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58. Resident Evil Requiem Review Discussion & Spoilercast!
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*First half is spoiler free*
Midnight and Hodge are back to discuss Resident Evil 9 aka Requiem! We both beat the game and we break down the story, the characters, the combat styles, first vs 3rd person, the two endings, and more. We also rank our favorite Resident Evil games and discuss pizzas and buc-ees, We hope you enjoy!
Video version available at: http://www.youtube.com/@gamesoverplastic
Timestamps:
00:00:00 - Show Start
00:00:30 intro and non spoiler convos
00:17:40 first vs third person? Spoiler free
00:24:30 spoilers begin
01:14:15 ranking RE games
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Transcript
Introduction and Host Health Check
00:00:40
Speaker
And welcome everybody. This is games over plastic episode number 58. I am midnight joined once again by one of my lovely co-hosts, the Lord of graphics Hodge, who's not feeling amazing today, but still has showed up. The T virus has them down. How are you doing? Yeah, the T-virus has got me. You can see all the black going up my neck and on my hand. see it on your arm a little bit. Yeah, yeah. yeah This is T-virus, not tattoo. ah Yeah, other than, you know, feeling a little crappy, I think it's like I don't have a fever or anything like like that, so I'm pretty sure this is just allergies. I have horrible, horrible allergies in the spring and fall, so I think I've just been...
00:01:20
Speaker
Goop gooped up goop. Well, gooped up from that. ah There it goes. Our monetization if we had it. But i yeah, I don't know. But I'm happy to be here to talk Resident Evil 9 Requiem because this game was phenomenal. So I'm very excited to talk about this game with you. So yes, let's do it, man.
00:01:38
Speaker
Yes, sir. Yeah, I told you off cam, but I'll tell you on cam too, so that anyone else out there who might be suffering with the seasonal illnesses as a, as an old head here myself, you know, I'm, I'm 88 years old, as everyone knows, I've tried all of the medications out there by far the best, most effective medicine, I swear to God. is Alka-Seltzer Plus, those little tablets that you just drop in the water and it fizzes and then you drink it. I recommend Alka-Seltzer Plus cold and flu. Even though you don't have the flu, that one includes antihistamine too, which will help with the running mucus. Just get that.
00:02:11
Speaker
I swear it will make you feel a lot better. So there you go. Sure. All
Resident Evil 9 Overview and Excitement
00:02:14
Speaker
right. In this episode, boys and girls, we are going to be deep diving and spoiler casting Resident Evil 9 Requiem.
00:02:24
Speaker
You and I both played and beat this game recently. And just real quick, high level thoughts. What did you think of it? It was amazing. it Honestly, it's, as I've said this on previous episodes, how I kind of want to go back to four. After playing the Leon segments of this game, I kind of want to go back to four even more because, as I've said before on our show, is I much prefer like the survival horror aspect of the games rather than the action combat. so But the way this game melded the two together, it was so good. like The best best way I saw someone describe it is it's like, the perfect mixture of two and four in one Resident Evil game. And absolutely loved it. Obviously, we like wrote down our notes of like kind of what we want to talk about from this game. And one of the things we did not write down really, well, kind of, but not really was the plot because the plot of these games are so stupid that like,
00:03:18
Speaker
You don't play Resident Evil for the amazing plots. It's all about the gameplay, the spoofs, the settings and all that. So overall, this game was absolutely fantastic. I'm so happy that I did not. ah As I said before, I usually wait for them to go on sale just out of principle of like, I don't want to spend 60, 70 bucks on a Resident Evil game. But I'm so happy I went and bought this one day one because it is so good. So, yeah. What it what did you think about this one?
00:03:45
Speaker
Yeah, I agree. I thought this game was phenomenal. it was really, really strong. Amazing story. Really fun combat. Great graphics, too, on the on the PlayStation 5 Pro. It looked really good. yeah um Amazing characters and cast. Great voice acting. Really great.
00:04:01
Speaker
We'll get into it deeper, of course, all the individual elements. um I think this game was was phenomenal. But I don't know that I want to play a whole lot of Resident Evil games all the time, though. Because even though the game was incredible and I loved every minute of it, I was still happy when it was over, though, because just that feeling of unease the whole time you're playing it, not only because it's a little bit spoopy, but also just at times, you know, you're like a little bit lost trying to find this piece, little small puzzles there. It's just like ah a general feeling of unease, you know, as you're playing it, that there is this relief when it's finally all revealed and it's over.
Community Engagement and Merchandise Tangents
00:04:38
Speaker
Um, so I don't know if I'm going to go back and play the whole series right now. I'll probably play maybe one or two a year until I'm eventually, you know, who knows, but I thought it was awesome though. It was really good.
00:04:48
Speaker
yeah Um, so yeah, let me, uh, this is games over plastic, the podcast for the agnostic gamers, no console wars. You can find us every Monday on audio platforms like Spotify, Apple podcasts, overcast pocket cast, every cast. You can find us all over the place. Um, also,
00:05:07
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00:05:18
Speaker
Subscribe to us on YouTube. Leave us comments if you have write-ins or of any feedback. Let us know what you thought of the game if you played it. you know Let us know about your favorite moments, characters, any thoughts, things like that.
00:05:30
Speaker
And we'll read it, and it'll be good times. I know our friends have a lot of thoughts about this game. They're all talking in discord about all the runs they're doing to get this platinum. Cause you apparently have to go through the game like four times to get the freaking platinum. So I'm like, so I don't know if I'll chase the platinum or not, but,
00:05:47
Speaker
once Once I found out that you could do like basically infinite ammo and stuff like that, I'm like, all right, that makes like playing it on insanity mode seem a little less stressful. So maybe, but I'm not going to do it right now because I loved my time with this game, but I'm ready to try or play another game.
00:06:02
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. Did you notice anything new about me, by the way? Oh, nice. Got the Bucky leprechaun. Do they have a new stuffed one? Or is it? Did they have like, oh, they didn't have a leprechaun Bucky. damn du I was so I was really upset. Honestly, I went there. They had the they had the damn Easter Bucky, which I already have. It's like the same one from last. Oh, it's the same one as last year. It looks it looks pretty much identical. So I didn't get it oh wait I have them right here. Yeah, it it looks identical to that. I didn't notice a difference. So I didn't get one.
00:06:33
Speaker
But yeah, I wanted a leprechaun Bucky. that would have been so cool. Imagine the green hat on him, man. It would have been sick. Yeah, that would but because I mean, they had the Uncle Sam when that is the big top hat. So you think they could have done just with the green. Dude, i even I even went for it. I even was walking around and I saw like the store manager was standing out there and I even walked it up to him and I was like, hey, man, do you have any more of the leprechaun buckies?
00:06:53
Speaker
thought maybe they just sold it out, you know, because I went yesterday kind of late in the season. And I was like, do you have any more of the leprechaun buckies? And he's like, the leprechaun buckies? He's like. And I don't think we got any of those these this year. He's like, all I saw was the Easter one.
00:07:07
Speaker
And he's like, yeah, he's like, yeah, we didn't get any this year. We got them last year. But this year we only got the Easter. I was like, damn. OK, so, yeah, but they do have the shirt. So I got Leprechaun, Bucky. And if you can see right here.
00:07:18
Speaker
It says Irish, you know, Irish. I was at Bucky's in 2026. Hell yeah. That second shirt that you see hanging up there, I'm going to send to my dad. So that's why I hang it up there. I was not the same as what's on yours.
00:07:31
Speaker
Yeah, that's what the back says. Yeah. Okay. um So yeah they always put the cool thing on the back. um i don I kind of wish maybe the front. I wish that would happen. But I don't know. This is awesome on the front, too. So, yeah, I'm not huge on like the double sided graphic shirts. I like it when it's just right in the front. Speaking which, I'm wearing my Lumiere shirt. ah IGN had a big clear obscure sale for like three, three, like March 3rd for 33 day or whatever. So I bought this and a couple of the shit, the things from it. But. Yeah, i i like I like just the front graphic. I don't even really like one that, like, there's some where it's like the pocket image and then the back, but I prefer it all. Just give it to me on the front. I don't need the i need back graphic.
00:08:13
Speaker
Yeah, honestly, if they had sold two shirts, one that was just this and then one that said Irish, I was at Bucky's, I probably would have bought both. They could have sold two shirts to me. But yeah, yeah it's it's front and back. That's what they always do. They have like the normal Bucky on the front and then the art on the back. So yeah, and that's fine with me. have been cheaper to print and they would have sold double. Yeah, I would have bought both. I'm sure. Yeah, double up because you know me. I love to wear Bucky shirts. I wear Bucky shirts almost every day of the week. I have so many of them now.
00:08:39
Speaker
dude Just keep them watching in rotation. I'm starting to see Buc-ee shirts all over up here. And they the closest one is in like Missouri from me. So like there's nothing up. So that means everyone's going down to Texas and they're visiting Buc-ee's because you've got it If you're in Texas, you've got to visit Buc-ee's. You can't not. It's it's having Buc-ee's is getting around. They're spreading, man. They're they're building two in Ohio where I'm originally from. My dad's excited because he lives up there. They're going to be Buc-ee's near him now. And they're also building one in Kansas City around Kansas City, which is where which is where a lot of my co-workers work. There's like we have a Kansas City office. yeah So they're excited about having a Buc-ee's right by their office. So.
00:09:17
Speaker
Yeah, I know they they built one in or are building one in Madison, Wisconsin. So that's going to be the closest one to me, which is like three hours away. But I'll probably have to go up there eventually. As long as long as they don't like change up the what a Buc-ee's is, because that's the reason why you go. It's not because of the brand, really. It's because of what's there. So it better stay the same. like They're not changing.
