A couple free hints for those looking to play the game: 1. Don't underestimate the knife, and don't just carry one as an escape tool when an enemy grabs you. Lickers, in particular, really don't like getting slashed with them, and you can always drop a zombie on its back with enough headshots, leaving it vulnerable to slashes while grounded. They do eventually break, but they break faster if you use them to break free from grabs, so try to slash whenever you safely can to get the most out of them. You can unlock an unbreakable knife by finding and destroying certain objects in the world, 15 of them to be exact. Keep an eye out for them, and an ear if you have good headphones. 2. Headshots can be effective, but only if you let your crosshair shrink. Your shot will not only be more precise, but it'll do slightly more damage and I think it'll have a higher chance of exploding their heads for an instant kill. This is to encourage a style of shooting where you stand still and aim, just like the original games. 3. Mr. X does not like flashbangs at all. Lickers don't either. 4. Speaking of those guys, they're also the most reactive enemies when it comes to sound. Mr. X can hear you running when you're in the same room as him, but otherwise, it takes gunshots to attract him. Lickers can hear you running and they're very fast, but they can't follow you into other rooms, and you can walk past them as long as you don't touch them. They'll technically hear you walking, but they merely crawl towards you in search of you; don't freak out when they snarl and turn towards you, because they technically haven't found you yet. I could go on, because I've played this game almost as much as RE4; it's highly addictive, and unlocking the infinite minigun and infinite rocket launcher feels so good :) EDIT: RUclips decided to add extra line breaks. How nice of them -_-
You don't NEED the knife. I've only done it on hard (didn't bother with normal) and got through it fine. I just ran a lot (and crept for lickers). When I did an A+ run, I learned to use it on Birkin, but that's all really (except as a defensive item).
And 4. DO NOT JUST USE ONE SAVE FILE AND KEEP OVERWRITING OVER IT, you'll inevitably die, you'll fuck up, it's ok, but, it's possible to screw yourself and save after you used up all your ammo on something you'll come to realize you shouldn't have, maybe you didn't understand one of the boss fights til all your ammo is gone, the game will resupply you but you can make your life easier by reloading a section and doing it the right way
Yep, lickers can be stunlocked with the knife, and the old let zombie come real close and blow it's head off with the shotgun trick still works. I don't think Mr.X managed to hit me more than once due to me studying his habits properly, in the end he is very predictable.
@@punishedgondola1814 Yeah, I found with Mr. X, clearing the station before triggering him and quietly opening doors will keep him off your tail most of the time.
@@DeltaSpark8 I was getting in a spot where x would chase me into a room full of zombies and lickers all bc I needed to grab something and it became so frustrating I almost quit playing the game but I reloaded an older save file before he was triggered like you said and just went around killing as many zombies and lickers as I could boarding up what I could etc to at least make those mob points more doable and I feel like it cannot be emphasized enough that a little extra time in the beginning to really clean out some zombies makes a world of difference
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Blue and Red herbs combined makes a Shield... - That's why you get more Blue, they basically realised that Blues were useless in the first game, so they buffed them to have more purpose... - Play again, my pissed-up friend!
Yeah, I thought the same as him at first, then I realized that and it was a huge difference in my second playthrough, especially against some of the bosses.
That’s been the most interesting thing to watch about these RE2 playthroughs. Seeing who actually paid attention and learned that red and blue is a killer combo in this game and who just assumed they were useless because “RE Vet” and never utilized them.
But it doesnt take half a brain to realise the game even tells you that blue herbs up your defence aside from curing poisoned status. I played all the RE games and even in REmake i still combined the blue herbs with green and red to make the most potent remedy even though it was useless if i didnt get poisoned by the spiders. REmake 2 just made the whole pointless process of combining all 3 actually matter lol
@@bigl2328 You can also get poisoned by snakes, plants and certain hunters. There's one stupid snake in the REmake, just past the pool you empty on the way to the residency, that always gets me
Blues were far from useless. Poison status will fuck your day pretty quickly. They're more useful in RE2Make because Poison status is much less common and now they give you the temporary shield as an additional perk.
@JRPGFan20000, If you think remake Claire is bad, you've got to see the psycho Rambo Mary Sue they turned Lara Croft into in the Tomb Raider reboot trilogy. I don't think remake Claire is as bad, but I definitely agree that this depiction is weaker compared to past Claire depictions. Still loved the game honestly lol.
That’s because they weren’t originally going to be implemented in the game at all. They were added last minute because the toxic RE fan base were complaining when they announced at E3 that there would be no A and B scenario. Capcom added something just to please fans, and people still complained. I actually really enjoy second run, it changes things up enough to make it feel fresh. And since all of the story content was in both campaigns, there isn’t really a lot more they could have added without adding completely new content, which would have been hard since they were only 7 months from release.
James M wanting a game to have two scenarios where you only get the full story by completing both isn’t toxic if it’s a remake of a game that had that in the first place. That’s called wanting it to be faithful.
6:57 - Well, you can target limbs, which are much less resistent than heads, in order to cripple zombies. Blast their knees off and they won't be able to move as fast and well. Blast their arms off and they won't be able to grab you. 8:38 - Combining red and blue herbs gives you a temporary boost to your damage resistance, so there was _definitely_ a use for them and that's why you have so many. With less room to move around and more chance of being grabbed by enemies, having a resistance buff prepared when venturing into a zombie-filled hall is much more useful than hoping you get to survive without wasting all your healing items. I do agree that the lab is a bit too short of an area, and the identical scenarios are bullshit. That's a real missed opportunity right there. And we're missing William Birkin's dog form! That's a real shame. Still a spectacular game, and I feel a constant itch to replay it again and again. That's the sign of a classic for me.
Its when one of them falls over a railing, lands about thirty feet down then gets up and comes after you again. That's when I knew I was in a spot of bother
+@@TheCriticalDrinker+ The fact that some of them can take as many as 17 headshots from Leon's pistol before falling over and their head doesn't explode is what got to me. Even if you're only using normal 9mm FMJ out of a shitty VP70 that makes the rounds underpowered thanks to excessively deep rifling; there's not gonna be anything left of the skull and brains after 17 of those suckers hitting a brain pan.
@@cnlbenmc despite the abundant videogame logic and seeming like classic zombies, this is actually explained. RE zombies are an inversion of regular zombies in some ways, the main thing being that their metabolism is basically supercharged, burning non-vital tissues and creating extra muscle and bone density. The REact or whatever that further mutates them into Crimson Heads (I wish more games than REmake 1 had those) is the logical endpoint of this for most zombies. Yes, it's more or less an handwave, but they did actually bother to explain it.
I loved the original and I love the remake too but story B is a huge let down compared to the original. In the original when you played story B you had to deal with different situations for example you took the train in story A so you had to call it back first but that led to some complications. In the remake you going thru the same things just the items scrambled around. Extremely lazy
The Tillman Sneaker Review they were different though, for example Leon A Claire B didn’t have Sherry get implanted all because they were getting chased by the Tyrant instead, Because Scenario B was about the Tyrant and Scenario A was about William Birkin, whereas in the remake Leon’s story is just about the Tyrant and Claire’s about Birkin, you get the exact same story regardless or whether you play them first or 2nd.
Completely with you on story B it wasn't vastly different to story A like the original RE2, there weren't a huge variety of enemies too. The giant Moth not in the game...disappointed as there wasn't the same urge to replay like the original.
Once they ditched the frustrating control scheme of the older games it became better, but they also ditched the horror which made it worse. RE 7 and this remake looks like what they should've done when they ditched the controls.
Fiendish Thingy... try it out bro...ive seen it on sale for ps4 a couple times... its good bro...my homey hated zombies and resident evil...he thinks its dumb....hes a destiny 2 guy.....which i think that is the dumbest form of games... he played the re2 remake...and now...he wont stop asking questions about its story the plot...its history and lore....and like Vlad Piranha mentioned....the only other one i can put a high pedestal without sounding like a fan boy is the RE1 remake for ps4....horror wise....it holds up...but it does still have fix cam angle...but graphics wise it does hold up....try it out bro...i mean on metacritic its holding the number 2 spot on both critic and actual players....meanwhile red dead 2 is only still up the critic side and not the actual players....
One of the only feasible improvements I'd recommend would be the soundtrack. *_Oh wait, they released the classic soundtrack on release._* Damn, Capcom was on point. ;)
Capcom is truly a powerhouse for their franchise games. The same treatment for RE they give to Monster Hunter and they do a damn good job with that franchise.
I didn't like fearless Claire, she is way too fearless in cutscenes. I wish she and Ada were more like normal humans. Leon seems like a regular guy, he's trained with a gun but thrown into a scenario completely off to what anyone is used to. Claire's like, oh a big scary monster I will confidently jump into the ringer with him with not even an anxious sigh.
Kyrious Well Ada is fine cuz she knows what is actually going on, with BOWs and Umbrella and all that shit, but Claire can be mistaken as a dude with her massive balls, like bitch just jumped into the pit like it’s no big deal.
