In fact, they're probably more about puzzles than anything else. Here's why I keep playing, though: Survival horror games like Resident Evil aren't just about scares.
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In the way that it chose to not walk itself back, Resident Evil 2 indulged in an impulse that the series never really shook-the desire to go bigger, always. It did all of the things that a game's sequel could possibly do: It was bigger, it was scarier, it was more complex, and it opened the world of the game up, going long on the biological warfare conspiracy mongering that the first reserved for its final act. Resident Evil 2-and let's talk about the original 1998 game first-is where things begin to go off the rails, even as it cemented the series as one of the best things in video-game horror.
As a result, the games are best when their lenses are at their smallest: 2017's Resident Evil 7 is among the best games in the series for this reason, dialing the scale back to a single family, turned monstrous for something they were powerless to do anything about. Resident Evil games are largely about the horror of corporate indifference, as a single company's pursuit of profit starts to devastate small towns and villages and, eventually, the world. It's a series of games that, even at their most minimal, are about an evil pharmaceutical company with a small army of secret agents and mercenaries on its payroll, with designs on turning people into unkillable monsters that military contractors might want to buy. The voice acting was atrocious, the game's English translation was legendarily clunky, and it opened with live-action footage so kitschy you'd think it came from a Law & Order episode about gamers who murdered their parents. But even as it found new ways for video games to be scary, it also found itself with a surfeit of camp.
It was like that in the very beginning, in 1996's Resident Evil, a game that more or less invented the now popular survival horror genre that utilized scarcity to ratchet up tension: of weapons, of support, of ways to escape. For a long-running series of horror games, it's amusing how funny the Resident Evil franchise often is.
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