degradation of the mind put to paper that just shook me so. On another note, my brother’s best friend brought his Playstation and this game over and after seeing it for the first time I had to buy a Playstation of my very own just to play this amazing experience.
Don't ever read the final notes from a miner that got trapped underground and wrote a letter to his wife and daughter in his finals hours. I read it and honestly wonder if the folks at Capcom did too.
Huh similar experience here, first saw RE1 at the home of my sister's friend and then asked my parents to get me a playstation so I could play it myself :P
I really enjoyed this! I'm a huge RE fan and I hadn't ever thought twice about most of these. Great work!
"Don't ask questions, just consume product and then get excited for next product."
With Forrest, I always thought it was the snake that got him.
Since that boss encounter is near Forrest's body, once you found the necessary keys and all.
He would have similar bite marks like Richard. A Hunter is more likely the cause of his wounds leading to the balcony
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🤔 ... Could be
Doesn't the snake spit acid? Like a projectile attack.
Or is that just the spiders and zombies that do that in RE1?
No.
Look at his trousers they have scratch marks on it, it's possible he was attacked by the Cerberus before entering the mansion he has similar bite wounds like that of Edward so I would think that an animal of some kind did this to him. He goes upstairs bleeding to the the 2nd floor towards the balcony mortally wounded to signal the others for help! most likely succumbing to his wounds and dying moments after being ambushed by the crows who then finish him off.
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☝️Well done 👍
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You know, on the topic of classic Resident Evil, I feel like talking to Pastra would be an engaging conversation. Particularly in light of his video comparing Nemesis in RE3 versus the Remake.
Hell, given the Five Nights At Freddy's movie looking to be a box office slam dunk, his experience with the series would contribute nicely to an Open Bar come that release in October.
Incredible love for OG Resi. Used to wear an Umbrella Corp vest to the gym.
It was pretty much a perfect kitsch interactive horror movie. Borrowed heavily from Alone in the Dark but turned it into something much more polished and immersive. I mean, I've *been* to Arklay Mansion. I've *been* to the Umbrella labs.
RE2 was also very much of it's time. We had (largely from the X-Files) a healthy distrust of big corporations, big pharmaceutical companies and sinister monster-based mystery adventures and RE2 encapsulated that excellently. I could finish that game in 90 minutes.
Itchy. Tasty.
This video coming out now is very serendipitous as I had just played through RE1 remastered for the first time a month ago
Trucker: Guys a maniac, whyed he bite me?
Since fall of 1996. I finally found someone that’s asking the same questions I’ve been for years.
Man I needed this. This videogame came out when I was 10 and it literally changed my life. The only thing I had every played close to as scary at the time was Doom. Seriously if Resident Evil and Doom never came out I probably wouldn't much of a gamer or horror buff at all and I probably wouldn't be a gun nut either..... well that I blame more on Half-Life, Counter Strike and Rainbow Six but still RE and Doom directed me towards those games.
I'm one of those people. This game will always have a special place in my heart. It is an absolute classic.
You have to remember it was Wesker's intention to lure STARS to the mansion to test the combat effectiveness of the BOWs. So any obstacle could be explained as 1) Wesker did it to test you, 2) Spencer altered the traps and puzzles invented by Trevor with the intent to challenge the employees that lived at the mansion.
I'm not too familiar with the layout of the original game but I got the impression that the elevator to the Helipad is connected to the underground lab, so it makes sense that another entrance would be located need the employee stairs hidden in the fountain.
I do wonder what happened to Rebecca during Jill's story though, presumably she didn't make it out of the Umbrella training facility with Billy...
Resident Evil was my first Playstation game. I bought it at a flea market and it was mixed in with a bunch of Sega CD game that were selling for $5 each. I didn't even have a Playstation at the time and used a buddy's console in the barracks. I had to play it marathon style as I didn't even have a memory card at the time. RE hooked me as a die hard Sony fan ever since.
2:14 there was probably a boulder outside and he couldn't help but act on instinct.
Would love more of these videos! Resident Evil is special in a weirdly undefinable way that other series just aren’t.
I always thought about these as well when I was playing Resident Evil as a kid, other characters reaching closed off areas somehow before you even unlock them.
