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CC7: Resident Evil 2 | Retro Game of the Month · Cart Creeps

• Carter Creepington: Are you is that you singing the song? Do you even know the song? I've heard the song like a million times. Are you playing it right now? Can you play the song? No. I if anyone doesn't know, I did make the song. It's not very good, but I think it serves its purpose. I like it. Yeah. Yeah. Anyways. That's good. ⁓ welcome back to Car Creeps. This is episode seven ⁓ for June 2026. This time we're gonna be talking about Resident Evil Two for the PS1, released in nineteen ninety-eight. ⁓ if you want to get on the action and discuss next month's game and play long, join our Discord link down below. ⁓ I'm Ryan and we also have It's me, Gabriel the all-knowing fool. Jay. That's all you get. Just Jay. And Keith. That's also all you get. I don't need any extra gimmicks or extra nicknames. I don't need any of that. I need all the help I can get, baby. Yeah. People do not like me. So How do I make friends? The fan least favorite. vote for your favorite creep, people. Vote for your least favorite creep as well. Yeah. ⁓ quick rundown on how it works if you're not familiar. ⁓ every month we have a new game randomly determined by our creep wheel. ⁓ last month we played Space Station Silicon Valley, and this time we're playing Resident Evil two. So we'll roll at the end of the ⁓ video and you guys can see what we're playing next. If you want to get a game on the creep wheel of your own choosing, check out our Patreon. The link is also down below and you can get a game on there yourself and ⁓ make us play it. If it comes up on the wheel. ⁓ Keith, you wanna introduce us to this game of the month since it was your pick? Keith wins again as usual. So yeah, so I decided to pick him. And I'm gonna win again this month. He's won the most. And again and again. This is just beginning thrice already. I'm happy with my one win, even if the game was a dud. Three time, three times. The excitement of winning on the wheel is was more fun than playing the game that won it. The anticip the build-up, the anticipation of Jay finally winning. It was an incredible moment. Even overshadowed his game. So yeah, it bitches. I was ready to end it all. It was really close to the knob minigate. Just off my just off screen. ⁓ man. So yeah, so I picked ⁓ Resident Evil Two. So the reason I picked ⁓ all my games are they're games that I played as a child and either never beat or just remember having a fun experience with. ⁓ like Iron Man, a game that we all loved, which was an incredible experience for everyone. ⁓ You know, similar thing. I played that as I was a kid, you know. Fire. So the same thing here. I picked up Resident Evil 2. ⁓ when I was a kid, this was the scariest thing I'd ever played in my life. And I didn't really play it that much often because I was like just too scared. My, you know, classic Resident Evil games, you know. Looking back on them now, it's like bad. But when you're a kid at the time, it's like this is the scariest thing ever. And, you know, your brother or your dad wants to play at night with all the lights off, and it's like, Okay, yeah, this is this is too spooky for me. ⁓ you know, finally but I've beaten it like a million times since then. So, you know, but I've finally wanted to come back and share the numbers of this incredible game ⁓ with everyone else here. A million times you say. Yeah. This is this is like my doom 'cause like these guys have never played Resident Evil. Yeah, this guy just can't stop lying. Hey, come on. Chill out, chill out. A million Liar. Yeah, ⁓ yeah, calling it your doom makes a lot of sense actually because I've you've heard you've talked about Resident Evil series as a whole a lot on this podcast. ⁓ I'm a member of Stars. You can say for the audio listeners, I have a Starz T shirt on man. What's what's stars stand for? Speaking Special Tactics and Reconnaissance Service. Or squad. Speaking of which the Of playing games, other games. Gabe, you want to tell us ⁓ start off with what else you've been playing? Let's talk about my game. Let's keep goes back to that. No, no, I don't want to do that yet. I I feel like doing that after the thing that I want to talk about, which is finally gaining my eternal champion for retro handhelds this month by playing Panzer Dragoon. Just a fun little two hour game, which was perfect for me for my last month. I was like, ⁓ yeah, two hour game? That's the one. So I like beat it the first night and like sent the screenshot in and the other thing I've been playing is ⁓ also for retro handhelds, but also kinda just because my daughter's really excited about it is ⁓ Sonic Adventure. I'm playing the director's cut for GameCube because I tried to play the ⁓ I tried to play the Sega version. I think it's Saturn. I want to say Saturday. It did not work. My daughter loves to ask to watch me play Sonic and then say, Can I play? And then say okay, and I hand it to her and she actually doesn't want to play. Yeah. Yeah. It's too fast for her. Ten minutes maybe, but then she's just like, I want to play a different game. I want play a different character. And it's like, okay, so I just spend most of the time switching between like Amy, Tails, and Knuckles, and she plays with them for like a few minutes and then asks to switch again. But immersed though. She loves those minutes says those characters. I'm bored of this now, father. Maybe a different one. I've ⁓ said before on here that I'm not really a fan of Sonic games, but I didn't realize it I I s know so little about Sonic that I didn't realize Sonic Adventure is a three D like Yeah, you three D Sonic to be fair. Sonic Adventure in ch yeah, so the Son the two Sonic Adventure games, not so much Sonic Adventure, it's a little buggy. ⁓ but Sonic Adventure two is really good. It's like besides like the original Sonic Two, that might be the best Sonic. It's yeah ridiculously good. Yeah. There's so much you can do in this like a super fun game. Yeah, the good path. Try to get it on the wheel. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And the game stuff is really good. Yeah, Brent. Sorry, Brian, what have you been playing? I've also been playing one of the games of the month for Retro Handhelds dis ⁓ Discord, you know, server, YouTube channel, all that stuff. ⁓ but I was playing Wind Wicker, the Wind Waker, Legend of Zelda. I've actually never played it. ⁓ I've said think I've said on maybe the first episode that like I wasn't a Nintendo kid and the only three D Zelda game I've played To completion is well, Breath of the Wild, but that's kind of a different kind of thing. But I've played Ocarina of Time through once because it was a another game of the month of Retro Handhelds. ⁓ so comparing Wind Waker to that, I'm actually having a lot more fun with Wind Waker. ⁓ I'm playing. That's the best Zelda. Yeah. Wind Waker's awesome. It's so my favorite Zelda on two date. Still I'm playing Wind Waker H D. Actually, the Wii U. version there's a little bit of differences. I'm pretty sure there's like some quality of life changes. It's all quality of life changes. Yeah. And just graphics. Well I mean let me tell you the GameCube it like I get it because there's a part at the end of the GameCube version of the game where you have to collect the Triforce pieces like in the water. And it doesn't really you get a map, but it's like it's such a long and tedious process. And I it is I remember the doing that as a kid. I think the H D version just streamlines that ⁓ and like that that's really the only thing wrong with the game, but it's still my favorite Zelda game. Cause I remember you you have to you have to get the charts to know where to go. I think that's you have to get those charts. You can't like get around. I think you don't have to get the charts. It just gives you the location. ⁓ okay. I haven't gotten that far. Stop spoiling the game for ⁓ In the GameCube version, yeah. You've got to get the charts. It's like like it's a requirement to get the chart and then you can get that piece. Yeah. So it it just adds to the slog. I think that's the streamline though, what you just mentioned. I've gotten all the orbs ⁓ so far in the beginning of the game, where you have to go to the Deku tree island and ⁓ back to cool sp part of the game. Yeah, back to Outset Island to get the last one where you blow up the the thing on the back when you get the bombs to the thing on the back of the island, you fly you drive or sail in there, talk to the big frog, and he gives you the last one. Yeah, so now I'm going to whale in that one? Big whale? I was gonna say there's like a windfish kind of reference. Yeah. That's what it is. It's the windfish. Yeah. Okay. So that's what it is. Fish. ⁓ fish. But yeah, ⁓ it's weird because I've played like I said, I've only played I technically I've played ⁓ Twilight Princess. I played that on the Wii when I had a Wii. I mean I still have a Wii, but I played it back then and I never finished it all the way and it was fun. But ⁓ I really like the thing I like the most about Wind Waker is the art style, I think, because it like to me that's what Zelda should feel more like rather than like Ocarina of Time and especially Twilight Princess, it's very like almost like realistic. semi-realistic looking, especially like gritty kinda, you know. I think it should be more cartoony like Wind Waker and Wind Waker's graphics are really cool. It's funny. Yeah, I love the Wind Waker. Yeah, when it when the f when the game first came out, I was like really pissed that they went with the Toon Link direction on because you know when they showed like the GameCube demo gameplay of Zelda, they showed a realistic screen of him and Ganondorf, I think. And it it looked like what you would think a GameCube game would look like. And then Wind Waker came out and it was, you know, the tune graphics. And a lot of people I think were like they felt betrayed by it almost. ⁓ me included. But now like like you said, looking back, it's turned into such a timeless art style. Like I played it about a year ago and I didn't even play the H D version. I just emulated the GameCube version and it looks so good. And like in twenty twenty five, which was really cool. The game's aged very well. Like timeless as they would say. Yeah, I feel like comparing it like the two D ones are cartoony, you know? Like of course they are, they're sprites and stuff. It's two D, but like I think that fits more with Windmaker fits more with the the style of the two D games than with the other three D games. And I haven't played Majora's Mask or even really seen much of it. I think it's kinda like that more realistic style. It's it's literally the same as ⁓ Zoccarina. Yeah. Okay. As realistic as an N sixty four can get baby. Yeah. Yeah. But ⁓ yeah, I've been having fun with a lot of fun with it so far. It almost even reminds me of like some future stuff where Breath of the Wild is like it's semi open world, like Wind Waker is, you know. I mean it's a it's a water world. So there's not a ton of stuff. Like you're going to small the islands are all really small, but you are like going traveling to different places. Yeah. And it does take a long time, which is another kind of annoying thing. And The emulator I'm using doesn't have fast forward, so I'm just playing it. I was gonna say that was one of the cool things about playing the GameCube version was just the fast forward features on Steam Deck. I believe I'm using CMU is what it's called. Then maybe there's a way to make fast forward work, but I don't I haven't been in the CMU menu. It's not as like fleshed out as something like ⁓ Duck Station or Retro Arch where you can just open the menu. while playing. Yeah. ⁓ and then change the settings. Do you think you need to open the app by itself to like change stuff like that? And I haven't done that. I mean there's save state options, I think, but I haven't using save states either. I've been saving inside the game. So yeah, I have this issue with GameCube emulation where it won't recognize like my wireless controller if I like have it plugged into the TV. I don't know what that's are you sure it's not Steam Deck where you gotta switch the order of the controllers? No, yeah, because I've done And it just it doesn't work. Hmm. It's weird. Interesting. I I've I've used wireless controller on Steam Deck ⁓ I guess streaming before. I've used it on everything. It's only GameCube I have trouble with. I don't know. What's the game? But I'm saying I've used it on GameCube games. GameCube emulator is Dolphin, right? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Maybe a setting in Dolphin, I to look at it. I've played Dolphin, I've played ⁓ Super Mario Galaxy on Dolphin on a T V before with a controller. Yeah. That's a wee game. Maybe I'd just need to look at it. Yeah, well. I don't know if I ever played Pikmin on a T V with a controller though. I might have 'cause I did play Pikmin on my Steam Deck using I need to play Pikmin ⁓ Dolphin. I was playing Super Monkey Ball on GameCube on TV. ⁓ yeah. Super Monkey Ball. That game was in rules. That was one of the contenders for the ⁓ Game of the Month. The game of the month. Nice. I love that game. Yeah. Super monkey ball. Yeah. It and it annoyed me that it was an option because a long time ago, sometime last year, it was March or May. And there was like we're in the the process before if you don't know, if you're not in there, if you're like at least ⁓ a champion to the point where you played like one game, you get into the voting for the themes ⁓ in Retro Handels. And I kept I suggested a theme of Monkey May, where the game had to be monkey related. So monkey ball, ape escape counts, anything with like a real anything would count. And everyone's like, that's stupid. I'm like, no, it's funny. So we should do it. I like, there's plenty of monkeys. That's like great. There's lots of games with monkeys in them. One of the staples. It didn't get Peter J Peter Jackson's King Kong? Peter Jackson's King Kong was actually one of the ones. I've played that game. I've heard it's a good game. I don't remember where. It's not a bad game, yeah. Anyways, ⁓ Keith, what have you been playing? No, no, I haven't I haven't gone back to play that yet. Boy, I've got a lot of King Kong stories to tell you. No, the ⁓ man, what have I been playing? I got back into Final Fantasy Fourteen, which is the award winning MMORPG from Square Enix. ⁓ as a fighting game player, it's a long running joke in fighting games is that ⁓ once you retire from a fighting game player, you just hop on Final Fantasy Fourteen. And there's a lot of five fighting game players that actually do play that. So ⁓ Eric and Allen are gonna be mad you're playing an MMO. That's not destiny. They'll be fine. That'll be fine. Destiny's dead. I plenty of time to hop back on that. Don't tell them that. They they don't listen to that. It's not dead. It's it's dying. It's not dead. It's just dying. That's true. They've ⁓ It's on its last leg. Okay. They've they've they've called they haven't they've called time of death. It just hasn't like happened yet, I guess. I don't know. Like they're not there's just time of death until it happens. Yeah, I mean There's a timer, a countdown. Time of death. People are gonna rejoice. Yeah. Yeah. Finally. I'm not a I don't know have the my ⁓ finger on the pulse of the average Destiny player besides Eric ⁓ and Alan. But I feel like a at least a decent chunk of Destiny players only play Destiny. Yeah. ⁓ I I guess that goes with any MMO type game. Yeah, like it's easy easy to get sucked into that. So like Well, I was playing Destiny and then 'cause the Eric and you know our our buddies Eric and Alan, they got it got me into that. Well, all of us kinda