I think its because Leon is meant to represent you on your first play through, intimidated by the unknown, Ada is the bit of comfort the game gives you that someone understands and can fix the situation. Then Claire is you on your second play through with a better understanding of the world around you, making the challenges seem less intimidating as the first time around.
Yeah claire too different Her original theme is family and young from the little sis to the protective big sis, goes in unprepared and is intimidated Slowly growing into a protector and resolved to keep searching for her brother as code veronica continues But nope all gone here cause strong female trope, it's all so much weaker than old
Honestly, I didn't like how disconected the scenarios felt. In the first game, it felt like you were playing a single story, but from a different angle, finding the other characters where you'd expect to find them after playing the first scenario, seeing somewhat the consequences the other character had on the enemies, maps and scondary characters. In this remake, it just feels like you're playing the same game all over again, finding the same enemies in the same places, doing the same stuff and going through the same routes, but interesting enough, finding different stuff in the same places (like a grenade launcher where it was supposed to be a shotgun). In the first game, you'd find the character's weapons and equipment in different places, so you could feel each one of them were surviving the same place, but through different routes. Overall, I just felt like I was playing the exact same thing with a different character, and it was kind of a bummer
Tbh i felt like the late game got rushed coz crapcom was pushing them but I also disliked how they made Claire a dude with balls who is not afraid of anything she should have been made more human-like Leon.
Another area where the remake stumbles IMO is the enemy variety. I was really looking forward to seeing the evolved licker, more so than the regular licker, only to find that it wasn't even in the game at all. Same thing goes for the moths and the ivys, who now only has one type. Other than that I completely agree that the biggest misstep is the fact that the story is actually less coherent than the original. If you're going to include the A and B scenario, you need to commit to it. Otherwise I would have preferred to just have one campaign for Leon and one campaign for Claire. This is indeed a great game by itself, but as a remake it kinda falls short. In a way this is actually the complete opposite of the RE1 remake, which took everything from the original and expanded on it. This seems more like a reimagining which, speaking for myself, is not what I had in mind when I said that I would like an RE2 remake. I don't mind them shaking things up a bit, but I think they went a little to far in some places. Oh well, I hope Capcom will take these things into account with the RE3 remake. Anyway, sorry for the ramble. Great review and keep up the good work.
Really, RE2 Remake is one of the best things to play that you might've already played, it's totally a monster of its own and the fun is in the experience. The only thing it was missing was the line from that trucker at the start. "That guy's a MANIAC.. WHY'D HE BITE ME?!"
The first RE was awesome. Great use of load times. The second was amazing. It grew the world and added such depth of game play. I wish I had time to play games. I’d love to play this remake.
We'll you're gonna need ALOT more time since it takes 14 years to kill one fucking zombie even though you've literally put awhole clip in its brains.. lol everything else about the game is great though.
@@hikari67 I don't even think it's that good of a reboot because it needlessly cut stuff instead of trying to improve it or retool it in a way to fit the new design.
Super Metroid already showed us how to do a remake the right way (come to think of it, it is essentially a remake of NES Metroid). Zero Mission is a watered down version of the original, and it kinda looks like it only exists to fit into Sakamoto's twisted perspective (Metroid Fusion is really close to be Other M-lite, so the seeds were already there). There was no reason to remake that game again, since it already exists.
@@Neathyr the Super Metroid is the Pinnacle of the 2d Samus adventure and as mentioned before the 3ds remake of returns is the weakest in the whole franchise
Supposedly, Capcom did not intend for this remake to have B scenario campaigns. Just two campaigns split between Leon and Claire. Someone with a brain must've pointed out that thus is not how Resident Evil 2 1998 was like and Capcom put them in. But the B scenarios do feel lackluster compared to the original's. Doesn't ruin the remake in any way.
@@Gruntvc oh ok sounds like we weren't even suppose to have any changes whatsoever, I guess that's why they aren't that different, you think people working on the remake would have played they original or at least new how it worked.
They wanted to do that but solid leaks reported the game being in dev hell, they had to cut a lot of scenes, areas and stuff, in order to finish the game on release time they had to mix A and B together. Then to throw illusion powder to the fans they made this idiotic Bis scenario, adding the guns, unlocking one already done area and intentionally cut the last boss. That was a lame shot from capcom but people eat it. There's so much wrong in this game i can't call it good even after platinium it, 100% and speedrun as well. Too many negatives, very bad work, i hope they'll have enough time now for 3.
Would it be worth paying twice as much for nearly twice the content or so you want twice is much for the same price? Lol. Most people wouldn’t pay twice as much otherwise capcom would do that I’m sure
I too thought it was odd to find so many blue herbs on my first playthrough. Next time through I realized they gave you a defense buff at least, and made much better use out of them.
Shooting the body part does give advantage, especially for speedrunner, 1-2 bullet at the knee, you can outrun any typical zombie. For leon: Shotgun can generally pop out head with 1 bullet and 1 shot dog, don't save much on the ammo of shotgun, just use it. Magnum can be situational, usually more recommended in 2nd run. Flamethrower is the most effective to defeat the 3rd stage of birkin. Grenade and flashbang should be mostly save for last battle of mr x. For claire The basic handgun should be use with speedloader, but if got dlc gun, much better until get to parking lot to get claire hp3. The grenade launcher flame round very effective at one shot zombie, use it wisely since no powder can create the flame round, but don't be stingy. Acid round 1 shot dog, best use as well to shot anywhere at 3rd stage birkin. The mq11 is situational, also much better use at 2nd run. Sparkshot oneshot licker but only do this if one licker in the area or if they are farther from each other. It also make the second stage birkin easier. Grenade much more effective for stage 4 birkin, flashbang should not be an issue for claire as she does not really need it much.
I remember that demo, too. I was 10 when it came out. Played the first having no idea what was going on. Suddenly spooky green human monster attacks me, and I am hooked. Checked out the RE2 demo and when the zombies smashed through the shop window and ate the gun shop guy, I was like WHOOOOA. Man, those were the days. REmake 2 was amazing but I wish scenario A/B was better, and I wish we spent a bit more time in the city. And I also hated how scenario B skips straight to the helicopter crash scene. Boo.
@@nostromov7892 no it doesn't actually respawn enemies thats not true at all and it only has a small amount of adaptive difficulty which is what it's called and if it was to hard or annoying assisted difficulty exists for a reason I like this guy's reviews but sometimes he just makes shit up
I was swimming in ammo and herbs when I went into the final boss battle. And I was NOT playing on easy mode. And I cleared out almost every room in the game. Ammo and healing items are plentiful, so long as you play carefully.
There's definitely a dynamic difficulty. It's pretty frustrating. The better you play and the less damage you take, the less damage your weapons make, and the tough and more damage your enemies deal.
hey, we played the classic resident evil in Siberian caves too. Sure, we got it by Chinese pirates but nonetheless we were fascinated by it too. By the way zombies are not corpses there, they are mutants - that's the reason why they are so resistant to bullet poisoning. Finally, you are quite rewarded with aiming at zombies knee, duh.
Yeah. I never played. I’ll have to catch up. But your pretty convincing and its a really good review. Glad I found your channel and your a joy to listen to because you make sense and that’s refreshing. That’s all I have for now about this. Did you see HBO’s 2 hour farewell to GoT yet. I’m watching it today. I’ve heard it’s pretty damn good. I’d like you to crack open an Old No. 7 and review it. Kudos to the cast and crew, who, in the final analysis, did an amazing job overall. The writers were shit and you know damn well the actors knew it, but they do have to look after their careers. But the cast and the crew did an amazing job. I’ll go away now.
I feel like this was a risk for Capcom so the budget was not very huge so the later parts and the B scenario felt kind of rushed. Still liked the game. Excited for Nemesis.
No goddamn joke. This game was damn near flawless for how it managed to re-capture the spirit of the original, while also improving on it in every conceivable way. I got every single achievement for this game and unlocked every item, and legitimately loved every minute of doing so. Accurate shooting is still rewarded but they didn't want to make headshots the undisputed king, so there is no damage multiplier for them. (At least, not on zombies.) Instead, a headshot on a zombie has a small chance of being a critical hit which instantly blows their head off. The chance is never very high, but the possibility of killing a zombie in a single shot, or just a handful, is so good it's often worthwhile anyway. More to the point, leg shots are extremely effective on zombies, often staggering them and sometimes blowing their legs clean off. In wider areas, reducing a walking zombie to a crawler can make the place dramatically easier to navigate while being easier than killing them outright, and even in tight areas a downed zombie is much easier to deal with than a walker.
One thing you may have missed: blue herbs are FAR more useful in this version. Not only do they cure poison, but when combined with other herbs, they provide defense as well. A blue+red herb combo, for example, will massively increase your defense to the point that an otherwise near-fatal attack suffered will do next to no damage to your character. Needless to say, blue+red+green is the most useful, providing a full heal PLUS a huge defensive boost (and cures poison as well).
Headshots increase crit rate Letting the reticle minimize does as well Aiming is a matter of calm and skill now, and both the accuracy and timing matter massively.
My biggest disappointment with this was the the second play-through with the other character. As you said, it didn't feel connected like it did in the original.
