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Episode 599: Resident Evil 5 & 6 (Patreon)

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2024-03-11 12:00:09
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2026-06
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Hi, Diamond Feit here, indulging myself again with a podcast about survival horror—oh wait, no, I'm sorry, this week we're talking about Resident Evil 5 & Resident Evil 6. You know, two mainline installments in Capcom's famous franchise that ramped up the action at the expense of less-sexy elements like "atmosphere" and "tension."

Don't worry though, I didn't gather my friends Richard Eisenbeis and Alex Aniel to spend two hours of our time dumping on games we dislike. Rather, we explain the unusual circumstances that brought about this pair of blockbusters, what we liked about them, and where they fell short of expectations. I laughed a lot during this recording and I hope you'll do the same listening to it!.

Edits by Greg Leahy; Art by Amanda Neipris. Music heard in this episode:

07:16 - RE 5: New Fear

14:51 - RE: The Umbrella Chronicles: Live Evil

23:28 - RE 5: Opening

32:47 - RE 5: Majini II

42:36 - RE 5: An Emergency

49:33 - RE 5: Wind of Madness

1:00:19 - RE 5: Burning with Anger

1:08:42 - RE 5: Lost in Nightmares: Results

1:16:18 - RE 5: Pray (Instrumental) | RE 6: Life or Death

1:25:10 - RE 6: At the Ace of Spades

1:31:32 - RE 6: Invasion of Darkness (Ada)

1:46:15 - RE 6: Ancient Blood

1:52:04 - RE 6: Results (Jake)

2:00:33 - RE 6: The Last Escape

Closing - RE 6: Back for More

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thatcamjones

Many RE titles (including 5&6) on deep discount right now on Xbox for anyone else looking to pick up any they’re missing.

James Krusling

Great pod, and I think it really nailed why I bounced off of RE 6 which I admittedly got at a huge discount years after the fact…it’s just too big and too much! And 5, which I like, had really started another trend I didn’t love where it moved away from all of the personality that made 4 so fun like the attached case and the merchant even though I do enjoy the co-op aspects of it and, problematic zombies aside, I liked the game revisiting the Chris Jill Wesker of it all. This was perfectly timed since I just finished the RE4 remake and had a blast with it so the series is on my mind!

Lambda

Some lightly critical feedback: I wish some acknowledgement of the racism of RE5 would've been placed up front, because I spent the first half of the episode not able to fully focus on the actual analysis because I was too focused on the elephant in the room of whether or not the racism was gonna be addressed. Even something as simple as saying "we're going to get to it towards the end" or putting an acknowledgement in the episode description would've done a lot to assuage that concern. It's a great episode overall, though, and I think once you got to the discussion of the racism you did it plenty of justice (imo) (I'm also white) Also: my own take is that RE5 is fundamentally doing something pretty similar with Africa as what RE4 did with various parts of Europe, and failing to understand just how much worse the change of setting makes it. But I don't say that to reflect well on RE5; if anything, it just makes me more wary of the imagery used in RE4.

PurpleComet

I was prepared to deal with RE5's uncomfortable images of black zombies/majini, but when they started wielding spears and carrying masks it took everything to a whole other level. It's worth emphasizing that wearing a tribal mask and wielding a spear is in a no way an indication of someone's intelligence or a sign that they've 'regressed'. To be honest, I'm surprised the game's controversy never attracted attention from mainstream news outlets. One silver lining to RE5 is Sheva and to a lesser extent Josh. A playable black female character in a AAA game was practically unheard of in 2009 and it's still pretty rare today. Sheva and Josh are shown to be competent, effective and intelligent. Disappointingly, neither has appeared in a Resident Evil game since. They even took Sheva off the cover of RE5 for the PS4/XB1 release!