What do you believe the villagers originally practiced before Saddler's revival of the Los Illuminados Cult? Are my findings/analysis well-supported? Let us know!!
I remember your in depth analysis of the pagan themes in the Incubate novel - it's great to see it summarized for this video. Would be curious to see if there's any crossover between the Romanian village in 8 and the Spanish pueblo in 4. Beyond Miranda perhaps having a connection to Los Illuminados, I also see the hints at far older ruins in both games as alluding to an even more ancient overarching civilization. Perhaps the Progenitors of the Family had used these villages as bases to exploit bioweapons, and the occult villains are (perhaps inadvertently) reviving these ancient practices. Also, while I know Resident Evil is the main focus here, have you considered branching out into The Evil Within? What's struck me over time is the realization that TEW had at one point been intended to be set in 20th century Spain and there's still a lot of elements left over from this concept before it was roughly changed to be modern day America: WW2 weapons, newspapers dating back to the 60s, archaic and European-inflected architecture, overabundance of Spanish names, the relationship between pagan villagers and landed aristocracy, and an ancient sinister cult with ties to eugenics circles. In other words, it may have been intended to serve as a prequel to the story that was being set up in RE4. Maybe some more insight could be gleaned from that series?
I still can't believe I found someone talking about it. Of course the cult around Las Plagas has some Catholic Aesthetic. One scene I will never forget is the "Morrir es vivir". Although it's a blood ritual, it reminds me of the traditional form of the Holy Sacrament Adoration, where the priest and the assembly face the same direction.
Great video, i just thought about something today the original game is structured with chapters and a chapter endresults screen i hope they removed that aspect in the remake it was very distracting and felt odd the remake should be seamless like Resident Evil 2 remake
:) Judging how the cabin fight (Ch. 5) snippet looked, it looks like more seamless transitions (at least between cutscenes and gameplay) have been actively accounted for. For chapters and end results, we'll have to see.
What do you believe the villagers originally practiced before Saddler's revival of the Los Illuminados Cult? Are my findings/analysis well-supported?
Let us know!!
I really like your explanation on the Cult can't wait until the Remake to arrive!
@@willisrose9756 Me neither!! Soon enough.
I can’t wait for the remake come out
I remember your in depth analysis of the pagan themes in the Incubate novel - it's great to see it summarized for this video. Would be curious to see if there's any crossover between the Romanian village in 8 and the Spanish pueblo in 4. Beyond Miranda perhaps having a connection to Los Illuminados, I also see the hints at far older ruins in both games as alluding to an even more ancient overarching civilization. Perhaps the Progenitors of the Family had used these villages as bases to exploit bioweapons, and the occult villains are (perhaps inadvertently) reviving these ancient practices.
Also, while I know Resident Evil is the main focus here, have you considered branching out into The Evil Within? What's struck me over time is the realization that TEW had at one point been intended to be set in 20th century Spain and there's still a lot of elements left over from this concept before it was roughly changed to be modern day America: WW2 weapons, newspapers dating back to the 60s, archaic and European-inflected architecture, overabundance of Spanish names, the relationship between pagan villagers and landed aristocracy, and an ancient sinister cult with ties to eugenics circles. In other words, it may have been intended to serve as a prequel to the story that was being set up in RE4. Maybe some more insight could be gleaned from that series?
:)
Maybe I'll (Begg) play The Evil Within for the first time as a future twitch game and look into it. I like how you're thinking though
I still can't believe I found someone talking about it. Of course the cult around Las Plagas has some Catholic Aesthetic. One scene I will never forget is the "Morrir es vivir". Although it's a blood ritual, it reminds me of the traditional form of the Holy Sacrament Adoration, where the priest and the assembly face the same direction.
As a Christian i understand these fundamentals wholeheartedly so i can say Biohazard 4 is definitely inspired by folk horror
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Beltane is another name for Baal which was the Canaanite god.
wonder if they will bring this cultism in re9
Depends on what they're going for.
Very cool!
Great video, i just thought about something today the original game is structured with chapters and a chapter endresults screen i hope they removed that aspect in the remake it was very distracting and felt odd the remake should be seamless like Resident Evil 2 remake
:) Judging how the cabin fight (Ch. 5) snippet looked, it looks like more seamless transitions (at least between cutscenes and gameplay) have been actively accounted for. For chapters and end results, we'll have to see.