00:09:40
Speaker
So in Chicago, obviously, there's Portillo's, which most people have heard of at at the very least, even if you haven't had it. And they made it a national chain. Like they started franchising all over. And when the guy sold it, he's like, the only thing you cannot do is change the menu. Like I refuse, I will not sell you this if you change the menu. So like they even use the same company to make the bread. Like they don't use different areas. Like they have to ship it and use the same everywhere. Like, so they do everything to make it stay Portillo's like Chicago Portillo's. And I think that's awesome. So that's what Bucky's needs to do. do it needs to it can't lose its its uh its essence yeah no i don't see that happening every bucky's i've ever been to and i've been to like three or four of them they're all the same they're all just huge gas stations they're all super clean they're all the same um they're key they know what makes them great um all they always have super clean bathrooms they're always huge they always got the same snacks they always yeah a lot of times they have bucky walking around greeting people and yeah it's awesome so yeah i don't think they're changing it they're just building more
00:10:40
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, because I went to I went to one in Florida last year and it was the same as anyone in Texas. It just had Key West or whatever, right now, wherever the hell it was. But yeah, it's they so I know what makes their they know what how their bread is buttered, as they say. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Yeah. They know they know not to mess with if it ain't broke, don't fix it kind of thing. So, yeah, definitely. Yeah, I even talked to, because I got a promotion.
00:11:03
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um i I got promotion at work. So I talked to this HR chick and she's in California ah and she saw my shirt. She's like, oh, Buc-ee's. She's like, man, I wish we had a Buc-ee's here in California because she's in our corporate office in California. And I was like, I was like, hey you never know. They're expanding. They might, you might get a Buc-ee's out there one day. She's like, I hope so.
00:11:23
Speaker
So she's even hoping for a Buc-ee's there in California. Everyone knows the everyone except Sean Mason knows the greatness of even even California. People are hoping for Bucky's, you know, yeah the greatness is spreading.
00:11:35
Speaker
Speaking of Sean is not on this episode because he did not play Resident Evil. He is too busy ah building his utopia in Pokemon
Resident Evil 9 Character and Gameplay Discussion
00:11:43
Speaker
Pocopia. So, yes. And also probably playing.
00:11:47
Speaker
Is it Pocopia or Pocopia? Cause he was saying Pocopia and I thought Pocopia like as in utopia, but it's a Pocopia. don't know, but whatever. Tomato, tomato.
00:11:58
Speaker
Yeah, exactly. i don't know The game does look fun, but not as fun as Resident Evil 9. That's right. Great segue back. All right, boys. So let's let's go ahead and get started here. I said, boys, there's only two of us, but we're boys. So ah let's go ahead and start with some high-level, non-spoiler thoughts first of Resident Evil 9.
00:12:19
Speaker
So first of all, what were your thoughts here? I guess Leon versus Grace. What did you prefer? I, as everyone wise, and I guess character wise too. Yeah. As everyone knew ah pretty much going into it. Cause I told people, like I said, even earlier in this episode, I prefer the survival horror, like resident evil over the action. So I did prefer the grace sections. Cause it played basically exactly how resident evil to remake played. Like,
00:12:44
Speaker
Almost exactly. it was the It was the same thing of you're walking around your area, you start off very slow with what you have to survive, and you kind of start building up. You find guns and all that and this and that and the other thing. And it's just the the the fun puzzle thing of going around the like the hospital kind of thing or of whatever it is. And i yeah, I really loved playing as her. And obviously, you know by the end of the game, you do have better weapons and you're kind of a little more.
00:13:11
Speaker
You're not as like Leon can melee people to death, whereas Grace just pushes them. But other than that, like you're so you're kind of on the same level near the end of the game. ah And so I really, I really enjoyed playing as Grace. In terms of the character, I do like Leon, though, more just because he's such a he's such a goober. Like, he's such a stereotypical, like, video game and, like, protagonist of, like, basically, like the ah the Tug Speedman from Tropic Thunder of, like, who left the fridge open? Like that kind of like attitude of making some stupid quip of ah like, I can't remember what he said, like after the motorcycle part, he said something where he like fell and he made so some dumb quip. I'm like, oh my God, so stupid. But, but Leon is a fun character, but I did, i will say I did love playing as Leon. It was, like I said, it it makes me really kind of want to go back to four and try out the action more resident evils. Cause I just loved playing as Leon. Cause you do feel like there's all the memes of like grace versus Leon where it's like grace, like a scared kid hiding in the corner and Leon's just punching through everyone. Like it's, it's such a different vibe, but yeah, I, I really enjoyed playing as both, but I do, I will say I i enjoy playing as grace better. what What about you?
00:14:24
Speaker
Yeah, I agree. ah Grace was fun because you did get the classic horror vibes where you like get a sneak around. you had to kind of wait and hide until the enemy, like the stronger enemies, especially with like pass by and then sneak behind them and run away. Like some of those big annoying enemies that you couldn't take down, you really had to creep past them.
00:14:41
Speaker
um And yeah, she was always like she was always like really scared and stuff, which added to the vibes like she was deep breathing and stuff. and Yeah. Yeah. um Her inventory was super small, which was frustrating. But as part of the experience, i guess. Yeah. I upgraded it every chance I could get. But even still.
00:14:57
Speaker
Yeah. But yeah, Leon was a lot of fun. though What were you going to say? Well, I was gonna say it's really funny because then Leon has that giant suitcase where he can carry an entire arsenal of them. It's so much different. Yeah. Leon was a lot of fun, though, because it it was hardly even a horror game with Leon because you're just destroying everything for the most part, unless it was like a super hard boss like we'll get to later on, you know, some of the fights he had. But yeah, you're just destroying almost everybody with Leon. and wasn't It wasn't even scary. You're just kind of...
00:15:26
Speaker
walking or running through just like boom boom like axing people up and stuff yeah it was great but I enjoyed both I thought it was cool Leon was a good change of pace when you're tired of being scared because you're like okay I can just mess stuff up now you know yeah but yeah I like both I think Leon is is a cooler character you know he's a Chad he's a total Chad and yeah he always did have those little stereotypical like one-liners afterwards which i always thought were funny i always got a little chuckle i don't remember what they were ah but he would have like some stereotypical like quips afterwards like he'd kill someone someone he'd be like he'd say something like he didn't say this exactly but he'd say something along the lines of like i guess it's cleaning day or something like that It was like it's kind of corny, but awesome at the same time. you know like yeah but Basically, like if you like took out an elevator, it'd be going down. Something like that. It'd be something really stupid. That's great, dude. But he was a Chad, though. Total Chad. And Grace, she' was like you know she's just like this this girl. like Pretty frail. Very scared. Kind of shy. Yeah.
00:16:28
Speaker
One thing I will say about Grace, and this ah this is this is spoilerish, but it's not spoilerish because who gives a fuck? It literally has nothing to do with the story. She needs to learn to lock up her damn computer. What is wrong with her? like She works at the FBI, and like every time she gets up from her computer, like one if you ever work in an office, one thing you know, you've got to lock up your computer when you get up because there's confidential shit on there, especially if you work at the FBI. Hello? And like she just gets up to go meet with her boss and stuff at the beginning of the game and at the end of the game to just leaves her computer wide open like anybody like anybody could sneak in there like dressing up as the man maintenance man or whatever and just like grab confidential files and shit.
00:17:08
Speaker
Come on lock your computer. It's just Windows shift L or whatever or Windows. yeah When I when I worked in when I worked in banking they made it a thing like you have to lock your computer every time you get up like you cannot leave your computer unlocked. Yeah, it's very important to secure, you know, confidential shit. But yeah, i always thought that I was like, what are you doing, girl?
00:17:26
Speaker
but yeah But yeah, she was cool. I like Grace. I like Leon. Good characters. ah And then we and then we also have first verse third person. What did you play in and what did you prefer?
00:17:38
Speaker
So I actually i so for a little bit, I tried the first person with Grace, but. I just, I didn't like switching between first and third. So eventually I just switched grace to third person and just rolled with it that way. It just, cause the thing I like about this game, cause I was even testing it. Like if you're in first person and you open a drawer, like it will, ah it'll have the animation of you, of you, like your hand reaching down, pulling open the drawer like thing. And then, but if you're in third person, it just has her do it from behind. Like, so, It's not like so like in Resident Evil eight. I don't know if you ever played village. Did you?
00:18:17
Speaker
No.
In-Depth Story and Gameplay Analysis
00:18:18
Speaker
OK, so in Resident Evil eight, whenever you would do anything, even if you had it in third, like I tried playing in third person for a little bit, but it wasn't built for third person. So anytime something happened, it would switch you to first person and then do whatever the cutscene is. And it just really ruined it. Like it it just kept taking me out of it. So eventually I just played the whole game and in first person. yeah And so they fixed it with this game. So I was able to play third person and it never felt like I was like, there was only like two scenes. I have to start when you're, um when your mom hands you like the lighter or whatever in the hotel room and you're in first person for that, but then it switches you to third person. That's really the only time it does it. It doesn't do like the whole thing of like every cut scene switches you to first person to show it again. so
00:19:00
Speaker
I preferred playing her in third person and then Leon was obviously a third person because that his is definitely built for that but what did you what did you play? So I started off ah in first person on Grace. I played the first half of the game or more in first person. Obviously, Leon was third person because that's the default, like kind of recommended for him. Yeah. um So, yeah, I started out as intended. ah But at the end of the game, I did also switch Grace to third person to just I don't know. I was just like, man let me try third person for both of them.
00:19:31
Speaker
I also because I wanted to check out her outfit because I put on the apocalypse outfit that I had for her that was like a pre-order special or whatever, which was a ah pretty sick outfit. But yeah, so, ah you know, I just I ended up switching it, but it was cool playing, especially like the early scarier parts, like in the.
00:19:48
Speaker
the hospital um Yeah, we're in the non spoiler section. So I'm not gonna go into big details. But yeah, like in first person made it a little bit more spooky, ah you know, creeping around looking at the people going past you and stuff and sneaking behind them and stuff. You can't really see much in peripheral or behind you made it definitely more scary.
