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When Capcom brought in a professional screenwriter for the original Resident Evil 2, it was his idea to fully embrace the series' goofy puzzles: 'We’ll just have to make the police chief a weirdo!'
Agent_KaryoIn an alternate timeline, Resident Evil could’ve become a lot more serious.
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They didn’t just change the existing game. At the time, resident evil 2 was almost finished and, based on the screenwriters feedback, they scrapped the whole game and started over. Apparently you can get a leaked build of the original game, usually called resident evil 1.5 but it’s not very good.
Console_ModderThe story of 1.5 is absolutely insane. Here’s a really well made documentary style video about it. There’s so many people that got their hands on the build of the game and refused to make it public because they wanted to extort money from the community, make a name for themselves by “fixing” the game, or just wanting to be a special lil boy who has the only copy on a rotting disc.
The Unreleased Game That Ruined Lives - A Resident Evil Story
Oh, the video must be region locked or something. They have a “global reupload” so maybe this link will work? If it doesn’t, the video is called The Unreleased Game That Ruined Lives - A Resident Evil Story by the channel LiussGaming if you want to search for it
I’ll definitely be checking that out tonight. Here’s a link to an interesting podcast about it
[Retronauts] 746: Resident Evil 2 vs. REsident Evil 2 #retronauts https://podcastaddict.com/retronauts/episode/216250444 via @PodcastAddict
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That’s very much the foundation of every good story ever told.
Every work of fiction is allowed one premise, one “big lie”
Could range from “vampires are real” to “the chef is controlled by a talking rat in his hat” but the audience will accept it without question as long as everything else is logically consistent and stems from that premise.
In RE2, making the police chief an absolute nutcase is it, and everything works from that.
That’s why stories with ridiculous premises can still feel real and solid, while stories with realistic settings can fall apart as ridiculous and unbelievable - when they make the mistake of lots of immersion-shattering small lies, instead of the one big lie which is allowed.
I’d say one big inconsistency can be a premise, a second big inconsistency can be a twist, but they do have to feel intentional and being big makes them feel intentional. Lots of small inconsistencies throughout won’t feel like they’re intentional, they’ll just feel like poor planning and lazy writing.