To me, every campaign of RE7 encapsulates an aspect that people love about the series: - The main game encapsulates the survival horror aspect. - Not a Hero encapsulates the action-heavy aspect brought about by 4. - End of Zoe encapsulates the cheesy, B-movie camp that makes the series so charming and stand out among the crowd. All of these combine to give the complete, Resident Evil experience. I also like how both DLCs exist to not only tie up loose ends from the main game, but to also give us better final bosses since Eveline was so anticlimactic. Also, sometimes I feel like the only person who didn't mind Chris' redesign in this game. Oh well, they turned him into a refrigerator again for Village so I wouldn't say it was much of a loss.
Great points, I hadn't thought of it like that! With Chris' redesign I think you might be alone on not minding it...but then again I thought everyone hated RE6 and the comment section continues to prove me wrong every single day lol
You forgot to mention that in Not a Hero, you can parry enemy attacks to instantly open them up for a melee attack. It's pretty useful for conserving ammo.
I had a really negative bias against DLC, but I played both of these for the retrospective and they were genuinely pretty damn good. Kind of changed my outlook a bit.
For a long time I was always anti-dlc but as the years have worn on I've gradually been broken down by it. There's so many good dlc experiences these days it would be a shame to skip by them....outside of shadows of rose...wish I had skipped that one 🗑 I didn't realise you'd covered the dlc for 7, did you do it at the same time as your 7 review? I'll have to go back and check it out!
@@SSJdavey if I remember right, I talked about not a hero in there 7, but I streamed zoe. Chat talked me into it. I had footage captured for a video, but then Alisa came out and I was all in on that for a while.
@AvalancheReviews Ah fair! I've never played Alisa, I've got to check that out alongside Soma. Both have been on the backlog for ages! I'm going to be following even closer in your footsteps soon, my audience voted on silent hill as the next series I cover, I've only played the first 2 so I'm looking forward to them...kinda wish Metal Gear had won the votes but it is what it is 😅
I pretty much agree with everything you said about “Not A Hero” and have three other thoughts to add below: 1.) Besides the white “Fumer” Molded, I recall N.A.H. also adding in these exploding Molded (which remind me of RE Revelations’ exploding “Chunk” Ooze) and tiny crawling Mold enemies (which remind me of RE2’s G-Young). While those three creatures still have the issue of not adding much visual variety in RE7’s enemies, they at least add a few more gameplay niches in RE7’s enemy roster. So I felt N.A.H. slightly helps in that regard. 2.) Speaking of DLC enemies, it irks me that those infected alligators from End of Zoe were not featured in the main campaign, when they could have easily functioned as a RE1-Neptune-style enemy for Ethan and Mia to confront. Given how starved of enemy variety RE7’s main campaign was, you would think that they would want to make every enemy idea, which they took time to develop and implement, count. 3.) Rather than Joe Baker and his robotic gauntlet, I sometimes wondered if would have made more sense to bring back Jake Muller from RE6, if they wanted you to play as someone who can out-punch Chris Redfield himself with superhuman power. At least then, for better or worse, it would have helped RE6’s story to contribute something to the later games rather than being even more of a black sheep which seemingly goes nowhere.
Yeah, you're right, all of them were fun but the banned footage stuff didn't hold much weight. I didn't fancy bloating the video more than it needed with a 3rd piece of content
Thank you! I'll try my best, going to take a couple of weeks to catch up on some 2023 games (Alan wake 2 etc) before I start reviewing the silent hill games. Think I might have 1 more RE video in me where I'll take a look at mercenaries over the years but we'll see what happens over the next 2 weeks 🤞
U know i just noticed tht not a hero dlc has a lil easter egg/nod to the very 1st RE : On professional difficulty,chris starts out with only his knife,havin to look for his handgun just like OG/remake,like goddamn chris keeps losin his gun 😂
@SSJdavey ya I remember playing this dlc on highest difficulty and thinkin "this is some bs!" Like I feel it's a running gag at capcom,the whole chris losing his gun bit 😆🤣
4:55 I don't get why they stopped letting you ADS in Village with the shotguns , that are equipped with rear sights ? They do the assualt rifles the same way , and it looks wired.. It's Like I'm playing counter strike.. but with werewolves . It's the same way with the M4 Assault Rifle in RE 4 Remake, why make only usable down Sight ? When every other automatic machine gun is used from a 3rd person perspective? I wanna see Leon in 3rd person shooting an M4 dammit.. Not just see it on his back , when im not using it 😂
The first person assult rifle in re4 remake threw me off too, its also wild that it uses rifle ammo. I used the mag included with the gun and then put it away preffering to use a standard rifle over it 😕
I am a freaking die hard RE fan and when I played the N.A.H DLC during the foggy like chamber where there are white molded creatures, I legit froze because idk where to go and not being able to see that much along with that creepy BGM playing didn't really help either LMAO and I am playing CHRIS BOULDER PUNCHING REDFIELD btw 😅🤣 I think the fear wouldn't have even enteredthe chat if it was in OTS view with me seeing Mr. Boulder Puncher hahaha..RE7 is just brilliant even if that DLC was mostly action oriented 🥴 I still haven't 100% this game but I have Platinum'd it so let us see if I'll ever decide to do it or not someday 😅✊🏻 The Zoe DLC is also amazing! I really enjoyed this DLC and it's lowkey terrifying going up close punching up Molded and Jack 😂😂😂 and those damn alligators are giving me a heart attack with their insta-kills 💀😭 Story wise, what if the BSAA uses the white molded strain to subdue Rose? I really wish S.o.R didn't take place 16 years into the future because it means Rose is unscathed so I wouldn't mind Capcom retconning it to her aging KINDA fast for the next 16 months after the events of VILlage (instead of years) 🤞🏻 RE7 is such a great game and I am so glad I finally decided to play it back in 2021 (I even Platinum'd it within just 1 month hehehe) It's mind-blowing that this game will turn 7 y/o this January and 5 y/o for RE2R... 🙃💥🧠
Those 7 years have flown by havn’t they! Well done on the platinum for 7, it's one of only a few RE games I took the time to achieve it on, man I love 7 🙌
I really like resident evil 7 it's different from other re games with it being more horror and I miss the horror in village I really do a another pure horror re game just like 7 and just finished not a hero again harder than I remember that last fight with Lucas.