Like you I was a huge fan back in the ‘90s & played this on my Nintendo 64. I was so excited to find it had been remade & loved going thru as Leon. This is an excellent review of a classic game.
I loved watching my cousin play thru this game when I was a kid. And my experiences playing the remake is something that will honestly stay with me forever
I’m too scared of my childhood trauma to play it but I used to solve the puzzles for my friends (with pen and paper!) and I know this is the perfect remake.
This game was a great remake. Its only flaws were not having your first play through affect your second, and how you pretty much play the exact story on play through B, also, Mr X stole the show
Keep the game videos comming, realy enjoying your stuff. In addition, I think the blue herbs give you a resistance buff for a short time if consumed mixed with a green herb. Therfore the surplus of them.
Agreed massively with one of your critiques specifically - the pointless 'second scenarios'. They should have just left it at 'Leon's playthrough' and 'Clair's playthrough'. I was so disappointed that nothing changed when you reversed the order. Ironically, Zombies are the toughest enemies in the game. I learnt quickly that going for headshots with the pistol was a waste, but I disagree that free aim is pointless. This is where free aim shines. Pistol is for knee capping and dodging, then you get the shotgun to kill all the zombies you need to (ergo why I think Claire is 'hard mode'. No sgotgun, no flamethrower). And the only time i killed lickers was when X was giving it to me and sneaking went out the window. Brilliant game. 0/10 because of Claire's face. If they give Jill the same treatment I'm gonna Self Destruct Capcom hq. Don't mess with perfection lol
I played it on steam so I could mod Claire face back to perfection. And have extra costumes. The machine gun is good for delimbing as well. If you have the time you can shoot one round at a time to dismember a foot, then go in with the knife.
I've already watched this video twice, but came back to watch it again as I got the itch to re-play...and this video is still as fun to watch as it was when I first saw it a year ago. Magnificent work. I wish you would do more video-game videos. At least Capcom is re-making RE4, so there's a chance you'll do a retrospective on that at some point (fingers crossed).
It was my favorite game of 98....and the remake is probably my favorite game in the last decade...not fan boy bias...but ive bought game after game after game from various studios and genres and all of them felt boring after the first day....this game is a master piece....i love it....i loved the old one....and i was truly worried would capcom do it justice....and they went above and beyond expectations....ive hated capcom for a good decade...but they did it respectfully and with honor....this game gave me a such good scare in the first run i was literally getting chest anxiety...its a good thing ...when it comes to horror...it means the scare and tension is strong....i will say by the 4th runthrough....it wore off....but the fact i played all 4 scenarios shows its replay value was still there like the original.....cheers to all the 90s kids who got to be young again...now lets hope re3remake gets the same treatment
I'm a huge Resident Evil fan now and I can't wait for their next project, whether it be RE3 remake, RE8 or something else. I played RE4 before this one came out and it was actually really good even though it's so old and goofy. Even RE6 is insanely fun to play with a friend, because it's so bad.
i went into RE2R blind. no reviews, no screen shots, no videos. i was hella excited and blown away by this game. by far, my favorite in the series aside from the original re2 and the 1st remake. re2 and re1r were my favorite 2 for a long time. i used to get out of school n play Platinum on my PC and just beat that game in a sitting while listening to Godsmack's The Other Side album.
7:04 going for the legs is sometimes the safer bet than headshots. It also traps a zombie in whatever room they wander into so if you’re not traversing it often you can keep them there. Additionally dodging an enemy with no legs isn’t much of a problem if you leave them in traversed areas. Of course I still went for headshots often. It does higher damage to the zombie overall and 2-3 shots generally causes them to stumble. Keep shooting at the head while they’re in the ground. Also a benefit to taking out the legs is it’s easier to shoot the head when they’re on the ground. 8:29 - this game does something different with blue herbs when combined with red and green herbs. It gives you a higher defense. It’s stated in one of the files but there’s never really a tutorial about it. If you take a mixed blue herb combo it allows you to take a lot more hits (I feel like at least 3 times as much if not more). That’s why you were struggling at the end combining them all was essential and makes the game much easier lol
6:51 Shooting them in the head rarely works. The best thing is aiming for their knees. It will either drop them on the floor, forcing them to crawl the rest of the time, or at the very least stun them long enough for you to move forward. That's clever design - as everyone who has played RE4 would aim for the head.
Honestly best remake ever made. 7:00 also this isn't true. Using precision shots gives you an increased critical chance, and you can de-limb zombies by shooting them in their arms/legs. The way to dodge zombies in this game is to shoot them in the leg with your pistol until either the leg literally comes off or they visibly stagger, then run past them. These games have always kind of rewarded multiple playthroughs too though. It's hard to know which zombies you should and shouldn't be dodging on a first playthrough. I don't know if you or anyone else here is interested in like speedruns or no damage runs, but if you are you should check out CarcinogenSDA's no damage runs of this game on his channel so you can see some higher level strats like the above mentioned in action.
I used to watch MikeBettencourt's walkthroughs for Resident Evil back in the day. Since he's moved on to other things, CarcinogenSDA has been my go-to for quality playthroughs.
A brilliant remake! The level design is just so well done, the combat and the puzzles are both fun and addictive. Such a shame they fucked up RE3 remake though
So sad to hear how hyped up you were about RE3 Nemesis. Me too, mate... It's one of the best childhood memories, and I feel personally attacked by the remake.
Capcom knocking it out the park again with the remakes for Resi. Here's hoping Sega takes notes for that rumoured Sonic Adventure remake, where it's take the base game and build upon it, rather than the 1:1 remakes we've been seeing recently with Shadow of the Colossus and the Crash trilogy. But yea more like Resi for Adventure's remake (Sonic being more like Resident Evil, now there's something I bet you didn't expect to hear in the same sentence) I also wouldn't mind to see a Devil May Cry remake after DMC5 reinvigorated the franchise. I'd be happy for them to do it themselves or let Kamiya have another crack at it, as I'm sure I can remember seeing him saying something about having an interest in revisiting it.
I still think Resident Evil 1 Remake set the bar for remakes, it honestly surpassed the original. Resident Evil 2 Remake more stands alongside the original as an excellent video game. Likely my game of the year for 2019. I had a blast 100% everything in the main game and the dlc. Hoping Capcom remakes Dino Crisis next.
Fantastic new take on a classic game. I didn’t care for the dynamic difficulty or the fact that you couldn’t simply run around the zombies without paying the metal-jacketed prerequisite of a bullet to a zombie knee. There are quite a few high points such as the graphical details, fluid character movements, and the fresh yet nostalgic atmosphere, but for brevity’s sake I won’t go into them. Mr. X did make me chuckle and was quickly relegated to meme status as opposed to his original purpose of increasing player urgency. I still much prefer the difference of taking in a virtual world instead of constantly taking it on. All in all the game is a great example of what modern updates/remakes should be. Nice review, you besottedly clever fiend!
REmake1 is the best Resident Evil also, to be fair Critical, That while not directly rewarding accuracy DOES reward patience and not panicking as when you focus in your shots(the accuracy increase when standing still) you actually do get a 50% damage bonus. I really wish the game explained focus shots better and made the benefits more clear. You can also completely avoid the west hall/corridor wing once you get the bolt cutters and you unlock the shortcut, I believe you only need to go into the corridor 2 times in the game, and only once on scenario B
My only two gripes with this game: lack of variety among scenarios (the classic did it better), and lack of interaction between Leon and Claire. While there admittedly wasn't THAT much in the original, there were a few more parts where they met up. And considering this time around they decided to inject a bit of flirtation between them and the hint that there might be a budding romance at the end (Sherry ships them), it would've been nice had they been allowed to interact a bit more than they did. Other than that, this was a REALLY great game. The new sections were welcome, the recharacterization of the characters was welcome (Leon wasn't nearly as much of a dope in this and never quite bought Ada's BS), and the overall game experience was fun as hell.
9:52 Depends on the puzzle. The three-dial puzzles like the lockers and medals can be solved pretty easily by quickly running through one combination at a time. I kept unlocking these long before I found the clues. I only needed clues for the dial safes and electronic locks.
Targeting different body parts does have its uses. Shooting the head sometimes gets a 'critical hit', popping the enemies head so you know they don't respawn. Shooting kneecaps dismembers them so they can only crawl, making it much easier to get around them. It's rarely a good idea to ever use a green herb on its own. Green mixed with red fully heals you. Blue herbs can be mixed with red herbs to give you a 'health shield' reducing damage recieved for a short period of time. Mixing all three colors together will fully heal you like a first aid spray and give you the shield. As for the Ivy's (plant zombies), you can shoot those orange sacks to make them stumble, giving you an opportunity to run past them. Take all the sacks out and they'll fall to the ground for a while.
I was 4 years old when the original RE2 came out, so needless to say it totally passed me by, and once I finally got into horror games, Resident Evil 6 was just coming out, sooooo yeah, wasn't exactly the best first impression when I had scary games like Amnesia and Dead Space to play instead. Now that the remake is out and I've earned my Plat, I can happily say it is one of my favorite games of all time. :)
We need to have a serious talk about your drinking. :( Great review. I didn't have the same problem you did with the shooting and ammo limitation though. The aiming felt spot on,(I particularly love the weighty way zombies recoil from head shots) and the game does indeed reward accuracy. My only big gripe with the game(besides the similarity in Claire and Leon's scenarios) is wayyyyy too much Mr X in B. He went from being terrifying to tedious.
