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Resident Evil: Code Veronica
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Our mission is to run around in Antarctica? Ill need my tube top and skinny jeans. Claire Redfield

Im going to let you in on the dark secret of Resident Evil: whenever the game cares about the metaplot of Umbrella and ancient noblemen lore and people trying to become gods or whatever, the game sucks. CV and RE0 both focus on Umbrella lore, the least interesting and stupidest part of the series. Heres what separates them: RE0 feels complete. It feels like a game where someone carefully considered every aspect of it and polished it to perfection its just that his ideas all suck. CV is messy and incomplete and bad, but it has a few ideas that could have been interesting in more competent hands. Which is worse? Thats up to you but the answer is Code Veronica.

CV has a greatly increased emphasis on cutscenes and lore, which is why Ill criticize it for things I give a pass to RE1R for. But basically, heres the difference in a nutshell: 1, 2, 3, 4, Rev 2, and 7 are stupid in a B-movie kind of way, while CV, 0, and 6 are stupid in an anime kind of way, and 5 is stupid in both ways. I like dumb schlock, so anime stupid is less entertaining to me. You are free to disagree, but this is how I view things.

In previous games, we were just normal people fighting zombies and corporate goons. Ill talk more about that in the RE2R writeup, though. This is the fourth game, and things have progressed to the point where Wesker does Matrix dodge moves, there are supersmart child scientists, evil clones, a massively increased sense of scale (Wesker wants to take over the world instead of covering up corporate crimes), and a weird obsession over genetics. This is something Ive noticed in Japanese media, this weird obsession over genetics. It happens in the Xeno series, it happens in MGS, it happens in a million anime, and now it happens in Resident Evil. Obviously, Western works sometimes also have weird DNA stuff happen, but the feeling of it is just a little different to me when its Japanese. It feels, and I guess theres no other way to put this, more anime-y.

Ignoring that element, I guess should also mention that as a horror title, this isnt? People blame RE4 for diverting the series away from horror, but it still has at least a few scary moments and a creepy tone. This and RE5 are the least spooky Resident Evils. Most of the environments are just clean areas with no blood, and even the places with blood dont have it spread around in a way thats very conducive to environmental storytelling. Aside from the zombies, nothing in CV is even trying to be scary. Theres no oppressive tone, therere no scary monsters (except MAYBE for Nosferatu, who is one boss), theres nothing.

Anyway, heres the premise: in the 1970s, a British nobleman said my father founded Umbrella, but Im being edged out of the leadership, so I need a way to regain respect. My ancestor in the 19th century was respected, so Ill clone her and raise her as my daughter to take over our noble house, which is built on an Antarctic island instead of in Britain. Also, I accidentally cloned a boy out of her as well, whos crazy and believes hes his own sister Psycho-style. Then the girl was the worlds smartest scientist at age 10, so she cryogenically froze herself so she could merge with a virus to become a genetically perfect being (perfect being is defined as being able to turn into a bug monster and get shot by Chris Redfield), so although she appears 25 in the game and is constantly naked, she has the mentality of a 10 year-old. Also, Wesker shows up to steal her science and causes a zombie apocalypse in Antarctica that is sort of incidental to the story and does not affect what is happening at all.

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Started: July 6, 2005