#VILLAGE RETURNS VERY VILLAGE VOICEY MOVIE#
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For 25 years, itвЂ™s been heralded as gamingвЂ™s great horror series, but is it because of the scares or the schlock? ItвЂ™s likely a little bit of column A and column B. Yes, itвЂ™s a bit of a back-handed compliment, but Resident Evil Village may challenge fans to rethink what the core of the franchise really is. The gameplay may feel closer to Resident Evil 4 than the PS1 classics, but the tone is spot-on. It relishes in the hammy melodrama and silly plot escalations. In that sense, Village almost feels truer to the originalвЂ™s roots than Resident Evil 7. As much as the franchise is known for horror, surprisingly few of its games are really all that scary.

#VILLAGE RETURNS VERY VILLAGE VOICEY MOVIE#

ItвЂ™s a genuinely terrifying game that trades in monster movie clichГ©s and large-scale lore for a more claustrophobic, unsettling story. ThatвЂ™s a big change of pace from Resident Evil 7, which is increasingly feeling more like an outlier than a return to form. Think of movies like The Last Witch Hunter or Van Helsing. It doesnвЂ™t feel too far off from the kind of R-rated, Hollywood action movie thatвЂ™s thrown into a February release slot because the studio isnвЂ™t confident it can compete with top-tier summer blockbusters. The new gameplay demo is an actual representation of the final game and it feels more like a grim action-adventure movie with an extra serving of violence. While its Maiden demo was tenseВ and atmospheric, it presents a sequence thatвЂ™s not actually in the final game. ItвЂ™s hard to even say if Village really will be a horror game. After a dramatic character death, he whines вЂњThis place has gone mad!вЂќ in a line delivery that wouldnвЂ™t be out of place in the original. Ethan Winters returns for the sequel and heвЂ™s goofier than ever. The voice acting calls back to the original game as well, for better or worse. ItвЂ™s not particularly scary though in fact, itвЂ™s all very silly. In one dramatic scene, a character morphs into a Lycan and enters a violent killing rage. The demo introduces players to the gameвЂ™s titular village, which appears to be infested with werewolves. Resident Evil Village has that same energy already, though itвЂ™s unclear if itвЂ™s on purpose. That resulted in stilted performances that wouldnвЂ™t feel out of place in a вЂњso bad, itвЂ™s goodвЂќ cult horror movie like Troll 2. Part of that came from a language barrier - director Shinji Mikami insisted on directing the English voice actors, but asked them to speak slowly so he could understand the lines.

The performances are so bad that itвЂ™s hard not to chuckle at every line. The voice acting especially sticks out like a sore thumb.

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ItвЂ™s full of genuinely terrifying moments, but those are counterbalanced by over-the-top monsters and laughable dialogue. What starts as a thriller about an elite group of special forces trapped in a zombie-infested mansion soon becomes a goofy haunted house story. It features a cheesy zombie horror story that jumps the shark (or kills it, in one instance) at every turn. The original game is a bit of a charming mess. The most immediate thing that sticks out probably wonвЂ™t be the spooky setting, puzzle box gameplay, or fixed camera angles itвЂ™s the relentless corniness of the whole experience. Fitbit Versa 3ДЇor those who havenвЂ™t revisited the first Resident Evil game in two decades, I recommend watching a playthrough on YouTube.

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