Soapbox: Resident Evil Gaiden Is Good, Actually
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We recently asked you Nintendo Life readers to rate your favourite Game Boy Color games, and as we re preparing to publish the Top 50 results, we re taking a look back at a handful of our favourite GBC games. Here, Kerry defends the Resident Evil game that NL readers voted the worst in the series.
A long time ago we were promised a mostly-authentic port of the survival horror classic Resident Evil for the Game Boy Color tension-ratcheting camera angles and all only to end up with Barry “
You were almost a Jill sandwich!” Burton on a boat. Resident Evil Gaiden was seen (and still is) as something of a black sheep to fans of the series and the wider survival horror genre alike. And as if to add insult to injury, this story never happened not in an official way that goes beyond the fun and fuzzily fitted-in alternative events and politely ignored embellishments present in the series’ many side games. This is the one
Resident Evil Play Order: What Order Should I Play the RE Series In?
With 14 core games and 10+ side stories, figuring out the
play order of the Resident Evil series can be a chore. Additionally, several games in the series have been remade, and some have multiple variations all with their own quirks. Below we’ll give our recommendation for what order you should play the Resident Evil games in, and which versions of each are the best.
What order should I play the Resident Evil games in?: The essentials
If you’re just looking to get the core experience of the Resident Evil series you only need to play 12 of the 24 available games. These twelve games comprise the majority of the series’ lore, and all of the side games stem from them in some way.
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This year marks the 25th Anniversary of the Resident Evil series, making it a quarter of a century since that first pre-rendered zombie slowly turned its head and changed our lives forever. With Resident Evil Village due to launch later this year, and today’s anniversary Capcom livestream (which we hope is chock full of announcements), we wanted to finally establish the best and worst games in the beloved survival horror series.
So, without further ado, here is the first of two Resident Evil ranking lists, charting ten spinoff games from worst to best. Let’s start with a proper honker…