ResidentEvil 6 may be a black sheep in the horror franchise's history, but its a misunderstood action game that stands out 10 years later.
In a less forgiving timeline, Resident Evil 6 could have been the final breath for gaming’s greatest horror series.
It took a decade for me to work up the courage to finally play it. And once I did, I was shocked by what I found: that for all its obvious flaws, it’s kind of a blast. Yes, Resident Evil 6 is a total mess, but it’s a misunderstood game that deserves relitigating now that it’s removed from the expectations hung on it in 2012. It may not feel like a classic Resident Evil game, but in many respects, it’s the most Resident Evil game there is.
Resident Evil 6’s gleefully ridiculous combat solves a problem the series still has to this day. Historically, the Resident Evil series has always struggled when it comes to balancing survival horror and action. Many games in the series begin as tense haunted house thrillers, but peter out in their final acts by ramping up the gunfights. Resident Evil 7, for instance, loses steam when it trades in the eerily secluded Baker compound for a massive boat filled with mold monsters to gun down.
However, Resident Evil 6 isn’t as tremendous a departure as it seems at first glance. While it does abandon the series core gameplay tenets, it understands the series’ true defining facet: its world-class shark jumping. Leon Kills the United States President - Resident Evil 6 I’m not praising these moments ironically; Capcom is at its most playful here, embracing the series’ goofy streak. It gets that Resident Evil isn’t meant to be taken too seriously and instead functions best as a horror-melodrama hybrid. Resident Evil 6’s best strength is that it’s not overly precious about its lineage. It’s interested in escalating the series, not replicating it.
A few aspects of previous games retroactively begin to make sense in that context. For instance, the series always had a major emphasis on animal experiments up to that point, with giant sharks and scorpions appearing as bosses. The justification was that Umbrella was testing its virus on animals, but it always felt like more of a convenient video gamey excuse to have some larger-scale fights.
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