Friday, December 29, 2017

Downloadable Content: Resident Evil 7

Almost a year later, I bought the gold or complete edition of Resident Evil 7, featuring all of the DLC including the final 2 epilogue chapters.

Banned Footage is a nifty name of two volumes consisting of sinister mini games. Nightmare is a classic survivor mode where each round gets more tough to get through the night.

Bedroom is a twisted one instantly reminding me of Stephen King's Misery where Marguerite is keeping a prisoner stuck with horrendous food, and it's your job to figure out how to escape the room.

21 is a blackjack card game with very high stakes, as fingers, arms and heads are on the table for losing rounds. It's another Jigsaw esque game by Lucas to enjoy seeing the participants struggle and suffer.

Daughters is a prologue to the Baker incident where we see the family succumb to Eveline's gift, and you will have to avoid this demonic night as Zoe.

Jack's 55th Birthday is the exception having a comedic tone and concept of needing to feed Jack's belly in order to win stages as you search for food and beverage, while Ethan Must Die is a series of challenges with the highest difficulty.

Not A Hero is the most anticipated DLC though with about 2 hours of gameplay, where we really get to play as Chris Redfield yet again.

This time, Lucas must be stopped in the underground mines section before he sells the results of Eveline's behavior to an external party, while at the same time betraying his associate company known as The Connections.

It's a more actien oriented episode which we have become used to with Chris's previous missions in Resident Evil 5 and 6, and a new variation of Molded also appears. Not much is revealed at the end, but the mutated Lucas is a nice William Birkin esque fight, and Chris survives another day.

You would think that would be the final content, but End of Zoe actually is, where you play as Jack's brother Joe to go on a fist rampage to protect his niece.

In overall, Resident Evil 7 re-invented and soft rebooted the franchise yet again, and with all of this additional and varied content, it easily stands proud with the rest of the entries.


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