Resident Evil Veronica Changes We'd Like To See

[00:00] You know, Resident Evil Code Veronica,

[00:02] it's getting a remake and it's called

[00:03] Resident Evil Veronica. It's also

[00:05] probably one of the more divisive ones.

[00:07] People seem to love it or seem to be,

[00:08] you know, a little iffy on it, like this

[00:10] guy. So, I figured, while we wait, since

[00:12] we had nothing but a teaser trailer, we

[00:14] came up with eight things that maybe

[00:17] should be tinkered a bit [music] in the

[00:18] upcoming remake.

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[00:25] >> Claire Redfield.

[00:26] >> Number one, that John Woo opening.

[00:29] Considering this game only takes place

[00:31] three months after Resident Evil 2,

[00:33] where Claire is just fine, just getting

[00:36] to grips with everything that's going on

[00:37] life, and the opening of this game, she

[00:39] does this really cool, you know,

[00:41] surrenders to the European Umbrella

[00:43] Corporation soldier dudes, and then

[00:45] drops her gun, and then John Woo's her

[00:47] way down, catches it, and shoots it.

[00:51] Yeah, I mean, it it's the year 2000.

[00:53] It's

[00:54] >> [laughter]

[00:54] >> It was

[00:55] That was a a suitable time period in

[00:57] which everything was like The Matrix,

[00:59] which if you basically America

[01:00] discovered John Woo films, and was like,

[01:01] "Hey, we're going to do that, and give

[01:03] you two guns." Which is funny because

[01:05] Code Veronica, Claire has

[01:07] is dual wielding in that game. Not doing

[01:09] dives or like Max Payne moves or

[01:11] anything like that, but just

[01:13] two gun moves. Very

[01:15] >> [music]

[01:15] >> strange. I mean, at least for me, coming

[01:17] off of traditional Resident Evil. Like,

[01:18] could you really all of a sudden just

[01:20] like be good enough, like savvy enough

[01:22] to just like use two guns? You know, do

[01:24] you think you could do that after

[01:25] fighting off zombies in Resident Evil 2

[01:27] in the Raccoon City I would have Who am

[01:28] I? I'm not Claire. Now, the last I think

[01:30] they should change that up a bit. Maybe

[01:31] ground it a little bit more. And from

[01:33] what I maybe can put together, uh the

[01:35] teaser that we saw feels a little bit

[01:37] more appropriate.

[01:39] Um I have a feeling that

[01:41] Claire is going to go and try and find

[01:42] Chris, and in the process gets kidnapped

[01:46] by Hunk, and that's how she ends up in

[01:47] the prison, instead of being a one-woman

[01:51] army.

[01:52] Yeah.

[01:53] In short, Claire isn't a soldier. That's

[01:55] all I'm trying to say. She some Matrix

[01:57] soldier woman. [music] She's just, you

[02:00] know, a biker girl.

[02:02] Who am I to judge? In other Resident

[02:04] Evil remakes, they've managed to improve

[02:06] on characters in meaningful ways that

[02:08] were, you know, a little bit more

[02:10] one-sided like Carlos in Resident Evil

[02:12] 3. I think they did a pretty good job

[02:13] with him. They They punched him up a

[02:15] bit. He felt like a character who, you

[02:17] know, had an necessity to be there.

[02:18] Steve, um, look, I just The guy is just

[02:22] an annoying twerp. Don't you follow me,

[02:24] baby? Throw up in my mouth. I would

[02:28] never follow you, dude. Don't worry,

[02:30] Claire.

[02:31] >> Your knight in shining armor is here.

[02:33] >> You also play as Steve at some point.

[02:35] Uh, for just a brief moment, but you do

[02:36] play as Steve. Maybe there's something

[02:38] charming if they were to keep Steve

[02:41] uh, in the same characterization as they

[02:42] did in the first game. Interestingly

[02:44] enough, in Darkside Chronicles, the sort

[02:46] of uh, light shooter game that they made

[02:48] for the Wii and the PlayStation 3, they

[02:49] did a retelling of Code: Veronica in

[02:51] that game. And if you go and watch that

[02:53] or or have played it, Steve's uh, sort

[02:56] of representation that is much more

[02:58] reserved. He's much less

[03:00] uh, oh, hey baby, don't go follow me.