got into it briefly. Yeah, I had a lot of fun with it. I didn't have a lot of time to play it, but it was fun. Yeah. Yeah. I dumped a lot of the hours into that. I had a lot of great t had a lot of great times. Then I hopped into fourteen and it's like, ⁓ well. Now I'm hopping into this and I could dump in a lot of hours in this. I my brain can't ⁓ function with both of them. Eventually just stop. No, no man's sky, but it'll do. I dropped ⁓ Dusty 2 eventually just 'cause I just ⁓ kinda just kinda just fell off. ⁓ I remember just checking back in periodically now it was like, ⁓ there's just Star Wars now. I was like, ⁓ okay, it's weird. But ⁓ but yeah, so that's what I've been playing and ⁓ between blasting through Resident Evil just ⁓ just a great time 'cause, you know, I'm I love Resident Evil. And I'm also playing Street Fighter Two, so or Street Fighter Six, I should still doing that. You saw that. Mm-hmm. Saw you were playing that earlier today. I was. I do have a good rage sesh before the podcast. I'm just getting really mad at fighting games for a bit. And then I'm really pumping. Then I'm in the right mindset to talk about. Exactly. Exactly. Yes. Yes. Jay, what have you been playing? I haven't had too too much time to play other games this month. For those that o do watch on YouTube, you can see my shelf of game is now empty. There's a little growl. ⁓ no. I've been packing. It's my stole stuff. I got robbed. No, I'm moving. So I haven't been playing much because I've been depressed. I said he was rich that one time and someone they got to someone robbed me try. No, but ⁓ the one game I have played a little this month, ⁓ Though again, if you're watching on YouTube you can see Ryan and myself are wearing some nice little Canes hockey jerseys. Go Canes. Let's go Canes or won our second cup. That was really cool. So I've been playing I played some NHL Hits two thousand three. Nice. That was I don't know if you've any of you guys have ever played those like I've played some those gin midway sports games, but they're a gym. Like so good. I played Wayne Gretzky's NHL NHL hockey, the Wayne Gretzky one from Which is like NFL Blitz but for hockey. Just get a good sports game on the w wheel. It's three on three and it's like you can make it uber violent. ⁓ it's just like super arcadey, really fun. Like all of kick someone with your skates. I mean, you can like turn you you can turn the fight sliders up and just like have fights whenever you want pretty much pretty good. These players are pissed. The opening song when you you know how like the sports games will have the opening sequence with the title song? It's shoot, what is it? It's a Rob Zombie song. No, it's Powerman five thousand. It's bombshell by Powerman five thousand. I must have played that one 'cause I've I have a memory of that being in a sports game too. We might have played it. I had it clear. We may play it together. Yeah, yeah. But ⁓ yeah, I've just been in the hockey mood, watching hockey, playing hockey, so hockey. I I like a good sports game. They don't make sports games the way they used to. Like now they're all like a monopolized. It's all two K and it's all yeah. Simulation. There's no Madden 2K. They did release what is it called? Keith, you would know it. The new NBA it's like a street game. The run. That's what I thought it was called. ⁓ have you played that? I haven't played it yet. I I wanna play Because NBA Street Series was an incredible gaming series, Gabe. It was real. Yeah, that's true. It was iconic. I I only asked Keith 'cause he's my fellow sportsman. That's right. Exactly. Brian likes hockey, but he he's new to sports. I'm not new to sports. I'm just not a sports fan. I know sports. I've bonded and argued with Keith about sports for years now. Mm-hmm. Used to be a NASCAR guy. Sports, sports, sports, sports, sports, sports. Yeah, I'm not I'm not a sports fan in general. I'm ⁓ yeah, I've Like I said, I used to be into NASCAR and auto racing, stuff like that, but hockey is a fun sport. Hockey's a fun sport I'm a fan of. It's fast. It's super fast paced. It's you know, always something's going on, unlike soccer or basics. I love how you can like punch someone in the face and two minutes in the box, buddy. Go to timeout. It really is nuts like what's allowed in that time. Just a legendable the beautiful game. Did you guys play NFL Street? Do you know what I'm talking about? I played I played the one on PSP because I had a PSP girl. And I think I had a PSP. It was I was like, you know, any PSP owner, I think, was just like fiending for any PSP game. So I ended up getting NFL Street 2 for it. And it was really fun. I played a lot of that game actually. Yeah, all of those like all of those street games I think translate well to the sport. That it's yeah, streeting. Yeah. ⁓ wish they re release there's at least a May Street volume two. That'd be amazing. But I'm pretty sure. I feel like that's what the run's trying to do. That's what's so exciting about it. Like I'm excited to try it to see if there's any of that magic. Or if it's like made new kind of magic with that kind of genre, I guess. I don't know what she'd put. Street sport. Yeah. Non professional sport. Game Street Style. There's a pretty popular hockey game, ⁓ PC. I've seen it played on Linus Tech Tips before in like segments where they're just like showing out a PC that, you know, works. You know, they're I they're like I don't know what it's is it just called hockey? There's like it's pretty popular. It's like a pretty arcadey. ⁓ I just cartoony a little bit, yeah. I think I I think I've seen something like that. So I was like ⁓ you're triggering some kind of memory seeing tape to tape something like that. On on PlayStation at least, I'm sure it's on the Xbox store too, but ⁓ they have a remake of NHL ninety four. I think it's like five bucks. It might be free, but it has updated rosters and current teams, but it's just like NHL ninety four and it's like, you know, four K textured More frames, but it's that classic over the top like Genesis hockey, which is really cool. That's cool. Yeah, more sports games. Not all by fucking 2K or EA. Please, please and thank you. Those are all the best ones actually, too. I I miss I miss it. I miss those the golden days. ⁓ yeah, it's tape to tape. That's what it's called. Now the only sports see it offshoot you get really are the Mario sports games, and those guys have gone downhill since the GameCube. Yeah. ⁓ yeah. Yeah. Shame I was thinking of. All right. Well, ⁓ even though Keith already introduced the game of the month, ⁓ let's talk about I I we're not out of order. apparently it takes about twelve hours to beat according to how long to beat. I think that's what how long to beat says. I just remembered that. it's six in my experience it was six six per per. play like pro Leon or Claire. I was ⁓ supposed to ⁓ say I don't believe that though because I got pretty far in Leon in only a couple hours. It took me eleven hours total for both. Took me took me ten hours for Leon. Damn. But yeah, it's just a main story. I missed a couple things and I had to do a lot of backtracking and like that house confused me. The backtracking The the police station. We'll talk about that. The police station the backtracking. It's no police station. What kind of Yeah, this says main story seats ours, but I guess yeah. Evil police station was what kind of police station has an art studio? It was a museum. The lore is that it was a museum. And then Richard put it to Because Because in lore, the same guy who built the mansion designed the mansion in the first game, which I'll head on. So it is a crazy state. In the first game, in the first game Steve Trevor, that was his name. He worked on the first house in the first game. He has two first names. Shut up. And then the second game, he also helped with retrofitting the police station. Because one- why there's a fucking giant chest set in the police station? Yeah. Because that doesn't make any sense. It's also intentionally it's also intentionally confusing as well for when shit happens, all the officers are fucked because there's where's everything. There's like files talking about. There's yeah, ammo. Why there's weird spots for ammo. Yeah, yeah. Because the police chief was a fucker and put shit in odd places to fuck with everyone. There's lore reasons for it. Damn it. It's in the files. We talked about this in the Discord. Alan brought it up and I was like, Yeah, I thought it was goofy at first, but like I accepted like I suspended my disbelief and then I was like, it's fine. The the chief is like spoiler, the chief is like on the take. He's like a bad guy too. So that's kind of why, but Let's talk about how we played it first. I think everyone besides Keith just played on their Steam Decks. ⁓ unfortunately, Steam Decks cost a lot of money now, so hopefully you already have one. I mean, before we get into this, I do want to mention that I did buy the physical copy of Resident Evil 2 ⁓ for PS1. I got the I got the it's packed. It's in one of these boxes behind me. Well why would you pack it? You can just look on our TikTok. It's getting a like every minute. you can see the disc there. One like per minute, but no views. So this was my first this was my first real game where I fully dived into tank controls. I've always avoided them when possible. When I wanted to play a game that had tank controls, I avoided it. But this game I had to play. ⁓ That's right. That's right. And I was I was like super, you know, tank control version. Didn't know how to didn't know the magic of it yet. When I popped Resident Evil two in the my PlayStation one and the first the first typewriter's so far in, like for someone that can't move correctly. so I died I think four times and because I couldn't save it dumps you to the main menu. You have to watch through the cutscene again. You can skip the cutscene, but you still have to like spam start to skip it. And after that I was like, I don't think I can do this, ⁓ at all in times so I did that's when I moved to Steam Deck. ⁓ I safe stayed in my way until I got used to the controls and now I can say like I can I can use a tank control, but I s I'm still against it. I was fortunate enough to have ⁓ played Dino Crisis ⁓ like last year. And so I was relatively like familiar with tank controls. ⁓ so easy. It's not that bad. I wanna yeah, it's really not that bad. It's not. I just hated getting used to it. This is tank controls, but it's also different because of the forced perspective of every screen you're in. So it's tank controls to a weird degree. Like it's not like Tomb Raider or like Croc, I think is like that, which games that we have talked about ⁓ before, where you're like you're turning yourself, right? And then you're moving and then the camera's fixed behind you, whereas this is the camera's always fixed on the room you're in. So it's a little bit different. And drama controls suck. But I did get used to them. But anyways, we all played on Steam Deck except for Keith, who played I played on PS five, ⁓ 'cause I just bought the they dumped all they have pretty much every Resident Evil game is on PS five now. Although all the mainline ones. They don't they didn't put like dead aim or a guided or any weird those weird versions, ⁓ our spin offs, whatever. ⁓ yeah, all the mainline games are on Resident Evil five. You can get everything on one system. Which is very cool. ⁓ so yeah, so I've I played it on that. The PS five version has save states and rewind, but there's no fast forward or anything like that. Rewind? Rewind is cool when yeah games actually use it. ⁓ not a comic game. No, yeah. but every every game on like the Switch on the Nintendo store, all those classics not every game, I don't know. It it's yeah, I won't say everyone. But a lot of them have rewind. A lot of the two D's like yeah. Game Boy. I remember Super Metroid had it when it plays on there. Well that's useful in It's the only way I beat Mega Man. Retro Arch has options for rewind, but I never try using it because I've tried it I tried it a couple of times in the beginning of messing around with emulation, it doesn't work automatically. I don't know. Maybe there's a way to configure it to work, but it doesn't usually just work. So I just Don't use it. But ⁓ I will also want to say we all played the original PS one version. We did not play the remaster or the ⁓ PS five versus the dual shock version. So yeah, sorry, I played dual shock version as well. But I we didn't play ⁓ Resident Evil original Resident Evil two is on Steam Deck or on Steam, but we played on PS one on Steam Deck, you know. So ⁓ No, what do you mean by Just because c compatibility there's compatibility issues with the Steam version. If you look on the store, it's like it's not technically compatible. I don't know what is wrong, but if you're trying to play it like buy it on Steam and play it on the Steam Deck, you might have to look into like looking on ProtonDB or something or looking on Reddit to get it to work the way it's supposed to. I don't like again, I don't know exactly why it doesn't work, but there's something about compatibility. ⁓ but emulation works fine. So yeah, as far as controls, the way the controls felt on the Steam Deck, it was fine. Like the buttons, face buttons, one of the face buttons is shoot. I think it's X or is it A? Whatever. Whatever your equivalent, whatever console you're referring to. I was referring to Xbox the original PS1, which is what we played. It's PlayStation X. Okay. And then the ⁓ start. ⁓ Does opens your little menu, select opens the options menu, and then aiming is with the right analog stick. Or you could just do yeah, or you could just do type C I did. There was something fun about aiming down and just shooting a zombie. They're not zombie. I don't know what you'd call. No, they're zombies. They're zombies. Yeah, the residents. Residents. The residents are evil. Yeah, residents doesn't pussy out. They're called zombies. Yeah. I think they're referring to straight up says zombies. End game, yeah. Yeah. There's a lot of like that. I I just I just was in a a clip and Leon said these zombies or something like that. So yeah. The voice acting is something else. Leon's a dumbass. It's his first it's his first day. It's his first day. Yeah, I was gonna say later on he's like such a badass in the later games, but like in this game it's like a total like dweeb. He's up to my food. The ⁓ saves as far as saves dates, ⁓ I used them a lot, especially 'cause I didn't want to backtrack even just to avoid backtracking most of the time, I would save state before walking through a door and it's like, ⁓ this isn't the way I wanted to go. So or I would save state and then go a bunch of ways through a bunch of rooms and like shit, I shouldn't have gone this way. So I'll just relo reload it back to where I was and should have gone the other way. 