Hey Drinker! I’m rather late to the party so maybe you’ve already learned this by now, but the blue herbs have an extra feature in this game. Not only do they cure poison, but they also give your character a sort of shield for a limited time, allowing you to take hits without damage. Very useful in a boss fight when you’re near death. 👍🏻
Resident Evil 2 for the original PlayStation was my favorite entry into the series and I thought it would never be topped. It represents the perfect sequel and gives the player so much while showing reverence to where it started. Yes, there have been other titles in the RE series that have come close to the zenith that RE2 was but for one reason or another they fell just short of the goal. Resident Evil Code Veronica and Resident Evil 4 were very close. I even prefer the original Resident Evil 2 to the GameCube Remake and that was fantastic. Oh but things have changed in a very big way. The first was seeing Capcom finally go back to their best and remake it from the ground up for the 8th generation. The day it dropped I was never more happy to own an Xbox One X and a high end 4K UHD for the experience of a lifetime (it's amazing on the Series X and PS5 as well). The Resident Evil 2 Remake replaced the original as my defacto favorite of the series and I thought...that was that. Flash forward to last week on a Friday when I picked up two copies of Resident Evil 8: The Village...it is so damn good that it has topped the second game in my all time favorite list. Review it Drinker and I'm quite sure you will love it. Addendum- We (fiancee and I) are both gamers that play side-by-side every night after work. She is playing Resident Evil 8: The Village on the PS5 *physical and I on the Xbox Series X. Jaw dropping, stunning, and drop dead gorgeous are words that do not come close to how incredible RE8 looks in 4K@60fps HDR10 w/Ray Tracing on. Further, it has the gameplay to match and is an amalgamation of every great title in the series thrown into one amazing package.
Great video drinker. I do have one criticism. The game does actually reward accurate shooting. But you gotta focus on leg shots, and arm shots. Shoot one leg off, then the arm on that side. Zombies can open doors, and have a hard time grabbing you.
Takes me back to been 10 years old and my uncle letting me play this on his PlayStation, soon got mine and was nowhere near clever enough to get far, same with number 1. Then going going back to it a few years later and completing it. Damn the memories a game can bring back is weird. Like when I play tomb raider 3 I get a craving for coke a cola, Cadburys carmel bars and quavers.
I wholly disagree. I can count the number of video game remakes that were a genuine improvement on one hand and I don't even need all 5 fingers. Most remakes completely butcher the original tone and art style of the game they're trying to remake.
Good review, but some of your complaints arent true, theyre just you not understanding the game properly. For example, at 10:25, you complain about the first floor corridor, but you dont need to take that route as you can clearly see on the map you have open. From where you start in the main hall, you can enter the door to the west office and leave via the door opposite the safety deposit room, bypassing the entire corridor. You can also go through the second floor library and get back to the first floor down the stairs beside the darkroom. And thats if you cant be arsed to board up the windows. Secondly, your complaint about health items. The blue herbs arent there to cure poison this game. They give you a shield that makes you take half damage. Youre supposed to use blue herbs before boss fights etc so that you dont need to use as many healing items. By the end of the game I have about 20 full healing items in the chest.
I really liked it, the only thing I really miss about the original when I was playing, was that eerie, 90's piano music. Never realized how big a part that was to me until it was gone.
Actually firing at the legs is the way to go. This gives a stagger and you can run past, Blowing them off is also good. Head shots do slight more damage.,, Red and blue combined is pretty strong shield. Just as useful as a full herb via hits before healing
Looking forward to when they do Code Veronica. That will be the last one of the main series they haven't updated since RE4 changed their formula for the camera and some of the mechanics. They could do Outbreak too. That game in some ways was frustrating but fun. A bit ahead of its time. I think it could work well now.
I would say having limited routes when traversing the police station is actually a good thing. It adds to the survival horror aspect of the game and encourages some tense, quick decision making once Mr. X shows up. You'll usually only have a couple options for getting where you need to go, and odds are one of them has some windows you forgot to board up, and the other has a licker or two. And Mr. X on your heels means you have to pick one of those shitty options and hope your ammo and healing items hold out. The Mr. X segment of the police station was my favorite part of the game.
i completely missed out on the RE franchise but I really did enjoy RE:7 because of the setting which reminded me of where I grew up, both in environment and people who I would like to shoot.
Ay. Ya probably figured this out by now, but the blue + red herb combo reduces incoming damage, which does help with the conservation strategy. I like that about these games, having to decide what creatures are worth the risk of dodging because you might have to cross them again. The ratio between green and other herbs is pretty tight in this game compared to the first, though. Barely any opportunities to make a double-green without thinking "shit, did i need that?" I do appreciate that you can shoot off limbs. Another thing that makes no sense but works for a video game is your damage is actually stronger when the crosshairs narrow. Wish they'd bring back Crimson Heads.
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Chris Redfield didn't go missing. Nobody just bothered to look into a gym conveniently attached to a steroid factory.
He was doing his daily Boulder punches.
@@CNRhKXtreme Everyone knows boulders are for suplexing, not punching.
...behind the rock quarry.
Hey. All natural ;)
Cept he wasn't that jacked in his next appearance (CVX), so no, not really
A couple free hints for those looking to play the game:
1. Don't underestimate the knife, and don't just carry one as an escape tool when an enemy grabs you. Lickers, in particular, really don't like getting slashed with them, and you can always drop a zombie on its back with enough headshots, leaving it vulnerable to slashes while grounded. They do eventually break, but they break faster if you use them to break free from grabs, so try to slash whenever you safely can to get the most out of them. You can unlock an unbreakable knife by finding and destroying certain objects in the world, 15 of them to be exact. Keep an eye out for them, and an ear if you have good headphones.
2. Headshots can be effective, but only if you let your crosshair shrink. Your shot will not only be more precise, but it'll do slightly more damage and I think it'll have a higher chance of exploding their heads for an instant kill. This is to encourage a style of shooting where you stand still and aim, just like the original games.
3. Mr. X does not like flashbangs at all. Lickers don't either.
4. Speaking of those guys, they're also the most reactive enemies when it comes to sound. Mr. X can hear you running when you're in the same room as him, but otherwise, it takes gunshots to attract him. Lickers can hear you running and they're very fast, but they can't follow you into other rooms, and you can walk past them as long as you don't touch them. They'll technically hear you walking, but they merely crawl towards you in search of you; don't freak out when they snarl and turn towards you, because they technically haven't found you yet.
I could go on, because I've played this game almost as much as RE4; it's highly addictive, and unlocking the infinite minigun and infinite rocket launcher feels so good :)
EDIT: RUclips decided to add extra line breaks. How nice of them -_-
You don't NEED the knife. I've only done it on hard (didn't bother with normal) and got through it fine. I just ran a lot (and crept for lickers). When I did an A+ run, I learned to use it on Birkin, but that's all really (except as a defensive item).
And 4. DO NOT JUST USE ONE SAVE FILE AND KEEP OVERWRITING OVER IT, you'll inevitably die, you'll fuck up, it's ok, but, it's possible to screw yourself and save after you used up all your ammo on something you'll come to realize you shouldn't have, maybe you didn't understand one of the boss fights til all your ammo is gone, the game will resupply you but you can make your life easier by reloading a section and doing it the right way
Yep, lickers can be stunlocked with the knife, and the old let zombie come real close and blow it's head off with the shotgun trick still works.
I don't think Mr.X managed to hit me more than once due to me studying his habits properly, in the end he is very predictable.
@@punishedgondola1814 Yeah, I found with Mr. X, clearing the station before triggering him and quietly opening doors will keep him off your tail most of the time.
@@DeltaSpark8 I was getting in a spot where x would chase me into a room full of zombies and lickers all bc I needed to grab something and it became so frustrating I almost quit playing the game but I reloaded an older save file before he was triggered like you said and just went around killing as many zombies and lickers as I could boarding up what I could etc to at least make those mob points more doable and I feel like it cannot be emphasized enough that a little extra time in the beginning to really clean out some zombies makes a world of difference
One of the best things of season 8 was finding your channel
Amen. I'm loving this.
Same for me
Came here by the disappointment of s08
Stayed here for awesome content
Agreed
Aw, that's actually really sweet.
Henceforth, when referencing "Game of Thrones specifically... "Best things" & "Season 8" shant be allowed to occupy real estate within a sentence or reasonable facsimile. The context of which they are used matters not.
Who know what mind melting sentences may rear a vile visage with them cavorting so close together.
Consider this your only warning...
We're just gonna ignore that Ada Wong had a wifi hacking gun in 1998
Prototype in preparation for when WiFi gets invented
Also she never mentions her boyfriend John like in the OG. Instead her new role feels like a needless change.