00:20:06
Speaker
Yeah, I don't obviously. yeah I don't want spoil anything yet. But that the first like monster, quote unquote, that you come across in that hospital when it just comes out of like the dark hallway, you're like, holy crap, this is terrifying. dude the the r re engine or whatever it's called is so good this game's lighting was amazing i couldn't believe how good this game looked and like you said especially on the ps5 pro which is how i played it holy crap it was that that pro enhancement was so so so so good uh i loved how this game looked but Yeah, i I wanted to play her in first just because I know that's like at the start of the game, it says Grace is intended to play in first and Leon's intended to play in like it even tells you like this is probably how you should play it. So that's why I did start it as first person. But then I was just like,
00:20:57
Speaker
Yeah, I don't know. I just prefer third person RE. Like, 7 I thought was great in first person because obviously it was built that way. RE Village played well in first person because that's what it was built for. So, like, when they're built for that, it makes sense. But the fact that this game was built for both, I just prefer. So, nursing which one do you think I should play next?
00:21:18
Speaker
um So which ones have you I know you played the OG 2. I played 1 and I played the OG 2 and I don't really remember shit from 2. I did watch a spoiler or a story recap before I played this of 2, so that's cool.
00:21:31
Speaker
um But yeah, I don't really, cause I was going to say too, but if you, if you've played it or if you watched a recap, maybe not, but maybe should do four. it has. Well, yeah, I guess. Did you prefer the action or the horror part of it? Like, did you, so I don't even know. yeah i Cause I know you said you like both, but did you prefer Leon over grace vice versa? I mean, the action is less spoopy. So yeah, was good. Then, yeah, I would say probably four.
00:21:57
Speaker
That's probably your best bet. That game is phenomenal. uh well for according to everyone else but i again i want to be on one yeah yeah i i want to go back to it i i uh i need to adjust my audio i keep spiking i'm gonna turn it down a little bit you sound good to me honestly i wouldn't mess with it okay i didn't i didn't touch it much but um yeah i would say see now you're quiet you should turn it back up man okay hold on mess up the audio on the All right. um I turned it back to pretty much where it was. All Yeah, i would I would say if you like the Leon part, play four. Again, I do want to go back to it now because I went into four with the mindset of I've played two, seven, and eight, and three. And so they're all very...
00:22:40
Speaker
similar in the sense that they were more horror focused than action focused. So i when I went to got to four, it was very action focused and I just did. It just didn't vibe with me. So I do want to go back now that I have played the action part of this. So I would say if you like the Leon part, I would go to four.
00:22:55
Speaker
come Yeah. And then what about if I wanted the other? If you want spoofs, I would say seven. I actually love seven. ah That one is probably the scariest of them. It's very horror centric. It's very scary. But and then if you kind of want to mix, I guess eight is pretty action heavy, too. It's not it's first person and it is spooky, but you get a lot of weapons in eight. So you're fighting, you know, you're mowing down.
00:23:23
Speaker
down villains and in eight. So I honestly I would. Well, we'll get to it when we kind of I'll rank them at the end of all of how I feel about each Resident Evil game. But yeah yeah, I would say if you want action, go for if you want spoops, go seven.
00:23:39
Speaker
That's probably how I would. I would say, I mean, I would say play two, but since you watched a recap, I'd say maybe wait on that and go back to it eventually just because obviously you just watched everything about the game. So it'd be a little, it would be a little less exciting if you're going through being like, I remember this from the recap. I remember this from the recap. So, I'd wait on that one, but I would play probably two and three back to back when you do three is the worst one, but it's not bad. It's just it's just not great. Like the gameplay is pretty fun because it's more an action heavy. It is a little more action and you move faster, but the nemesis parts are all scripted, unlike Mr. X and two and even in.
00:24:17
Speaker
Well. you You it's not scripted. He's always following you. So that makes a lot scarier. Whereas in three, it's scripted when he shows up. So it it ruins an essence. And the game's only like four hours long. It's really, really short. So that's kind of most people's complaints with three. But yeah, i would two, two is definitely the one I would say. But since you watch recap, I'd say four or seven. It's probably what I'd go with.
00:24:40
Speaker
All right. Sounds good. I say we get into it. Let's get into spoilers. Let's talk about the game. You ready? Yes, let's do it. All right. So, yeah, let's just go ahead and start with the game here. So shall we just kind of talk about the actual story? Yeah, let's just kind of go from space to space, I guess, kind of like setting to setting or whatever. But yeah, the game kind of starts out. Well, there's a there's a flashback, right, where you're like your young Grace and the in the in the hotel with your mom and you see your mom die because she was on the run.
00:25:13
Speaker
And then, uh, and then you're, and then you flash forward and you are now in the FBI graces and she gets called in and she's told that she's being sent to this hotel to investigate this virus that's going on, um, that people have. And it's the same hotel where her mom was killed.
00:25:29
Speaker
Right. Yeah. And they send her alone for some reason. Yeah, that's so weird. They this to the young girl. How old is she? I don't know. She looks really young. and she My late 20s. And then she they flash back eight years and she looked almost the exact same age. I'm like, this is weird. But looks exactly maybe she's a vampire. But ah anyway, they send her by herself, which is cool. Weird. But ah yeah, she goes to investigate the hotel. Right.
00:25:55
Speaker
And that's when it pops off. That's when it pops off. We meet Dr. Gideon, right? He shows up and abducts Grace. Dude, he ah he was such a cool designed villain, but I felt like they kind of underutilized him. Like, he didn't really do much. Like, he's at the end a little bit, and then obviously we'll get to it, but he's, like, the the big bad in a way, but, like, also not. Like, he's such a weird weird character, because he would, like I said, he was, like, such a cool designed character, and he was very, like, imposing, because he's, like, seven feet tall. Yeah, but I loved...
00:26:34
Speaker
This is I did play this part in first person just because I knew it'd be so creepy is when you get to that hotel and it's like burnt down and all that like I because I was I was still deciding if I want first or third but I played it in first because I knew and that setting is so cool of going through that and then after you go it does like the flashback and all that and then you go downstairs And that cop comes in. He's like, something bit me. And then he turn you see him turn into the zombie. And it's so creepy. Because, again, the lighting is so good that way. He's like jumping at you, jumping in the light and stuff. It is so, so well done. um But, yeah, then the introduction of Gideon, he walks out and he just starts shooting people with the T-virus. Just like, all right, yeah make a distraction for me. Because that's when our boy Leon shows up. And then you get the very brief... I do love because it was the very video gamey thing of like at the start of the game where it shows you at full power. And so he gets out there with that pistol that just one shots everyone. And you're just bowing through the zombies. Like, yeah, this is Leon is he's going through Just destroying fuckers. And that was a, that was a lot of, lot of fun to just go through and just, yeah, destroy all these zombies and stuff.
00:27:46
Speaker
Yeah, Leon shows up with the Requiem, that Super Pistol or whatever. That's the name of the fucking game. Duh. But ah yeah, so it does that. And then obviously that's a very short opening. But again, i want to just say to get like when it starts and you're just on the Chicago street walking to the hotel, it looks so good. Like just that's like, mean, it looks like Chicago, just a shithole. And you're just walking through and just seeing that the Lorraine coming down, the lighting, just everything. It just looks so good. And I actually I saw one review that made me kind of
00:28:24
Speaker
A little bit of agree, but not, you know, super like obviously I love the game start to finish, but they're saying like at the start you get this amazing looking cityscape and the hotel and then you get the amazing looking hospital that you're going through and then you get to the like the underground arc and it looks so just plain.
00:28:42
Speaker
And it just doesn't look as good. And it seems like they didn't put as much effort into making that look cool. And I kind of I i didn't really think about it while I playing. But then at the after I was like, oh, yeah, I really didn't think about that. But it's true. It just seems so stale compared to the rest of that game, because as we'll get to that next is the hospital. It looked awesome. And I loved It it was very like the police station from two where you're going to the different wings and you have to unlock each thing and all that. It was I absolutely, absolutely loved it. So let's have like, yeah, let's get to the hospital and especially the monsters that you come across in that hospital.
00:29:22
Speaker
Yeah, so you get to the hospital, and the girl, you know, first ah grabs Grace, right? And then Leon saves the day. That girl was creepy and annoying as fuck, dude. She was chasing you for, like, so long.
00:29:35
Speaker
Yeah. I was so glad when she finally died. The fact, even though she comes back, but the... ah the The fact that she was blind, I immediately knew that was the girl in the other shut the other cell. Like, they definitely. And so when she's trying to save, what was it? Emily was the little girl's name. She's like trying so hard. i'm like, that thing is a monster. Like, why are you trying so hard? obviously I didn't know that. Yeah, obviously. I didn't so that i didn't see that transformation coming.
00:30:03
Speaker
Yeah, I didn't see it really coming in the sense of like it would happen that way. But I was like, she's obviously like infected or something like something like that. But also, I got to say, even though this is jumping ahead a little bit, how did she not recognize that it's herself?
00:30:17
Speaker
Like, how do you not know it's a childhood version of yourself? Like, if I saw eight-year-old me run to the room, I'd be like, what the fuck? That's eight-year-old me. Like, what is happening? So how did how did she not realize that? And then, like, cause she has that sudden flashback later of, like, I remember now when I was in that orphanage and all the creepy bald girls were killing everyone. It's like, you forgot all that while the Emily stuff was happening? like Yeah, but that flashback was way later, wasn't it?
00:30:45
Speaker
that was like after That was after emily died, right? I think so. Yeah. Yeah. wait But the fact that it's like suddenly she remembers that it's like, I feel like that was a pretty traumatizing night that all the clones of you were going around murdering everyone. I feel like that's not something you're going to forget, but, but the, uh, the, yeah, the, the creepy blind. way that will send No, that wasn't even, that wasn't even her memory. That wasn't Grace's memory.
00:31:10
Speaker
We were watching a video of that. all that we were playing We were playing through it, but the context was they were showing a video of it. to solve Oh, that's right. Because, yeah, she was looking at the screen and she saw herself get like kidnapped when she got to the one room or whatever. Yeah, because remember, Grace actually was just a normal human that he adopted. Spencer adopted. like She wasn't a test subject or a clone.
