That section of the game is roughly comparable to the section of RE7 where you’re in the main Baker house, solving puzzles and dealing with occasional but sparse combat encounters while also worrying about a deadly stalking boss enemy - that’s Alcina Dimitrescu, the ‘tall vampire lady’, and her daughters. The castle prominently featured in trailers is just one of the four House Dimitrescu, home to the vampire women seen lots pre-release.
The scale is larger, but these houses roughly equate to the different sections of Resident Evil 7, approached in a linear fashion. But at its heart, Village remains a sequel to RE7 through-and-through - and I was honestly quite surprised by how close it stays to its predecessor.Īt its core, and staying broadly spoiler-free, RE Village is about four different grand houses within a small European town.
#Pre sequel get into the saferoom series#
Some is from the wider Resident Evil series there’s a dash of the sort of madness it descended into with the divisive RE6, and the titular Village is steeped in the creepy town energy of RE4, while also channeling that game’s action credentials from time to time. There are a few additions injected right into that template, however. After a few games’ detour into more traditional Resident Evil with remakes of the second and third entries, Village returns to the template set by RE7. It took notes from a newer generation of horror games, and shifted things to a first-person perspective. That was a sort of ‘soft reboot’ of the series - inside the vast established continuity, but distant enough that it served as a perfect jumping-on point for any potential newcomer to the series. What I’m getting at when I say that is that RE Village is very specifically a direct continuation of RE7: Biohazard. I know that sounds like a slightly pointless thing to say as a review opener - but bear with me for a moment. Resident Evil Village, aka Resident Evil 8, is a sequel to Resident Evil 7.
To see this content please enable targeting cookies. Resident Evil Village is an excellent and worthy sequel to RE7, even if it can't quite meet that game's heights - and action-lovers are in for a real treat.
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