@@elzawalker303 I mean the new change makes more sense how she survived so well and is completely calm in the face of fucking zombies and monsters
Blue and Red herbs combined makes a Shield... - That's why you get more Blue, they basically realised that Blues were useless in the first game, so they buffed them to have more purpose... - Play again, my pissed-up friend!
Yeah, I thought the same as him at first, then I realized that and it was a huge difference in my second playthrough, especially against some of the bosses.
That’s been the most interesting thing to watch about these RE2 playthroughs. Seeing who actually paid attention and learned that red and blue is a killer combo in this game and who just assumed they were useless because “RE Vet” and never utilized them.
But it doesnt take half a brain to realise the game even tells you that blue herbs up your defence aside from curing poisoned status.
I played all the RE games and even in REmake i still combined the blue herbs with green and red to make the most potent remedy even though it was useless if i didnt get poisoned by the spiders.
REmake 2 just made the whole pointless process of combining all 3 actually matter lol
@@bigl2328 You can also get poisoned by snakes, plants and certain hunters. There's one stupid snake in the REmake, just past the pool you empty on the way to the residency, that always gets me
Blues were far from useless. Poison status will fuck your day pretty quickly. They're more useful in RE2Make because Poison status is much less common and now they give you the temporary shield as an additional perk.
Brie Larson was not in it... huge plus for me.
I liked 1998 Claire Redfield better. Her depiction in Resident Evil: Darkside Chronicles was also better.
@JRPGFan20000, If you think remake Claire is bad, you've got to see the psycho Rambo Mary Sue they turned Lara Croft into in the Tomb Raider reboot trilogy.
I don't think remake Claire is as bad, but I definitely agree that this depiction is weaker compared to past Claire depictions.
Still loved the game honestly lol.
Blessings upon you, then, because you have definitely found a great way to look on the bright side of life!
Brie Larson was in Scott Pilgrim. Yes that's the same person.
Gave the fans exactly what they want...that's a beautiful statement right there
The game itself is amazing but it NEEDED more content. The A and B scenarios are way too similar.
They were basically identical sans Sherry and Ada parts which are 5 whole minutes. They dropped the ball.
xJOE BLACKx35 lol I highly agree with you. It is truly a shame that there isn't more content.vit would've been a blast.
That’s because they weren’t originally going to be implemented in the game at all. They were added last minute because the toxic RE fan base were complaining when they announced at E3 that there would be no A and B scenario. Capcom added something just to please fans, and people still complained. I actually really enjoy second run, it changes things up enough to make it feel fresh. And since all of the story content was in both campaigns, there isn’t really a lot more they could have added without adding completely new content, which would have been hard since they were only 7 months from release.
Well they did the add the 3 ghost scenario's for free and the 4th sheriff battle. With some neat unlockables... not saying it makes up for it
James M wanting a game to have two scenarios where you only get the full story by completing both isn’t toxic if it’s a remake of a game that had that in the first place. That’s called wanting it to be faithful.
6:57 - Well, you can target limbs, which are much less resistent than heads, in order to cripple zombies. Blast their knees off and they won't be able to move as fast and well. Blast their arms off and they won't be able to grab you.
8:38 - Combining red and blue herbs gives you a temporary boost to your damage resistance, so there was _definitely_ a use for them and that's why you have so many. With less room to move around and more chance of being grabbed by enemies, having a resistance buff prepared when venturing into a zombie-filled hall is much more useful than hoping you get to survive without wasting all your healing items.
I do agree that the lab is a bit too short of an area, and the identical scenarios are bullshit. That's a real missed opportunity right there. And we're missing William Birkin's dog form! That's a real shame.
Still a spectacular game, and I feel a constant itch to replay it again and again. That's the sign of a classic for me.
Birkins dog form is in Claire's
scenario.
@@douglastaylor4996 The dog form is in neither campaign. Claire sees the blob form, the dog form was taken out.
@@Dreadjaws did you play the game lol the dog is the last clair boss the blob is only in the second senario like in the original
@@legros731 There's no dog form. Last Claire boss ocassionally gets in all four to climb, but he's still a biped.
Can we talk about the zombie animations. They look so damn good! When they lurch up from the floor, it’s chilling
Its when one of them falls over a railing, lands about thirty feet down then gets up and comes after you again. That's when I knew I was in a spot of bother
The way they look straight at you while walking into a desk or doorpost freaks me out
+@@TheCriticalDrinker+ The fact that some of them can take as many as 17 headshots from Leon's pistol before falling over and their head doesn't explode is what got to me. Even if you're only using normal 9mm FMJ out of a shitty VP70 that makes the rounds underpowered thanks to excessively deep rifling; there's not gonna be anything left of the skull and brains after 17 of those suckers hitting a brain pan.
@@cnlbenmc despite the abundant videogame logic and seeming like classic zombies, this is actually explained.
RE zombies are an inversion of regular zombies in some ways, the main thing being that their metabolism is basically supercharged, burning non-vital tissues and creating extra muscle and bone density. The REact or whatever that further mutates them into Crimson Heads (I wish more games than REmake 1 had those) is the logical endpoint of this for most zombies.
Yes, it's more or less an handwave, but they did actually bother to explain it.
@@TheCriticalDrinker "in a spot of bother" .. I've never heard that expression before, thank you Sir.
I loved the original and I love the remake too but story B is a huge let down compared to the original.
In the original when you played story B you had to deal with different situations for example you took the train in story A so you had to call it back first but that led to some complications.
In the remake you going thru the same things just the items scrambled around. Extremely lazy
Yeah, that was bullshit. The first game was supposed to affect the second
The Tillman Sneaker Review they were different though, for example Leon A Claire B didn’t have Sherry get implanted all because they were getting chased by the Tyrant instead, Because Scenario B was about the Tyrant and Scenario A was about William Birkin, whereas in the remake Leon’s story is just about the Tyrant and Claire’s about Birkin, you get the exact same story regardless or whether you play them first or 2nd.
Completely with you on story B it wasn't vastly different to story A like the original RE2, there weren't a huge variety of enemies too. The giant Moth not in the game...disappointed as there wasn't the same urge to replay like the original.
@@TheTillmanSneakerReview people just want to whine. Cause they are insecure Re 2 remake is more famous than Re 2 OG.
I had no interest in the RE series but this video makes me wanna try it out. Good job.
Once they ditched the frustrating control scheme of the older games it became better, but they also ditched the horror which made it worse. RE 7 and this remake looks like what they should've done when they ditched the controls.
Fiendish Thingy... try it out bro...ive seen it on sale for ps4 a couple times... its good bro...my homey hated zombies and resident evil...he thinks its dumb....hes a destiny 2 guy.....which i think that is the dumbest form of games... he played the re2 remake...and now...he wont stop asking questions about its story the plot...its history and lore....and like Vlad Piranha mentioned....the only other one i can put a high pedestal without sounding like a fan boy is the RE1 remake for ps4....horror wise....it holds up...but it does still have fix cam angle...but graphics wise it does hold up....try it out bro...i mean on metacritic its holding the number 2 spot on both critic and actual players....meanwhile red dead 2 is only still up the critic side and not the actual players....
Same. I bought it after this review, having never played a RE game in my life.
Go away now!
One of the only feasible improvements I'd recommend would be the soundtrack.
*_Oh wait, they released the classic soundtrack on release._* Damn, Capcom was on point. ;)
The RE team has been on top of their shit the last couple years.
Pretty damn good remake..I would have liked more story connection to both 1 and 3. Otherwise I agree.
Capcom is truly a powerhouse for their franchise games. The same treatment for RE they give to Monster Hunter and they do a damn good job with that franchise.
👍🏼I use the original soundtrack when I play
Classic soundtrack? Oh right, that thing they released separately and locked behind a paywall. Cool
I didn't like fearless Claire, she is way too fearless in cutscenes. I wish she and Ada were more like normal humans. Leon seems like a regular guy, he's trained with a gun but thrown into a scenario completely off to what anyone is used to. Claire's like, oh a big scary monster I will confidently jump into the ringer with him with not even an anxious sigh.
Yeah! I noticed that! A bit annoying really!
Kyrious Well Ada is fine cuz she knows what is actually going on, with BOWs and Umbrella and all that shit, but Claire can be mistaken as a dude with her massive balls, like bitch just jumped into the pit like it’s no big deal.
I think its because Leon is meant to represent you on your first play through, intimidated by the unknown, Ada is the bit of comfort the game gives you that someone understands and can fix the situation. Then Claire is you on your second play through with a better understanding of the world around you, making the challenges seem less intimidating as the first time around.
Yeah claire too different
Her original theme is family and young from the little sis to the protective big sis, goes in unprepared and is intimidated
Slowly growing into a protector and resolved to keep searching for her brother as code veronica continues
But nope all gone here cause strong female trope, it's all so much weaker than old
Maybe in cutscenes. but in game play she was shrieking and screaming all over the place.
