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There will be unmarked spoilers from this point on for the following games:

• Resident Evil 1 Remake
• Resident Evil 2 Remake
• Resident Evil 3 Remake
• Resident Evil: Code Veronica
• Resident Evil 0
• Resident Evil 4
• Resident Evil 5
• Resident Evil: Revelations
• Resident Evil 6
• Resident Evil: Revelations 2
• Resident Evil 7

I dont have a lot of background with this series. I played the original Playstation games like twenty years ago, but RE4 is the only game I really had much experience with until this year. In January, I picked up the Resident Evil 2 remake. I was very impressed by it, and when the entire series had a Steam sale, I bought them all (and downloaded Code Veronica through other means) for a total of like twenty dollars. Over the past few months, Ive beaten all of the games I listed above, partly because I was interested in the series and partly because Im a total loser.

My point is this: I didnt know a whole lot about this series going in. I thought I was in for some horror stories about people fighting zombie and getting spooked in dark hallways. And while I did get that, it was like 15% of the series? Resident Evil as a series is not at all what I expected, and I mean that in both a good and a bad way. You know what it reminds me of a little? Deadly Premonition. It feels like Japanese people who only kind of understand American culture trying to make American horror movies, but also they got bored and started making action and spy movies after a while. Most of the series makes a little more sense when you filter it through that lens, but well get to all of this in time.

What I discovered is that this series has a major identity problem. Sometimes it's about conspiracies, sometimes it's about monsters, sometimes it's about adventure, sometimes it's anime, sometimes it's B-movie schlock -- you never know what you're going to get, except a series that varies wildly in basically every way. Atmosphere, tone, gameplay, writing quality -- everything that makes a game a game. About the only thing that's consistent is high production value, and even that's only because I won't be ranking the original RE1.

I guess thats enough of a preamble, so Ill start ranking the games with needlessly long writeups from this point on. Feel free at any point to talk about your opinions and say Im wrong about everything; I dont mind at all.

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Started: July 6, 2005