'Cause I I got a feel for the map, or at least the police station, as I went on, but never like fully grasped it. I f I grasped I could figure out where to go in the bottom floor, what each room took you to and then the the second level where there's the library door and then the other door that's like the it's like the tower thing. but I use safe states a lot. ⁓ I did finish the game. ⁓ actually I finished we'll talk about this in a minute. I finished I did ⁓ Leon A Claire B, which we'll talk about we'll ex elaborate on this in the next section. But ⁓ yeah I did finish the game. I don't think everybody finished the game though. He finished the game zero save us finished. We won't say which half Well Keith Well Ryan said he finished it and then I just said I finished it. So we've already confirmed we've already confirmed that Keith lies. Yeah. So we'll never know. Ryan will post my ⁓ never know really. Ryan will post my incompletion screenshots in the Since Keith is a liar. No completed I beat clearly half of us completed it. I beat close A in a half hours. And then I beat Leon B in two thirty six. See those classes. Yeah, nice. See? Six hour game. No, I beat Claire in like two hours once, so. Nice. ⁓ but yeah, so the if you know what you're doing, I can see how you the magic of Resident Evil is that the more you replay it, the less scary it gets and less and less like tense it gets. I don't know about that. You know, like I mean, I've beat it so many times, it's just like sometimes you still get jump scared because you forget where a zombie is, you just run into one on accident, which I've done playing. The camera cuts and you're like they do that a lot. They love doing that. But but yeah, like if once you've been enough times like, yeah, I could I could play this thing thing lamp with my eyes closed. Like I know ⁓ prove it. Okay. Prove it. I will say I didn't save state that much. I kind of just save state it in like type I made like a rule for typewriter rooms because I kind of wanted to keep that like scariness of it. ⁓ but yeah, I didn't I I tried to only a ⁓ for I did Claire A, Leon B. Mm-hmm. And I did that for Claire A. But for Leon B I was safe stating, like Ryan said, every fucking door because I just want I was trying to finish at that point. Yeah. I played it really early in the month, ⁓ and finished it within like a week, if not l it was defin it was definitely less than a full week 'cause I was like, Well this is pretty cool. I want to fin maybe over a weekend actually. ⁓ But yeah, we'll get into how much we liked it later. But ⁓ hey Jay, did you ⁓ did you did did you beat it? No, did you I can tell you I can tell you everything you need to know about Leon A. ⁓ I beat Claire A, all right. And Claire B, you could say I played it. Yeah, you could say you could say I was ⁓ running around a bit in that. I killed I killed some zombies with Claire. You know, I shot some grenades. Yeah. What was your save state activity like, Jay? ⁓ pretty heavy. Okay ⁓ at least towards the beginning I was saving room to room almost. just 'cause I was getting a feel for how to move. And then finally towards the end, you know, I was like doing big chunks without saving as much. ⁓ but again, I didn't want to do any backtracking like y'all said, so I would like backtrack before like a big encounter or like if I found a key or a key item, you know, save there and then so pretty substantial saving. Yeah. Yeah. ⁓ babies. So Keith, you wanna tell us the basic story and the structure of the game? 'Ca specifically the the Leon A, Claire A, etc.' Break into the zapping system. We'll go over that. So the basic ⁓ story here is ⁓ Resident Evil two, you play as two characters. You play as Leon S. Kennedy, the S S for Scott. And he was a rookie cop. It's his first day at work coming into the city. ⁓ Lore dump here. The reason he gets there at nighttime is because he was out partying drunk the night before. That's why he was actually late for his first day, which is why he actually cool guy. Is he smoking cigarettes too? He does carry a lighter, so yes, he does smoke. He starts with the lighter. But ⁓ yeah, so and then ⁓ then Claire Don't you know those things will kill ya? And then Claire is the ⁓ college student who is the sister of Chris Redfield, ⁓ from the first game, and she is searching for her brother after the events of the first game, the stars member that survived, ⁓ which are Chris, Jill, Barry, and Rebecca, and Brad Vickers. ⁓ they all they all kind of went their separate ways or either left the city or stayed the c or one stayed in the city, a couple of them stayed city, and then ⁓ the others left, and then Claire's looking for her brother Chris because he w he went missing, and ⁓ then that's her reason for going to the city, and then ⁓ fun things happen. There's a zombie outbreak. Then all breaks loose. As it happens in these kinds of games, there's a zombie outbreak, they're running around, and then they end up at the police station, and then they Have all kinds of wacky adventures fighting different kinds of monsters and meeting new characters. They they each have their own set of characters that they meet, ⁓ that they deal with, and then they each have to try to find a way to survive and escape the city. Can they do it? Yes, they they they can do it. They get out, they all get out. Spoiler, there's more than two Resident Evil guys. And that each character also shows up and they show up in later Resident Evil, so all of them. Man, those residents sure were evil too. And then Evil again. Resident Eviler. And then so the game how it works, the structure of the game is each disc, it's a two-disc game. Each disc is one of the characters, either Leon or Claire. And depending on which one you start with, that is the A scenario. And then once you've beat that game, you then follow up with that same save file and then put in disc two, load that save, and then you start the B scenario. So basically Each character is running through the game at the same time, more or less. There's they do the kind of the same thing. There's some there's some kind of ⁓ allowances, like yeah, don't worry about the fact that they kind of do solve the same puzzle sometimes. Yeah, that's what that's my only real issue. Yeah, so like sometimes that like if I play cloud. ⁓ you're right. Is that not really here? That's later. But ⁓ but yeah, so there's there's yeah, so like yeah, sometimes they'll solve the same puzzles, you know, something like that. But for the most part, they are different. areas of the station or they know they do different things. So and it's the term that is used is called the zapping system. So basically some things that you do in the A scenario as one character affects what happens in the other in the B scenario. So for instance, there is a you can find a pair ⁓ or you find a cord, electrical cord, that you can plug into some shutters. So if you plug it into some shutters, the shutters in some sections will close and that will lock ⁓ zombies out of that area. Because then later There's two separate windows you can lock them up to. So if you lock down one, the other one, you hear a glass shatter later on in the game, and then you see a bunch of zombies come in. And then so if that's for the A scenario, the B scenario, the wire runs out of juice, the shutters come up, and now there are zombies coming through that area where that was on the B scenario. So where you actually which ones you lock down, that actually can affect how it affects the other player. And there's also like didn't know what to do with it, so I didn't do anything with it. Zombie's for everybody. I think I did, but I didn't have the cord when I ⁓ and just forgot. Yeah. You know, I found the cord and I was like, I know exactly where this goes. And then and then later I found the second shutter, like second place to put it, and I like, is there another cord or is this kind of like a choice I'm supposed to make? Yada yada yada pick one. And then there's also a weapons room which has A side pack and a submachine gun. ⁓ you can choose to take both as one character or I thought that was really funny. Like it warns you if you take this, Claire won't have anything. Yeah. Yeah. I took one of each. Like one. I took the the bent whatever the belt, the pack. Side pack, yeah. Side pack machine gun. Yeah. And left the submachine gun. Cause he's like, that's what I did. This for Claire. Yeah. Yeah, I did that. But he then he can he could it's funny how we'll say it out loud, and then you can still take it. Yeah. I probably should leave Don't mind if I do. There is a second submachine gun in the lab later in the game. Okay, God. So you can act so you can still get one for That's funny. What? Yeah. So you know. They didn't commit to the bit. I I also found crossbow bolts when I I had I did Leon A Clair B and ⁓ I never found the crossbow in Clairby, so I just didn't I just put ⁓ in the box. Never used it. It is in the B scenario, where would it be? I don't know. It's not it's not good. ⁓ I didn't think it would be. It's it's not bad. It'll take down liquors. It'll take down the liquors pretty good. You just need the you just need the grenade launcher with player. That's it. Like you don't really I mean ⁓ that's true. I was I mean I guess that's that's the the thing is I was so worried about running out of grenades that I used the bolt gun. Mm-hmm. So I get you. ⁓ I didn't you know I didn't know. We're rookie cops. I'm I'm a I'm a level one hundred cop. You guys are level one cops here. Yeah. So the A B thing, the zapping system as Keefe is calling it, you can choose when you start playing to play Leon A, Claire B, or Claire A, Leon B. And disc one is Leon A. So in my mind Well, I played disc one first, so I did Leon A. I Leon A, Claire B, and I think Jay was doing the same. It was his own like, and then the you guys did the opposite. You need Claire A and Leon B. Because it's canon. Apparently. Technically speaking, Claire A, Leon B is the canon events. This was decided later. So at the time they didn't really Who's Claire? No. I just said who Claire was earlier. Claire? Jay, did you get to Sherry? Sherry. And Claire? No, I did not. really? It's awesome. You see her in the end of Leon A. Yes, you do. But I I did I sent that Simpsons meme of like that that who is that? Who is that? There's also another character in Leon or in Claire B and Claire in general, ⁓ that you don't see ever is Leon and it's Mr. X or whatever. Mm-hmm. ⁓ I did see him as Claire. Yeah, and I was like Who is this? Like, what is this dude? So, yeah, ⁓ there are, you know, Ryan has a whole thing here because I'm, you know, about the A B stuff. There are differences between each character, each story, and the A and B scenarios do also differ in how it happens. So, like, Leon A does happen differently, a slightly differently than Leon B does. So, there are differences there. ⁓ but yeah, it's ⁓ it's a beautiful system. ⁓ No, I thought was always done the dual protagonist thing, except for a couple ⁓ except a couple of notable. Except for Sonic Adventure Two. Yeah. Yeah, it's true. Yeah, it's true. But it's not really like that. They have an anti protag duo going on. Yeah. Yeah. Capcom didn't do dual protagonists for Sonic Adventure Two. That's weird. No, they didn't do that. three and four, and I guess seven. ⁓ seven and eight, really, too, 'cause that's Ethan's story. Yeah, Resident Evil has pretty much always had two protagonists. Six, they had like five, because they that game went crazy. But they're say boss, they're saying there's not enough protagonists. There's too much in that game. Too much, too many characters, too many explosions, too many giraffes getting sucked off. You know, Resident Evil Six is a whole beast. But ⁓ but yeah, so Resident Evil's pretty much always had that ⁓ dual system there, which is actually pretty cool, ⁓ ever since the first game. So Well yeah, that's why it's ⁓ yeah, it's good time. It's an amazing game. And I mean that this time. Unlike when I say about about Iron Man. Yeah, yeah, this one's actually amazing. Let's talk about art and sound and atmosphere. ⁓ I'll start. Visual presentation, ⁓ the areas, the textures, character models, all that stuff, all the visuals. ⁓ I really liked the way the game looked. I was playing it obviously blown up to like four X resolution on a Steam Deck. So and there's like you can change the way that it it I don't actually know what the terminology is the way it's being blown up. it one sometimes it like makes the character models look really sharp, but the background's still kind of like fuzzy. You can pick because obviously it's pixelated because it's from the PS1. But ⁓ it reminded me a lot of like Fallout One, at least the backgrounds. I don't know if anyone's I don't think you guys have played Fallout One, you've probably seen pictures of it. I've seen it. It's like the 3D, it's a It looks like a three D environment. It is a three D environment, but it's also like it feels too like the backdrops are two D, but it looks really it's like a it's yeah. It's like a pic an actual picture of a three D background. Yeah. Same with remake. Remake does the same thing. That's why remake still looks amazing. It's like the pre rendered background. That's interesting that they just like yeah, exactly. Yeah, just like it still just looks great. But ⁓ the character models are good for PS one. ⁓ The animations are a little goofy. ⁓ there everyone walks really slow and the walk animations are kind of silly looking, but it's not that bad. It's fine for a PS one game. ⁓ the overall like vibe of the backgrounds is really it's perfect for the the content of the game. It looks like it sh d it belongs. Mm-hmm. The music is good. Great. I do like the music. The music is good. It's like yeah, just a slight unsettling. The music is what Put me in it more than anything. You're playing an old game, but like the music still is really spooky and kind of Yes. Yes. It gets I don't know, it gets in it gets under one track, I think it's the second four track where there's like a and it's like and it's like meant to like spooky of like is that music or is that like something happening? What's happening? Even like even the save room music, there's like an a minor key to it. ⁓ that's unsettling and like it's like you know this is a safe room, so you hear it and you Yeah. But like it's still like not a pretty tune. Like it's still depressing and like horrid to listen to. Yeah. Yeah, the sound design in general's really good. I I like the like zombie like groans like it's just like a classic zombie. Yeah. Yeah. And then like you walk into a hallway and you hear them like walking like Like like it's I don't know, the whole everything about the sound like really brings you into the game and like you're just a little nerve nervous or I don't know. The broken glass, like when you walk over broken glass, it makes broken glass sounds. Yeah. Yeah. It's kind of crazy for a PS one game. I mean the footsteps are a little goofy and the running is goofy, but like the typewriter sounds also good. Yeah. I ⁓ yeah, I was gonna talk typewriter sound because it is Ryan's game, baby. Typewriters are in it. I would save just to hear the typewriter sound. Like it's yeah, it's really good. Going back to the glass footsteps, there was a section early in Claire's thing where there's like a concrete pad and there's like a very thin gravel outline. ⁓ and you don't have to go to the gravel, it's just like the end of the screen. Like it guides you up the stairs, which is the opposite end of the screen. But if you walk in the gravel, that also had its own footsteps. And I noticed that like earlier today when I was just playing as much of Claire as I could. Yeah. Yeah. But it makes me wonder how mint how many different like footstep sounds are in that are in the There's a lot. Yeah, because you in the sewers like it sounds like you're walking through water. Yeah. Yeah, and like there's a lot of attention to any monster footsteps too, like the spiders in the sewers are really good. Fuck the spiders. That might have been the scariest part of the game to you. Yeah, man. Fuck the spiders. Because they looked really good. Their models looked really crisp. And they moved so fast. There's like a really narrow hallway where you flip. Yeah, you have you're like just scooting right by ⁓ They'll go over the ceiling and like creep behind you, like, ⁓ my gosh. And if you stand still, it'll just like Creepy on it. It's that was the seriest part. It's amazing how good this looked and sounded for a PS1 game. Yeah. It I mean, I was ⁓ blown away. I didn't I expected it to be I don't know, if a little more goofy. I mean it's it's a little