I came for GOT episode reviews, but I'm enjoying your other content 👍🏽
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Honestly, I didn't like how disconected the scenarios felt. In the first game, it felt like you were playing a single story, but from a different angle, finding the other characters where you'd expect to find them after playing the first scenario, seeing somewhat the consequences the other character had on the enemies, maps and scondary characters. In this remake, it just feels like you're playing the same game all over again, finding the same enemies in the same places, doing the same stuff and going through the same routes, but interesting enough, finding different stuff in the same places (like a grenade launcher where it was supposed to be a shotgun). In the first game, you'd find the character's weapons and equipment in different places, so you could feel each one of them were surviving the same place, but through different routes.
Overall, I just felt like I was playing the exact same thing with a different character, and it was kind of a bummer
Tbh i felt like the late game got rushed coz crapcom was pushing them but I also disliked how they made Claire a dude with balls who is not afraid of anything she should have been made more human-like Leon.
No better way to start the week than with a Drinker video. Cheers mate.
I know, right? I just discovered this channel a couple of weeks ago myself, but have completely fallen in love with it.
Another area where the remake stumbles IMO is the enemy variety. I was really looking forward to seeing the evolved licker, more so than the regular licker, only to find that it wasn't even in the game at all. Same thing goes for the moths and the ivys, who now only has one type.
Other than that I completely agree that the biggest misstep is the fact that the story is actually less coherent than the original. If you're going to include the A and B scenario, you need to commit to it. Otherwise I would have preferred to just have one campaign for Leon and one campaign for Claire.
This is indeed a great game by itself, but as a remake it kinda falls short. In a way this is actually the complete opposite of the RE1 remake, which took everything from the original and expanded on it. This seems more like a reimagining which, speaking for myself, is not what I had in mind when I said that I would like an RE2 remake. I don't mind them shaking things up a bit, but I think they went a little to far in some places. Oh well, I hope Capcom will take these things into account with the RE3 remake.
Anyway, sorry for the ramble. Great review and keep up the good work.
My biggest disappointment was the lack of that giant fucking MAC-10 with the huge barrel shroud from the of RE2
Really, RE2 Remake is one of the best things to play that you might've already played, it's totally a monster of its own and the fun is in the experience. The only thing it was missing was the line from that trucker at the start. "That guy's a MANIAC.. WHY'D HE BITE ME?!"
You are my new best escapism you drunk, sarcastic bastard. Literally spent the past 48 hours going through your past 6 months of material. Legend
The first RE was awesome. Great use of load times. The second was amazing. It grew the world and added such depth of game play. I wish I had time to play games. I’d love to play this remake.
well, you have time to watch youtube videos...
We'll you're gonna need ALOT more time since it takes 14 years to kill one fucking zombie even though you've literally put awhole clip in its brains.. lol everything else about the game is great though.
@@jackoblllllllll You can listen to RUclips videos while you work on something else. Different scenario than playing the game.
@@jeggsonvohees2201 fair enough
What the hell are you doing that you can't have an hour to yourself ?
I actually liked how clean the lab looked at the start, like a breath of fresh air after the sewer level
RE1's REmake and Metroid Zero Mission already taught us how to do remakes right
And they're actual remakes, unlike this reboot falsely marketed as remake.
@@hikari67 I don't even think it's that good of a reboot because it needlessly cut stuff instead of trying to improve it or retool it in a way to fit the new design.
I won't lie compare to Metroid Zero the Samus returns remake was lacking for me
Super Metroid already showed us how to do a remake the right way (come to think of it, it is essentially a remake of NES Metroid). Zero Mission is a watered down version of the original, and it kinda looks like it only exists to fit into Sakamoto's twisted perspective (Metroid Fusion is really close to be Other M-lite, so the seeds were already there). There was no reason to remake that game again, since it already exists.
@@Neathyr the Super Metroid is the Pinnacle of the 2d Samus adventure and as mentioned before the 3ds remake of returns is the weakest in the whole franchise
I wish they took more time and made 2 completely separate campaigns for leon & claire still an amazing game though
Supposedly, Capcom did not intend for this remake to have B scenario campaigns. Just two campaigns split between Leon and Claire.
Someone with a brain must've pointed out that thus is not how Resident Evil 2 1998 was like and Capcom put them in. But the B scenarios do feel lackluster compared to the original's.
Doesn't ruin the remake in any way.
@@Gruntvc oh ok sounds like we weren't even suppose to have any changes whatsoever, I guess that's why they aren't that different, you think people working on the remake would have played they original or at least new how it worked.
They wanted to do that but solid leaks reported the game being in dev hell, they had to cut a lot of scenes, areas and stuff, in order to finish the game on release time they had to mix A and B together.
Then to throw illusion powder to the fans they made this idiotic Bis scenario, adding the guns, unlocking one already done area and intentionally cut the last boss. That was a lame shot from capcom but people eat it.
There's so much wrong in this game i can't call it good even after platinium it, 100% and speedrun as well.
Too many negatives, very bad work, i hope they'll have enough time now for 3.
@@hikari67 how can you be so wrong ?
Would it be worth paying twice as much for nearly twice the content or so you want twice is much for the same price? Lol. Most people wouldn’t pay twice as much otherwise capcom would do that I’m sure
I too thought it was odd to find so many blue herbs on my first playthrough. Next time through I realized they gave you a defense buff at least, and made much better use out of them.
Shooting the body part does give advantage, especially for speedrunner, 1-2 bullet at the knee, you can outrun any typical zombie.
For leon:
Shotgun can generally pop out head with 1 bullet and 1 shot dog, don't save much on the ammo of shotgun, just use it.
Magnum can be situational, usually more recommended in 2nd run.
Flamethrower is the most effective to defeat the 3rd stage of birkin.
Grenade and flashbang should be mostly save for last battle of mr x.
For claire
The basic handgun should be use with speedloader, but if got dlc gun, much better until get to parking lot to get claire hp3.
The grenade launcher flame round very effective at one shot zombie, use it wisely since no powder can create the flame round, but don't be stingy.
Acid round 1 shot dog, best use as well to shot anywhere at 3rd stage birkin.
The mq11 is situational, also much better use at 2nd run.
Sparkshot oneshot licker but only do this if one licker in the area or if they are farther from each other. It also make the second stage birkin easier.
Grenade much more effective for stage 4 birkin, flashbang should not be an issue for claire as she does not really need it much.
Great review Drinker! One of my all time favorite games. I remember playing the demo for RE2 on PS1 RE1 special edition. The remake is amazing.
This remake sounds TERRIBLE and especially how it scales up -in difficulty- by (re)spawning which has always been and will always be STUPID.
I remember that demo, too. I was 10 when it came out. Played the first having no idea what was going on. Suddenly spooky green human monster attacks me, and I am hooked. Checked out the RE2 demo and when the zombies smashed through the shop window and ate the gun shop guy, I was like WHOOOOA. Man, those were the days.
REmake 2 was amazing but I wish scenario A/B was better, and I wish we spent a bit more time in the city. And I also hated how scenario B skips straight to the helicopter crash scene. Boo.
@@nostromov7892 no it doesn't actually respawn enemies thats not true at all and it only has a small amount of adaptive difficulty which is what it's called and if it was to hard or annoying assisted difficulty exists for a reason
I like this guy's reviews but sometimes he just makes shit up
I was swimming in ammo and herbs when I went into the final boss battle. And I was NOT playing on easy mode. And I cleared out almost every room in the game. Ammo and healing items are plentiful, so long as you play carefully.
When you upgraded the shotgun in the original and it nearly knocks Leon down when he shoots it.....that rocked my balls off
There's definitely a dynamic difficulty. It's pretty frustrating. The better you play and the less damage you take, the less damage your weapons make, and the tough and more damage your enemies deal.
hey, we played the classic resident evil in Siberian caves too. Sure, we got it by Chinese pirates but nonetheless we were fascinated by it too. By the way zombies are not corpses there, they are mutants - that's the reason why they are so resistant to bullet poisoning.
Finally, you are quite rewarded with aiming at zombies knee, duh.
It's like, the biggest subversion of the whole genre, isn't it? For best results.... aim at the knee!
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Yeah. I never played. I’ll have to catch up. But your pretty convincing and its a really good review.
Glad I found your channel and your a joy to listen to because you make sense and that’s refreshing. That’s all I have for now about this.
Did you see HBO’s 2 hour farewell to GoT yet. I’m watching it today. I’ve heard it’s pretty damn good. I’d like you to crack open an Old No. 7 and review it. Kudos to the cast and crew, who, in the final analysis, did an amazing job overall. The writers were shit and you know damn well the actors knew it, but they do have to look after their careers. But the cast and the crew did an amazing job.
I’ll go away now.
I feel like this was a risk for Capcom so the budget was not very huge so the later parts and the B scenario felt kind of rushed. Still liked the game. Excited for Nemesis.
Ah yes Claire Redfield she starred in so many of my wanks. I cant wait to crack one out to the new version.
@@valinperal If you have it on Steam you can mod her face.
Mods will save the wank
My life is so much better since I discovered this channel.
No goddamn joke. This game was damn near flawless for how it managed to re-capture the spirit of the original, while also improving on it in every conceivable way. I got every single achievement for this game and unlocked every item, and legitimately loved every minute of doing so.