For example, when you blow up the entrance to the Police Chief's office in Resident Evil 2, you find him sitting comfortably, he wasn't even startled or anything by the explosion and didn't care to take a look at what happened, he doesn't even ask or mention the explosion to you, shortly after that you find Sherry hiding in his office, how did she get there before you blew the door open? You found her running around the police station earlier so there was no way for her to get there, unless she snuck behind you while you were talking to Chief Irons..
Things like these are a common problem in video games, one of those things that you just have to look past.
I’ve always written off the locked doors as the separation of videogame and reality. Kinda like how bites are supposed to transfer the infection, something that’s more relevant in later entries, but you can heal from herbs or first aid spray. Games need to put fun before extreme realism. Most likely not all the doors are locked in the way we experience it. In a similar way, what character you play as changes the story in a way that is not congruent with the other character, however canonically, both character’s side kicks survive.
Ultimately how I choose to reconcile this is that resident evil is a story told in post, despite us playing it in real time. It’s a story that has holes or information that’s sometimes lacking because it’s actually told from memory, and from one person’s perspective, and their role in things can be confused or even exaggerated. Basically you combine the frayed nerves of traumatized special ops with survivors guilt with a mansion that was designed to be like a hedge maze that only the owner knew all of the inner workings of, and you have that person telling the story of what happened, with some rationalization and black fulling happening possibly without the person even fully realizing it. That “story” is essentially what we are experiencing, in short, the narrator is somewhat unreliable, proven by the fact there are canonically 5 survivors.
One day, after someone sacrifices their well being to a monkeys paw, we will get a genuinely good film adaptation to the mansion incident. Something akin to The Thing, leaning more on the isolation and frayed nerves of a team under assault by monsters they didn’t think could really exist, with a traitor or multiple working to divide them and turn them against eachother, where the monsters aren’t there for action scenes but to maintain the tension and isolation(but of course some cool fights and even the bosses could still totally work). You don’t need to 1:1 recreate the game, with locked doors and backtracking for items and stuff, just capture the mansion like a character in itself, the weird layout and traps are part of the experience, most of the weirdness can be explained away by the fact that stars were, in a way, part of the experiment to test the efficacy of the weapons they were engineering. There is a damn good movie in there that’s still faithful to the source and it aggravates me that they seem to intentionally miss the mark so damn hard. The sequel games emulated Hollywood blockbusters more, little by little, but the first game was a slow burn thriller steeped in mystery, and at this point I kinda don’t even want them to even try anymore, just leave my boy be and stop massacring him.
I think Chris made his way into the mansion through another entrance, and came across Wesker first.
Wesker being alone with him pointed his gun at him and escorted him to the prison cell.
At least that's how I always imagined it.
What about rebecca?
Finally someone who noticed the newspaper clippings, been wondering about that since like 2000.
- I like to think a containment agent(s) came in with those clippings, he tossed the medals and sealed the lab, he went to the guardhouse that contained the armory he was going to just shoot everyone he found the place flooded shrugged and went to the mansion.
- people were starting to get sick he was shooting who he could and dragging them away and locking them in a room.
-he probably slept in the basement and accidentally left that intel there. it would also explain why the battery was there too.
other ppl probably sought refuge in the basement as well- he may have shown symptoms and had his partner locked themselves in.
It would be wild if this was the origin of the " first zombie - the guy goes in and dies in the dining room. eventually even the guys in the basement reanimate
Thanks Drinker. A fun little trip down nostalgia street with a game I really love.
Prior to the RE series, a game I truly loved that had a very slightly similar tone, was "Realms of the Haunting" by Gremlin (1996)
That game was quite difficult and one of the factors was because as you started approaching the final act, you lost opportunity to collect healing potions and eventually ammo as well.
Drove me insane dealing with that (fun fact, my young teen daughter beat it before I did!) 🤯
Incredible game for its time though and I HIGHLY recommend it, if you can even find it anymore.
Cheers mate!
One of the major plotholes that always stuck out to me.
How come the protagonists can get bitten by zombies, mauled by hunters and lickers and get covered in corrosive goo and maggots from the William Birkin spawn monsters and not get infected by either T-virus or G-virus at all?