goofy, but I expected it to be worse than it was. And it it really surprised me how like the quality of everything. Like the boss fight music is also great. Like when you're fighting G on the ⁓ on the yellow elevator going down, like the big tram thing going down, it's like it's like fuck yeah, it's like yeah. One of the things that was tough for me, and it just comes with like being a nineteen ninety-eight game, was some of some of the item I mean, some of the keys, like they would put sparkles on them so you couldn't miss them, but like some items that were key items could have been missed just because Some of the background textures look a little sludgy. And like a lot of times ammo was in places where like it wasn't even seen. Like you just click X. Yeah, there's a lot of ⁓ looking through wall like cabinets and half the time that there's nothing in it, but you gotta check. Yeah. Yeah. I wanna say about sound before we move on. We've mentioned the game, like you you're transitioning between rooms a lot. Like the r the game is very boxed in where like every room you're Like that's all there's not very big rooms. The biggest room is probably the ground floor of the police department. Police yeah. But every time you're entering a room, there's like a loading screen, which is a little long, which is a little annoying, but it's really sets the tone where like every single door creaks different like different doors creak in different ways. Like there's like the and the door turns and then the knob turns and then it opens. And then you have like the footsteps up ladders and stuff when you're going at changing like screens with on a ladder, it's like don't don't Don't it's like the out the sound design is really good. Yeah. Yeah. All the sound design for the room transitions is really good. I think there's like wooden floors that creak, you know, there's all kinds of like the sound design is actually crazy good for a game this old. Like I don't think if you can maybe I'm wrong, but I don't know if you can find a game this old that has that much attention to detail when it comes to just like your movement through yeah, you know, the space. And I mean movement is most what takes up most of the time because the controls But I thought the transitions themselves were like brilliant. Like it's really immersive. Like it puts you in that first person view. You're opening the door, you see the doorknob turn, your door open. Yeah, and then locks you into that camera. You're physically walking up the steps, walking down the steps. Like you can you don't see the legs, but you can feel the movement of the legs. Like it feels like the leg movement. Yeah. It makes you feel like you're in the setting. Like in a really good way for a PS one game. Like I don't know. This kind of leans into gameplay, but also I think it is an artistic direction, the locked view. You know, the locked camera. Because it really does like like you said, you open a door and you're locked into a view of like what I would imagine is if you walked into a room, like, okay, this is what I'd see first, but then you hear a zombie coming and you're like, Okay, I I like Do I need to stand here and wait to see it come into view, or do I need to walk forward and see how far it is? But I mean, I feel like that's part of like the like an artistic choice. It's absolutely intentional too. Like just a gameplay mechanic, like walking into a room, you hear the zombie but you can't see it. Like that was absolutely intentional. It's yeah, it ad yeah, it adds that tension of there being something unknown just out of your field of vision and it adds to the horror of the game, like the And when they come in your vision, they're gonna take up your whole screen and be in front of you. And it's that fixed perspective. I really love the fixed perspective. I like it, but it's also the most annoying part of the game. One of the most annoying parts of the game because every like I said, every room is its own room like area that you have to transition between, but multiple rooms have multiple camera angles. And when you change camera angles, your controls change because you're now and in a different direction. So you turn a corner and now your camera, your character is like it it dis it's disorienting the first couple of times to get you get used to it. 'Cause it's it's based on where you're thinking I think you want to yeah, you wanna you want to change because you think it's changing, but that's the point of the tank control is that forward is always forward no matter where the camera is going. So if I'm facing forward and the camera changes over here, I'm still going forward. I don't have to like but I get what because I think it there were times early on where the camera would change and I'd be like, ⁓ I I do need to shift my, but I don't. And that's why I think the choice with the camera kind of forced the tank controls so that you could once that camera angle changes, you're still going the way you're s intended to be. That was also definitely like a feature of the time. Like they were fighting against like how to make this as big as possible. And the fixed cameras definitely save a lot of space while also like adding atmosphere and Ambiance and you know suspense. The fine controls, I think, is a problem too when you're trying, especially in the part where you're moving the statues around to get the gym. Yeah. to line yourself up to push it in the right direction. So all you do have to do is then you're pushing it and it changes. Yeah. It's yeah, or you're trying to line your Sign yourself up with and you're like, ⁓ I think I'm right, and then the camera changes and you're like, Yeah, fuck. You're like run into the statue, or I don't know if you can do this or not, but I was curious I I never tried, but I was curious if you could push the statue too far close to the wall and then you couldn't push it back. You can. You can fuck yourself like that, but if you just leave and come down and I did it the first time. I was curious about that, but I was I was like also very aware because I know ⁓ like you you'll experience things like that in like Zelda, I think. Yeah. We're like, if you push too far, it's locked there and you're like, ⁓ I can't push it back. And so you have to leave it. Yeah. But yeah, I I didn't test it because I was very aware of it. I was like, if I'm not careful, I feel like I'll lock this statue here. Yeah. I did it with the boxes and the part where you have to raise the water up and cross across the That's where I did it actually. Yeah. ⁓ so we can move on. We're talking sort of talking about movement a little bit and controls. I think we've mostly covered it. And as well as rooms, ⁓ the first part of the game is very open, like or at least it feels like you're in an open area because you start out in the street and then you're making your way to streets. You start out five feet in front of like three zombies. Really about to get you. Yeah, they're like right there. They just throw you in the deep end and three steps away from your first fixed camera change. Woo! Yeah. Throw you right in, baby. And there's a zombie. On the other side of that game. Yeah. Yeah, when I started the game, I never played any Resident Evil games, obviously. ⁓ we didn't speak talk about that. I haven't played any of them. I don't think I think you some of you guys have. I haven't played any of them. I played when I was younger, but not very much. It was like I've only played four. The original four. I hadn't played any. And so I was not used to the controls, and I started the game and I was like, what am I supposed to do? Because like I have you start with the pistol. I'm shooting the zombies. I'm like, this is impossible. I like I literally said to Keith. I was like, tagged him and I was This is impossible. And then you're I think you're like, you don't have to shoot them all. You can run. I was you did, yeah. You know what I It's actually it preferred you don't do that. Yeah. And then I later on, ⁓ when I this is my first run, I first the first time you encountered a liquor, which is the first like really scary part, like the spookiest part, because he crawled across the window before you go into the room. Yeah, yeah. You walk up and he's on the ceiling and he comes this is a cutscene and he comes down and he just stands there and he like attacks you with the lick attack, which is funny. That licker running across the window was when I guys texted I texted you guys and I was like, Okay, this game's actually a little scary like because that got me. I was like, ⁓ fuck, what was that? Yeah, there's something crawling on the wall outside. Are you kidding me? If you go to if you If you go to the window after that happens and just interact with the window, Leon would be like, There's nothing out there. It's or it's like too dark to see. Yeah. But you can obviously see it like before. Yeah. ⁓ Yeah, I also when I got to that point, I I was very my first run first experience with the game. So I wasn't very good at it. And I'd already used all my shotgun ammo and I didn't have enough pistol ammo left to even kill the liquor. And I was also hurt. So I was like, I need to like leave and come back and I what I ended up finally doing was I I just ran past him. You can run past him. Yeah. And then he's still gonna be there. You ran I ran past him to get around him and eventually found more ammo or heal something like an herb or something to heal and came back and killed him when I had more shotgun ammo. But I had a lot hard time in the early game finding ammo actually 'cause I didn't know where any of it was. I was gonna say I feel like if you're if you I don't know at what point, but if you're healed enough, you can actually outrun everything. in the game, I think, right? There's nothing faster than you. No. No. Yeah. Like everything's pretty slow moving. So you get e like you said, you can just run. Lickers can get pretty close. They can get pretty close. There's ⁓ dogs are pretty fast too. Dogs are really annoying. Yeah. And so are crows. That might be the one the crows. Yeah. Yeah, the crows are annoying. Yeah, if you guys if you call by the crows, there's the crows only show up in one area, but like a huge that you gotta clear that area the first time you go through it. Yeah. That's what I like too, is like you mentioned if you avoid an enemy and go back later, the enemy will still be there. But when you clear the room, that room is cleared for the rest of the game. Yeah. ⁓ unless like another main event happens happens later. Yeah. Yeah. I was actually gonna ask if in hard mode if enemies respawn or if that's just a feature of the game where you just have to clear rooms. Some rooms will repopulate just depending on like later events in the story. Yeah, yeah. Like but it's like a floor population. Right, exactly. Right. It's just like zombies first, and then after a while it's it turns into liquors up there. ⁓ but then that's like that's just gonna happen naturally. That's like that's just progress with the story. Yeah, the crow thing I was reading a guide for parts of it because when I get stuck or like lost, I would be like, Okay, let's see what like I'll read it for a minute and see where I need to be going next. And the crows, they were like, just run past them and I was like, All right. And I did all You don't always get I made it through before, but on the one on the way back I got hit. Yeah. And like if you get hit, you get kinda almost get stun locked and it they can kill you pretty easily. It's not as funny as the the stun locked by the roaches later, but ⁓ Yes, yes. Ada got me like really bad. I didn't have any trouble with the roaches with Sherry. But she was like Yeah, like it was like, ⁓ my god, just move. She can die to that. Sherry Sherry can die to that part if you ⁓ yeah, because she has any weapons and she's actually slower, so she can't actually get away if she gets ⁓ traded by buttons. Yeah, damn. For those that haven't Sherry's a child that you have to play as a couple times in the Claire playthrough. Yeah. ⁓ and she has no weapons and she's not very fast. She's like probably the hardest part of the game is playing Sherry. It is. It is. That's like the run killer. Yeah, like if playing a sherry. And 'cause like I mean Ada Ada's like I mean, spoilers I guess. Ada is actually way better than you. ⁓ her gun is better, she shoots differently, she shoots faster than you. Like she's just better, ⁓ because she's a spy, you see. Yeah, I was about to say 'cause spoilers, she's like an agent of some kind. A PI agent, I think. Yeah. No, that's a lie. She looks no she works for the organization. Okay. She's a double agent. Yeah, she's like yeah, she's like ⁓ working for whoever pays her to steal some bioweapon or other. So a mercenary. ⁓ exactly. Yeah, I will say one one other thing that's I forgot I forgot to mention that's kind of ⁓ art related. The menus, the spaws menu, feels very Japanese game. to me. It's like the UI looks Japanese, like a Japanese it was like an older Japanese, like a J RPG of the same era. That that is to say like you might like that style. I don't. I think it looks like it's generally kinda ugly. The inventory system is its own like thing. We can talk about in second. But ⁓ yeah, like the style of it looks kinda Japanese and the voice acting feels like it's a Japanese game too, because the voice acting is dreadful. ⁓ Does it get any better in later games? Sure. Sure, right. I mean, I mean Resident Evil three or Mes Evil ⁓ Yeah, I mean they c they it gets It gets better slash, you know, like it kind of stays like kind of campy. They do say that. Yeah. That definitely keep Resident Evil Four is full of I've seen Resident Evil 4 a bit. I've like seen clips also. And yeah, it definitely it like it seems more like they're leaning into it at that point. That's just always been the style of what they do. Resident Evil One is so funny. It's like it's so much like worse, but also Really? Yeah. Sure. I think the problem is twofold. I think it's that It's translated in a way. Well, I mean, maybe that's just the way it's spoken in Japanese. If you're a Japanese person, it isn't goofy to you. But if it's tran maybe the translation makes it sound goofy, but not only that, the c the voice acting is just bad. Like the voice acting itself is goofy. It's there weren't why doesn't anyone listen to me? Yeah. It's it's almost like it wasn't actually in a room with zombies. Yeah. It's like that link, that Zelda cartoon where it's like You know I'm talking about that one Zelda cartoon where it's like, Well, excuse me, princess. Yeah, it's like that level of voice acting. Yeah. It's really terrible, like one liners. ⁓ So the ⁓ the original ⁓ game, there's no Japanese voice acting, it's all English voice acting. ⁓ really? Damn. I didn't know that. