[0:00] You know, Resident Evil Code Veronica,
[0:02] it's getting a remake and it's called
[0:03] Resident Evil Veronica. It's also
[0:05] probably one of the more divisive ones.
[0:07] People seem to love it or seem to be,
[0:08] you know, a little iffy on it, like this
[0:10] guy. So, I figured, while we wait, since
[0:12] we had nothing but a teaser trailer, we
[0:14] came up with eight things that maybe
[0:17] should be tinkered a bit [music] in the
[0:18] upcoming remake.
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[0:25] >> Claire Redfield.
[0:26] >> Number one, that John Woo opening.
[0:29] Considering this game only takes place
[0:31] three months after Resident Evil 2,
[0:33] where Claire is just fine, just getting
[0:36] to grips with everything that's going on
[0:37] life, and the opening of this game, she
[0:39] does this really cool, you know,
[0:41] surrenders to the European Umbrella
[0:43] Corporation soldier dudes, and then
[0:45] drops her gun, and then John Woo's her
[0:47] way down, catches it, and shoots it.
[0:51] Yeah, I mean, it it's the year 2000.
[0:53] It's
[0:54] >> [laughter]
[0:54] >> It was
[0:55] That was a a suitable time period in
[0:57] which everything was like The Matrix,
[0:59] which if you basically America
[1:00] discovered John Woo films, and was like,
[1:01] "Hey, we're going to do that, and give
[1:03] you two guns." Which is funny because
[1:05] Code Veronica, Claire has
[1:07] is dual wielding in that game. Not doing
[1:09] dives or like Max Payne moves or
[1:11] anything like that, but just
[1:13] two gun moves. Very
[1:15] >> [music]
[1:15] >> strange. I mean, at least for me, coming
[1:17] off of traditional Resident Evil. Like,
[1:18] could you really all of a sudden just
[1:20] like be good enough, like savvy enough
[1:22] to just like use two guns? You know, do
[1:24] you think you could do that after
[1:25] fighting off zombies in Resident Evil 2
[1:27] in the Raccoon City I would have Who am
[1:28] I? I'm not Claire. Now, the last I think
[1:30] they should change that up a bit. Maybe
[1:31] ground it a little bit more. And from
[1:33] what I maybe can put together, uh the
[1:35] teaser that we saw feels a little bit
[1:37] more appropriate.
[1:39] Um I have a feeling that
[1:41] Claire is going to go and try and find
[1:42] Chris, and in the process gets kidnapped
[1:46] by Hunk, and that's how she ends up in
[1:47] the prison, instead of being a one-woman
[1:51] army.
[1:52] Yeah.
[1:53] In short, Claire isn't a soldier. That's
[1:55] all I'm trying to say. She some Matrix
[1:57] soldier woman. [music] She's just, you
[2:00] know, a biker girl.
[2:02] Who am I to judge? In other Resident
[2:04] Evil remakes, they've managed to improve
[2:06] on characters in meaningful ways that
[2:08] were, you know, a little bit more
[2:10] one-sided like Carlos in Resident Evil
[2:12] 3. I think they did a pretty good job
[2:13] with him. They They punched him up a
[2:15] bit. He felt like a character who, you
[2:17] know, had an necessity to be there.
[2:18] Steve, um, look, I just The guy is just
[2:22] an annoying twerp. Don't you follow me,
[2:24] baby? Throw up in my mouth. I would
[2:28] never follow you, dude. Don't worry,
[2:30] Claire.
[2:31] >> Your knight in shining armor is here.
[2:33] >> You also play as Steve at some point.
[2:35] Uh, for just a brief moment, but you do
[2:36] play as Steve. Maybe there's something
[2:38] charming if they were to keep Steve
[2:41] uh, in the same characterization as they
[2:42] did in the first game. Interestingly
[2:44] enough, in Darkside Chronicles, the sort
[2:46] of uh, light shooter game that they made
[2:48] for the Wii and the PlayStation 3, they
[2:49] did a retelling of Code: Veronica in
[2:51] that game. And if you go and watch that
[2:53] or or have played it, Steve's uh, sort
[2:56] of representation that is much more
[2:58] reserved. He's much less
[3:00] uh, oh, hey baby, don't go follow me.
[3:02] Oh, sorry, beautiful. He's like a normal
[3:05] person
[3:06] uh, in that game. So, they have There is
[3:09] a version in which he's been iterated
[3:10] on.
[3:11] Also, speaking of that, they didn't go
[3:14] full-on with his
[3:15] I love you,
[3:17] Claire, scene. Um, they [music] like
[3:20] hinted towards it, but then just like
[3:22] stopped. So, if if I think that is a
[3:24] good, you know, pulse check on on the
[3:27] sort of direction they should take
[3:28] little Steve. [music]
[3:29] And also his uh,
[3:31] his his his
[3:34] Father! I don't even want to DO IT.
[3:36] >> FATHER!