00:31:32
Speaker
She was? Yeah. You don't remember that? The interview. Oh. All right. we'll get We'll get to that. Yeah, Grace is not a a clone or a test subject. She's a normal girl. Normal human girl. Yeah, I'm an idiot. yeah But these other people are clones of grace. Oh, OK. Yeah.
00:31:49
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OK.
00:31:51
Speaker
Yeah, and then also in that, the we had the chef, which was a super creepy like dude just trolling holes. Oh, he was scary early on, man. Yeah, and then also... He was like, the beats. Also fucking, ah yeah, fatty honey boo-boo in the other half of the hospital. That thing, I read i found out you could stab it three times with those, like, explodey things, and that kills it. So that's how i was able... I actually killed the big fatty goober. Yeah, I just guided it and ran away.
00:32:20
Speaker
yeah yeah i i it was actually it was a trophy to to kill him with uh it's like kill fatty goober as as grace or whatever was the trophy so um but yeah i absolutely and then oh also the other one which i killed two like the two like sirens kind of ones the ones that are singing and screaming yeah those ones those weren't that hard to kill though Yeah, they weren't super. They took a couple extra bullets, but they weren't like too difficult. But I thought there was just so creepy and such like those ones reminded me actually of Bioshock, like the splicers. That's kind of what they reminded me of, of like the when you'd walk into a room and there'd be like a splicer just singing to itself or something like singing. Jesus loves me or something like that. It was so I absolutely love those villains. actually avoided it for the first because when you when you first find one of them, you're kind of I didn't have much ammo or whatever. And I was terrified. don't know what the hell this thing does. So I just snuck around it. And eventually, once I had more ammo and stuff, I went and blew its head off. But yeah, those things, those things were so, so creepy of those villains. What do you think your favorite one was or the spoopiest?
00:33:27
Speaker
So in the hospital, um honestly, the girl was the most annoying and she was just constantly creeping up through the ceiling and grabbing you the blind one that was chasing and grabbing you. And then she follows you down into the lower levels, too. And like and she follows you a lot, dude. It's really annoying. And I was really glad when we finally kill her. But yeah, in the hospital, like you're basically tasked to get those three emblems to open that door.
00:33:51
Speaker
um i remember I got the first emblem pretty easy. And then the second emblem, it actually took me a while to get because I didn't get the corrosive for ah quite a while because of the, you know, it's in that room with the screamer and like four or five zombies. yeah So when I first saw that, I saw the screamer and the four or five zombies started running at me. I was like, fuck that. I got out of there. So I didn't go back to that room for a while. It took me a while to go back there and find that corrosive. yeah it it only took i had to go back like two times to get the corrosive and it wasn't because like of the villains right it was because my inventory was full so so i couldn't pick up the corrosive and that was what was so annoying was that part and then oh god actually one of the more you can drop something yeah i i eventually i think i just used like a med kit or whatever but um
00:34:43
Speaker
or I went and stored some stuff because in the down in the main area, you could obviously store things. But yeah, another one that was awesome that really made me jump was when you're trying to find the organs for the one zombie and you go down, you find is either the heart of the lungs. don't remember which one on that truck. And then all of a sudden the fucking plow comes through the wall. Yeah. Oh, that made me jump so badly. I was like, holy shit.
00:35:07
Speaker
Yeah, the first time it killed me because I wasn't sure if I was supposed to shoot it or if I was supposed to like hide behind a corner and it passed me. So I tried to hide behind a corner and it passed me and it impaled me and I died. So then the second time I was like, okay, and it is funny. I only had to shoot it like twice and it died. i was like, okay. Yeah, you just, you kind of just shoot the zombie in the face and it eventually stops at the end. Yeah. Yeah.
00:35:30
Speaker
yeah that that one no one got me but uh dude being down on those lower levels with the blind one following you and you have to use the power cells to like get around that one yeah that one was creepy as fuck because yeah there's no fighting that thing so you're just having to hide and hope that it walks past because there was a couple times actually where i was like i'd go into a cell and crouch because it's blind but it would still go in the cell and grab me i'm like what the fuck how you so let's Yeah, so let's talk about that one. So that was the third gem, right? So for the third gem, we had to enlist the help of Emily, the girl. So we, because it was Braille on the thing, like we couldn't solve the puzzle.
00:36:06
Speaker
Yeah. So we had to go get Emily and say, hey, come help us. So we carry Emily. We had to clear out the way, carry Emily there. She's helping the puzzle. And then of course we had to kill like a million zombies while she's killing the, doing the puzzle. yeah And then she gets kidnapped. Frickin thing comes right through the wall, smashes through the wall and kidnaps her. Um,
00:36:25
Speaker
crazy and then so yeah we go down to save her and then we're down in this section with the girl she's in jail yeah at first when it showed her laying in the bed downstairs my first thought actually was it's not Emily that's the other girl from the other cell but then I realized I'm like wait the monster girl is the other girl from the other cell and especially at one point It might have been when you're on the elevator trying to leave.
00:36:50
Speaker
She like comes up to you and she says, let's play. And that's exactly that. That's what it confirmed. I'm like, oh, if that's obviously no no because, yeah, she yeah has the childlike thing, which is also another awesome thing about the zombies in this game. It might have been in the other games, too. And I just. remember miss or not forgetting it but i love that the zombies all had like characteristics as if they were like kind of still alive like the one guy always trying to turn off the light switches yeah yeah like too bright yeah yeah and like yeah everyone just had like their and like the big fatty goober was always like it's your fault and don't don't know what he's yelling about but and the girl's like let's play i just loved that everyone had like their own little character and
00:37:32
Speaker
That's the thing I love about, especially Resident Evil 2, is that there's always just like... a set amount of zombies. It's not like a game where it's an infinite monster closet where there's always just new villains. Every time you go back, there's they respond or whatever. Like there's always that set amount. And so I i love that of you walk into a room and a zombie you killed is gone. You're like, oh shit, where'd it go? yeah Looking around like, where the hell that zombie? And then yeah, like with that two rooms later something like with the security chief when you came back and he wasn't at his desk. Yeah. With Emily. Yeah. I was like, oh fuck, where did he go? Yeah, exactly.
00:38:10
Speaker
Which is hilarious because I thought I was laughing at the at the moment because she comes back. She's like, oh, thank God. And I'm like, do you say thank God? The body's gone. Where is he? yeah like That's not normal. The the corpse is gone. He wasn't just sleeping.
00:38:26
Speaker
like The guy was dead and his corpse is gone. what you like like We're going to have to deal with him soon. Yeah, yeah. i yeah i love I just absolutely love that. but The only time where it was like infinite was the... blister head dudes all The Oh, the blisterheads, yeah. That's the thing. It sucked because you had that stuff to explode them so they wouldn't come back as that. But it's like you have so few of them that you're not going around to every corpse. so you had to just kind of hope that they didn't come back half the time. And most the they did come back. But... um
00:38:56
Speaker
The one section that was also kind of infinite was the... where you had to lower the water and then the like a grinder thing started and there's just like the, the, the, uh, conveyor belt of zombies that came through and it was cool.
00:39:10
Speaker
It introduced you to Molotovs though. This was pretty cool. Cause then they just burn up and then they get shredded. ah And it was, it was nice. Cause then you can conserve ammo just by pushing them and then you'd push them towards it and catch them and shred them up and stuff like that. Yeah. That's what I did.
00:39:23
Speaker
i just shot them like once and then I pushed them into. Yeah. Cause then they'd stagger and that's when you want to shove them. And yeah, dode I, Man, I love the set pieces in the in this game. there's it's it's so It's so, so good. And then, i yeah do when you ah escape the basement, her hand gets chopped off and you can pick it up.
00:39:46
Speaker
Did that do anything? Did I just not Okay, so you just picked it up for. No, that was just all a whole jump scare because you thought that Grace's hand got chopped off. Or her leg, yeah. because she her her leg, yeah yeah. We thought her leg got chopped off. I was like, oh shit, she lost a leg. but yeah like it looked like but And then it was like, nope, it was just her.
00:40:04
Speaker
Yeah, because you could add the hand to your inventory. And I was like, oh. yeah Well, I didn't find a use for it. Maybe you can find it. Someone in the comments, please please let us know if that hand used. There might be a use then. yeah mean It could be one of those like new game plus things and where you use it to do this, that, and that. Because I know in like in Silent Hill,
00:40:24
Speaker
Oh, after you do the initial run through, you'll find stuff that'll get you to an alternate endings and stuff like that. So I wonder if it, I wonder if it does something like that, but yeah. Yeah. All right.
00:40:35
Speaker
So then what what happened after that? So we we finally killed the girl by opening the skylight, right? when you Once you restore the power, she finally melts and dies. Thank God. Yeah. and And Emily, you know, Emily, she took damage from the helicopter crash, which we really didn't talk about. There was a helicopter. oh yeah. You know, they got in the helicopter, tried to escape. Bunch of zombies were on it. It crashed. Emily got hurt by like a tree branch, you know, and Emily's dying. You're doing CPR on her.
00:41:03
Speaker
And she turns into a big bad. Yeah, dude, the the helicopter part, i really thought I really thought that that character was going to end up being like a like ah just a weirdo or something. But it did it turns out he was just a guy wanted to get the hell out of there on a helicopter. But yeah, that whole part of going down to the basement of that house where you find ah Gideon's experiments and stuff. And then i there was so, again, like...
00:41:29
Speaker
These games are so fun, but like if you looked at them from the outside, you think they're like these serious horror games. But the fact that it's like an evil lair and he turns on a self-destruct button and you have to escape the place before it self-destructs. I'm like, it's such a video game. You think it's so stupid. Yeah.