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. So in the Japanese version you're just listening to English. They just have Japanese subtitles on it. I guess that's kinda cool. ⁓ Yeah. I mean I I respect that. Yeah. Yeah, that's kind of cool actually. And the ⁓ I don't know if you guys remember. They did it with Gus Tushima, but the opposite. They gave us like a sorry to interrupt. No, it's fine. Remoting me. It was only in Japanese. Yeah, they gave us the Japanese only talking and it gave you the subtitles. Yeah, it gave you the English version too, but you could choose to play it that way. Anime fans would call that subs, not stubs. Yes, true. That's true. That's true. So true. Good thing that's not me. But the ⁓ the voice actor for Claire is I don't know if you guys remember the big comfy couch. Do you remember that that kid show? Yeah, that you're ringing some bills. Yeah, that's ⁓ that's her actually. Same. ⁓ my god. Wow, that's crazy. That's always yeah, that's a fun little fact I always like to bring up when I talk about this. I was like really surprised when I learned that. I was like, well, that's cool. Let's talk about the Puzzles. ⁓ in general. Super easy. Super easy. No trouble. I mean, they're really not that complicated. As a first time player of Resident Evil, I didn't know there were B puzzles in the game. I didn't know that's how a game w the game works. But as a first time player, they weren't I just kept picking up these weird things. Yeah. I'm running out of inventory space for these. And we can talk about inventory too, 'cause that's that pertains to this probably. I was supposed to goes hand in hand almost. Yeah. Exactly. Like I have a chess puzzle in itself. Yeah, like I've got a chess piece that's like a it's called a plug or something. I don't remember. Yeah plug. Knight plug and like what okay Bishop, Rook, Knight and King. Is that it? There's like the gem and then there's two gems. Red gem and The unicorn medallion. Medallion, yeah. There's a couple more medallions in the sewers for clay. Yeah, there's then there's tools. You got the cog and the crank. The crank. The crank. The wheel. ⁓ the valve handle. Speaking of sound, the valve handle, turning sound. I love that. Yeah. It's so good. It's also really funny that like you close the pressure or something. You turn the w like the water's leaking. Right? Isn't it leaking already when the healthcare crash? It goes up to the ⁓ water tank and you gotta turn up the pressure to have it burst and then it puts up the Yeah. But it's like Isn't it already leaking a little bit? Yeah, that's what I thought it was leaking or something. I don't think it was. And then it explodes. It's just that part's kinda silly. but the puzzles so the thing that the Gabe mentioned brought this up earlier. The puzzle one thing that kinda bugged me about the puzzles is I expected playthrough B Claire P. In my scenario, Claire B puzzles to be entirely different because I played Leon A. So like, ⁓ of course they'll be different because why would they be the same? But some of them are the same, which is kind of weird. It's like so Leon needs the ⁓ unicorn medallion, and then he takes it from the stars office, brings it down to the main office, puts it in the statue or whatever, gets a key, and then And then he puts it back. Well that's what like you're solving A lot of puzzles twice and like it's not just that, it's like going in the library you have to fall through the floor. And I'm like, why if why isn't the hole already there? Like because Claire already fell through it. There's already fell through it first. Somebody went through and fixed the some concessions. The other thing too I noticed as Claire when I put the medallion in the second time, the unicorn medallion, walking away and even going to like the next screen where that statues in the background, you can see the medallion still in place. Yeah. Yeah. On the statue. So it stays there. I mean, it's a nitpicking thing. Yeah. The only the only real solution is making the game a little longer to do different puzzles. Or like, you know, something like that. But and like you don't do the you don't do the chess pieces in scenario no you don't. That's one of the unique ones. There are some differences. Yeah. But ⁓ and obviously some of the paths you take are different as well. I mean it's the paths are completely different. It probably comes down to like the nineteen ninety eight limitations too. Like they already had to make it two discs. So they it was probably just saving space. Right. ⁓ but like you said, it's a nitpick. Yeah. And and for a PS one game, like ⁓ it's it's still impressive that they were able to do four different ⁓ little story arcs. Jay made some fun gestures there for the audio listeners. We got into an argument in Discord about the number of stories because it was like there's four. It was just a misunderstanding. I was like, there's two four scenarios, two stories. There's two stories. Yeah. Yeah. Which means there's two stories. That's all that there's the scenarios don't matter because to play the full game, you've played through both scenarios. You could just play one scenario. I yeah, you could play on it. Two of the podcasts here did only play one. So let's know. I played two, I didn't finish two. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. So watch it, bud. I got all the way to the factory as Leon. I made it I I did the Leon story and he's he's the main character. We all know it. Yeah. So the puzzle thing, the other thing is like you're carrying That's what we should get in a fight about and who's the main character. It's Dr. X. It's ⁓ it's Mr. All of ⁓ It's Mr. And he's known as Tyrant in the Japanese version. God damn it. Sorry. So your inventory, right? So you're you're having to carry these pieces around, but you don't I mean, if you're looking at a guide, you know when to put them up and when to bring them out. But if you don't know, you're just going to have to run back to a safe room that has a box. Obviously it's like you're making concessions for ⁓ suspension of displays, this box has the same contents no matter where the box is in the game. Boxes are universal. Because the box is universal, it's like a universal box chest. Resident Evil One remake on hard mode, they're not universal. That's cool. That's really cool. That's that's so cool. Yeah, so you're having to inventory management is kind of a feat like a gameplay feature of this game. Like 'cause you you have to carry an ammo box in addition to your gun. ⁓ gun also takes up a slot, even though if it's equipped, it's still in a slot in your in your grid of stuff. ⁓ and so you do automatically reload the rounds from the box into the gun, but you can't also you can't reload whenever you want unless I guess you do it that way. Yeah. Combine them combine items. And combine. There's an option almost everything has in you like on as a when you select it, but not everything can be combined. I don't maybe they don't. No, everything is combined. What do you I can't make Yeah. So if you're not wa following a guide, you're just carrying around some stuff and it you get it gets full really fast. There's not that many squares. What is it, six or eight, Keith? Do you know? Off the top of your head? You get more. I think it's six for Claire, eight for Leon, because I think Claire gets eight after the pouch. It felt like Claire had less to me. I think so. Yeah, I was gonna say I think Claire has six, which is why I took the inventory pouch for Claire in my Claire A scenario. And I remember I think I'm I might not be right, but I think I remember it increasing it to eight. I'm not running Claire right now. I'm running Leon. I can't look at it. Yeah because I took the the pack excuse. Shut up. I took the pack as Leon because that's what the guide I was looking at said to do. It's like, all right, well I'll take this and leave submachine gun Cardinal. And now there's like Leon has I had so much space and then when I was doing the Claire B run, I was like, I don't have any space. I don't know, like you know, I I have to keep you can't drop stuff either. Yeah, I'm fairly certain it's six for Claire. You can use them while you have full health though and just like scrap it, yeah, if you want to do that. Yeah. Which I've done a couple times. Just put ⁓ in So there was times with Claire where I'm carrying the grenade launcher and two types of grenades. Well, there's ones that are loaded in and there's a different type. And I'm carrying the handgun. I never stopped carrying the handgun and I'm carrying ammo for the handgun. And then I have if I have the submachine I think I'm out of space if I have the submachine gun, so maybe I can maybe I can carry an herb, and then like I have to I don't have space for like puzzle items, so I have to I have to make trips to the boxes when I get to the that point. That's a little annoying. It's eight for each. It's eight for each other. Yes. ⁓ so I got ten with Claire then? I don't I don't remember it feeling like ten, but One of the first things I did for both characters was put my knife in the box because I didn't use that knife for book the knife. Same yeah. I also never picked up typewriter ribbons because I was using save states, so I ignored those. ⁓ if I did end up with them, I just put them in the box. I would just stack ⁓ in my box, yeah. I had like twelve. I would stack them in my box even though I was using ⁓ because generally there's a typewriter in a room with they give you two per typewriter. ⁓ yeah. ⁓ yeah, also that. I'm only saving the one time. Yeah. So you do end up with extra. Yeah, so we can talk about the guns specifically. every ⁓ a lot of them take up two slots instead of one. A couple of them. One. Shotgun takes up one. Yeah, it's shotgun's one. Shotgun's one. The only one I've encountered so far that's two is ⁓ the submachine gun. Flamethrower is two the spike launcher. Spark shot, rocket launcher. ⁓ there's also a minigun that you get for beating it. ⁓ but that takes up too much well. Yes, I sent that. I didn't encounter the crossbow, but I think I encountered everything else besides the minigun. So I had the submachine gun on Claire, I had the sp the spark shot on Claire, which is a pretty good gun. ⁓ didn't have a what is the spark shot? It shoots lightning bolt. Like a lightning gun. It shoots like a taser thing pretty much, yeah. It's like the submachine gun where it has a fixed like amount of ammo. Okay. Like subm to clarify, submachine gun, I flamethrower is the same way. ⁓ and maybe a rocket launcher. Yeah, it's percentage. It can't be reloaded with ammo. The confusing thing when I started playing Claire is the grenade launcher is loaded in a different way than the pistol or shotgun. Because you have a shotgun or pistol, you have a box of ammo in your inventory. It's loaded automatically when you reload. But if you have a grenade launcher, you have to combine the grenades with the grenade launcher, but it's because there's different versions of ammo. Yeah, there's different shell types. You get three different versions. Yeah, acid three. Acid. Yes. Acid flame and normal. Yeah. Yeah. And it's a last boss and ⁓ glare. They're all good in their own way. I'm sure that there's reasons to use some over others, but I don't know. Flame rounds are generally the flame rounds are best. I was gonna say flame rounds are good on the plant. Animal plant enemies. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like 'cause they just I melted the Leon A final boss with the flamethrower. Like I had most of the flamethrower health. I had probably ninety percent and got him to second stage in like the two seconds of flamethrower. Like he would flinch like he couldn't even get to me 'cause he'd do his flinches so quickly in between trying to move. Now I assume that's William Birkin right in A. Yeah. But In B is your final boss Mr. X? Yes. Okay. ⁓ that's interesting. Yeah, that's what I was curious about. But you still encounter William Birkin also in B. In the B scenario you fight his first and third form. The A scenario you fight his second and third. Hmm. Yeah. Yeah. ⁓ so there's like the train boss. At the very ⁓ I declared B so you fight them on the train platform with a rocket launcher. and then there's like the big goo mon big wad. Is that the final form? The that's the final final mass of stuff that's inside the train. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Spoiler alert. Or did you do that? These two losers didn't even get see that. No, that's like the that's the end game, right? Because you get that no matter what. Yeah, right. Yeah. The pistol, the thing It's good. I mean it's fine. It takes like five shots to kill a zombie. I think you can do headshots with the regular pistol. Is that right, Keith? Or no. No. Only the shotgun. Mm-hmm. Yeah. And then you can upgrade the pistol later. If you get one of the small keys and unlock a drawer, you can get the magnum. And doesn't ⁓ isn't there an upgraded weapon for Claire? Or am I so is it just No, Claire does not get a upgraded weapon. Leon Leon's weapons are better because he gets pistol, shotgun and classic great weapons, and they all can be upgraded. ⁓ and customized can be upgraded? The pistol can yeah, yeah. It becomes a three. It becomes the magnum. Yeah. ⁓ no, you're just the magnum is its own gun. Yeah, I forgot about that. But the magnum also gets customized, also. So you can also have they all get upgraded, so they're all better than what Claire gets up. Where's the magnum upgrade? That's in the weapon in the lab. ⁓ and then it's I've been it's more med, so yeah. It's all it is. Yeah. It does headshots all the time, but doesn't it already do that? Does it already work? No, it doesn't. Not always. It doesn't it doesn't want once you upgrade it, pretty much one shots. Yeah. Yeah, I forgot about the pistol upgrade. It kind of turns it into like a semi like a thr a burst weapon. That's a cool I I was like sweet when I got that. I didn't get the shotgun upgrade, I didn't know there was a shotgun upgrade, I didn't find that it's hidden on a deadline. Of course it is. Yeah, you gotta check everything. That's yeah, you do that's the most interesting part about this game is is I didn't expect it to be so much of an exploration game. ⁓ You know, it's it's not just it's it's not just shooting zombies, which is kind of what I thought it was. It's like really is more of a puzzle survival, like you said, the inventory system is a huge like part of the gameplay in like juggling your like managing your inventory. Fun fact too in future Resident Evil games, they they turned it into like a Tetris system. So like if it a shotgun will be two by four spots, but you can go this way or this way with it. You know, vertical or horizontal. Yeah, Resident Evil. That's ⁓ yeah, they that's like a big feature of that game is ⁓ playing Tetris with your ⁓ I love the Tetris suitcases. So you're saying Tarkov ripped off Resident Evil for its inventory system? Yes. Yeah, not sure me. Yes. Tarkov players we have here or listening. I there's a couple if Alan is listening. he's two people. Tarkov Inventory is one of my favorite Tarkov Inventory is one of my favorite things about that game. It I love the inventory system of that game. It's I'm not good at the game, but it's cool. Because like it's yeah, I just there's like a backpack slot and different backpacks have different sizes and different backpacks have different s like slots in them. Sometimes there's like a two by one and a two by one on the side or whatever, and then there's the big so like you can put Like a magazine is a two by one. So there's a magazine in here and a magazine in here, and then like a rifle might be able to fit in here or like a part. It's really cool. Like it's crazy that they spent that much time on just inventory stuff. They've even made games about like there's like a Steam game that's like just playing like of like ⁓ just like a copy of the Resident Evil Four inventory system of just like organize this, yeah. Organized this. So Claire gets ⁓ Leon gets better weapons, Claire gets More weapons. She gets pistol, crossbow, grenade launcher, spark shot. ⁓ she also gets a her alternate costume, because they both players have ⁓ alternate costumes. She gets a revolver, ⁓ as her alternate costume, which takes the place of her ⁓ handgun. ⁓ it's actually better. ⁓ it shoots shoots faster. it's also what she actually he actually gives her in the b like beginning movie, right? No. No. ⁓ it's not? The gun dude points at it, it's like a revolver. No, it's just a regular gun in the movie. No, it's just a regular gun. Okay. No, I just I thought I remembered the original movie. She like points the gun at like the camera and like it's a