Who is resident evil? Who is resident evil? Who is resident evil? Who is resident evil? I know you think I’m a murderer, but you’re wrong, I would never do such a thing. It’s an FPS and a non-rail light machine gun shooter, but it doesn’t feel like an excessive arc, and while I didn’t think it was bad, it’s a game well worth checking out. There’s a novelty to seeing resident evil from a first person perspective, seeing the world not as a pre-made background on the PS1 but as a 3D environment, and the familiar enemies from a first person perspective are quite engaging, and resident evil has brushed off a fair amount of cheese at this point, oh no, I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to, and it roars on here in a different kind of blow to the first one, no this is me, I’m Vincent, let’s see this will be the first of many spin offs. I’m using a controller, not a light gun, and on that note I’m running it on a Playstation 1 emulator with slightly improved graphics A look at how Resident Evil Survivor came to be, there’s not a lot of information out there, but it does lead down an interesting rabbit hole, a look at the game’s credits on Moby Games, almost like this if you haven’t heard of tose, that means they have been doing their job tose is a company that has been around since 1979 and has developed over 1000 console games and they are still doing it to this day, they are what you would call ghost developers and many companies have hired tosei to develop or co-develop.
In most cases tosei don’t use their own names or the names of their employees in their projects, in some cases they even use fake names and credits, this is just a guess on my part, I can’t confirm it, but I’m guessing a large percentage of the credits here are fake names because they haven’t come up with anything else, this isn’t the last time this won’t be the last time tose will work on these series. They have helped with resin evil code zero veronica resident evil apocalypse allegedly, I say allegedly because it’s just speculation, only a very few games have been confirmed as being made by tose, one of which is Breath of the Wild because they mention it in the credits. So looking at the timeframe of development, I’d bet that the vast majority of this game was shipped off to Tosi to develop RESIDENT EVIL 3, and Kovaranka would take over development at Capcom, with no mention of Shinji Mikami’s supervision in the credits, who was working on Dino Crisis at the time. Almost the only name of note in the credits for Dino Crisis is Nabolo Sugimura, the man who rewrote the script for resident evil2 into the final product, and who also wrote the story for The Veronica Code and some of the scrap drafts for resident evil4.
So while he wrote the story here, it’s clear that it’s not his main focus, which we’ll get to later. The North American version I played here did not have light gun support, which was caused by the syndicate shooting the previous spring of 1999. resident evil survivor’s comments mention that he didn’t notice any difference between using a light gun and a controller. So there’s something wonderful about seeing these assets up close and personal in first person view, but the result is rather fluid animations, but hey, that’s what they do.
But looking at the rest of the game’s footage, it seems to be the simulator’s duck stations that cause this, as I mentioned earlier, Survivor is a mix of FPS and non-rail gun shooter, the game uses tank controls, the series is known for not having quick turns, but there is a quick search button where our character will cycle through enemy doors or items so this can be used as a quick turn. It’s not perfect but picking up items just requires you to go up and walk around a bit, there are no puzzles to deal with, just a few situations where finding an item unlocks the next area, we also have an unlimited inventory so as I mentioned before I just used the controller to aim and it worked fine, not very accurate but it didn’t frustrate me either, when you hit the enemy with your next shot I think say is that when you shoot an enemy the next shot puts them in your field of view which is great for these slower enemies but when it comes to dogs it becomes quite frustrating as they keep moving the fps controls on the console still haven’t really come to a common point at this point, Halo is still a year away from really starting to solidify that our main pistol will have unlimited while other guns need ammo, this pistol works well in most situations, of course you don’t have to kill all the enemies, you can simply run past them and it’s better to leave your ammo for the hunters or bosses, another reason why it takes longer to switch to another weapon than it should, so you go to the menu and then you go through another menu I don’t know them Why not use the old fashioned menu here as in the past if you used a shotgun and wanted to reload it was better to use up all your ammo and then let the game reload rather than go into the menu and reload as it takes so long and the pistol is unlimited. Ammo, it’s easy to shoot out until it reloads or if you go into another area your pistol will revert back to full ammo, survivors use a whole bunch of enemies from past titles and also add these troops, this is the only look they have in the series and they are interesting to say the least these are like gorilla guards or something, they make a lot of sounds here that sound sounding like stock, the shooting is quite similar to the other games because of how long it takes to bring enemies down, the tyrants make many appearances throughout the game, although they are easy to kill with a pistol and once you get used to them it’s easy to dodge their attacks, create space between them and fire, you think they’re going to be a big problem but they’re mostly just a bullet. One of the more notable features of Survivor in terms of paths is the branching paths, for example at the start we have a number of choices, each leading to different areas of encounters and weapons, eventually the paths will converge again and the process will happen again.
The game is very short, even in standard time. Another interesting thing about these paths is that the game doesn’t really draw attention to the fact that there’s no real indication that this will be a branching path. China Island, hey, it does get mentioned in the introduction to RESIDENT EVIL, the island that will become a second Raccoon City Sheena, and at one point Lean’s name is mentioned, but that’s about it, we play as a man suffering from classic amnesia after a helicopter crash, and he finds a guy nearby with a dog tag that says Ark, which looks familiar to you, but I just can’t remember it. After receiving some phone calls and some further information the man realises that he is Vincent, Vincent you are a murderer, a murderer, no it’s me, I’m Vincent, it’s all my fault, Vincent is a higher umbrella, a cruel man who has done a lot of cool experiments on this island and the game really likes to use what we can in others tell us to find the obvious long notes to rub together in the simulation, hell he himself.
The mother scolds Vincent, incent is me, your mother, my mother, Vincent, please listen to your mother, I want you to leave the umbrella, I want you to stop those horrible crimes and come back home, this is one sick puppy, the voice acting is funny, if I knew about the development, Capcom must not have really supervised in this area, now for a first game, which was pretty unexplored territory for him, we got to the root of the problem and since then they’ve had a better approach to it, so it’s great fun to go backwards here, it doesn’t have the charm of the silly voice acting in the original, but there are some classic lines here that I’m surprised didn’t get as much attention. You’re a spy sent by Leon to find out what’s going on with the umbrellas on Sheena’s island You’re a detective and your name is Ark Thompson I’m not Vincent so basically most of the plot can be summed up with this scene from Simpsons Well, you’re you and I’m me Oh, and the game is only a few hours long at most, well paced and feels difficult Suitable, just make sure you save most of your ammo for the end What are we going to do? I don’t know but don’t worry as long as there is fuel we can fly, if you ever wondered how resident evil is here you can see a resident evil survivor model that is currently in progress, this model comes from Aidan Watkins who has done a lot of very interesting resident evil I have featured in my resident evil fan game article about some of his work, you should check out this is only a small part of the game so far but gives you an idea of what the game will be like. I’ve provided a link in the description if you want to check out the mod, resident evil survivor is an odd title but the fascinating series spin offs get better, some will be more in line with the main series and others will take an on track approach. This isn’t the last survival title in the series, there are two more coming out after that and then there’s an offshoot of the survivor series into the world of dinosaur crisis, so if you’ve never checked out survivor there are a lot better uses for your time, but that’s not what I’d call terrible, what’s more fascinating is looking back we’re only just getting started here with regards to resident evil spin off who knows, maybe in the near future we’ll get some news on the long rumoured spin off title Revelations 3, I guess we’ll have to wait and see what happens with Vincent’s death.