00:41:46
Speaker
But yeah, I love that that part. And then, yeah, obviously the the helicopter crashes and that's when it goes back to Leon and you watch the sniper. yeah Yeah, you get to do the sniper defense thing, which was that was a lot of fun. Just just picking off snipe ah picking off zombies while they're trying to get to Grace. and um Then, yeah, obviously, yeah, it cuts forward a little bit, and then the girl, Emily, dies. But honestly, i like... So, obviously, we find out at the end, which we'll get to, that there is a cure to this stuff. Because I was kind of in Leon's thing like, no, just what it why like why is she so upset? Like, she turned into a big... you know, jelly bean monster, like it, it kill it. Like, why are you so like, obviously, yeah it's upsetting the girl died and she was trying to save her and everything, but it's like, no, you have to kill it. You shot the, the big goober monster. So why is she so upset? And then obviously we find out later. Oh, well, cool. but
00:42:41
Speaker
yeah i was unexpected care But yeah yeah, I was very happy to be rid of the yeah the demon though. i like I did like that section of going around turning on the lights and everything because I mean, obviously I'm more of a stealth gamer than like I love stealth games and I know you're not huge on stealth games. So I like the sneaking around it and like trying to get the stuff. turned on to get it killed and everything and i thought that was a lot i enjoyed that section too yeah but i was i was definitely happy to finally it what is hilarious though because like you kill you kill that and she's like oh thank god it's dead and it's like that was also a little girl why are you so excited to kill that one well did she know that that was a little girl
00:43:23
Speaker
um she did um Probably not. yeah Because Emily transformed after that. So I don't think she she probably hadn't put two and two together. you know Yeah, probably. yeah Because right after that, you go into Emily and Emily's dead. So she starts doing CPR and that's when Emily transforms. Leon runs in, pumps a couple shots in and boom.
00:43:43
Speaker
yeah And at that point, our heroes separate because Grace is distraught. She's like really upset. She couldn't save Emily. So she ends up going off with Dr. Gideon and Zeno, which we meet Zeno finally.
00:43:56
Speaker
was is i don't i guess you you haven't played too many. Is that like a new character? or Because at first I thought it was like ah we Wexler or whatever his name Wesker. Wesker, yeah. yeah I watched a video and someone said that that might be like a clone version of Wesker. But it's not it's not it's not the actual Wesker is what he was saying. But it kind of looked like Wesker.
00:44:18
Speaker
Yeah. You the slick back hair wearing the sunglasses. i just... But that's another one where it's like... It's so... Not even not even so like Resident Evil. It's so Japanese of like... He's the guy with like superpowers. He's just like quick and dodging bullets and stuff like that. It's like... It's so anime. The Matrix too. Yeah. He's such an like an anime villain. I thought he was so funny. But it was weird that you weren't introduced to him until halfway through the game. But... Because it's the thing of like...
00:44:48
Speaker
When she she leaves and Gideon's there, like, ah everybody bra whatever he says. And then he just shows up. And it's just like, so that's why I thought it was Wesker. Because I'm like, oh, shit. Like, it's actually, he's the big bad. Not, you know, Scarface, Splinter Cell guy. gidey and Gideon. it's It's this guy. And then I find out, no, it's not even Wesker. I'm like, okay. So they had this big reveal for a guy who...
00:45:12
Speaker
Yeah, so really so Zeno works for the, ah the what's it called? Hold on, I have it notes. No. The Collections.
00:45:25
Speaker
um He works for the Collections, which is like the criminal organization or whatever that's working behind the scenes. um You know, that helped bring down Umbrella, actually. um And they took over the arc.
00:45:36
Speaker
So he he's supposed to be like a clone of Wesker. And the reason why the reason why that is suspected is actually ah at the end when you're on the platform. um Dr. Gideon, like when they start beefing at the end, um he says something to him like, you're not you're nothing but a replica or something like that.
00:45:56
Speaker
Oh, okay. Yeah, so. Yeah, yeah I don't think, i it's I'm pretty sure that he that's not actually Wesker, but it might be a clone of him because it was also mentioned that, you know, that that dude that you fight, like the commando dude or whatever that you fight, um is supposed to be, he might be a clone of a guy from a previous game that people liked.
00:46:17
Speaker
Punk or someone, or i don't know. I forget the guy's name. So who knows? You know, the foundation is cloning people allegedly. Yeah. Yeah. So anyway, so Zeno, Dr. Gideon and distraught Grace fly off to Raccoon City to the center because she is Grace is the key that can unlock Elpis. We're finding out about this Elpis. We don't know what it is. We're told that it's a ah ah weapon.
00:46:46
Speaker
that can you know control minds and win wars and make lots of money, right? So that's what we're told. So she she ends up going with them because she's distraught that she can't save anyone, and Emily died, and she just she just wants to find out what the fuck's going on, I guess. yeah um so And Leon can't do anything because at the moment that that happens, he's he's coughing up blood and having bad symptoms from his T-virus. So um he finally, he gets in his car or whatever, or a bike.
00:47:12
Speaker
a bike i don't know well he drives he drives to raccoon city in his porsche and then he finds bike yeah yeah after the segment and that's right yeah so he goes to raccoon city yeah what did you think about returning to raccoon city i thought it was great i so that that was when i realized in our discord people were like you have to play these ones before you play nine i was like just play whatever it doesn't matter and then i realized like okay there are some moments in this game where i'm like yeah it would make it would be more impactful if you did play two but it It doesn't really matter, but as someone who played Resident Evil 2 for the first time ah three or four or five years ago, like that, absolutely loved... like I remember every little thing about that police station walking in. and In the back, even make like if you hit X on one of the statues, he goes, man, that was a weird puzzle. like it's like he makes those He makes those comments and stuff. and I absolutely loved going back there. and It was just so cool seeing... like
00:48:09
Speaker
Cause it was like frozen and obviously there was like the men double ACP or whatever that group was that was there. ah They, they, they moved around shit in the place, but there's still so much stuff that's like frozen in time of like, it's still 1996. Like there's the welcome banner for Leon on his first day. Cause in RE2, it is his first day. at Raccoon City Police. And like, so ah it's just frozen in time. And then you walk down the hallway, there's something like the one zombie cop walking down the hallway and he's like, oh, he deserved better. And like, he you you know, you kill it because it's the zombie. And It was so I absolutely loved that return. I really wish it hadn't been spoiled in the trailers that like that reveal. That's why I don't watch trailers. I know. I that's i i don't watch them anymore. I saw. Yeah, I try to avoid them as much as I can. But obviously, all these trailers because they don't just release on YouTube anymore. They just they're always at a showcase. And it's like, yeah,
00:49:03
Speaker
I'm watching the showcase, so I guess I got a lot. And yeah, I really wish that wasn't revealed. Because I remember even us, we said, it was either during like one of the one of the showcases or whatever, we did our reactions. we're like, I've seen enough of this game. Why do you keep showing this? Like, yeah I really wish they hadn't spoiled it. But at the same time, it was so cool just walking through that station and finding everything. And sadly, it was a quick it was a quicker... segment than I thought it would be because after that you just go into Raccoon City and you have to blow up the gate which takes like two hours of going around and finding all the little parts for it and everything but the actually being in the police station was so such a cool moment what did you think of that
00:49:41
Speaker
Yeah, it was cool. So you go to the raccoon you know police department or whatever ah from the second game, which I didn't remember much, but it was cool. yeah You go into the star's office and you see ah the hat and the jacket and all the all the memorabilia from the previous game. um And yeah, that was cool. You know you had to open up the one wing and then you open up the other wing.
00:50:03
Speaker
um It was cool. You also went to the gas station across the street. That was also from a previous game that I didn't play, but I i heard that it was. um And that was cool, too, because you had a huge scene where everything catches fire and there's a whole bunch of zombies coming after you. That was pretty cool. Yeah. And that that actually, i liked that they had the cut scenes from RE2 remake in it where it showed like the dad and he's trying to save his kid and all that. And then it cuts back and you just see a skull still sitting there on the ground like, oh, man, that sucked. Because it it wasn't like a huge, it was like a cool moment in the in the plot, like in the story, in the original, but it wasn't like a long segment. It's basically once you leave Raccoon before you go into the the sewers, you go through that gun shop and that part happens. and But yeah, that that was that was a really cool moment of going to that as well. Leon's upset that he couldn't save him.
00:50:54
Speaker
Yeah. He's upset that he can't save anyone. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Um, actually in the bad ending, which we'll get to later. Yeah. He makes a comment about, Oh, at least I could save you fun. Yeah. But, uh, yeah. So that was cool. You know, and you get through the police station and then you had, yeah, you have to go on this chase where you have to get the three power or the three keys to the detonator. Uh, that was a nice chase, you know, three different objectives. Um, fun, fun little excursions. And then ah you finally put that together.
00:51:24
Speaker
You blow the gate. You unlock. You get the but motorcycle, right? Cool motorcycles. Every Japanese game has a motorcycle segment where you're fighting people on a motorcycle. It's like obligatory. Final Fantasy 7 had it, of course. like and They always put them in there, dude.
00:51:40
Speaker
You gotta be on a motorcycle fighting people. Yeah. I will say this was the one part of the game that I really wasn't a fan of. Like, I get it. It's, it's just corny and campy and it's, it's Japanese, but it, it, it kind of takes it. Like, obviously he is a tank and he's just, you know, plow, you know, plowing through zombies left and right. But this part, it just felt so stupid. like Like there's one part where you ride your motorcycle up a building and wrap the whole skyscraper. And then going over down to the net. like,
00:52:10
Speaker
all right, this is really stupid. Like, yeah, I, it didn't like kill the, it didn't kill the game for me. Like one of the moments in like, I've talked about an Indiana Jones in the game where almost took me out game entirely, but it it was so stupid when, when it was done, I'm like, thank God that's over. That was so, yeah so stupid. You had Gideon on the roof shooting RPGs at you and stuff. Yeah. And then Zeno was on the bike ahead of you eating a hundred bullets and not dying. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. The, uh,
00:52:40
Speaker
Was it the police station or later when you fight, when the good old Mr. X returns? is that after this? or That was in the police station, and I think. I can't remember. i don't know why I'm blanking on that. But yeah, it's like I want to touch on that really quick. So yeah, Mr. X makes his return. Yeah, I mean, either way, we'll get to it. It's either here or before. I can't remember. but It was in the police station, yeah.