revolver and then like Yeah, yeah, it's a s regular, regular thing. But yeah, so yeah, this are all alternate costumes ⁓ in this game, which is pretty cool. To get it, it's very funny on how to get it. ⁓ I would have loved to see either any of you try to get the alternate costumes. So what you do is I could do it you have to you have to make it to the police station without picking up anything. And then there is a zombie. ⁓ yeah, right. A special zombie ⁓ at the bottom of the steps, because there's an underground ⁓ walkway by the front of the police station that's walking down there, and you have to kill that zombie and then get the key off him. ⁓ now the zombie is actually super tough. ⁓ so and you know, you'll The trick is you get to the police station. Once you get to the police station, you've done it. So you can just go in, grab ammo, and do whatever you want and just grab whatever you want that's in there and then go out and kill him. But I would have loved to see any of you try try that before. I could do it. So once you kill him, yeah, once you get him, you ⁓ with safe states. ⁓ yeah, easy with safe states. Yeah, so once you ⁓ once you kill him, you get the ⁓ which is actually Brad from the first game. ⁓ spoiler. And then you see how he dies in the third game. Funny how that works. Because actually Resident Evil 3 Takes place a day before and two after. Two days after Claire's Firejacket. Yeah, and then and then ⁓ Leon gets two separate costumes. And Leon's alternate costumes, he holds his handguns with one hand. See that main character energy. He's absolutely the main character. I was gonna ask earlier when you're like telling about the story. Yeah, the couple of them survived and they stayed in the city, and was like, Where are they right now? Why are they not here? Right. The stars officers. So you'll find out in the next one. In Resident Evil 3. Resident Evil. So Resident Evilist. Chris left to Europe to track to try and stop Umbrella to go to their Europe office or Paris office, which they follow up on in Code Veronica. And then they ⁓ Barry took his family to Canada to get away from Umbrella to because they get away from. But then he actually shows up at the end of Resident Evil 3 also to help out there. Jill stayed in the city. ⁓ And then Brad also stayed in the city. Rebecca, I don't remember what happens to Rebecca. I think she just leaves as well. I'll take that. Because she's not in any main games until like ⁓ let's find out. Like after zero, she just doesn't show up again. Well, zero and one, she just doesn't show up. So, but ⁓ but yeah, so Jill stays in the city to try and investigate on her own. But like I said, Resident Evil 3, it takes place ⁓ two days ago. Rebecca's the one you find the photo of. Yes, the rookie photo. Yeah, right. So yeah. ⁓ Jill stays is Resident Evil 3 starts on the 28th of September, I believe. ⁓ and then by the time Claire and Leon make it to the city, Jill's already left. She's already out of city. Or not out of the city, but like in the outskirts of the city. Radcoin City, like, really makes no geographical sense once you really break it down and think about it. But we won't think about it. we're so we're talking about guns and I was I meant I was I was mentioning how how many shots it takes to kill a zombie. So we can talk about enemies ⁓ more specifically. We've mentioned a bunch of them so far. one we haven't talked about, we've talked about zombies, talked about dogs. Dogs run after you and bite you. We've talked about ⁓ the crows, which are pretty specific to a certain area. We've talked about spiders in the sewers. Spiders are spooky. Fucking the roaches. All the all the enemy designs are great, also. Yeah. Like the zombies are classic zombies, but everything else. Like the liquors. The liquors. This is all sorts of just funny. Yeah. We haven't talked about the plant things in the lab. What they called? You encounter like three of them? It's not many. Maybe. Yeah. No, it's like yeah, this guy's a fake fan. He doesn't know what they're called. They're called the IBs. I knew that, but I was trying to think of how many there are. Yeah, those guys are annoying. Yeah. I do like the liquor jump scare in the lab. I think there's one in the lab. And there's also a liquor jump scare in the interrogation room. That's a good jump scare. Yeah, when it bursts through the window. But I actually was like. I didn't even I missed it 'cause I was my daughter was next to me. She wasn't watching me play it, but she was next to me and I was looking at something she was doing and then all of a sudden the lick was there. I like, ⁓ Most of the enemies are straightforward. They're not too hard to beat. ⁓ they're just like there's a way to beat them kind of sources, yeah. Yeah. And the game does give you a lot of resources. But yeah. Yeah, for the most part. You can be very easily overstocked for anything. Mm-hmm. Yeah. ⁓ man, while we're on the enemies, ⁓ it just hit me. ⁓ the giant alligator. Yeah. yeah. I forgot about that. Yeah. Yeah, we can as I say the next only thing that's really left is the is the bosses. And there's a lot of kind of a lot in some ways. There's different bosses for different playthroughs, like Keith mentioned. in Leon A, and probably I guess in Leon in general, either one, you don't even encounter Mr. X. ⁓ you know, A scenario. Mr. X and then E scenarios. Yeah. Yeah. It's broken up by a scenario, not by character. Okay. ⁓ okay. Gotcha. In the remake two, two remake, Leon deals mo his final boss is Mr. X, or you know, but that's but that then they break it up by character in that one, but not in this one. Interesting. Just by scenarios. Yeah. Yeah, so you run into Mr. X in pretty early on in ⁓ your playthrough. It's alm yeah, it's almost immediately. And then you're like, ⁓ since I played You know, ⁓ yeah, you're like, huh? Who is this guy? And then he's like this green guy in like a trench coat. run into him a couple times. Green guy. Big boomba. You don't have to kill him, you can run away from him. ⁓ I did which I did most of the time. He does drop ammo when you kill him. Yeah, I was gonna say if you kill him, every you can get ammo from him every time. Yeah. I ran away from him until I had to fight him in the vinyl boss room for him. He's not that tough though. None of them none of them is none of the bosses are that hard. You just gotta check Yeah. I think it'd be funny if you didn't know what the trick like I saw it immediately, like the thing on the wall. It's really obvious it's a giant red light. But if you didn't know, you'd be like What? I I was j yeah, I was just curious if anybody actually tried to fight the alligator. But what what what we're talking about is there's like a gas canister you can release when that it's like a big alligator that takes up hallway and it's crawling yeah the whole hallway that's crawling at you but you can release this gas canister and it'll actually like grab it in its mouth and then if you blow up the gas canister it kills it. ⁓ it it like like Ryan said it makes it pretty obvious that that's what you're supposed to do but I just didn't know if anyone like missed it. Because not me was curious. It's like how have you ever tried to like just fight it Keith? No. No I don't think you can kill it. I think it'll be but really no you don't want to try. That's wild. Just just a waste of ammo. Yeah. I guess you'd call this a boss. The moth thing in the lab. What's that thing steal? Why where did it come from? You know what I mean? Just experiments just broke out and just made a hive of that room. Yeah, that thing's gross. Yeah. Really? Very hard. Yeah, it's very easy. I think I flame round it like once or twice in it. You don't even need to kill it 'cause like well I mean what I do ⁓ as an experienced RE2 pro is I just run right past it and just kill the bugs on the computer and use the computer. Okay. Sounds professional. You just skip the boss fight. Yeah. It's not really a bull. Some pro So Keith, in the lab, there's a room that you can't access unless you have like two people to access it. That is where the other submachine gun is. How do you get in it? So the first character, you log in on the get with that same moth room where the bugs are, you log in, put in guest as your password, register, and then you run and put the fingerprint on that door. And the second character, you do the same thing. Log in with guest, register your fingerprint, you go through the So I could have done it on my B run. You have to do it on the B run. Yeah. Yeah, I just didn't try it because it was like okay, so that's you can get it. Okay. But that's where you have some machine. I have it already because I did not In my A run register, the fingerprint on the door. Yeah. Mm-hmm. I will say about the while we're on bosses, what has jump scared me the most was Mr. X. I th I mentioned this in our Discord, but the first time he shows up, it didn't jump scare me because it makes he pr it telegraphs he's coming in pretty good. But then you're doing this puzzle and you finish the puzzle and he bursts through the wall out of nowhere with no warning at all. And it was like, ⁓ my god! And then just turned around and started shooting him. And then you do that, you leave the room, go around the hallway, and he comes back out through a different wall. And that one got me too because I was like already spooked from the first one. I was like, damn, I can't believe he just like showed up out of nowhere again. I knew he was coming again because it shows him getting up. But then like for him to immediately come back again, I was like the second one got me really good. I was like, holy f He wasn't like yeah, any of the time I I like I said I ignored him, but ⁓ when you finally had to find him he wasn't he's not that hard to deal with, but yeah. I thought the worst boss was the room where it's where you put turn the lights on. ⁓ Keith, you know I'm talking about. I'm sure it's in the basement of ⁓ is that a that's a ⁓ boss, isn't it? Or is that is that the first form of what's his name? ⁓ yes, Birkin. that one was tough for me. Maybe. There's like the room is it not the room where you turn on the p like you can adjust the power switch settings or it's near that. ⁓ yes. ⁓ well that there's no enemy in that room, the power the power room. ⁓ that's what I'm it's in the sewers, because I just did it. Hmm. In the B scenario has a pipe. In the A scenario you fight a ⁓ it's called the G creature, which is like the big looking thing that spits out the little guys at you. Mm-hmm. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, that's That thing was a little annoying. Yeah, was gonna say he's probably because the those little things, it's it's not even that he's that bad, it's the little things he does spit out at you. It's hard to do better just cons yeah, it's gotta consistently come at you. Yeah. Yeah, ⁓ that one's probably the hardest one. And then the one where I like, forgive me, I don't know which scenario this is or which character if it's specific to character, but you're fighting him it's one of the Will William Birken forms. And you're in Like a it's like before the alarm gets set off or when sorry, when the when the self destruct is going on. Yeah. And you're not not when you're on the train, but you're in the I guess for me it was like elevator room. You're waiting for the elevator elevator. Dog Yeah, that's it. I faced him in with Claire. ⁓ and that's what I use the acid rounds That's what it took. 'Cause that's Claire's final boss in that one. I didn't have I was running out of forms you fight him in like a big human form. And then like you said, he turns into like a like big dog. Yeah. Big teethy dog. Teethy maw thing. Yeah. Thousands of teeth. Yeah. And then the there's the eye he's got on him. Yeah. Keeps it showing around. Yeah. It's like in the middle when you're fighting him on the train. Mm-hmm. Yeah. It's really f it's it's that that's one of the funniest concepts to me about these games. It's the ultimate bioweapon and it like turns you into that. Yeah. I don't care. I don't like what? Yeah. I d why do you think this is good? Yeah. That you can can be killed with bullets. Yeah. And like we just got normal people still beat him with Yeah, that second form is pretty cool, like when it's just got the big claw and that's it and just like yeah. Is it worth it though? Yeah. I mean Well, wasn't it an accident? Didn't he accidentally 'cause he was dying? Well, yeah. He got yeah, he got lit so he had to heal himself. That part was pretty pretty crazy, actually. That's kind of light in the scene's good to just like mag dump with MP fives into him. It's like, ⁓ okay. The worst part is and I mean it I guess at that point his mind was probably gone. Yeah, he like infected his daughter also. Like that's a big part of the Claire ⁓ at least the Claire A scenario. I don't know. Yeah, the Claire scenario. Yeah, it's all so it's all about. But ⁓ Yeah, he likes infects the daughter and you have to find the Is what pops out of the ⁓ whoever he kills at the beginning in the A scenario when he infects them with iron and then they iron to the chief, right? Or the or the ⁓ depending on who you're playing. The journalists, ⁓ in in Leon's A, ⁓ he kills him the same way like he they did the chestburster because they love it in Japan. The guy in the jail. Yeah, yeah. Right. Yeah. Yeah. So the same thing. That that little thing that pops out, that's what becomes a G creature. So that's how they So would that have happened to Sherry? No, because Sherry was a ⁓ genetic match, so ⁓ right. So what she would have transformed like Birkin did. They don't exactly say what would have happened to her, but it wouldn't have been that. So something would have happened to her. ⁓ and because of the vaccine that she gets in this game, ⁓ she gets superpowers later in six, so she can just like heal from anything pretty much. So it's hilarious. I think it it's funny how normal of a girl Sherry is when her parents are those people. Mm-hmm. You know, it's like two evil scientists. Yeah. And she's just like a normal girl. Insulated her from their evilness. I guess they were not bad parents. They were just evil at their job. Absent. They were absent parents, you know, working on their science. Yeah. The ultimate bio weapon. Yeah, I was gonna say, do they ever explain what Cherry was even doing there? ⁓ yes, the her parents sent her there because of the It was safer. Yeah, because it was supposed to be safer. 