[3:43] >> I'M I'M INTERESTED TO SEE HOW THEY THEY
[3:44] SHOULD THEY should
[3:46] lean that a bit. Make me care about
[3:48] Steve. If you can manage to well up some
[3:51] sort of tears in my eyes, then I will be
[3:55] it'll be my game of the year.
[3:56] >> [laughter]
[3:57] >> Well, we'll see. I don't want to say
[3:58] that just yet. I already kind of talked
[4:00] about this, but number three, double
[4:01] guns. I just don't know if it makes
[4:03] sense for Claire to go from being
[4:06] you know, 3 months after the Raccoon
[4:08] City incident to just being like I'm now
[4:11] Tequila from Hard Boiled and using two
[4:13] guns at once. They did show in the
[4:15] teaser trailer that there are the two
[4:17] gold guns. Those guns are used for a
[4:18] puzzle in the original game.
[4:20] >> [music]
[4:21] >> Um so maybe there'll be some sort of
[4:22] implementation of that, but I don't
[4:25] know. In the original game, if you aimed
[4:27] at those two guns, she would
[4:29] automatically aim either one at like
[4:31] several different targets, and you know,
[4:33] which is kind of interesting for the
[4:35] tank control time period. I don't know
[4:36] how the hell that would work today. Um
[4:39] but, you know, this is more so me being
[4:43] curious to see if they still do it
[4:44] because you haven't had double guns on
[4:46] any of the modern Resident Evil games uh
[4:48] in the main line ones and remakes, so.
[4:50] Number four, the tyrant plane fight.
[4:53] This fight is fine, except for the fact
[4:55] that you can absolutely soft lock
[4:56] yourself and have to replay the entire
[4:59] game if you didn't carefully consider
[5:02] your resources or may have saved poorly.
[5:05] I for one did have to restart the game
[5:07] once getting to that fight, and then I
[5:09] remember sometime in the future where I
[5:11] played it again as an adult, I still
[5:13] managed to somehow soft lock myself into
[5:14] it. Also, that fight in general just
[5:17] lasts forever. If there is one thing I
[5:19] could ask that you did not change about
[5:22] that fight, it's Claire's incredible
[5:24] one-liner after it.
[5:26] >> What was wrong?
[5:27] >> Oh, nothing. Just a giant cockroach that
[5:29] had to be stepped on.
[5:31] >> Alfred Ashford.
[5:33] >> [music]
[5:33] >> Now, I just want to preface this with
[5:36] this game came out in 2000, and the
[5:38] conversation around uh transgender folks
[5:41] and cross-dressing folks has changed
[5:43] dramatically.
[5:45] >> Speak now.
[5:48] Alfred!
[5:49] Stop
[5:50] freak.
[5:51] >> I'm not here to dictate
[5:54] how they should change it, but I am very
[5:58] curious to see how they adapt to it
[6:01] considering how the conversation has
[6:03] changed over the past
[6:04] >> [music]
[6:05] >> 27 years, which it has changed a lot
[6:08] culturally, how we look, how we accept,
[6:11] and how those people have been welcomed
[6:12] and into the ripples of pop culture has
[6:15] changed a lot [music] because in many
[6:17] cases people who are transgendered or
[6:18] partake in cross-dressing have often
[6:21] been villainized in a lot of pop
[6:22] culture.
[6:23] >> [music]
[6:24] >> Most notably things like Silence of the
[6:26] Lambs, but there's also The Crying Game
[6:29] is a movie that's kind of infamous for
[6:30] that. There's movies like Ace Ventura,
[6:32] even though that was a parody of The
[6:33] Crying Game, still didn't really do much
[6:35] to help the conversation in any way.
[6:37] And there's conversations around like
[6:38] other pop culture things like Pretty
[6:40] Little Liars or Sleepaway Camp, which is
[6:42] a horror film that I actually really
[6:43] like, but um I don't feel necessarily
[6:46] equipped to say how it should be changed
[6:48] or the sort of attitude [music] they
[6:49] should take towards it. It's just more
[6:51] so I am anxious to see how they approach
[6:54] it. To mention Darkside Chronicles
[6:55] again, I think I a game that retold
[6:59] Code: Veronica, they do change that
[7:03] relationship or at least the
[7:05] >> [music]
[7:05] >> the dynamic between Claire and Alfred
[7:08] and Alexia a little bit. While it's
[7:10] still a prominent characteristic of
[7:11] Alfred,
[7:13] the difference is that they removed
[7:15] Claire's rather problematic [music]
[7:17] insult towards Alfred. The one thing I
[7:20] will say that I think Darkside
[7:21] Chronicles did at least a little better
[7:24] is when it is revealed the big twist
[7:26] that Alfred dresses as his sister
[7:28] Alexia,
[7:29] >> [music]
[7:29] >> Claire's response comes off a little bit
[7:31] more empathetic rather than, you know,
[7:34] just kind of calling him something mean.
[7:36] Um so [music]
[7:38] clearly they saw that and tried to
[7:42] address it [music] and tried to do
[7:44] something about it in that iteration.