00:53:01
Speaker
Okay, yeah. So Mr. X returns and you have to it it just has the very that was cool. Yeah, it has a very quick thing of like, you have to still run away from him. And this one is a little more scripted than it was in Resident Evil 2. was very, very unscripted where he's just always following you like. Yeah.
00:53:20
Speaker
But this one, it was very like, go down this hallway, he breaks through the wall. Oh God, turn around, go this way, breaks through the wall. Like that one was very more scripted, but it was cool to see him return. But at the same time, I did feel like this is kind of just member berries in a way. Cause it was member because you kill him at the end of resident evil two. He's the main bad guy. You kill him. So like, yeah why is he back and just in his trench coat? Like, Well, according according to the video I watched again, this wasn't the same Nemesis. This is Nemesis 501. There's some Resident Evil nerd video I watched. Yeah. He's a master of the lore. but He looks at the part, though. He looks the same. Yeah.
00:53:54
Speaker
But yeah, i still love that. That was super cool, though. And that was a fun boss fight where you're just having a pump it and just keep shooting him in the heart while he's like throwing cars at you. Yeah, he's throwing cars. Yeah, that was fun. Yeah. Yeah, but that that was it was it was I liked that it didn't stick around too long, though. It was just very basically a quick boss fight. And so it wasn't because at first I thought like, oh, the rest of the game, are we going have him following us again? Is that what we're doing? We're just going right back to him following us. But no, it's just a very quick boss battle. And then he's dead and you move on and Yeah.
00:54:27
Speaker
Yeah, but I, yeah, it it was a fun boss battle. Maybe one of my favorites right there. Yeah, there was a spider boss battle, too. That was all right. I don't know. I don't like spiders, but it was OK. Actually, i don't mind. Oh, yeah. That one wasn't too bad. But yeah, I don't like spiders either. So it was actually the big spider. I didn't mind. It was the little ones. I was like, I don't want. Yeah, they were annoying. They jumped on your face. Yeah. Yeah. little creepy ass spider bastards. yeah Actually, i don't mind spiders. i I leave spiders alone usually in my house because they kill the other bugs unless unless they are big or scary. If they're big or scary, they got to die. But if it's like small and non-threatening looking, I'll leave them alone and let them just kill the other insects because that's fine because they me and the spiders have an agreement. We both hate the other insects. So they go ahead and kill them. That's fine. But if it's if it's a big or a scary looking spider, it's got to go.
00:55:15
Speaker
You know what mean? If it's a little one that I don't think could hurt me or anything, I'll just I'll just let them be in the corner, you know? you know Anyway, back to Resident Evil. So you kill Dr. or dr X. You kill Mr. X, whatever. Is is that his name? yeah Yeah. And then what happens after that? We head off towards the Ark, right?
00:55:33
Speaker
Yep. Is that where you're going? Yep. So the Ark, of course, is the underground facility. We find out that you know the nuking or the bombing or whatever of Resident Evil wasn't just to kill the infection. It was actually to hide Elpis in the Ark facility. And this was all actually instigated by... the connections, um, that organization, um, they took over the arc and they lobbied the government, like, go ahead and nuke it, uh, go ahead and bomb it because we have control now and we'll pin it all on umbrella and we'll take control. Um, then that's what they did.
00:56:03
Speaker
So you, you finally get to, uh, you finally get to arc. And before that, that's when you finally have that flashback because grace is shown this video by Zeno and That's when you see that's when you see the video of the ah the orphanage and you get to play as you get to play as one of the clone girls while all the sisters are freaking out. And that was creepy, dude.
00:56:27
Speaker
Dude, those things were so – because they had the – They were giggling. Yeah, because they did the perfect horror movie thing of not only are they little girls, but they're giggling while they're being creepy and murdering people. They go up and twist a guy's neck while they're giggling, and it's just like, oh, you know how to be creepy as fuck. Yeah. Yeah. And they had no they had no sympathy or remorse for their sister either, because they'll kill you, too, if they catch you, which they did. They caught me once. Yeah. Yeah. They did catch me one time. And then I realized the ones in the hallway got me. Yeah. Yep. That's exactly one you turn. I tried to hide by the corner. Yep. Yeah. And they come around kill you. Yeah. to run basically back to the desk or whatever and hide. But. Yeah, that part was very, very... And then, but it was so funny because there's the one point where you're kind of moving the caskets to get up over the fence. And I'm like, those caskets are open without a doubt. And of course, yeah, they all open. They did, yeah. But thankfully, at that point, you just have to run through them and up the That was cool segment. Yeah, everything goes to shit. And then you just make a run for the ladder.
00:57:25
Speaker
Yeah. And then, yeah, you get you finally get up the ladder, right, as they're climbing up and you shut the gate on them. yeah And I was like, man, put something on top of it. But i guess you didn't have to, so Yeah. And then, yeah, then we get back to the Ark, and that's when they bring back the ah the liquors from the the old games of they can't see you, but they if if you make a noise, they're going to come up and fuck you up. Oh, yeah. those Those were annoying. That's when I used a lot of my Molotovs.
00:57:52
Speaker
Molotovs and the acid was awesome. Yeah, the introduction the acid was nice because, yeah, you just chuck a bottle of acid on Yeah, and it just immediately kills them. That was that was really nice. ah But yeah, again, like I said before, this is kind of the one section where i had fun with it. Obviously, it's very, and of course, it was a very Resident Evil thing of like, you need these two orbs to open this door. So go the two directions to find the two orbs and yeah all that shit. But I enjoyed it. But again, i feel like People say this all the time. Basically, it's not a Resident Evil game unless you have a weird lab that you go through. so And so... it makes sense. It's all based on a you know a virus created in a lab. so Yeah, so it was definitely the weakest section of the game for me, but I still obviously really enjoyed it. And then... i
00:58:40
Speaker
Because i love the the ah again, I love like the sneaking around part. And so like when you're with the lid and then you can see like broken beakers or whatever on the ground, you know, to avoid that glass. And like I love doing that. But yeah, once you get the acid, it's pretty much game over at that point because I had enough material that, you know, I'm just chucking acid at all of them then. Obviously, when you're playing Leon down there, you can blow those things away with ease. So it's really not that difficult at that point. when those When those soldiers come after you, though, that was a little tough, even with Leon. Like when those super soldiers come after you, like the squad of them. um I think those dudes were working for that one organization, the T-A-A-R-P or whatever. Yeah, those guys actually did kill me. they they Yeah, they killed me once. Yeah. yeah
00:59:24
Speaker
Like the shield guy and stuff was annoying. Yeah, they were a little annoying. Oh, dude, the shield guy. I was, I was, cause no matter what, like other guys, you could go sneak around and, you know, hide and you'd, they, you'd flank them. Cause they don't know where you are, but that shield guy always had a shield aimed at you no matter where you were. i was like, what I think I finally threw a grenade at him and then I killed him. Yeah. Yeah. I think, I think what I did was he turned a corner enough that I saw a shoulder and I was able to pop in the shoulder, which made him flinch. And then I was able to kill him. But yeah,
00:59:51
Speaker
ah that that Yeah, those guys were tough. And then we forgot to mention when we were trying to do the bomb bomb part is they had the the like the SWAT zombies who would just shoot off their gun randomly. Yeah. That was funny, dude.
01:00:06
Speaker
yeah du I loved it's I've played zombie games where I hate like the progression of zombies that you fight. but Dying Light was my biggest one where like I loved it at first.
01:00:21
Speaker
But eventually they introduced like the ones that spit acid and they introduced these ones that do this, that. And I hate like superpower zombie things where it just basically it's that not RPG, but like the game thing of just the villains need to get harder. And so they just add stupid little things to them. But I thought it worked so well with the villains in this game. I love it because every zombie had like, i said this before,
01:00:45
Speaker
Every zombie has their story. And I love that about it. Like you can tell that it was, you know, a squad of, of, you know, of of rabid cats yelling at you. ah You could tell it was just like a SWAT group or whatever, you know, or the, the similar version of it that they had their base set up and they all just got infected. So there, you just find, you know, an old base that has a bunch of infected, Zombie soldiers and yeah, they shoot guns and then occasionally you'll find the ones that are just really messed up. Like i like there's the one that like the chainsaw one with like the metal helmet. And so you have to like chainsaw fight them and stuff. And it was really cool. I loved all the different the different types of of enemies in this game.
01:01:31
Speaker
Yeah, I'm trying to remember. like So Leon, gets he gets in there too, and they eventually they link up, right? How do Leon and Grace link up? I'm trying to remember. Leon, he's going through, he does all this shit, and then... he fights a big plant zombie, I remember.
01:01:44
Speaker
Yeah, you fight the plant zombie. That was in Raccoon before you get to Ark. Actually, it was right before you get to the entrance. right in front of the Ark entrance, yeah. And then, but when you're inside, you're doing all your shit. And then you, the T virus starts really getting to you and you, so and which does the one thing I've, I've complained about it on this podcast before. So I found it funny that happened. It's the thing of where you're moving really slowly down a hallway while something's affecting you. I think it was when were talking about uncharted three, because that happens in that game where you're like,
01:02:13
Speaker
some you know miss whatever fucks you up and so you're very slowly walking down a hallway and i hate that i hate those in games i hate them so much and so that happens you're doing that and then you get to the door and you pass out and that's when grace you cuts back to grace at the computer and she sees you pass out the door so she goes and finds you and that's when you link back up And that's pretty much right near the end the game. That's when you get right to the ending, yeah.
01:02:34
Speaker
So Grace pulls up to help you.
Narrative Conclusion and Endings
01:02:37
Speaker
ah And like she wakes him up. And then she opens the door. And you walk in with with Leon, right?
01:02:44
Speaker
To confront dude. Actually, they confronted him once before that, though. Yeah, that was when that was when he was still had her like captive or whatever. And that's when they they break they break away. They do the very video gaming thing if they jump down a giant pit and then they find the the whatever. And then you separate so Grace can open up the... Like, use the claw to open up that ladder so Leon can get up and out. yeah And so that's that's one way you split while you're down there in the arc. is Yeah, yeah, yeah.