'Cause Chief Iron's supposed watch out for her. Okay, okay. Because they were all under umbrella. So that's why he's saying that there's also a like a dead girl on Chief Iron's desk. Mm-hmm. That's the mayor's daughter. Yeah. Yeah, the mayor's daughter. That was it it's those little stories are really good too. Yeah, because he like he plans on like making her taxidermy. Mm-hmm. Yeah. So that's yeah. Yeah. Mm-hmm. Because there are like he he talks about how he like there's a group of people he was supposed to be protecting. Right. Mainly like mm. Well, mainly just the ⁓ mayor's daughter, Sherry. Just Sherry mainly, yeah. And then the mayor's daughter, like the multiple people went to this police station 'cause that's where you're supposed to go and this kind of thing. ⁓ but yeah, you know, he just kinda went crazy after everything and just started hunting people. It's like this is my town. No one'll get out alive or something like that. Right, pretty much yeah. And he gets eat up by something. He either gets bashed to death by a pipe or ⁓ expl chest burst to yeah. And clear age. Yeah, mine was the bash. Yeah. All right. Well I think we've covered most of the game. We can do rapid fire ⁓ favorite, least favorite, and one thing you would change starting with Jay. my favorite. I actually do like we talked on it earlier. I do like the Fixed background the fixed camera with the like pre rendered backgrounds. I just I don't know, that's like a really classic style from the PS1 era. ⁓ and I like any game that allows me to see that. One of my favorite games for PS1 was Digimon World, and it did that. So that's like the game I think of when I think of those like pre rendered backgrounds, but this game did it really well and made it spooky. ⁓ spooky. Yeah, it it it made you like Gabe said, it made you explore more than we might have thought going in. lot of secrets and those pre rendered textures. Hell yeah. Check that desk fifty times. Yeah. Least favorite part is the tank controls. One thing I would change is the tank controls. Disagree. Disagree. Maybe maybe a year from now I'll feel different now that I've warmed up to them, but I I still just want to move normal. Does Remaster tank controls? ⁓ no, remake ⁓ it's like third person like behind the shoulder camera. RE4 style, right? More free moving, because RE4 is still tank controls. ⁓ like they're still locked, they just move the they just move the camera. Yeah. ⁓ but RE six is more like it's are I'm sorry, remake two, that's ⁓ it's like free. You can turn your camera camera. As any human should be able to move. I disagree. I disagree. No, I like the tank controls. I really do. I think and I I like I said, I think they're necessary because camera. Yeah. ⁓ I won't I won't say they're like my favorite thing, but I don't dislike them. what is your favorite thing? My favorite thing I don't know the overall ambiance of the game, like just the whole feel of the game is it really is despite being how old? Ninety eight. Twenty. Twenty eight. Twenty-eight years old. Like it it's still kind of scary. It's still like it you it still gets you sometimes. And so I really I don't know, it it's it's hard to pick a favorite thing, but I guess that would be it, like is the f the way you feel scared when you're playing the game. It's a good horror game. ⁓ despite its age. A good game's a good game. Least favorite thing, I would say is what I said about like I kind of wish that the scenarios were more different. That's it. ⁓ and that and it's they're pretty they're fairly different. Still, it's more like I wish things like I wish because I'd gone through and fallen through the f floor on Claire A, that when I got there with Leon, that was already that had already There's a magic man that went in behind and fixed the floor. Come on. I mean, I mean but like I said, it gives my least favorite things are really nitpicky things and overall like I think the game's great. ⁓ Sounds like the best game we've all I don't think I'd change anything about it besides that. I mean that'd be it. It's like maybe make a little more game so that the scenarios feel more different and that's it. Right. What about you, Ryan? What about you? What's what did you think? ⁓ my favorite part of the game and this surprised me because I didn't expect a lot going into it because I'd heard about the controls and I'd never played one. ⁓ I didn't think I would like it as much as I did. And my favorite part was I just kept feeling like I wanted to keep playing it. Like I wanted to figure out what was going to happen. I was actually invested in the story as goofy as like the voice acting is in it. I wanted to know what was gonna happen because I don't have any, you know, like concept of the umbrella stuff, all the background information. I haven't I have no experience with any of it. I know generally what is going on. But ⁓ my favorite part was just like I'd finished Leon A And I didn't even take that I really didn't take a break. I started Claire B right after it. I was like, I want to know what happens from this perspective. Which leads to the least favorite part is just like Gabe is said Gabe just said, the fact that it's not different enough. It's just there's some stuff that's exact it's exactly the same. And I'm running through the same places doing basically the same thing, just a little different. I expected to go different places more. And I mean, you kind of do, but not really, maybe just in different orders. Yeah, different orders. ⁓ As far as one thing I would change, I mean the controls I got used to ⁓ It would've I think I would enjoy it more if it wasn't like that, but I understand why it had to be that way. And like Jay mentioned way earlier, the setting of like the the camera view of the room makes the camera like the controls, that's why it works like that. 'Cause the game would be t entirely remade if it was over the shoulder, you know. Action instead. Yeah. They would have to redo the whole it did be remake the entire 3D world. Yeah. So I get why they did it that way. And I didn't it wasn't took a bit of getting used to it. I never really got good at it. Like I could get through it and go faster. But that would be the one thing that I would change probably. And, you know, ⁓ that's that's basically it. Like as far as the least favorite like part of the game, the I don't know. There wasn't a part the the only week separate part just ties back into the ⁓ thing about the puzzles not being different. So I'm just yeah, I feel like I got more stuck in Claire B, more lost in Claire B than in Leon A, 'cause I even though I'd already done that part of the game before, is like a little different, but not different enough. So it's like ⁓ I didn't even realize at first. I was like, ⁓ I have to look at the unicorn metal. So I thought it would already be I thought it'd already be open because Leon already did it. But he did I mean, he I guess he did and then put it back. I don't know. But that part was annoying. And like the I should leave this for Claire. Yeah, but not consistent. Like the timelines weren't consistent for some reason. So I was always asking, like, was did Leon come here first? Am I playing in the future or the past compared to my Leon A playthrough? And it's ambiguous. You don't know because they're and it's there they I mean, they just didn't think about it. 'Cause you're doing the same things for the same characters in multiple places. So yeah, that's my only ⁓ other like gripe with it. ⁓ but Keith, what about you? Since you're the one that's played this the most, what are your favorite, least favorite things? And what would you change if you would change anything about it? I love this game. Very much so. It's great. It's like I I don't need to do this. It's it's perfect game. The whole thing's all I have to say. The whole thing is my favorite thing. ⁓ and then my least favorite thing is ⁓ actually don't have a least favorite 'cause like the whole thing is great. So actually, ⁓ no, I'd say my favorite thing is the music. I love I love the music. ⁓ one thing that always like like one thing like if if I go out of my way to acquire the music for a video game, that's how I know it is stuck with me. ⁓ because and I I love I love this soundtrack and Even the cheesy rock music that says after Leon says, Hey, it's up to us to stop Umbrella. ⁓ It's so goofy, but I love I love all the music in this game. ⁓ Leah's favorite bit I'd say is playing a Sherry in Claire scenario. Dumb little girl, but that's like it. That's like that's like it's like also when you're playing a Sherry, she takes fucking forever to climb stuff, and sometimes you get Like she has two random animations where her foot will slide off sometimes. ⁓ my god. It's not guaranteed to happen. ⁓ I've never encountered that. Yeah, so like when she's climbing something, that's actually so like we're I'm this an intention of detail kind of thing, because that's it's annoying shit a kid would do. It's annoying. I mean it's annoying, but it's realistic. Like it's she's a kid. So yeah, it's like but it's like it's random each time, so it's like, is it gonna happen when she climbs up? Fuck. It's like just get me out of this port. Fuck But yeah, that I mean that's probably that's like such a small part. It's like, and you know, I I love everything about this game. ⁓ things I would change, ⁓ I don't know if I would change anything about this game. ⁓ I can't think of really anything that would really like I mean, I don't know. Maybe I'm just too stuck in like how like I enjoyed the experience. It's like I don't think I can really imagine it ⁓ not playing anything like this. Now, this is for the ⁓ the completionists here who actually completed the game, the guys who finished the game. ⁓ not for anyone else who didn't finish the game. Not naming names, but ⁓ Ryan, since you also finished the game here, ⁓ did you mess around with the fourth survivor? Or the ⁓ EX battle mode? No, I saw that that was an option, but I did not. Okay. No. So there's two extra modes after you beat both scenarios. ⁓ there is what's called the fourth survivor, or did you play as? ⁓ Hunk, who's a long running character. That's his code name, Hunk. ⁓ He's one of the umbrella ⁓ mercenary guys at the that gets attacked. But he ⁓ he gets up and he has a sample of the G virus, and then you play as him, because he's canonically also another one who escaped. So you play as him getting out of the police station before on a time limit. And you have to like run through ⁓ different areas, fighting different enemies with like limited ammo and stuff like that. It's a nice little challenge run. ⁓ and then then EX battle mode is it's kind of like mercenaries in Resident Evil 4. ⁓ it's where it's like a similar thing where you're going to a certain area and you can play as multiple different characters and they all have different loadouts. But it's like a fun there's like multiple fun little side things, but yeah. But the fourth survivor, that's like the main thing. There's also ⁓ an extra additional battle mode where you play as a giant block of tofu and the giant block of tofu just has just has a knife and a bunch of healing items, and that's it. That's like the ultimate hard mode. You're doing you're doing the fourth survivor but has a giant block of tofu. And he has a and he has a stars beret on also, which is really fun. ⁓ and he also he only speaks in Japanese. He's the only Japanese voice actor in the game. ⁓ but but the ⁓ but the but the reason they use tofu is because it's like it's the the hitbox that they use for the characters. ⁓ that's what it looks like. So that's so they just designed it to look like that. So yeah, ⁓ so yeah, both those are ⁓ so that's some little extra little bonus modes there. ⁓ so yes. But yeah, I mean, fuck, this is just an amazing game. ⁓ I'd say the best game we've played ⁓ on this podcast. ⁓ Would you say you've next time play it again? I would definitely play it again. I will I'll probably play it again in the next Yeah, but I'll probably play it next year when Resident Evil Code Veronica remake comes out, ⁓ just to go through the series again, just to have a you know, because they have recently announced Code Veronica remake, so it's like and They are cranking these fucking games out every year. It's amazing. I love it. I love it. What about you, Gabe? Would you play it again? Or for the first time? For sure. Yeah. No. For sure. I'm gonna I'm gonna fin I'm gonna finish Leon B this week because it is like it has been so much fun. ⁓ I would play it again just to at the very least experience the flip scenarios where it's Leon A. player B, but I mean it's it's a sh it's really not that long of a game and it's just it's a ton of fun to play and I'd I'd be curious to see if I could like speed through it like I g play it faster and faster. I think that's like it's like a Metroid thing, right? It's like, okay, well, how fast can I how fast can I be this game? Now that like I'm memorizing, okay, I'd have to go here, grab this, go back here. ⁓ I got it down to two hours, you know. That's Yeah. I don't know. I think it it's it's a great game. It holds up still ⁓ today for sure. What about what do you think about that, Ryan? You think it holds up? I would definitely play it again. I would probably play I wanted to play both ⁓ runs of Leon A, Claire B, Claire A, Leon B. I was planning to, I didn't. ⁓ I want to play it the other other. storyline at some point. ⁓ I'm also more probably more interested in just playing one of the other games. Yeah. Because now that I played this one, I'm interested in the rest of the series. Don't know what order I played in, Keith, you could probably tell me what I could play it, which what I should play it in, you'll tell me right now. But we could I would probably Right now. I I wanted to say like another good note about this game is I didn't have to play Resident Evil One to enjoy this game or understand the story. Like there was a zombie outbreak and these characters have to deal with it, which I really appreciate about the game. Right. You said you I I thought of that earlier when you said like you didn't know anything, Ryan, about the Umbrella Corporation or anything like that. And I was like you don't have to have any prior knowledge going into this game, despite it being a sequel. And like even a direct sequel. Like it because you're dealing with events from the first game. And initially and you don't need to know about them. The only connecting tissue would expand. Yeah. Mm-hmm. Right. Yeah. The only connecting tissue is Claire. And initially with the vers the original version of this game, there wasn't even Claire wasn't even in there. She was originally going to be a character called Elza Walker, who was a biker. ⁓ and she was like her outfit was like a racing like biker outfit. But they like the there's like a almost halfway ⁓ almost don't say halfway, but like fairly completed version of like what's considered Resident Evil one point five, which is like the beta version of Resident Evil two. It's still Leon and you're still going to the police station, but like they're it looks totally different. And ⁓ but like some some things were the same, but like then they like kind of like forty eighth hour or forty seventh, whatever the term is, you know, last minute. They kind of made the decision, kind of they do a bit of bit of an overhaul here and then change Elza to Claire to give it give it that connecting tissue to the previous game to have a previous character. Yeah. You can still find footage of the Resident Evil one point five and you can You can even play it. There's like like a version you can play it. You can actually play it. So like, yeah, so the it works on its own. And Resident Evil I mean, the story's not each game is pretty much like that. You there's no like there's technically an overarching kind of narrative of trying to stop the evil umbrella corporation. But like each game is like pretty much standalone. And there's like there's like callbacks and stuff, but you could just jump into any game pretty much and just have a good time. You think it holds up, Ryan? Yes. No, I do. I that was my main thing about going into it. I expected the controls to be like so terrible that it wouldn't be worth like playing at all, let alone playing it again. But I think it holds up. Like I think you should play this one before playing the remake or whatever. Yeah, the remake. Yeah. I agree as well. I I mean I'm biased, but you should play all the classics before the remakes. I plan on it now. I this is a series that I just missed, but now I convert. Dive all the way into it. And all of them are like super obtainable. Like you don't I mean like even aside from the special ways that sometimes we acquire these games. ⁓ they're all just like even just like through Steam or Playstation or whatever whatever version you want, like they're they're all there. You can play you can play the entire series just up there for you, just easy to get. That's why Calcom's the best. Yeah, they do they do a lot of great jobs. Did you play it again, Jay? I would play it