We even have a clear precedent of bites causing infection in the form of officer Branagh in Resident Evil 2 as well as the truck driver in the intro, even if the bite doesn't outright kill you.
Yet somehow the protagonists can shrug off infection like it's nothing?
It's like being around for the original Star Wars. The original RE was truly something special especially if you were just that right age.
Here are some of my own head cannon solutions to these:
Wesker has a master key to the mansion so he can unlock any door and move around it a lot easier. All the door were originally unlocked, STARS bravo team locked them as they explored the mansion to try and keep the zombies contained. But they realized they couldn’t unlock them without special keys. Leading to them being separated. Enrico is the leader of Bravo team so he was in league with Wesker and had a master key as well which is why he got as far as he did and why he was executed by Wesker.
Chris campaign is the canon one. What happened to Jill is that she was KO’ed by Wesker but wasn’t taken to the prison immediately, she was kept tied up and gagged in a safe room until Wesker finally dragged her to the prison in the lab
I'm a George Romer fan, obviously, so the Resident Evil games were like a fantasy come to life for me. So many good times with those games. Especially the second scenarios on RE 2.
Check out the RE1 Remake. Incredibly faithful and expands on some things like where the dog pens are!
I've got a pretty reasonable theory for the heliport doors, at least.
Those were meant to be the standard entrance, in normal operation, but someone welded them shut either to contain the zombies, or hide the lab.
Maybe their inclusion was meant to clue the player in to the fact that there was something important being hidden.
I wonder if this Resident Evil will get a remake too as well.
You're serious? They remade it in 2002 for the Gamecube and have ported it to just about every major console except the PS2 since then.
30th anniversary in 2026…..
I wouldn't mind more of these!
Great video for an all time great game. I've often wondered where all these zombies slept when they were presumably working in the mansion as researchers, maintenance staff, and guards. There's only a handful of beds in the mansion and residence areas, and Umbrella would have needed a barracks to house the number of zombies you put down in a run through. Cheers!
The Resi retrospective and Dog Soldiers is how I found your channel dude…indulge away
I didn’t play the original 1996 version but I did play the remastered game. The other day I finished Chris Redfield’s campaign. It was pretty cool to see the beginning of Chris’s journey. Also, I want to add two questions to your list here:
9. Who designed this mansion?! Seriously, the original owner must’ve been frustrated that he had to solve multiple puzzles(including getting multiple keys & maps) just to find the bathroom or to just get a snack from the kitchen.
10. is there something going on between Chris and Jill? They always gave some hints here and there in the franchise(mainly the first game, Revelations & 5). If there was, it would make sense because these two have been through a lot together since the late 90s. (If anyone wants to have fun with the “Redfield bloodline” meme here, by all means go for it. Makes me laugh every time. lol 😂)
I care a lot about the plot of Resident Evil. And Drinker, on the off chance you read this, I'd be interested in hearing your thoughts as an author on the way RE4 and 5 dealt with the fall of Umbrella from a storytelling perspective (like if you thought it was fine or, if not, how you'd go about addressing it either back then or even now if, say, Capcom phoned you up tomorrow).
Specifically (and pardon me ranting) the two big things I'm talking about are (1) more subjectively, how Lord Spencer was killed in a cutscene flashback in RE5 after so much time as the greater scope villain, and (2), a bit more objectively, the first minute of RE4. Almost ten years (1996-2005) the story had been fighting Umbrella, and RE4 opens with a narration that basically says "Umbrella was dissolved in off-camera legal proceedings. We won't even say if our heroes played a role. Moving on."
As great as everything in RE4 is after the intro, I still think that first minute is one of the worst writing fumbles I've seen in *ANY* media. Almost a decade fighting one villain exclusively, and they don't even keep to "Show, don't tell" when they're dealt with. I know they tried to fix it a bit with Umbrella Chronicles, but still...
"there are only three Stars members left now...." yup the first time I played this that line made my skin tighten up. I was prepared for the worst many times over in that house lol
My favorite scene in the original Resident Evil is when Chris starts laughing at the Tyrant and Wesker tells him to stop it the way Wesker say it he sound like a little kid.
Can't wait for a resident evil 5 remake. But I fear it may be a little woke. Capcom recently had diversity training... Not sure why a Japanese studio would need that.