01:03:11
Speaker
Yeah. And so, yeah, you get to the end and that's when... So hold on. we need to go back. We need to go back. So while you're separated, this is what an area where um um you might have missed. I don't know. While you're separated, when you're playing as Grace, you go into that big room, the big control room, right?
01:03:27
Speaker
And she has that file from her mom, like the little media disc. And she puts the media disc in there to play it. And you're watching that interview that her mom did with... ah with Dr. ah Spencer or whatever, the founder of umbrella and also the creator of Elvis.
01:03:44
Speaker
And yeah, that's when, that's when he introduces her to grace. And that's when you find out that, you know, that's when he says like, no, no, she's not a test subject. She's not a clone. She's just a regular normal girl.
01:03:56
Speaker
um And he's like, and he's like, and I'm just raising her as such. Um, um, And, ah you know, because he's trying to atone because he's really remorseful for everything that he's done. And that's when you find out that Elpis actually is not a bioweapon that's going to train his minds, but it's actually a cure.
01:04:13
Speaker
um Or at least it's alluded to that he's like, no, it's, you know, yeah I still wasn't sure 100% what Elpis was, but you could tell that he was remorseful and that it actually was like a solution kind of. Yeah. um Yeah. So that's what it was. Yeah. There's nothing, nothing real special about grace.
01:04:30
Speaker
Yeah. Although she was getting bit a whole bunch and doesn't ever change though. Yeah. but Yeah. Which was the, the, the curious thing about it is. So we get to the ending basically. And and when you get there, Leon, so was like, destroy it. We need to destroy this kind of thing. And so really in your head, you're thinking like, well, Leon's right. So I need to destroy it But if you do that choice, i actually did the other one. I did the the keep it ending, but i went did i played the i went back and I played the destroyed ending. I just loaded up a save spot and went back and did it. But when you destroy it it, it's a very quick ending. It's a very good one, obviously. So the Leon State...
01:05:13
Speaker
Start with that. Yeah, let's start with that. So that ending was the one I got first. I destroyed Yeah. Because I thought that's what I was supposed to do. I still hadn't put two and two together completely that Elpis was good. Yeah. um So I was like, all right, well, you know, Leon saying destroy it. You know, obviously everything that we've seen from these guys was evil. Like everything that they were doing. And they wanted Elpis. All these test subjects and everything. I'm like, you know, I can't trust these dudes. So I destroyed it. And then, yeah, you get a terrible ending.
01:05:41
Speaker
ah The whole platform falls down. Leon you know is able to save Grace. He throws her up there. And then he goes to fight Zeno, but gets shot in the head and dies. But right before he dies, he says, at least I was able to save you to Grace. And then he dies. And then Grace is rescued by the helicopter.
01:05:58
Speaker
And she's like, damn, I wish we could have saved him. And that's it. Yeah, and then it's just over. It just rolls credits and it's over, which is crazy. Whereas if you get the right ending, which is the the canonical quote-unquote ending, you use it and Zeno takes and he's like, what's happening to me? Because he just is cured. And so he just gets healed. And then it has the ending where everything's all like good and dandy and they realize there's a cure to the T-virus and it shows the... it cuts back to the jelly bean monster that Emily turned into and you could see her body in it. So you know that she's able to be saved from it. And then it has like the ending of, you know,
01:06:36
Speaker
on her desk it has a photo of grace and her mom and then her adopted mom and grace and emily and who can see now yeah and she's on the phone with leon like yeah we're doing this then the other thing and it's like this really nice ending and ah then it has like uh there's a post-credit scene where like the the soldiers show up and they take something from the lab and all like so it's the very continuous ongoing ending of how obviously to continue the series whereas yeah that that other ending is just very like leon's dead game over so you could tell that they that you weren't supposed to select that one because i did read about it and they basically said the good ending is the canonical ending so yeah definitely yeah Yeah. So if you choose to release Elpis, you know, there's because I just watched it last night. So it's really fresh in my mind. um So like there's the computer. Right. And she has the password and it's set up in a way um where if you put in the password wrong one time, boom, it's over. um And Grace is the only one who knows the password because she was so close with Spencer. And the password, I think, is hope, you know, because that's what so she puts in hope and it releases it. Elpis, which.
01:07:48
Speaker
Uh, Zeno grabs and injects it into him cause he thinks it's going to be some super mind control thing. And it cures him, like you said. Uh, so all of a sudden he's no longer super powered. He's normal dude now. Um, and Leon is dying on the ground, right? So very nice that we have a cure. So grace injects him and saves him.
01:08:05
Speaker
Our boy, Dr. Gideon, shows up and he's like, oh my master's a genius. This is great. We can use this to sow anarchy and, you know, it's going to end the wars and but we can but still sell it and sow anarchy and stuff. And Zeno's like, no, you shut up, blah, blah, blah. And he's like, no, you're just a clo you're just a copy. And they they start beefing and stuff. Right.
01:08:25
Speaker
Eventually, i think the platform kind of collapses, um and then you end up fighting in this ending. Remember, as Leon, you end up fighting Gideon. You beat his ass, right? And then he turns into a giant mutation, and you have to kill him again. That was a pretty cool boss fight. Yeah, it turns into the very stereotypical ending of Resident Evil bat bad guy where it's just a giant goober monster that you have to shoot him. Yeah.
01:08:49
Speaker
Yeah. And we're full of strength because we were just healed. So it was light work. We we destroyed him. yeah And then you find Grace and they're sitting there in the dark and they're like, well, I guess we're dead. We'll just ride it out together. And then all of a sudden the helicopter people show up.
01:09:06
Speaker
But it's not the helicopter people that you thought. It's actually the wolves. Yeah. Remember they rappel down. It's the wolves or whatever, which apparently they were like, Hey, Chris Redfield says hi or whatever. Yeah, pretty much. Yeah.
Game Conclusion and Future Speculations
01:09:20
Speaker
Yeah. so that's pretty cool. And then at the very end, you see grace sipping some tea, uh, you know, while she's getting medevaced and stuff. Uh, and then, yeah, you see, Exactly. Like you said, she's back in the FBI. She's talking to Leon. She adopted Grace. Grace can see now because she wasn't, she just had cataracts. Grace mentioned that in the hospital that she had cataracts. That is curable. You can just do a surgery for that. So she wasn't like permanently blind.
01:09:45
Speaker
um Yeah. You can get cataract surgery to remove that white film and stuff. And then you can see again. So um good stuff. um I thought it was awesome. That's a great ending.
01:09:56
Speaker
Yeah. It's a very happy ending, too. And you know me. I'm a sucker for a happy ending. I like closure, and I like happy endings. I don't like it when games don't give you closure, and I don't like it when games ah give you non-happy endings, unless it's unless it's well paid off and well you know thought out.
01:10:14
Speaker
Then I'm okay with it. But if it feels cheap and it's not paid off, then it's stupid to me. Yeah. Yeah. It was... Yeah, I really liked it. The only... thing i really thought of with it was it felt very final for a resident evil game like every other game it just ends kind of with you escaping whatever clutches you were in whereas this one it has the we have the cure and so i'm very curious as to what they do with resident evil after this now that a cure has been found like oh but there was a teaser at the end remember um
01:10:49
Speaker
The dudes show up, the bad guys show up again. yeah i guess the, I don't know who they are. the The foundation, I guess, or whatever. Yeah. What are they called? The collection? I don't know. Those dudes. They show up and apparently they took out the couple of wolves that were guarding it and they were like, we got the sample. So whatever sample they have is going to rear its head in 10.
01:11:08
Speaker
Yeah. andre Regarding the cure. um The cure that they have, again, and this is from the lore video that I watched this nerd. Keep in mind that that was developed in the 90s, right, by Dr. Spencer. So that was for the T virus only.
01:11:23
Speaker
um There were viruses later on that came on, right? There were other viruses that it may not fully cure. So i there are there are loopholes that they could exploit for future, I'm sure. Yeah.
01:11:34
Speaker
which they And also they had a limited quantity of cures, right? How many got away? Because the thing kind of blew up. ah They had like, so I think had like five vials came out and she used two of them. So there's probably. They can reverse engineer it, I'm sure. Yeah. Yeah, yeah I mean, and obviously they are going to make sequels because this game is selling gangbusters. So obviously they are going to continue the series. but Yeah, and I'm sure they'll find a loophole. Yeah, I'm pretty sure they rumored 5 as being remade next, which makes sense. Obviously, they've done 2, 3, and 4.
01:12:05
Speaker
which A very easy way. Oh, sorry. Oh, no, I should say, which I hope they do well with because I hear that one's not good. So I hope that would be good. A very easy way around that is just to have them either create a new virus or create a new mutation of the virus that is not affected by this cure. So yeah i'm just they still do it.
01:12:24
Speaker
yeah Yeah, exactly. But I thought it was awesome, dude. This game was great. It's funny, like, this game, it only is like 10 hours, 10 and a half hours for me to beat it. um But when you actually, like, go back and look at all the sections, like like, it seems like such a long game. There were so many sections in the game. I mean, you had the initial um hotel, and then you had the hospital, which was a big scene. And then you had the lab in the the lab and the helicopter, right? And then you had... um the underground section too, right?
01:12:56
Speaker
hmm. Well, that's that's that's exactly how I felt. I remember with Resident Evil 2 is there's so many sections in that you do the police because I thought the game was just the police station because I had never played it before. And then you leave and you to the sewer, then you go to the lab and all this stuff. And I'm like, damn, this is a long game.
01:13:13
Speaker
And then I beat it. I remember it was like five or six hours of my play time. I'm like, really? only played this for like six hours. That's crazy. i felt so long.
01:13:24
Speaker
But yeah, ah that just goes to show how well paced these games are is that they do not drag on at all. I mean, I've heard kind of fours a little longer. Like it's actually a longer game. And then like Resident Evil 8, it was the same. at And 7, they both felt like you were playing them forever then you finish them. But they're both sub 10 hour games. Like, all right. well Had a lot of content for only being, you know, six, seven, eight hours. That's that's crazy. But yeah, love this game.
