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Warning: minor spoilers for the Resident Evil franchise, especially entries 4 +5 + 7 + 8.<\/em><\/p>\n D\u00e9j\u00e0 vu: the strange feeling of something familiar yet completely new. An experience of the brain and the eyes battling for memory recollection and affirmation. A peculiar feeling indeed. Upon viewing all of the released content from the Resident Evil<\/em> showcase this January, I finally had my ah-ha finger-pointing moment and my world has finally righted itself upon a proper axis. Resident Evil Village<\/em> and Resident Evil 4 <\/em>are sister games, well at the very least cousins. I’m sure many of you eagle-eyed viewers have spotted many of the parallels.<\/p>\n The loca<\/span>le, atmosphere, boss types, and bare bones of the story are eerily reminiscent to Resident Evil 4.<\/em> A village where people are infected with a parasite (or virus) are involved or preyed upon by the occult\/science. A girl kidnapped by villagers\/powerful people because of a vendetta against world\/protagonist. Mini-bosses that are controlled by old aristocratic powers. The largest setting of the game is a humongous castle level, etc., etc. The big difference this go-round is the prominent femme antagonists who have set the Internet ablaze<\/a>. ?<\/p>\n The fourth installment in the Resident Evil<\/em> series turns 15 years old this year, and, amazingly, so much is being mined from its brilliance all these years later. The cash\/nostalgia cow of years past has paid off in innumerable dividends. Many, myself included, consider the entirety of Resident Evil 4 <\/i>to be a masterpiece, and for good reason. The fourth game forged new ground and was a complete departure in the storyline from the series’ past, but it was accessible via a familiar face in Leon Kennedy. The monster designs and over-the-shoulder perspective were truly\u2026wait, wait\u2026<\/p>\n Okay, before I write a 2,000+ word editorial about the impact of the game upon the entire industry, let me save myself and everyone else the trouble of reading my \u2018hot take\u2019 and go read\/watch everyone else\u2019s retrospectives.<\/p>\n Please and thank you.<\/p>\n I also posit that the game has ties to the original title, with its labyrinthine mansion, puzzle mechanics, and origins that are far more ancient than meets the eye. To bring things full circle, the Resident Evil: Village–The Maiden\u00a0<\/em>demo unveiled that the umbrella symbol and those associated with it are interconnected to hundreds of years of medieval history. Perhaps the initial persons fused with entities like the Las Plagas organisms and procreated naturally to create a lineage of those with powers and ‘supernatural’ abilities. Even though we’ve seen the daughters of Lady Dimitrescu utilize insect capabilities akin to Marguerite Baker, we still don’t know the full lethality of the Lady herself beyond the killer claws.<\/p>\n The genuine question I pose, is it a bad thing that Capcom is repackaging a familiar formula instead of doing something unique by taking the series in a different direction? Or is this a different direction by looping back to the beginning of everything? One of the reasons for Resident Evil 7\u2019<\/i>s resounding success was its supposedly clean slate, new setting, new characters, and smaller take on the viral infection narrative<\/a>. If there weren’t tidbits of Umbrella sprinkled around the premises of the bayou, you could almost forget that you were even in a Resident Evil<\/em> title. Will putting a new coat of paint on an artifact truly bring the dividends that Capcom is looking for? Perhaps, but the game was slated for release regardless of the pandemic and maybe the continued quarantine will help boost global sales.<\/p>\n\t\t\t![\"\"](https:\/\/www.relyonhorror.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/1_f3uoHpQ_fDdo6zea3n9HTA-1.jpg "\\"1_f3uoHpQ_fDdo6zea3n9HTA\\"")
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