Not just recently(see the associated leaks from years ago by now).
As for why,the perceived myth of the global market and western standards.
Want them gaijin muniez.
Probably for that reason it wouldn't be touched. People complained about r@cism back when the game was released in the mid 2000s, and no amount of DEI training is going to change the game's setting and characters (though they could just say Kijibi is now in South Africa and make all the enemies white)
They could race-swap enemies and say they're colonialists.
I would much rather a Code Veronica remake. The original wasn't great, but it has a ton of potential that could be unlocked in a remake. Maybe they could actually make Steve not an annoying loser.
Biggest plot hole in Resident Evil 2: The RPD fail to mention to Leon, on his first day, that the zombies have been attacking them for days as detailed in the diaries found in the station. They even find time to stop fending off zombies to prepare a welcome party for him.
Resident Evil 3 was the first horror game I played, and it was an awesome experience. Thought the years I've craved for that experience to be replecated with another game, but no game ever managed that. RE2 Remake, RE4 and RE4 Remake were excelent experiences and have a special place in my heart, but are not the same.
The RE series is by far my favorite series of video games I’ve ever played! The original RE2 and Gamecube RE1 remake are the GOAT!
The awfulness of the story and dialogue in _Resident Evil_ is the stuff of legends, but the Keeper's Diary is one of the greatest pieces of writing in gaming history. I love how the franchise build its lore around a collection of written notes scattered around the various games, there's even an elaborate timeline to be made up once you piece everything together.
I think the devs didn't even think about a lot of these things. They just wanted the scenario to go a certain way, so they wrote it to go that way. Yeah characters disappear or appear in random locations and a lot of things don't make much sense, but this was at a period in time when video games as a story-telling medium was still quite young. There was certainly more emphasis put on the tone and gameplay than story and plot logic.
But the Capcom did realize they needed more story-focus when going into RE2. That's why they hired a novelist to pen the plot and the devs worked hard to make sure things fit together better. I love how the Clare A and Leon B (or vise versa) plots click together perfectly. Capcom didn't even do that for the remake.
It's implied in resident evil 2 that barry and/or chris' disappearance were retconned when talking to marvin. Succeeding RE titles also always mentioned that the 3 of them (chris, jill and barry) uncovered the truth on umbrella in the mansion
I just finished a 6 month marathon of the entire series in chronological order starting with 0, going 0, 1, 2, 3, Code Veronica, 4, Revelations, 5, Revelations 2, 6, 7 and 8. I also watched the CGI movies in their correct place between games.
It was an absolute blast. I even appreciated some of the entries I dislike, such as 6 and Revelations 2, more this time round (although I still have no idea who that Claire Redfield impersonator is in Revelations 2 or what she did to the real Claire.)
FYI it took me 6 months because I can only play on weekends.
I absolutely loved Resident Evil 1 - Code Veronica.
This must be the first iteration of "don't ask questions, just consume product!"
I recall there being some kind of hole in the wall somewhere in the Laboratory basement that they naked zombies would crawl through which was why there were always more coming back every time you killed them. That may be something that was added after the fact in the Director's Cut (or I could just be wrong).
All that aside, I def recommend checking out what the dudes over at Residence Of Evil got cooking up. They're currently in the final week of fundraising for a fan film they plan to produce, The Keeper's Diary, that will follow the keeper himself as he spirals down an infection-ridden hole into madness and eventually turns into the zombie. I won't post the link here, but anyone whos interested can find the page(s) if they want.
Also, for anyone who's familiar with my account/content, my 2nd Episode of CARRIER has been pushed back to Sept 1st to avoid any kind of scheduling conflict with The Keeper's Diary fundraising.
Cheers!
I didn't expect Drinker to randomly Game Sins the original Resident Evil for no apparent reason. A suprise to be sure but a welcome one.
Those are very good unanswered question that maybe only the creators could most likely answer. I think at least a few things might have been answered in the remake but I am not certain about that. There was definitely cut parts to the game that never made it to the finished product, as there is with all games. I too would like to know, I loved the original game.
1. I think you misunderstand how Albert Wesker operates. He is a spy. He doesn't go around knocking people out and dragging them places. Since he's the S.T.A.R.S. leader he just has to tell one of his subordinates what to do and they'll do it. "Hey Chris, Jill is this way. Follow me."
