Well folks, I’m back again, with another horror game. Honestly, this one took me a good while to finish, when I say I have a lot to explain and comment on, oh boy do I have a lot to talk about here. Hence why this is split into 2 articles. This week you’ll get the first half of this game, next week the second half including the ending.  In past weeks I’ve always given the games I’ve played good reviews, however, this one, is just really one of the best games I’ve played and I’ve been playing video games since I could talk and understood the concept of buttons. This is a game I seriously suggest. However, if you do find interest in the idea of this game, do not read all the way through as there are spoilers, but if you’re okay with spoilers continue going!  

In Resident Evil: Village, this is the 8th game within the series. Honestly this one I believe is probably the most well-known one due to some of the…well, one of the characters and their bountiful assets is how I’ll phrase it for now. To start off this game, you get a quick recap of Resident Evil: Biohazard the 7th installment of this series as the family that stars in that one is the same as this one. As someone who didn’t know the two were connected and hadn’t played Biohazard yet, it was really convenient and I appreciate it. However, it didn’t give everything away so you can still go through and play and enjoy all the scares! Village however, is very different from a lot of the other Resident Evil’s as I have played Resident Evil 2 and Resident Evil 4 (Remake). In Village you are playing as Ethan Winters, you start in a home with his wife Mia and their baby Rose. He keeps referring to what happened in Louisiana and Mia is just not having it, cutting him off and just ushering him to go put their baby Rose to bed after Mia had just read a story that was called ‘Village of the Shadows’. This is the story that is told at the very opening of the game before it opens into the actual game. This book is actually really important to the rest of the game, however, it doesn’t become very clear till the end of the game.  

After a few moments of semi-peaceful bliss in this home, all of a sudden the lights go out, gun-shots coming from everywhere. Mia getting shot and falling to the ground, Chris Redfield (someone who is very common and appears several times in this game series and the movie series), comes into the house, and shuts Ethan up, grabbing Rose and knocking out Ethan.. When Ethan wakes up he finds himself in the middle of a snow covered forest. So, he begins walking and ends up finding a village…and that’s it’s end screen. Nah, obviously that isn’t what happened. In the village you end up seeing a hag who is really cryptic and just doesn’t really help. In fact she goes into an area, locks the doors so you can’t follow her. So, you’re left to keep wandering the village, whilst you’re doing that, you get to see what Resident Evil is most popular for; their take on zombies! Which lemme explain has gone through many changes as a lot of bad people keep getting their hands on these things and experimenting on them. A lot of the zombies in this place are similar to lycanthropes but also still have their human features, it’s interesting. 

You continue through the village and find a woman and her father, helping them into this house with a good couple of survivors..however, her father had been scratched as he mentioned earlier and he ends up turning whilst in the house. This leads to an attack and everyone having to escape. I won’t go into extreme details about that as it takes a bit. However, by the end you end up watching the woman fall to her death in fire, and you’re alone again. Ethan begins to continue to walk around, trying to figure out where to go…at one point he ends up unlocking one of the puzzle doors and heading up to a castle but he ends up getting knocked out before this can happen.  

When he awakens he finds himself the topic of discussion between 5 people. These are; Donna Beneviento, Salvatore Moreau, Karl Heisenberg, Alcina Dimitrescu, and Mother Miranda. By now in the game you will have heard of Mother Miranda a few times as it is this village’s ‘goddess’, the person they rely on for protection. Mother Miranda is the ‘top’ so to speak, and the others; Donna, Moreau, Heisenberg, and Lady Dimitrescu are the 4 lords underneath her that rule over different sections of this place. During this argument they finally realize you’ve awakened and you’re handed into the hands of Heisenberg which leads into the game’s first big chase scene! After going through tunnels and avoiding several zombie-type creatures, you’re free. So, you finally head back for the castle.. Inside you are grabbed by the 3 daughters of Lady Dimitrescu, Bella, Cassandra, and Daniela are there and they grab you and drag you to their mother. Who ends up hanging you by your wrists on some hooks, which isn’t great. Now, Dimitrescu probably sounds familiar, and she is very well known as she is one of the most sought after video game women, here’s a picture of her just to really explain who I’m talking about.  

So, short to stay once you get through the castle Dimitrescu, you’re exhausted from the 3 mini-bosses and then the big time boss fight at the end of Dimitrescu’s new form. You leave with a flask…one that is described as the ‘head flask’. Which if you bring to a cave you meet the hag again and it’s pretty much explained to you that Rose was put into 4 separate flasks as she is the subject of a ritual that Mother Miranda is going to be holding to bring back her own daughter, Eveline, but needs Rose’s body/vessel to do so.