[03:02] Oh, sorry, beautiful. He's like a normal

[03:05] person

[03:06] uh, in that game. So, they have There is

[03:09] a version in which he's been iterated

[03:10] on.

[03:11] Also, speaking of that, they didn't go

[03:14] full-on with his

[03:15] I love you,

[03:17] Claire, scene. Um, they [music] like

[03:20] hinted towards it, but then just like

[03:22] stopped. So, if if I think that is a

[03:24] good, you know, pulse check on on the

[03:27] sort of direction they should take

[03:28] little Steve. [music]

[03:29] And also his uh,

[03:31] his his his

[03:34] Father! I don't even want to DO IT.

[03:36] >> FATHER!

[03:43] >> I'M I'M INTERESTED TO SEE HOW THEY THEY

[03:44] SHOULD THEY should

[03:46] lean that a bit. Make me care about

[03:48] Steve. If you can manage to well up some

[03:51] sort of tears in my eyes, then I will be

[03:55] it'll be my game of the year.

[03:56] >> [laughter]

[03:57] >> Well, we'll see. I don't want to say

[03:58] that just yet. I already kind of talked

[04:00] about this, but number three, double

[04:01] guns. I just don't know if it makes

[04:03] sense for Claire to go from being

[04:06] you know, 3 months after the Raccoon

[04:08] City incident to just being like I'm now

[04:11] Tequila from Hard Boiled and using two

[04:13] guns at once. They did show in the

[04:15] teaser trailer that there are the two

[04:17] gold guns. Those guns are used for a

[04:18] puzzle in the original game.

[04:20] >> [music]

[04:21] >> Um so maybe there'll be some sort of

[04:22] implementation of that, but I don't

[04:25] know. In the original game, if you aimed

[04:27] at those two guns, she would

[04:29] automatically aim either one at like

[04:31] several different targets, and you know,

[04:33] which is kind of interesting for the

[04:35] tank control time period. I don't know

[04:36] how the hell that would work today. Um

[04:39] but, you know, this is more so me being

[04:43] curious to see if they still do it

[04:44] because you haven't had double guns on

[04:46] any of the modern Resident Evil games uh

[04:48] in the main line ones and remakes, so.

[04:50] Number four, the tyrant plane fight.

[04:53] This fight is fine, except for the fact

[04:55] that you can absolutely soft lock

[04:56] yourself and have to replay the entire

[04:59] game if you didn't carefully consider

[05:02] your resources or may have saved poorly.

[05:05] I for one did have to restart the game

[05:07] once getting to that fight, and then I

[05:09] remember sometime in the future where I

[05:11] played it again as an adult, I still

[05:13] managed to somehow soft lock myself into

[05:14] it. Also, that fight in general just

[05:17] lasts forever. If there is one thing I

[05:19] could ask that you did not change about

[05:22] that fight, it's Claire's incredible

[05:24] one-liner after it.

[05:26] >> What was wrong?

[05:27] >> Oh, nothing. Just a giant cockroach that

[05:29] had to be stepped on.

[05:31] >> Alfred Ashford.

[05:33] >> [music]

[05:33] >> Now, I just want to preface this with

[05:36] this game came out in 2000, and the

[05:38] conversation around uh transgender folks

[05:41] and cross-dressing folks has changed

[05:43] dramatically.

[05:45] >> Speak now.

[05:48] Alfred!

[05:49] Stop

[05:50] freak.

[05:51] >> I'm not here to dictate

[05:54] how they should change it, but I am very

[05:58] curious to see how they adapt to it

[06:01] considering how the conversation has

[06:03] changed over the past

[06:04] >> [music]

[06:05] >> 27 years, which it has changed a lot

[06:08] culturally, how we look, how we accept,

[06:11] and how those people have been welcomed

[06:12] and into the ripples of pop culture has

[06:15] changed a lot [music] because in many

[06:17] cases people who are transgendered or

[06:18] partake in cross-dressing have often

[06:21] been villainized in a lot of pop

[06:22] culture.

[06:23] >> [music]

[06:24] >> Most notably things like Silence of the

[06:26] Lambs, but there's also The Crying Game

[06:29] is a movie that's kind of infamous for

[06:30] that. There's movies like Ace Ventura,

[06:32] even though that was a parody of The

[06:33] Crying Game, still didn't really do much

[06:35] to help the conversation in any way.