2. Forrest got bitten by a zombie (probably thought it was an injured person and let his guard down as is usual when first meeting a zombie) and blew it up with his grenade launcher. He then sought refuge on the balcony were he was finished off by the birds.
3. This one is kinda obvious. The door was either open or unlocked then Richard locked the door from the inside.
4. You answered this one yourself . Yes, Wesker is a perfectionist. He was the result of a eugenics experiment after all.
5. This is a common misconception about how the mansion incident occurred. The outbreak happened over the course of several weeks from May 11 (lab accident) to July 24 (S.T.A.R.S. arrival). Even after the outbreak spread the scientists continued experimenting, studying the outbreak itself. It makes since that they would collect news articles pertaining to the current situation.
6. Naked zombies were Tyrant prototypes.
7. The horror survival genre is full of random unopenable mystery doors. You just seem to have fixated on one.
8. Not sure, but I always thought the pens were in the lab. Possibly off-screen.
All good questions. The simple yet uninteresting answer is that the game devs expect most players to overlook these details. As for the classic debate of "which scenario is canon, Chris or Jill's?". Capcom has stated that they both are; meaning that both scenarios occur simultaneously and that Chris, Jill, Barry, and Rebecca all survived the mansion incident. Obviously this outcome isn't achievable during a playthrough of the game but this is what the lore of Resident Evil seems to have settled on.
Wesker is a traitor in that he's a double agent working for Umbrella and lured the STARS members to the mansion to collect combat data. He probably didn't capture either character; except maybe toward the end of the story....for the purpose of having one STARS member survive long enough to battle the tyrant.
As for how certain characters are in areas that the player needs a key for, you sort of have to assume they got there by some other means or a pathway that is inaccessible to the player. The puzzles/key items are there as a game mechanic in order for the player to progress. You essentially have to ignore them or pretend they don't exist when their presence/use doesn't align with the events of the story
Anthony star as wesker and Dan harbour as berry bertin would be my choices in a film.
Perhaps the naked zombies in the lab were meant to be test subjects who were more 'evolved' than the rest of the zombies you encounter, but not as advanced as the Tyrant.
I love this kind of video. These are the types of questions I think about while I lie in bed at night.
I think the naked lab zombies are supposed to be the original test subjects which is why they don't have clothes, and they don't regenerate like crimson heads from the remake, there's just supposed to be a lot of them from some unseen source wandering back in any time you clear a room.
My biggest question is why does the mansion only have one tiny little bathroom in the entire place, but every single bedroom in the guest house has its own bathroom?
As cheesy as it looks today, RE1 scared the piss out of me. I'm a mega fan of the RE franchise. I even read all the books back in the day, written by S.D Perry. Speaking of, I think they resolve the missing characters issue in the first book. it's been ages though, I forget how they went about it.
Not gonna lie. When I first heard Barry exclaim "It's Forrest! Oh my cod!" I thought he was talking about the trees in the background.
Love it! Currently trying to get all achievements on the Resident Evil series! Finished 1 and now in RE2! So nostalgic!
Resident Evil 0 is one of my 5 Spooktober games this year, and once that's finished, I'm moving onto Resident Evil 1, and so on through the games. I've played 4, 5, 6 and 7, but I haven't played 8
Love this style of video! Would be great to see you do more gaming stuff (that's how I originally found your channel).
This video was great. Different than the usual stuff. I'd love to see more!
Good video, Drinker. I just like to say that most of your questions can be resume to "gameplay mechanics".
But I agree with you, some are really head scratching mysteries! Hahaha
I always figured the mansion had secret tunnels and what not that Wesker knew about, and used to drag Chris' boulder punching arse through. I did spend an awful lot of time thinking, why not just kill the dude, or leave him for the dogs? That would have been easier, and he would still have Jill around so he could brag about the ultimate life form
Hardcore resident evil fan here and has been there since the start and has played and owned every RE game, I really hope 9 is something special since rumour has it it’ll be Chris and Jill again since they’re saying this will be the last main entry game in the franchise which is sad for me cause I’ve literally grown up with the franchise, I was 9 when I played RE1 now I am 34 and I don’t want my most favourite franchise come to a end
You weren't dumb, dude. I got stuck at the fountain too, but for different reasons. I never thought to check the books so I couldn't find the medals. And I was 20 years old in 97, when I bought the game.