Well done on getting it done! Re7 is one of my favourites from the series, the more traditional gameplay elements (albeit in first person) really hook me. I'd love a more traditional RE for the next mainline (remakes aside) I guess we have a while till we learn about RE9
@@SSJdavey yeah hopefully keep mostly traditional gameplay elements and I don't know if I have told yea I did play the re4 remake see it released on psvr2 a few weeks I must say it's a fantastic game and vr mode is great I think an announcement for re9 is next year if you look at it the newer mainline 4 years between 7 and 8 so I guess the same.
To me, every campaign of RE7 encapsulates an aspect that people love about the series:
- The main game encapsulates the survival horror aspect.
- Not a Hero encapsulates the action-heavy aspect brought about by 4.
- End of Zoe encapsulates the cheesy, B-movie camp that makes the series so charming and stand out among the crowd.
All of these combine to give the complete, Resident Evil experience. I also like how both DLCs exist to not only tie up loose ends from the main game, but to also give us better final bosses since Eveline was so anticlimactic.
Also, sometimes I feel like the only person who didn't mind Chris' redesign in this game. Oh well, they turned him into a refrigerator again for Village so I wouldn't say it was much of a loss.
Great points, I hadn't thought of it like that!
With Chris' redesign I think you might be alone on not minding it...but then again I thought everyone hated RE6 and the comment section continues to prove me wrong every single day lol
@@SSJdavey I can't say I'm one of those people.
You forgot to mention that in Not a Hero, you can parry enemy attacks to instantly open them up for a melee attack. It's pretty useful for conserving ammo.
Great shout! It completely slipped my mind while writing. Bet it comes in handy on the hardest difficultly
I had a really negative bias against DLC, but I played both of these for the retrospective and they were genuinely pretty damn good. Kind of changed my outlook a bit.
For a long time I was always anti-dlc but as the years have worn on I've gradually been broken down by it. There's so many good dlc experiences these days it would be a shame to skip by them....outside of shadows of rose...wish I had skipped that one 🗑
I didn't realise you'd covered the dlc for 7, did you do it at the same time as your 7 review? I'll have to go back and check it out!
@@SSJdavey if I remember right, I talked about not a hero in there 7, but I streamed zoe. Chat talked me into it. I had footage captured for a video, but then Alisa came out and I was all in on that for a while.
@AvalancheReviews Ah fair! I've never played Alisa, I've got to check that out alongside Soma. Both have been on the backlog for ages!
I'm going to be following even closer in your footsteps soon, my audience voted on silent hill as the next series I cover, I've only played the first 2 so I'm looking forward to them...kinda wish Metal Gear had won the votes but it is what it is 😅
I liked how the dlc explained more so much on what happened to the characters. Was so good ❤
@@AvalancheReviewsI’m so glad you played it! ❤
I pretty much agree with everything you said about “Not A Hero” and have three other thoughts to add below:
1.) Besides the white “Fumer” Molded, I recall N.A.H. also adding in these exploding Molded (which remind me of RE Revelations’ exploding “Chunk” Ooze) and tiny crawling Mold enemies (which remind me of RE2’s G-Young). While those three creatures still have the issue of not adding much visual variety in RE7’s enemies, they at least add a few more gameplay niches in RE7’s enemy roster. So I felt N.A.H. slightly helps in that regard.
2.) Speaking of DLC enemies, it irks me that those infected alligators from End of Zoe were not featured in the main campaign, when they could have easily functioned as a RE1-Neptune-style enemy for Ethan and Mia to confront. Given how starved of enemy variety RE7’s main campaign was, you would think that they would want to make every enemy idea, which they took time to develop and implement, count.
