Resident Evil 5: Lost in Nightmares - First 60 minutes

Random thoughts

Hahahahaahahahah master of unlocking indeed haaaaaaaaaa!

Hey... wait a minute.... this looks familiar.

Obsessed with cranks heh... Wait a minute.... was that almost good writing from Resident Evil.

This piano looks familiar.....

Zombies?

This Jill playing this piano looks familiar......

Zombies? You their?

This hallway looks familiar......

Zombies? Come out come out wherever you are.

The lighting in this room looks familiar......

Zombies? Hunters? Undead dogs? Disgruntled CPS4 employees? I'll take anything at this point.

This room full of boxes.... no wait, this is new.

Ha I know how this goes. Second time through the hall and.... Yep here comes the...... bat? WTF?

ZOMBIES? HELLO! WHERE THE @#$% ARE YOU!?

Ok I should not be laughing my ass off at Jill getting squished by the spike room. Her reaction was just hilarious though.

Oh cool, this is new.

Yay new monster.....

3 monsters later no more ammo......

Haha! Dumb asses! (My Reaction to Chris and Jill busting there ass while running in a cutscene)

Oh good, now I have no more weapons.....

One aggravating underground puzzle later....

and one long hallway later....

and one overblown Wesker battle later....

and one very familiar CS later....

and.... we are done?

Retrospect

Yep, you can beat RE LiN in about 1 hour. You will be treated to a RE5 style RE1 mansion... with nothing but boxes and flash backs to events in RE1 to keep you company. Then you will go through a prison, fight about 4 axe wielding giant Lamprey headed monsters, run out of ammo, Run out of weapons, run away from 3 more of those damn things. Then finally fight Wesker till you die..... beating the dlc.
Not a bad way to blow 400 ms points.

Looking Forward #1 - Deadly Premonition.

Wanted to do this on the new RE5 DLC. But, by the time this is out, It will have been released. Unless there is a delay..... (Capcom =/= EA, Capcom =/= EA, Capcom =/= EA)

Anyway less stupid, more forward of the sight internal.

So I ran across screens of the game Deadly Premonition about a year back and told myself "midgets? WTF?" and that pretty much ended my interest in the game right there. Not that I have anything against little people. Just these two had a "Murderous Moppets" vibe going on. And that's a bad thing.

However then I ran across this.

and now I can't wait for it to get released.

So yes, in my mind, Little people that bear a tenuous link (apparently being short and two of is all I need) too two irritating characters from a late night TV show = bad. Creepy doll, woman... thing with no eyes = good. Now if you are worried about my state of mental health..... Trust me. You are not as worried as I am....

So what is Deadly Premonitions exactly? Sandbox Survival Horror would probably best describe it. Now true, it will probably be more on the horror side and less on the survival side of the coin. It would have to be a pretty crappy sandbox setup if your MC was running low on supplies continuously. And sandbox horror sounds like a 3 year old getting his head stuck in a bucket. So I'm going with Sandbox survival horror unless the game proves otherwise.

Also of note, The production director Swery (that's it? Swery? No last name? ..... Seriously?) had this to say on the promotional site.

Swery: "Another feature I want you to try out is "Stalking.""

note: Almost shat myself laughing when I read that. Probably because I pictured Swery bolting upright from a dead sleep screaming "They won't know Unless I tell them! All that work for nothing!!"

Ok put the pitchforks and bullhorns down, and put that nearly broken soapbox away. Not JP-ERO-GAME stalking. He means Shenmue Stalking. You know, following characters around to see what the developers programmed them to do.

Now I'm not looking forward to being a virtual voyeur (that got old quick in Shenmue) but there is something neat about characters following a schedule. It worked semi better in Fallout 3 and Oblivion then it did in Shenmue. (Admittedly, only in as far as there are way more things to do in the former games than the latter one.) And it does open up interesting gameplay possibilities. (Wow. The old man who shows up to eat breakfast here every morning isn't here now. Wonder if zombies got him.) but that of course assumes you'll pay attention to these details.

Speaking of details. You apparently need to shave and change clothes in this game as well. Lest you become a smelly, hairy vagrant nobody wants to talk to. Which sucks, when you consider you are supposed to be a detective solving a murder case. (Oh did I forget mentioning that? sorry XD)

But most importantly, At least for me. Is it's $20.00 price tag. And 20 bucks is good enough reason to try out something new. Be back on the 23-24th with my first impressions on this. (feb. 23rd release)