The dog pens i would imagine is outside of the mansion area we play in.
The welded doors is most likely cut content..
Naked zombies are most definitely not regenerator prototypes as the regenerators are a plagas experiment, and thus technicaly don't have anything to do with the t-virus.
What the heck they then are ?
Dev oversight or the explanation were cut ? Who knows.
I would imagine that people dissappearing, keys getting placed back and doors locked after entry is Wesker's doing. That is at least how i always imagined it.
Fun video on some very old content though
Great content. The remake of RE1 raises even more question. Like when you walk through certain rooms there is thunder and lightning. But outside it is never raining, and if you walk back inside there is thunder and lighting again. Would STARS really have flown a helicopter into an impending thunderstorm? Is Brad still flying around waiting to the team in the storm? And there are many lit candles in the background of so many places, who placed and lit all those candles?
I love this game go back and play every now and again the remake and the original.
Good video. I like to think of it as loose canon, as some things can and don’t happen as well as doors that Richard locks or have x amount of times before they lock themselves and the protag resets the mechanism.
The naked zombies are crawling or crawled out of the bodybags we see in the autopsieroom in the lab. The door is only locked on the outside but likely closes automaticly (weight and angle door) . When we get through is a bit of gom all we need to remain open.
Thanks Drinker. Now I am going to wide awake tonight thinking about these questions lol
Thank you so much for making this, and no, you''re not alone...I've had the same questions since I played through "Biohazard" on on the PS1...
great video mate ... I remember me and my pals beating this when it came out
Newspaper clippings: no explanation but they are there for the player to fill in the background story. The player characters would already be familiar with the attacks as they were there specifically to investigate the causes.
Getting to the underground tunnels -- In the novels by SD Perry, Jill climbs down the elevator shaft and just runs through the water fall to enter the tunnels...bypassing the need for the crank and battery, For a cheap game to novel conversion, I found the first book to be fairly well written and it had a lot of interesting takes on how people got around the puzzles....never explains the jail cell, though...that one is, and always will be, impossible to logic.
I played the remastered through yesterday for the first time. Defiantly kept me in my toes. Big recommend
Welded doors: more interesting than a blank wall? A red herring?
The first time I came back to the mansion and the cut scene showed something is coming (a hunter) I just froze and thought “damn, I’m dead” and yes! The hunter killed me. To me that was the scariest part.
It's amazing to me that after all this time, people still aim up with the shotty in RE1 because of that demo that plays if you hang on the main menu for long enough. Aiming straight still pops heads, but will at least do damage and not waste your shell if you got the range wrong.
Yawn is venomous.
Richard's fate is shown in a prequel scenario of Umbrella Chronicles
IIRC, "naked zombies" do NOT regenerate. You just get new enemies, when you advance in terms of plot. Simply going in & out of a location doesn't spawn them back. However, if you advance further so to speak (getting the password, quest items, etc), then you get NEW mobs in the lab.
But it's the same thing that happens with zombies in the mansion. If you've killed them properly, they're dead. However, as you continue your adventures through it, new zombies will emerge in previously "cleaned" locations.
In another 3 years, this game will officially be 30 years old. Yeah...let that one sink in lol.
The are some "dead ends" in the game, like collapsed passageways or doors that cannot be interacted with at all and they are half destroyed or something. I always figured the other characters (especially BRAVO team) used those and then they broke before the player gets to that point. Hence they didn't necessarily need the keys or get past bosses etc.
Great video...I'm old school so Resident Evil 1 (and the Gamecube remake) are still me favorite in the series, despite its flaws.
As for the questions...the dog pen is clearly located behind the welded door you mentioned. 😂 As for the other plot holes, it's all because Wizards. 😅
Why do I start humming ACDC's "Have a Drink on Me" every time I view this channel LOL?
I remember talking to a friend about this game when it first came out and being utterly blown away and even not believing the description. You can save using a typewriter but you have to find ink ribbons? Nahhhh I don't believe you!