[06:37] And there's conversations around like

[06:38] other pop culture things like Pretty

[06:40] Little Liars or Sleepaway Camp, which is

[06:42] a horror film that I actually really

[06:43] like, but um I don't feel necessarily

[06:46] equipped to say how it should be changed

[06:48] or the sort of attitude [music] they

[06:49] should take towards it. It's just more

[06:51] so I am anxious to see how they approach

[06:54] it. To mention Darkside Chronicles

[06:55] again, I think I a game that retold

[06:59] Code: Veronica, they do change that

[07:03] relationship or at least the

[07:05] >> [music]

[07:05] >> the dynamic between Claire and Alfred

[07:08] and Alexia a little bit. While it's

[07:10] still a prominent characteristic of

[07:11] Alfred,

[07:13] the difference is that they removed

[07:15] Claire's rather problematic [music]

[07:17] insult towards Alfred. The one thing I

[07:20] will say that I think Darkside

[07:21] Chronicles did at least a little better

[07:24] is when it is revealed the big twist

[07:26] that Alfred dresses as his sister

[07:28] Alexia,

[07:29] >> [music]

[07:29] >> Claire's response comes off a little bit

[07:31] more empathetic rather than, you know,

[07:34] just kind of calling him something mean.

[07:36] Um so [music]

[07:38] clearly they saw that and tried to

[07:42] address it [music] and tried to do

[07:44] something about it in that iteration.

[07:46] So, I'm just curious to see how they

[07:47] handle it this time.

[07:49] >> Number six, the Antarctica base, more

[07:52] specifically Chris Redfield's section.

[07:54] This I I have full faith considering the

[07:57] teams, the Resident Evil 2 remake and

[07:59] the Resident Evil 4 remake team that's

[08:00] working on this, that they're going to

[08:01] do a great job making this section paste

[08:04] well and entertaining. They managed to

[08:06] make some of the lower points of

[08:08] Resident Evil 4 incredible in Resident

[08:10] Evil 4 remake. And so, I'm not really

[08:13] worried about that. It's more so just

[08:15] the awareness that that section becomes

[08:17] very

[08:19] I don't know, it's a repetitive in the

[08:19] way you're just going through the exact

[08:20] same environment all over again. But,

[08:23] it's Chris Redfield. Now, this is going

[08:25] to fold into number seven, Claire and

[08:27] Chris, the dynamic between the two since

[08:29] you get to play as both. I've often, you

[08:32] know, observed that main line Resident

[08:34] Evil games from Biohazard onwards kind

[08:37] of set the groundwork for what the

[08:38] remake is that follows it. Resident Evil

[08:40] 7 was kind of the reintroduction of like

[08:42] real core survival horror mechanics and

[08:45] resource management and puzzle solving.

[08:47] And that was shown full force. Like,

[08:49] they doubled down on it for the Resident

[08:50] Evil 2 remake. And for Village, Village

[08:54] kind of set the groundwork for what

[08:55] would be the Resident Evil 4 remake. It

[08:57] was almost like a testing the waters to

[08:58] see if, you know, like how these things

[08:59] could still work in the in this new era

[09:02] of Resident Evil.

[09:03] Resident Evil Requiem, like Veronica, is

[09:08] the the main the new main line campaign

[09:10] in which 50% of the game is Grace and 50

[09:13] the other 50% of the game is Leon, which

[09:15] is very similar to how Code: Veronica

[09:17] plays. So, I can't help but speculate

[09:19] that what they did with Requiem is

[09:22] going to be sort of a approach in which

[09:24] they take for Veronica, with Claire's

[09:27] section being a little bit more tense, a

[09:29] little bit more scary, and Chris

[09:30] Redfield's section being a little bit

[09:31] more Leon oriented, or a little bit more

[09:33] actiony. Since the only real time we've

[09:35] got to play as Chris Redfield in these

[09:38] modern games aside from the DLC for

[09:39] Biohazard is the end of village which is

[09:42] just like straight up becomes like a

[09:43] Call of Duty game. I don't think they're

[09:44] going to do that. I think they're going

[09:46] to take more notes to how Leon plays in

[09:49] Resident Evil Requiem, but I am curious

[09:51] to see that balance. I also hope there's

[09:55] one section of Requiem where you get to

[09:57] 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.