Accurate shooting is still rewarded but they didn't want to make headshots the undisputed king, so there is no damage multiplier for them. (At least, not on zombies.) Instead, a headshot on a zombie has a small chance of being a critical hit which instantly blows their head off. The chance is never very high, but the possibility of killing a zombie in a single shot, or just a handful, is so good it's often worthwhile anyway. More to the point, leg shots are extremely effective on zombies, often staggering them and sometimes blowing their legs clean off. In wider areas, reducing a walking zombie to a crawler can make the place dramatically easier to navigate while being easier than killing them outright, and even in tight areas a downed zombie is much easier to deal with than a walker.
Headshots not being significant is an immersion-breaker.
And then RE3R happened.
you had me when you said, brie Larson loves herself! I'm listening, cool stuff, but to bad I'm a drunk white heterosexual male.
One thing you may have missed: blue herbs are FAR more useful in this version. Not only do they cure poison, but when combined with other herbs, they provide defense as well. A blue+red herb combo, for example, will massively increase your defense to the point that an otherwise near-fatal attack suffered will do next to no damage to your character.
Needless to say, blue+red+green is the most useful, providing a full heal PLUS a huge defensive boost (and cures poison as well).
Headshots increase crit rate
Letting the reticle minimize does as well
Aiming is a matter of calm and skill now, and both the accuracy and timing matter massively.
My biggest disappointment with this was the the second play-through with the other character. As you said, it didn't feel connected like it did in the original.
Thanks for the echo
The free aiming helps in shooting limbs, really helps in slowing down zombies and sometimes stun them momentarily!
Like you I was a huge fan back in the ‘90s & played this on my Nintendo 64. I was so excited to find it had been remade & loved going thru as Leon. This is an excellent review of a classic game.
I loved watching my cousin play thru this game when I was a kid. And my experiences playing the remake is something that will honestly stay with me forever
I’m too scared of my childhood trauma to play it but I used to solve the puzzles for my friends (with pen and paper!) and I know this is the perfect remake.
This game was a great remake. Its only flaws were not having your first play through affect your second, and how you pretty much play the exact story on play through B, also, Mr X stole the show
Loved the original and the remake. Review was spot on!
Keep the game videos comming, realy enjoying your stuff. In addition, I think the blue herbs give you a resistance buff for a short time if consumed mixed with a green herb. Therfore the surplus of them.
If you combine it with a red herb you get a temporary buff, but it doesn't last long.
Agreed massively with one of your critiques specifically - the pointless 'second scenarios'. They should have just left it at 'Leon's playthrough' and 'Clair's playthrough'. I was so disappointed that nothing changed when you reversed the order.
Ironically, Zombies are the toughest enemies in the game. I learnt quickly that going for headshots with the pistol was a waste, but I disagree that free aim is pointless. This is where free aim shines. Pistol is for knee capping and dodging, then you get the shotgun to kill all the zombies you need to (ergo why I think Claire is 'hard mode'. No sgotgun, no flamethrower).
And the only time i killed lickers was when X was giving it to me and sneaking went out the window.
Brilliant game. 0/10 because of Claire's face. If they give Jill the same treatment I'm gonna Self Destruct Capcom hq.
Don't mess with perfection lol
I played it on steam so I could mod Claire face back to perfection. And have extra costumes. The machine gun is good for delimbing as well. If you have the time you can shoot one round at a time to dismember a foot, then go in with the knife.
Mod, on Steam... By some kind of payments? Then it would -all- make sense, meh.
@@nostromov7892 I'm not sure what you're talking about, but the mods I use are free.
Loved your GoT reviews and I’ve been looking for more people to talk about the masterpiece that is RE2!! This game is my GOTY
I wish I had your accent so it wasn't so easy to tell how drunk I am at work.
Lmao
I've already watched this video twice, but came back to watch it again as I got the itch to re-play...and this video is still as fun to watch as it was when I first saw it a year ago. Magnificent work. I wish you would do more video-game videos. At least Capcom is re-making RE4, so there's a chance you'll do a retrospective on that at some point (fingers crossed).
It was my favorite game of 98....and the remake is probably my favorite game in the last decade...not fan boy bias...but ive bought game after game after game from various studios and genres and all of them felt boring after the first day....this game is a master piece....i love it....i loved the old one....and i was truly worried would capcom do it justice....and they went above and beyond expectations....ive hated capcom for a good decade...but they did it respectfully and with honor....this game gave me a such good scare in the first run i was literally getting chest anxiety...its a good thing ...when it comes to horror...it means the scare and tension is strong....i will say by the 4th runthrough....it wore off....but the fact i played all 4 scenarios shows its replay value was still there like the original.....cheers to all the 90s kids who got to be young again...now lets hope re3remake gets the same treatment
These kind of videos are my jam. Thank you!
I'm a huge Resident Evil fan now and I can't wait for their next project, whether it be RE3 remake, RE8 or something else. I played RE4 before this one came out and it was actually really good even though it's so old and goofy. Even RE6 is insanely fun to play with a friend, because it's so bad.
i went into RE2R blind. no reviews, no screen shots, no videos. i was hella excited and blown away by this game. by far, my favorite in the series aside from the original re2 and the 1st remake. re2 and re1r were my favorite 2 for a long time. i used to get out of school n play Platinum on my PC and just beat that game in a sitting while listening to Godsmack's The Other Side album.
Wow i lived in a cave in siberia.😢. Hey can you review fantastic planet. Thanks.
7:04 going for the legs is sometimes the safer bet than headshots. It also traps a zombie in whatever room they wander into so if you’re not traversing it often you can keep them there. Additionally dodging an enemy with no legs isn’t much of a problem if you leave them in traversed areas.
Of course I still went for headshots often. It does higher damage to the zombie overall and 2-3 shots generally causes them to stumble. Keep shooting at the head while they’re in the ground. Also a benefit to taking out the legs is it’s easier to shoot the head when they’re on the ground.
8:29 - this game does something different with blue herbs when combined with red and green herbs. It gives you a higher defense. It’s stated in one of the files but there’s never really a tutorial about it. If you take a mixed blue herb combo it allows you to take a lot more hits (I feel like at least 3 times as much if not more). That’s why you were struggling at the end combining them all was essential and makes the game much easier lol
6:51 Shooting them in the head rarely works. The best thing is aiming for their knees. It will either drop them on the floor, forcing them to crawl the rest of the time, or at the very least stun them long enough for you to move forward. That's clever design - as everyone who has played RE4 would aim for the head.
Honestly best remake ever made.
7:00 also this isn't true. Using precision shots gives you an increased critical chance, and you can de-limb zombies by shooting them in their arms/legs. The way to dodge zombies in this game is to shoot them in the leg with your pistol until either the leg literally comes off or they visibly stagger, then run past them. These games have always kind of rewarded multiple playthroughs too though. It's hard to know which zombies you should and shouldn't be dodging on a first playthrough.
I don't know if you or anyone else here is interested in like speedruns or no damage runs, but if you are you should check out CarcinogenSDA's no damage runs of this game on his channel so you can see some higher level strats like the above mentioned in action.
I watched CarcinogenSDA's RE3 playthrough just for the old time's sake. He good.
I used to watch MikeBettencourt's walkthroughs for Resident Evil back in the day. Since he's moved on to other things, CarcinogenSDA has been my go-to for quality playthroughs.
I like how you mention Terry Funk aka Chainsaw Charlie, since in later RE games you fight chainsaw-wielding antagonists!
A brilliant remake! The level design is just so well done, the combat and the puzzles are both fun and addictive. Such a shame they fucked up RE3 remake though
I really hope we get a 4 Remake review from you here in the upcoming months !
So sad to hear how hyped up you were about RE3 Nemesis. Me too, mate... It's one of the best childhood memories, and I feel personally attacked by the remake.
BTW I love your public voice! We need talented people like you bringing us back to reality.
What better way to celebrate Remake 3 than watching a video of the Drinker himself!
One of the best games I’ve ever played
Capcom knocking it out the park again with the remakes for Resi. Here's hoping Sega takes notes for that rumoured Sonic Adventure remake, where it's take the base game and build upon it, rather than the 1:1 remakes we've been seeing recently with Shadow of the Colossus and the Crash trilogy. But yea more like Resi for Adventure's remake (Sonic being more like Resident Evil, now there's something I bet you didn't expect to hear in the same sentence)
I also wouldn't mind to see a Devil May Cry remake after DMC5 reinvigorated the franchise. I'd be happy for them to do it themselves or let Kamiya have another crack at it, as I'm sure I can remember seeing him saying something about having an interest in revisiting it.
I still think Resident Evil 1 Remake set the bar for remakes, it honestly surpassed the original. Resident Evil 2 Remake more stands alongside the original as an excellent video game.
Likely my game of the year for 2019. I had a blast 100% everything in the main game and the dlc. Hoping Capcom remakes Dino Crisis next.
@JCG, Yes, it would for me too.
It is time for Dino Crisis to return.
This is my favorite RE of all time now. Spectacular game
Great review mate, this brought back a lot of happy memories!
