You’ve all been spared. Consider yourselves lucky.<\/p>\n
I didn’t manage to go outside and take half a billion pictures of the snow yesterday, and not entirely because I didn’t want to. I kinda did, even though the storm turned out to be more ‘average’ than ‘blizzard’. Instead, I stayed inside and played RE5.
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\nThis is a real first for me. I’ve never actually played any of the other REs — unless you count Umbrella Chronicles, which I’ve played often, and even on my own — so it took some getting used to. By the end, I still hadn’t figured out all the buttons.<\/p>\n
Gremlin insists that I’m still better than the computer-controlled version of the character, but I doubt it. The computer controlled character didn’t inadvertently set herself on fire during that oh-so-Legend of Zelda mirror tilting bit with the amazing primitive lasers.<\/p>\n
Yesterday kinda went like this: Gremlin woke up, came out here, and, instead of going directly to his office, sat down with me, handed me my Xbox controller, and declared that I was going to play co-op with him, since he stopped playing yesterday as soon as he’d gotten enough points to make one of his guns all infinite.<\/p>\n
As a plan, it’s not all that complex. And, being a plan, it did not go at all accordingly.<\/p>\n
It turns out that you can’t, in fact, cheat that way.<\/p>\n
I spent most of the game running into walls, getting grabbed by not-zombies, and generally hoarding ammunition while Gremlin destroyed things with his infinite-ammo automatic magnum. That is, when I wasn’t confusing buttons and accidentally accessing my inventory, or making my character yell ‘come on’, or turning off my map when I didn’t mean to. Or accidentally aiming when I meant to push the button that shows me where the other player is.<\/p>\n
…but I did figure out how to reload my gun without letting it get to zero. I think it’s Left-trigger and A.<\/p>\n
It’s a very short game. Surprisingly short. And I don’t think that had a lot to do with the fact that we were playing on the easiest mode. Too short, really. Because I really, really didn’t want to find myself facing Wesker. I’d already seen that fight, and it didn’t look like anything I wanted to take part in.<\/p>\n
Guess where I found myself? Yeah. Facing Wesker. With the fucking rocket launcher. Which, it turns out, I can reload all by myself.<\/p>\n
We got through with a fairly minor number of deaths, all things considered. And I was able to upgrade the basic gun to infinite ammo. Now I just need to get enough points together to upgrade one of the automatics, and maybe the magnum. Then it’ll be fun. My accuracy will go to hell [as if it isn’t already there] but it’ll be fun.<\/p>\n
I’m kinda glad they did it this way, even though it’s not really Survival Horror so much as ‘oh shit oh shit checkpoint where’s the fucking checkpoint’. It’s a lot of fun. I guess that’s what matters, right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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