3.) Rather than Joe Baker and his robotic gauntlet, I sometimes wondered if would have made more sense to bring back Jake Muller from RE6, if they wanted you to play as someone who can out-punch Chris Redfield himself with superhuman power. At least then, for better or worse, it would have helped RE6’s story to contribute something to the later games rather than being even more of a black sheep which seemingly goes nowhere.
Daughters from Banned Footage Vol. 2 felt like the only side story that was the more consequential out of the package for the main story.
Yeah, you're right, all of them were fun but the banned footage stuff didn't hold much weight. I didn't fancy bloating the video more than it needed with a 3rd piece of content
Great video. Keep them coming!
Thank you! I'll try my best, going to take a couple of weeks to catch up on some 2023 games (Alan wake 2 etc) before I start reviewing the silent hill games.
Think I might have 1 more RE video in me where I'll take a look at mercenaries over the years but we'll see what happens over the next 2 weeks 🤞
U know i just noticed tht not a hero dlc has a lil easter egg/nod to the very 1st RE :
On professional difficulty,chris starts out with only his knife,havin to look for his handgun just like OG/remake,like goddamn chris keeps losin his gun 😂
Ah yeah! That's a great lil touch 👌
@SSJdavey ya I remember playing this dlc on highest difficulty and thinkin "this is some bs!" Like I feel it's a running gag at capcom,the whole chris losing his gun bit 😆🤣
When you've got arms like chris he's got all the guns he needs 🦾
Damn this a well made video, I didn't even realize you only had 5k subs.
thank you! Not quite at 5k yet 4 subs to go.... Its my end of year goal so I'm cutting it mighty fine 😄
Glad you enjoyed the video
Great video.
Thanks my dude 🙌
Great videos ❤😊😊❤
4:55 I don't get why they stopped letting you ADS in Village with the shotguns , that are equipped with rear sights ? They do the assualt rifles the same way , and it looks wired.. It's Like I'm playing counter strike.. but with werewolves .
It's the same way with the M4 Assault Rifle in RE 4 Remake, why make only usable down Sight ? When every other automatic machine gun is used from a 3rd person perspective? I wanna see Leon in 3rd person shooting an M4 dammit.. Not just see it on his back , when im not using it 😂
The first person assult rifle in re4 remake threw me off too, its also wild that it uses rifle ammo. I used the mag included with the gun and then put it away preffering to use a standard rifle over it 😕
Not a hero is great dlc I have played it before flat screen and now again in vr just stuck at the end I might go back and finish it.
Who are you stuck on? Lucas?
@@SSJdavey yes.
@@SSJdavey finished it.
Re7 is probably one of the best RE games ever made 🤷♂️
Agreed! I love it
I am a freaking die hard RE fan and when I played the N.A.H DLC during the foggy like chamber where there are white molded creatures, I legit froze because idk where to go and not being able to see that much along with that creepy BGM playing didn't really help either LMAO and I am playing CHRIS BOULDER PUNCHING REDFIELD btw 😅🤣 I think the fear wouldn't have even enteredthe chat if it was in OTS view with me seeing Mr. Boulder Puncher hahaha..RE7 is just brilliant even if that DLC was mostly action oriented 🥴 I still haven't 100% this game but I have Platinum'd it so let us see if I'll ever decide to do it or not someday 😅✊🏻
The Zoe DLC is also amazing! I really enjoyed this DLC and it's lowkey terrifying going up close punching up Molded and Jack 😂😂😂 and those damn alligators are giving me a heart attack with their insta-kills 💀😭
Story wise, what if the BSAA uses the white molded strain to subdue Rose? I really wish S.o.R didn't take place 16 years into the future because it means Rose is unscathed so I wouldn't mind Capcom retconning it to her aging KINDA fast for the next 16 months after the events of VILlage (instead of years) 🤞🏻
RE7 is such a great game and I am so glad I finally decided to play it back in 2021 (I even Platinum'd it within just 1 month hehehe)
It's mind-blowing that this game will turn 7 y/o this January and 5 y/o for RE2R... 🙃💥🧠
Those 7 years have flown by havn’t they!
Well done on the platinum for 7, it's one of only a few RE games I took the time to achieve it on, man I love 7 🙌
End of zo is a pretty good bit of dlc.
I really like resident evil 7 it's different from other re games with it being more horror and I miss the horror in village I really do a another pure horror re game just like 7 and just finished not a hero again harder than I remember that last fight with Lucas.
Well done on getting it done!
Re7 is one of my favourites from the series, the more traditional gameplay elements (albeit in first person) really hook me. I'd love a more traditional RE for the next mainline (remakes aside) I guess we have a while till we learn about RE9
@@SSJdavey yeah hopefully keep mostly traditional gameplay elements and I don't know if I have told yea I did play the re4 remake see it released on psvr2 a few weeks I must say it's a fantastic game and vr mode is great I think an announcement for re9 is next year if you look at it the newer mainline 4 years between 7 and 8 so I guess the same.