Fantastic new take on a classic game. I didn’t care for the dynamic difficulty or the fact that you couldn’t simply run around the zombies without paying the metal-jacketed prerequisite of a bullet to a zombie knee. There are quite a few high points such as the graphical details, fluid character movements, and the fresh yet nostalgic atmosphere, but for brevity’s sake I won’t go into them.
Mr. X did make me chuckle and was quickly relegated to meme status as opposed to his original purpose of increasing player urgency. I still much prefer the difference of taking in a virtual world instead of constantly taking it on. All in all the game is a great example of what modern updates/remakes should be. Nice review, you besottedly clever fiend!
REmake1 is the best Resident Evil also, to be fair Critical, That while not directly rewarding accuracy DOES reward patience and not panicking as when you focus in your shots(the accuracy increase when standing still) you actually do get a 50% damage bonus. I really wish the game explained focus shots better and made the benefits more clear. You can also completely avoid the west hall/corridor wing once you get the bolt cutters and you unlock the shortcut, I believe you only need to go into the corridor 2 times in the game, and only once on scenario B
RE1 and RE2 Remakes are simply amazing.
I missed claire's red hair
soul privilege out of 10
Same man capcom had one job
Capcom gave all of Claire's ginger power to Regina.
You can install a myriad of mods, including a red hair mod.
Wait for RE3 and Dino Crysis Remake! =P
Ditto!
Re3 was announced today
@Mitch they cut a lot of content
My only two gripes with this game: lack of variety among scenarios (the classic did it better), and lack of interaction between Leon and Claire. While there admittedly wasn't THAT much in the original, there were a few more parts where they met up. And considering this time around they decided to inject a bit of flirtation between them and the hint that there might be a budding romance at the end (Sherry ships them), it would've been nice had they been allowed to interact a bit more than they did.
Other than that, this was a REALLY great game. The new sections were welcome, the recharacterization of the characters was welcome (Leon wasn't nearly as much of a dope in this and never quite bought Ada's BS), and the overall game experience was fun as hell.
9:52 Depends on the puzzle. The three-dial puzzles like the lockers and medals can be solved pretty easily by quickly running through one combination at a time. I kept unlocking these long before I found the clues.
I only needed clues for the dial safes and electronic locks.
in the lab mess hall message made me chuckle quite a bit
''our meal are made to be the most nutritious offer'' as their zombies eating in the room XD
The critical drinker the growth of your channel in the past few months is crazy.. 👍🏼
Blue herbs will also provide a temporary increase in defense as well.
Targeting different body parts does have its uses. Shooting the head sometimes gets a 'critical hit', popping the enemies head so you know they don't respawn. Shooting kneecaps dismembers them so they can only crawl, making it much easier to get around them.
It's rarely a good idea to ever use a green herb on its own. Green mixed with red fully heals you. Blue herbs can be mixed with red herbs to give you a 'health shield' reducing damage recieved for a short period of time. Mixing all three colors together will fully heal you like a first aid spray and give you the shield.
As for the Ivy's (plant zombies), you can shoot those orange sacks to make them stumble, giving you an opportunity to run past them. Take all the sacks out and they'll fall to the ground for a while.
I was 4 years old when the original RE2 came out, so needless to say it totally passed me by, and once I finally got into horror games, Resident Evil 6 was just coming out, sooooo yeah, wasn't exactly the best first impression when I had scary games like Amnesia and Dead Space to play instead.
Now that the remake is out and I've earned my Plat, I can happily say it is one of my favorite games of all time. :)
We need to have a serious talk about your drinking. :(
Great review. I didn't have the same problem you did with the shooting and ammo limitation though. The aiming felt spot on,(I particularly love the weighty way zombies recoil from head shots) and the game does indeed reward accuracy. My only big gripe with the game(besides the similarity in Claire and Leon's scenarios) is wayyyyy too much Mr X in B. He went from being terrifying to tedious.
Hey Drinker! I’m rather late to the party so maybe you’ve already learned this by now, but the blue herbs have an extra feature in this game. Not only do they cure poison, but they also give your character a sort of shield for a limited time, allowing you to take hits without damage. Very useful in a boss fight when you’re near death. 👍🏻
Resident Evil 2 for the original PlayStation was my favorite entry into the series and I thought it would never be topped. It represents the perfect sequel and gives the player so much while showing reverence to where it started. Yes, there have been other titles in the RE series that have come close to the zenith that RE2 was but for one reason or another they fell just short of the goal. Resident Evil Code Veronica and Resident Evil 4 were very close. I even prefer the original Resident Evil 2 to the GameCube Remake and that was fantastic.
Oh but things have changed in a very big way. The first was seeing Capcom finally go back to their best and remake it from the ground up for the 8th generation. The day it dropped I was never more happy to own an Xbox One X and a high end 4K UHD for the experience of a lifetime (it's amazing on the Series X and PS5 as well). The Resident Evil 2 Remake replaced the original as my defacto favorite of the series and I thought...that was that. Flash forward to last week on a Friday when I picked up two copies of Resident Evil 8: The Village...it is so damn good that it has topped the second game in my all time favorite list. Review it Drinker and I'm quite sure you will love it.
Addendum- We (fiancee and I) are both gamers that play side-by-side every night after work. She is playing Resident Evil 8: The Village on the PS5 *physical and I on the Xbox Series X. Jaw dropping, stunning, and drop dead gorgeous are words that do not come close to how incredible RE8 looks in 4K@60fps HDR10 w/Ray Tracing on. Further, it has the gameplay to match and is an amalgamation of every great title in the series thrown into one amazing package.
The chaos of that map nearly killed me.
Great video drinker. I do have one criticism. The game does actually reward accurate shooting. But you gotta focus on leg shots, and arm shots. Shoot one leg off, then the arm on that side. Zombies can open doors, and have a hard time grabbing you.
You're very good at game reviews. I'd love to see more over time.
Takes me back to been 10 years old and my uncle letting me play this on his PlayStation, soon got mine and was nowhere near clever enough to get far, same with number 1. Then going going back to it a few years later and completing it. Damn the memories a game can bring back is weird. Like when I play tomb raider 3 I get a craving for coke a cola, Cadburys carmel bars and quavers.
The general rule of thumb:
"Game remakes good!
Movie remakes bad".
I wholly disagree. I can count the number of video game remakes that were a genuine improvement on one hand and I don't even need all 5 fingers. Most remakes completely butcher the original tone and art style of the game they're trying to remake.
John Carpenter’s The Thing, The Fly, and The Hills Have Eyes beg to differ
Good review, but some of your complaints arent true, theyre just you not understanding the game properly. For example, at 10:25, you complain about the first floor corridor, but you dont need to take that route as you can clearly see on the map you have open. From where you start in the main hall, you can enter the door to the west office and leave via the door opposite the safety deposit room, bypassing the entire corridor. You can also go through the second floor library and get back to the first floor down the stairs beside the darkroom. And thats if you cant be arsed to board up the windows.
Secondly, your complaint about health items. The blue herbs arent there to cure poison this game. They give you a shield that makes you take half damage. Youre supposed to use blue herbs before boss fights etc so that you dont need to use as many healing items. By the end of the game I have about 20 full healing items in the chest.
Tá m'árthach foluaineach lán d'eascanna thank you
To get a review like this on the original game we had to buy a gaming magazine back then
Wasn't really into the RE games. But I had to stop the vid at 2:29 because I'm gonna go buy it now and I don't want spoilers. Good job.
I really liked it, the only thing I really miss about the original when I was playing, was that eerie, 90's piano music. Never realized how big a part that was to me until it was gone.
Actually firing at the legs is the way to go. This gives a stagger and you can run past, Blowing them off is also good. Head shots do slight more damage.,, Red and blue combined is pretty strong shield. Just as useful as a full herb via hits before healing
Looking forward to when they do Code Veronica.
That will be the last one of the main series they haven't updated since RE4 changed their formula for the camera and some of the mechanics.
They could do Outbreak too. That game in some ways was frustrating but fun. A bit ahead of its time. I think it could work well now.
I would say having limited routes when traversing the police station is actually a good thing. It adds to the survival horror aspect of the game and encourages some tense, quick decision making once Mr. X shows up. You'll usually only have a couple options for getting where you need to go, and odds are one of them has some windows you forgot to board up, and the other has a licker or two. And Mr. X on your heels means you have to pick one of those shitty options and hope your ammo and healing items hold out. The Mr. X segment of the police station was my favorite part of the game.
i completely missed out on the RE franchise but I really did enjoy RE:7 because of the setting which reminded me of where I grew up, both in environment and people who I would like to shoot.
Ay. Ya probably figured this out by now, but the blue + red herb combo reduces incoming damage, which does help with the conservation strategy. I like that about these games, having to decide what creatures are worth the risk of dodging because you might have to cross them again.
The ratio between green and other herbs is pretty tight in this game compared to the first, though. Barely any opportunities to make a double-green without thinking "shit, did i need that?"
I do appreciate that you can shoot off limbs. Another thing that makes no sense but works for a video game is your damage is actually stronger when the crosshairs narrow.
Wish they'd bring back Crimson Heads.
Yakuza Kiwami and Kiwami 2 are fantastic remakes.