[7:46] So, I'm just curious to see how they
[7:47] handle it this time.
[7:49] >> Number six, the Antarctica base, more
[7:52] specifically Chris Redfield's section.
[7:54] This I I have full faith considering the
[7:57] teams, the Resident Evil 2 remake and
[7:59] the Resident Evil 4 remake team that's
[8:00] working on this, that they're going to
[8:01] do a great job making this section paste
[8:04] well and entertaining. They managed to
[8:06] make some of the lower points of
[8:08] Resident Evil 4 incredible in Resident
[8:10] Evil 4 remake. And so, I'm not really
[8:13] worried about that. It's more so just
[8:15] the awareness that that section becomes
[8:17] very
[8:19] I don't know, it's a repetitive in the
[8:19] way you're just going through the exact
[8:20] same environment all over again. But,
[8:23] it's Chris Redfield. Now, this is going
[8:25] to fold into number seven, Claire and
[8:27] Chris, the dynamic between the two since
[8:29] you get to play as both. I've often, you
[8:32] know, observed that main line Resident
[8:34] Evil games from Biohazard onwards kind
[8:37] of set the groundwork for what the
[8:38] remake is that follows it. Resident Evil
[8:40] 7 was kind of the reintroduction of like
[8:42] real core survival horror mechanics and
[8:45] resource management and puzzle solving.
[8:47] And that was shown full force. Like,
[8:49] they doubled down on it for the Resident
[8:50] Evil 2 remake. And for Village, Village
[8:54] kind of set the groundwork for what
[8:55] would be the Resident Evil 4 remake. It
[8:57] was almost like a testing the waters to
[8:58] see if, you know, like how these things
[8:59] could still work in the in this new era
[9:02] of Resident Evil.
[9:03] Resident Evil Requiem, like Veronica, is
[9:08] the the main the new main line campaign
[9:10] in which 50% of the game is Grace and 50
[9:13] the other 50% of the game is Leon, which
[9:15] is very similar to how Code: Veronica
[9:17] plays. So, I can't help but speculate
[9:19] that what they did with Requiem is
[9:22] going to be sort of a approach in which
[9:24] they take for Veronica, with Claire's
[9:27] section being a little bit more tense, a
[9:29] little bit more scary, and Chris
[9:30] Redfield's section being a little bit
[9:31] more Leon oriented, or a little bit more
[9:33] actiony. Since the only real time we've
[9:35] got to play as Chris Redfield in these
[9:38] modern games aside from the DLC for
[9:39] Biohazard is the end of village which is
[9:42] just like straight up becomes like a
[9:43] Call of Duty game. I don't think they're
[9:44] going to do that. I think they're going
[9:46] to take more notes to how Leon plays in
[9:49] Resident Evil Requiem, but I am curious
[9:51] to see that balance. I also hope there's
[9:55] one section of Requiem where you get to
[9:57] go through the same environment as Grace
[10:00] as Leon and where you know the enemies
[10:02] you don't kill as Grace you eventually
[10:04] have to deal with as Leon. That only
[10:05] happens one time and I feel like there
[10:06] was a lot left on the table to allow
[10:08] that to be expanded and you know toyed
[10:10] with in cool and interesting ways and I
[10:12] hope they do that with the Veronica
[10:14] remake where whatever it is Claire does
[10:16] kind of affect Chris Redfield's play
[10:18] through and all that jazz. Could be
[10:19] cool. And last thing, that final boss
[10:21] fight.
[10:22] The final boss fight of that last game
[10:24] is feels weird and uncharacteristic to
[10:27] the rest of that game cuz you obviously
[10:29] get a rocket launcher which is not new.
[10:30] That's a staple for this entire series.
[10:33] But what is new is this weird first
[10:34] person mode you go into when you start
[10:36] hunting this thing down around the room.
[10:39] Maybe it could work better
[10:41] with modern mechanics and and controls
[10:43] and all that jazz, but something about
[10:45] it just feels
[10:46] felt clunky and didn't really fit with
[10:48] the rest of the vibe of the game.
[10:50] So this is a minor thing and something
[10:52] I'm sure they will address and I'm just
[10:55] excited to see how they address it.
[10:56] Okay, that's it. That's what I think is
[10:59] worth changing. Myself and producers on
[11:01] Luke Sipky made this list, but you know
[11:04] if there's a thing you want to see
[11:05] changed or not changed at all. Just make
[11:06] it beat for beat the exact same which
[11:08] considering what they did for Resident
[11:09] Evil 2 remake, they can't do that. Like
[11:12] the way they implemented Mr. X into that
[11:14] remake, [music] amazing. That's the sort
[11:16] of stuff I'm excited to see in Veronica.
[11:18] The liberties they're going to take
[11:19] >> [music]
[11:19] >> and I sure as hell bet they're not going
[11:21] to cut anything after how people reacted
[11:24] with Resident Evil 3 remake. Anyways,
[11:26] thanks for watching.
[11:27] Stick around. I'm Kurt.
[11:30] See you.