again. I plan on like you finishing. Yeah, I if you'd let me get to that. No, I do plan on finishing it. I wish I could have finished it for this episode, but ⁓ just had not a lot of time this month. Sometimes life gets in the way and that's why we just you know, you know, there's times when some people choose not to finish games. And there's true. That's true. This guy is And I'm gonna finish the game. That's the thing. That's the difference between this situation and others. Is I am still gonna finish the game. I mean, we don't know what's happening. I mean, I mean, you don't need to call out Ryan like that. He chose not to finish Iron. Okay. I got to the final boss. That's where I was I was playing the final boss when we started recording. I didn't finish it. I'm gonna be honest. I didn't finish it. I'm not gonna be like Keith and pretend like I finished a game. Whoa, whoa. But ⁓ I there's a Keith has still finished the least games of all of us. Yeah, that was my first one finish. So I'll I'll take that for this episode. Keith, you're gonna agree with this. I'm pretty sure this is the shortest game we've played and you guys still didn't finish it. Yeah, but it sucks a lot more. So It's gonna say Iron Man is shorter and it isn't Metroid shorter? No, I don't think so. It's not okay. Probably comparable time. Probably I'd say. Yeah, Doom is probably around this this time too. But this game's like it's not that long. Yeah. You guys don't have any excuse. Yeah. So I'm sorry. ⁓ I was moving. ⁓ you were playing on a handout. That doesn't mean anything. It was moving a lot of things. It's got to be It's actually a comparable time. It says four and a half hours for main story for Zero. I have a lot of stuff though. Yeah. Played a lot of short games. Yep. Get more every week. So everyone agrees. The game still holds up today. It was a good game. ⁓ best game we've ever wanted to play it. Not the best game we've played, but it's up there. I've I've been converted to a Resident Evil fan, at least with this one. I it's it's in my top well, we've only played seven, but it's in my top five because obviously Iron Man's the worst. And then Castlevania. It's the second worst. It's ridiculous considering space station Silicon Valley is Yeah, no, you're right. Space station. Space station's probably worse, but not by much. That's a ridiculous statement. It may be, but I don't think that's a very like well liked Castlevania game, anyways. But I liked it disliked it for a different reason. I don't think that's true. Most people. Most people don't like it because it's too easy. That's not what I that wasn't my thought. Yeah. And we might get another Castlevania. Still because there is one on the list. Yeah. Keith might win again. Who knows? Actually Keith win. Keith might win. Keith, you want to see pretty good at that. Your three options you put in our Discord to be voted on by our Patreon ⁓ members and let us know which one won. For our beautiful Patreon members, if you join our Patreon at card creeps or ⁓ give give us money, you can vote. On the next game that we replace our games with when we win, or when I win, really, because I'm always winning. ⁓ so the three games I picked were Tomb Raider for the PS1, ⁓ Devil May Cry 3 for the PS2, and SST SSX Tricky for the PS2. ⁓ and our lovely ⁓ voters, ⁓ we did have a tie, we had to shuffle some things around. We had to have a tiebreaker. ⁓ but Tomb Raider for the PS1. ended up winning and being chosen by our lovely fans. So please join our Discord, join our Patreon so you can ⁓ pick which game ⁓ gets put up on the wheel here next, or pay us a lot of money to get your own game put up here. And we're legally obligated to play it. So feel free to just put whatever you want. If it wins up maybe put Iron Man Nexo Manowar again up there. Well that'd be fun. No, we should we don't read not in season one. Mm okay, okay. New rule just made for a new keyfrule. ⁓ the Keefe clause. Maybe we're considering expanding voting to beyond Patreon members. Maybe. For now. Maybe. You know, if you join our Patreon, we don't have to worry about that. If you join our Discord. Discord first, then the Patreon. Yeah. If I had the option to vote, I would not have voted for Tomb Raider. I would have voted for SSX, but it only got, you know, it didn't win. Yeah, we don't vote. We don't vote. We ⁓ we don't vote in this. ⁓ so yeah. ⁓ run down the list real quick. We've got Tomb Raider, WWF SmackDown two noir roll, medieval, actraiser, Diablo, Final Fight, Metal Warriors, Final Fantasy Seven, Super Star Wars, Return of the Jedi, Castlevania Symphony of the Night, Shantae, Human's Crest, and Shadow Tower. At this point A lot of these feel like they've been on here forever, which I guess they have, but it's like some of these are ones we put in the very beginning. Yeah. Find out now. I'm hoping it's for an OG listing and not a new entry. Yeah, one of Keefe's OGs, like Final Fight. Final Fight's been on there since the beginning. ⁓ I'm gonna shuffle it a little bit and then I'm going to spin. Ready? ⁓ music's fighting this time. Have fun editing that out, dick. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. Holy shit. I can't believe this. We've literally won again. ⁓ I've never played this the only ⁓ this is a Jacobs. This is a fan piss. This is a super mega creep Patreon. So see what happens? Now we get to play Final Fantasy VII. Holy shit. Jacobs. I don't believe it. So yeah. Historic first time ⁓ that a listener or P a fan game is winning. Yeah. Now he gets to put a new one on the wheel for next month and he doesn't even have to vote or anything. No vote. He just it on there. So next time we won't have a vote. We won't have a vote in the Discord this month. So if you join now, sorry, you don't get to vote. Yeah, that's true. But you play that a game. Yeah, you can join and you can play final You could join and then try to convince Jacob to pick whatever game you want him to pick. Put a game on the next month. ⁓ that's true. He's easily talking about lead, so you can get to that. Go ahead and join and talk about this game. I don't think any of us has of us has played it, right? No. I've never played other than Final Fantasy fourteen and Kingdom Hearts. I've never played any Final Fantasy Four. I've played seven and ten. ⁓ you played this game? ⁓ no, and ⁓ fifteen? Okay. Wow. Weeb. How many Final Fantasies are there gonna be? I thought it was supposed to be the final one. No, the reason they called it that is because they didn't know if they were gonna make a game beyond the first one, so that's fine. So now it's they're stuck with it. Yeah, fifteen pretty much. Fifteen wasn't I mean, this is gonna be this might be controversial. The seventh final fantasy. I don't think a lot of people didn't like I think a lot of people didn't like fifteen. I don't know. I played it first one I'd played since ten when I was younger. I started ten for a retro handhelds game of the RPG of the quarter and I did not like it. And I hope that I like this one, but I'm not look I I will try to finish it. Seven is the best one. Everyone says that if you're gonna play one it it it should be seven. Yeah. I'm not a huge RPG fan. I mean I I there's some that I like, but it's never funny. It doesn't appeal to me. It's like four disc, I think, or some crazy I forgot this. I think it's three. I'm sure this will come up in the next episode when we're talking about it, but the game Final Fantasy Universe vibe does not appeal to me in the slightest. Like I I don't it's goofy. Holy sh I don't like it. The main story is thirty six hours. Yeah, it's so good to play an RPG. If you ⁓ I think they've the the ⁓ like official like re release version they have on like modern devices now, I think it has like infinite health. n infinite EXP or like other like bullshit that you can just throw on just like fast forward, auto win battles, stuff like that. I think it does like have like quality of life stuff that you don't have to like. It's a you don't have to play the game. Yeah. Just autopilot the whole thing. Is Final Fantasy a game where you need to grind to progress in certain areas? I have no idea. I want to say yes, just because it's an older JRPG in every Fucking one of those games are like that. Yeah. I'm gonna go with the S Dragon you have like look Dragon Quest is like that, but it's not that bad about it. Didn't do I have to do a ton. We can talk to Tyler. Tyler's we can talk to Tyler. Yeah. Thankfully for JRPGs, I can we can fast forward. You can fast forward through your battles. You can just run in circles and but I don't actually know how the map works in this game, but I don't know anything about this. PlayStation one, Final Fantasy seven. ⁓ it's three D. Is it the first three D? Final Fantasy? I have no idea. One say yes, but I'm I'm I don't know. I might be right. I know there's a weird thing about three being like five or something like that. Yeah. Japanese, America and then the American versions. Yeah. I'm sure I think I think two is people watching three is six. It's something like that. Yeah. I'm sure people watching know it and they're like, these guys don't know anything. Seven is every game in the series fun fact. Okay, that's what I was thinking. I was thinking that was right. Yes, that's cool. So we'll get to play the first three D Final Fantasy game. So Yeah. Probably didn't beat it, right? Ninety seven. I don't know, probably. Isn't that cousin beat the last buttons? That's all I remember for this game. I had it and I definitely played it a lot, but A lot of late nineties games here lately. Well, ninety three for Doom, but we've been in the nineties pretty much the whole time. I played ⁓ ten and s like I said ten and fifteen. I enjoy those that much. I didn't finish ten, I didn't finish fifteen. I hope I like seven because I've heard it's the best and I remember liking it when I was a kid. So make sure it'll hold up. You should play seven remake instead. I just played I just played Golden Sun two, which is J RPG, so but luckily I don't have to play Retro Hand Eld's game of the month next month this next month, so I'll have time. This might be the only game I play in the next month. I don't think I'm gonna play the remake just because of the posterity thing. I just wanna play what the original was like. Otherwise shouldn't be player. Yeah. Yeah. So ⁓ anything else you guys have? Any final thoughts? No, ⁓ play Resident Evil. Play all the Resident Evil. yeah, it's an incredible series for a reason, just you know. And I guess play Final Fantasy. Yeah, we'll Play Final Fantasy. Find out next month if you should find if you should play Final Fantasy. Play the award winning MMO play the award winning MMORPG Final Fantasy fourteen with a free trial all the way up to Shadowbringers. This game would be a good game to join. No, no. Don't worry about it. This would be a good game to join in on because there's be I'm sure there are people out there that know more about this game than us, and you guys we can like, how do I do this? What's this? Where am I at? What you know, that kind of you know. group effort on helping. This kind of game I'm definitely gonna use a guide for because yeah, I'm probably gonna have to use a guide on it. Nah. So I'm going in raw, raw dog. I I would not be an eternal champion right now if I did not use a guide for Golden Sun too. Okay, Mr. Eternal Champion. If I'm gonna finish this game in time, I'm gonna use a guide. Especially thirty six hours. Yeah plenty of time. You guys should try be eternal champions too since you don't have other as much stuff going on. Maybe There's good games, like I said, like we said earlier. One game a month. Almost every game I've played with retro handhelds has at least been a positive experience and like, well, I'm glad I at least experienced that once. not everyone, but almost everyone. Very few months had like total stinkers in it. There was a couple of times where I was like, I don't want to play any of these. But there's a lot of times I played stuff that I never would have played, like ⁓ We talked about it before on here. It's a Capcom game. It's ghost trick, Phantom Detective. I never would have played that. I never would have heard of it. It's a good game. Same with Eternal Darkness. Same thing with Dragon Quest. Yeah, ⁓ wouldn't have played that on my own, but it's a good I mean, obviously that's kind of what we're doing here as well. But if you do that, you can earn points every time you get a f a complete game, you get a point. You can exchange the This is the Ritual Handhelds podcast. What are you doing, man? It's you can exchange the points for networking. Merch. And I think mine is thirty I think I have thirty two and a half points. I have enough to buy it to exchange it for something. I just haven't done it. I was gonna get a mug. I could still could, but there's like what is it? I think it's I want get the sweater. I think fifty you get the bag. Fifty is a bag, thirty five is a sweater. I'm aiming for thirty five because I want I want that sweater. But I don't complete them at much anymore just 'cause I'm focused on this, but I did do Wario Land last month. We talked about that last episode. I'll probably start doing the minis just to keep accumulating points at least. Games of the week. Yeah, the game of the week. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, they get you points but they don't give you a they don't give you a completion. It's like a half point. Yeah. Yeah. It's a half point, but it's not a full point. So you can get like two points a month probably. Yeah. Usually. A year of that and I should have a sweater. Yeah. If you're unaware of retro handhelds, that'd be kinda weird that You're here, but if you're not aware of it, go check them Check them out too. Their Discord's a lot of fun. It's huge. There's channels for every device. It's all about retro handheld emulation of like the dude ads that we're we talked about a few times on here, mostly focus on that. And then they do the game of the month thing. A lot of discussion about the games and all that stuff. So go check them out if you haven't. ⁓ and yeah, Jay and Keith, you guys should definitely check it out because I'm sure there's games you'd want to play and it's just another game to play. And you have a motivation behind it because now you're earning a point. earning one every month merch for a year. You have to get one completion per month for full year to get Eternal Champion like Gabe and I have. So you do have to do at one. If you lose a street, that's too much of a commitment. I don't want to do that. You play games all the time. Yeah, what are you talking about? Always playing games. Just play another game. Yeah. It's not that hard. Very rarely has the game also been like insanely long either. Usually they're not. Usually they're I don't want to commit to Ryan can if me and Ryan can get Eternal Champion, you guys can. I don't want to commit to that. ⁓ Yeah, I mean normally they don't have RPGs in ⁓ They do they do sometimes, but not normally. Normally and it's almost like RPG of the quarter, which they do, which will earn you one point, or if you can prove not if you can, but if you prove full completion, ⁓ I think it's three points. I think that's right. I think it's something like that. Would not try to do that. If you want three points. Anyways, enough about retro handhelds. ⁓ you should check us out as well. You can find us on YouTube. You can find us on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Instagram, TikTok, it's Cart Creeps. You'll find us. You search us. ⁓ thanks for listening. And yeah, also Patreon. ⁓ thanks. Thanks for listening. And ⁓ join us next time when we talk about Final Fantasy VII for the PS1. later. Bye. Play the outro. Play the outro. Play it. Play it. Hit it.