Status Gamer_at_Law Feb 13, 2024
Started blazing through this game as soon as I finished Code: Veronica. Having this and Umbrella Chronicles to break up the series' gameplay is preventing the burnout I expected as I binge all the (easily accessible) RE games. Thankfully, Darkside is already light-years better than Umbrella Chronicles, featuring an original story and weaving in the retellings of RE2 and Code: …
Read moreStarted blazing through this game as soon as I finished Code: Veronica. Having this and Umbrella Chronicles to break up the series' gameplay is preventing the burnout I expected as I binge all the (easily accessible) RE games. Thankfully, Darkside is already light-years better than Umbrella Chronicles, featuring an original story and weaving in the retellings of RE2 and Code: Veronica rather than keeping everything segmented. The gameplay and graphics are also noticeably improved. Seems like I'm a bit over halfway through and will be bummed when I beat it and return to the more frustrating Umbrella Chronicles to play its Umbrella's End story missions (I'm playing the series in timeline order, hence the jumping back and forth). Fingers crossed the Operation Javier story fully delivers on all the promise it's showing!
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