Julianna 💎

(This is a port of the original game from 1996, for those unfamiliar. Arguably the best version of the original, if you count the remake as a separate game)

Anyway, move aside Requiem on the Switch 2, I’m playing the *real* Resident Evil handheld experience

Like all great titles of books/shows/films/videogames it hits the sweet spot of mysterious, evocative and just pretentious enough

Tetris is a combination of tetromino, after what the pieces are, and tennis, which the game does not contain at all. But what else would it be

Oh, same, but I might feel differently if Biohazard had just been what it was called by my peers

Or probably “The House of the Dead”, depending on when Sega claimed that

If they’d consulted with anyone who spoke English when picking the name, it probably would’ve been called something boring like The House of Evil

Occasionally think about how “Resident Evil” is a nonsense, babelfish esque title, only really fits two of the games, and basically only exists because of copyright concerns over the actual name (Biohazard, for those unfamiliar)

And yet, it’s perfect

Christ

…Wut?

Sadly, there probably isn’t. Which does raise the question of why we have bases we can’t defend ourselves

There are a lot of British foreign policy positions that make me wish key figures had a toddler accompanying them at all times asking “but why?” to every explanation

I somewhat understand the rational argument for, like, “this war has started and we’re in no position to undo it, so we have to protect our citizens/bases/allies”, but, I mean, for fuck’s sake, we’re gonna be actively aiding the belligerents in this war

Yeah and, either way, confirming the Iranian perception that we’re backing the US is just a self-fulfilling prophecy (of course, Iran lobbing missiles at countries it perceives to be backing the US is also a self-fulfilling prophecy)

Tbf, depends on flight times so I might be wrong about it being the cause

We’re already getting involved, that’s why this has happened

Can’t get over this

(context: he tweeted, at 7PM *today*, “Under a Reform government we'd currently be throwing ourselves into war with Iran”)

It has shed its chrysalis, & emerged into the sunlight, flaunting wings whose patterns are as dreadful as they are variegated

Not as badly as Otto English jinxed it

Comments are divided on whether this has aged badly or actually quite well. All we can say for sure that it has aged

Be curious to see how you feel about the back half, if you push through. ‘cos I love the front half but not the back

I believe Aidan’s point is that it’s incorrect to see them as attacks against us

Well, this might be aging badly

Nah, your assessment is correct and it’s not hardware related (well, maybe ray-tracing makes a difference, but it’s drab on PS5/XSX). It makes sense that it’s a bit brown because of the setting, but it adds to feeling like you’re playing a completely different game to the first half

Not to mention that this requires us to just take on trust that the Americans were aiming for this missile site, not that government building, when they launch a strike from say RAF Lakenheath.

“Really, when you think about it, killing every single person on Earth who isn’t you is a defensive stance”

I guess if you completely stretch the definition of what defensive and offensive mean, then yeah

Sorry, but “Iran are firing missiles at British bases because we are perceived to be on America’s side, so we have no choice but to join in on America’s side” is not persuasive to me