01:13:55
Speaker
um Oh, so quickly, you're muted. i don't know if you tried saying anything, but. ah Oh, my God. How long have I been muted for? don't know, but I was talking. So.
Game Reviews and Personal Experiences
01:14:06
Speaker
um ah So before i guess we get on out of here. Yeah, I'll rank kind of how I feel. This is going obviously a lot of people are going to disagree with me. So I'm not going to include four in my ranking just because I haven't beaten it. Let me put a time stamp for this. So 01. 14. Okay, go ahead. Resident Evil...
01:14:24
Speaker
fourteen okay go ahead um so resin evil if i So I've played Resident Evil 2 Remake, 3 Remake, 7, 8, and 9. So I've played, what was that, five games?
01:14:38
Speaker
I would have to say i still think Resident Evil 2 is better. that i love this game so much. But 2, it was the parts I loved about Requiem, but just that. I still love, don't get me wrong, I don't like every part of this game, but the part that I loved, which was the greatest parts, was the entirety of 2. And so I think I still have to put that one.
01:14:58
Speaker
As my favorite. And then it's Requiem. Because this game is it's so good. It is so good. And then 7. Just because it is such a great horror game. I know it's very different than the other Resident Evil games. But i don't care. I'm not like a giant Resident Evil lore person. So the fact that it was just this very good horror game. I absolutely love 7. And then I'd go 8.
01:15:21
Speaker
It didn't hit me as hard, but I did enjoy my time with that game. And then three, which again, ah three is not a bad game. It's just compared to the other games, it's not not nearly as good. I mean, Jill Valentine's super hot, so that's pretty cool, but but it's really all three. So i yeah, I got to say that. Two Requiem, seven, eight, three is probably my order.
01:15:45
Speaker
Two, Requiem, seven, eight, and then three. The definitive Hodge list yeah of the best Resident Evil games. For me, i've I've barely played them, but I would say my favorites are Requiem is one.
01:15:57
Speaker
Then I would go with the first game, and then I would go with the second game. But I didn't play the remake. I'm talking about the originals on PlayStation 1 because that's all I've played. Requiem and then on PS1. I'm talking back in the day.
01:16:10
Speaker
The first game and the second game I played ages ago. um So, you know, Requiem's shiny, new, and amazing. So I got to put it number one. Yeah. um yeah And shout out to the Japanese because they always put hot chicks in their games. Dude, you got to love it. Grace was grace was grace was cute.
01:16:26
Speaker
I wouldn't say she's hot. She was cute. And yeah, Jill Valentine, like you said, hot. Claire Redfield. Claire Redfield. what Who was the one in it? Was it Ada? Oh, that Asian chick. Yeah, she was hot. Always wearing like a slutty red dress. Yeah. For some reason, wear like high heels and a slutty red dress in the apocalypse. You got you gotta to love it.
01:16:47
Speaker
Oh, yeah. It's great. Very Japanese. Anything else you wanted to talk about and mention for Resident Evil Requiem here? before we know like i said i just i'm at some point i am going to go back and replay four i have it on vr too so i'm debating playing it all through vr i'm not sure uh we'll see but uh yeah i definitely want to go back with four just because i love i did love the leon parts even though again like the grace parts better i like the horror survival part a little more than the action horror but I definitely want to give four another try, but this game has definitely convinced me to do that because this game... It definitely deserves that like 89, 90 or whatever it has on Metacritic. It definitely, which again is hilarious that me and Sean, I made that little joke video of, of us giving you shit during the draft of like, really? You you think it's going to be good? And then it's probably going to your highest rated game. It's at 89 now. 89, yeah. Cause Sean said 84 and I, I cool. Cause I was basing on village, which I know didn't rank that rate that high. So i was like, i don't know, maybe,
01:17:53
Speaker
I don't think it'll be that good, but then no, this game is, ah it's definitely deserves its scores. so You got it. You got to put a link to that other fricking thing of yours in the doc. Cause I can never find it. Oh yeah. I'll do that right now.
01:18:08
Speaker
That'd be great. um Yeah. What was i go to say? Oh yeah. So what would you score this game? Either a number score or a pizza score resident evil rec room. What would you give it? Oh man. Your choice. Give it a number or a pizza.
01:18:22
Speaker
Well, Sean's not here, so I'll just give it an actual number. ah I'd give it like a 9.4. It's a wow a really fucking good game. wow Okay, that's very good.
01:18:37
Speaker
um I would say on Midnight Critic, I'm going to go ahead and give this an 80...
01:18:45
Speaker
88 88 right right in line pretty much with the open critic the original open critic i'm gonna give it an 88 i thought it was really good really really good um but i i'm not gonna put it all the way in the nines all the way um i don't know why just because i don't know just because you know like i said it made me uncomfortable playing it at times you know It wasn't as enjoyable as some other games because of the uncomfortableness, but it's it's amazing. It's art.
01:19:10
Speaker
Very good game. Awesome story. Amazing characters. All that stuff. Great graphics. It's great. 88 is what I'll give it. Scores are stupid anyway. On a pizza scale, this is a solid pepperoni. This is a pepperoni pizza. Now, this isn't the bacon. This isn't peak. This isn't like pepperoni bacon and onion or pepperoni bacon. No, we're not up to those levels, but this is a solid pepperoni pizza.
01:19:30
Speaker
You're enjoying this and you're happy. so Yeah, I could go pepper somewhere between pepperoni and chicken bacon. Chicken bacon is like a great great top chicken bacon ranch. Chicken bacon ranch is great. But just even getting just a normal pizza with chicken and bacon on it. Also, phenomenal.
01:19:47
Speaker
But you get the chicken bacon, then you can dip it in the ranch if you want to be extra fat. Oh, dude, I live. You're from the Midwest. Ranch dressing is a condiment up here. It is not addressing you dip things in ranch. do Exactly. vegan which I got this. If you ever see it, like Hidden Valley, obviously, is the is the goat ranch. They have a garlic ranch that tastes exactly like the Papa John's garlic. dip Yeah, I told you that.
01:20:10
Speaker
Oh, did you? OK, I told you that a year or more ago. Yeah. OK. I knew someone told me about it. I couldn't. It was you. OK. Yeah. that I got some in my fridge right now. i could grab it, but I won't. But yeah. I had of my first two because I bought it. It's good. It's good for dipping pizza. Yeah, because I ran across it at the store there. was like, I know someone told me this is good. I couldn't remember who it was. I'm like, someone told me. So I got it. i'm like, oh, my God.
01:20:29
Speaker
This shit's so good. Yeah, yeah. I wouldn't say it tastes exactly like the Papa John's garlic sauce. I don't think it does, but it is good, though. It's very close. Yeah, it's a very good dipping sauce for pizza. It's good for pizza, yeah. Yeah. And in regards to pizza, when it comes to frozen pizza, the best frozen pizza that I have found is that Motor City Pizza Company, like that Detroit-style deep dish. I haven't had that. It's so good. Oh, it's so good, You got to get that. If it's up here, I'll definitely get that. Yeah, my go-to frozen is if I'm feeling just cheap and want to eat it, Jack's. I love Jack's. And then Red Baron frozen pizza. That's dope.
01:21:10
Speaker
Phenomenal. Okay, so you're getting the cheap stuff. One thing you can do to spice up your f frozen pizza game is just buy like a like a little bottle of oregano and then just sprinkle a little oregano on it before you throw it in the oven. It just adds just a little bit of fresh flavor to it. It's good.
01:21:24
Speaker
See, what I do is if I if i do a Jack's, like I don't just eat the Jack's pizza. i will I'll cook it and then I will put smoky Tabasco sauce on it, which adds like a little bit of spice and flavor to it. And then I did that bitch in ranch and that just makes it. That sounds phenomenal.
01:21:43
Speaker
It's so good. All right. Well, guys, thank you very much for listening to games over plastic of Bucky's a gaming and a frozen pizza and ranch podcast. We appreciate you guys.
01:21:57
Speaker
um But yeah, I think, I think we've covered what we needed to. um You want to go around and give our final thoughts here. Yeah. What are your final thoughts, sir? Yeah. So I would have to say um if you guys like this, please let us know because obviously we are weekly now. So this spoiler cast are no longer DLCs that we just kind of throw in here and there. So there'll be full episodes. So if you like that, please let us know. If not, obviously, this is our first one we we've been doing. Otherwise, we can just, I guess, stick it with the month wrap-ups if if you guys don't like full spoiler cast. But please let us know. Obviously, like I said, this is a new thing we're trying. this Love doing this game weekly. And we'll be excited to obviously have Sean back next week to either play a game or have a fun topic. But... Thank you all for listening. And i please let us know what you thought of this game and where it ranks among your Resident Evil games, because I'm very curious because I am not the biggest Resident Evil fan. So like not to say like I don't like it. I just don't know the lore as well as other people. So for those of you who are giant Resident Evil fans, let us I want to know where you guys place Requiem compared to everything else. So please let us know that.
01:23:08
Speaker
Please do. All right. Yeah. And and my final thoughts are a shout out to Bucky's, the most magical place on earth. Shame on you, though, Bucky's. I have to be negative for once because you should have done a leprechaun plushie. That would have been awesome. Do it next year and I'll buy. I was going to get you one.
01:23:26
Speaker
I was. i i swear I swear I was. I was going to surprise you. If they had a leprechaun plushie, I was going to buy you one and I was going to mail it to you as like just a general thank you for like all the editing and stuff. But they didn't.
01:23:39
Speaker
so and And then I considered getting you a shirt, but I was like, ah by the time it gets to him, like it's going to be over and a plushie is cooler, so I'll just wait. yeah But I really wanted the plushie and I was sad. Yeah.
01:23:52
Speaker
But anyway, we thank you guys. Yeah. Well, thank you guys for watching. This has been Games Over Plastic, episode 58. have midnight.
01:24:04
Speaker
That's Hodge. We're going ahead and get on out of here. Goodbye. Goodbye. Sean's not here, so we don't have a quip. Quip. Quip. Quip. quip