Well, it's been a long long time since I was on this site. I do admit that I had a lot of homework, school projects and examinations that made my head spin around for awhile. Even so, I'm still alive and doing well!
Back in the late January or early February, I was surfing the internet as usual - blogging and reblogging on Tumblr, had a few chats on Facebook, watching a whole lot of videos on YouTube (which most of them concerning video games and their soundtracks) and wrote some Transformers fan fiction. Then, I noticed that there was an official release of the first reveal trailer for Resident Evil 6. I've got to say, it looked pretty epic with all the action sequences and handheld-film esque scenes. But the best thing was that Chris and Leon is in the same game (my inner Resident Evil fan boy was crying the tears of joy) and new creatures as well.
But who could have known that there was also a trailer for "Resident Evil: Retribution" too. The trailer made me thought that there was some kind of Sony commercials before the actual trailer for a moment - but not until it switched from just a commercial showing various people from many countries saying "My name is (their names) and this is my world" to an apocalyptic Washington, D.C. landscape where the trailer zoomed in and slapped me in the face with Alice saying "My name is Alice and this is my world".
As usual, the trailer showed its fast-editing styles, slow-motion scenes while showing some characters, zombies, creatures and Rain OCampo? I was like "Did she die in the first film already? How the heck is she still alive? Oh wait, maybe she's a clone like Alice". So far, I think I may look forward to this fifth installment of the much-loved and much-hated film series.
Personally, I think both the games and the films have gone from being in a survival horror genre to a full-blown science fiction/action genre and I have nothing against them.
But I always feel like there's something missing. Maybe it's the horror element or the feeling that you're vulnerable to the enemies (both in the games and films). I miss the very moment where Leon met Claire in the second game and trying to survive hordes of the undead and mutated creatures and trying to get out of Raccoon City, alive or when Jill wandered throughout the mansion in the first game (not to mention that the first game was super-creepy, especially with the earphones on).
Someday, I hope the developers might switch back the game to its survival horror roots from the earlier releases (which may not happen). I just hope they would, nothing more than that.
That's it for today, I think so. I'll leave you guys with the trailers of Resident Evil 6 and Resident Evil: Retribution, just in case some of you haven't seen them yet.
Ta-ta for now,
Crescent Voulantier
