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Watching this again and it's hilariously bad how they act like they've made Frank wiser, mellower, and more mature but still Frank when Frank in DR4 talks like some YouTube vlogger still in high school while the original Frank tended to be serious outside a few quips and wanting to take pictures at inappropriate times

EverDownward posted...

This is another thing I think the first Dead Rising gets right that no other game in the franchise does, its premise is played entirely straight. The lack of self-awareness helps the atmosphere of the game, because it legit comes off like a B movie horror film. You have one moment where the protagonist is like "did you actually say 'zombies?'" and then that's it, the game forces you to pay attention and take it seriously.

Everything else is like "whoa! look at these WACKY ZOMBIES! aren't they so dumb? let's go wack them on the head with a cheese grater!! lol!" The sheer immensity of the juxtaposition between the story being serious as hell about a zombie outbreak, and the goofy as hell gameplay makes for some really entertaining moments.

DR2 does this even better though.
It's still a very serious story with needing to clear your name, finding out the actual source of the outbreak in addition to caring for your sick daughter but the gameplay is even more open world. You can give gifts to your daughter, play Poker, and the survivor quests usually have more interesting aspects about them.
A huge example is Snowflake the tiger psycho/survivor. Her backstory with Ted is pretty serious but when you're fighting them you can actually tame the tiger with STEAKS and get her on your side which in turn can be given as a gift to Katey.. It's this kind of creativity that even surpassed Dead Rising 1
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