Opinion on Resident Evil Revelations Collection

Oh boy. The original Resident Evil Revelations came out on 3DS on January 26th, 2012. It was ported to Windows, PS3, 360, and Wii U in May of 2013. Now it will be coming out for Playstation 4 and Xbox One in late August 2017, and late 2017 for Nintendo Switch.

The first episode of Resident Evil Revelations 2 came out for PS3, PS4, 360, Xbox One, and Windows on February of 2015. It never came out for Wii U, but it will come out for NS in late 2017.

Why Capcom? The first game was a technical marvel on 3DS, and a good first step to returning the series back to its survival-horror roots, but it was not a great game. I do not like jumping between playable characters. I do like playing a whole game through with a different character and getting a different story, but jumping between characters and having to play with a character I do not like just ruins a game for me. Graphically, you could tell it was just an upscaled version of the 3DS-game; it didn't look as good as Resident Evil 5.

When Resident Evil Revelations 2 came out 3 years later, I was hopeful that it would be a better game. They ditched the 3DS, which hopefully meant it would have better graphics. These hopes were in vain. I played this game on maximum settings on my PC when it came out, and it still looked bad - not as good as Resident Evil 5. It also featured jumping between playable characters once again. Please. Just let me play as Claire Redfield for the whole game, and get rid of the buddy-system. No co-op please. Co-op, even if it's computer-controlled, really destroys the scariness of the game.

I know that many NS-owners were overjoyed at the news of the Resident Evil Revelations Collection, but that is only because they were ignorant of the truth: these are not great games, and are completely bypassable.

I would have preferred a collection with Resident Evil the remake, RE2, RE3, RE: CV, RE4, RE5, and RE6.

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