Resident Evil: DS

I awoke on Sunday with my wife asking me for my password.  Since I had decided to lounge in bed, she wanted her sister, Byzantium, to join her for an adventure in World of Warcraft.  I told them and went back to sleep.

When I finally crawled out of bed, I started to remember what happened.  I put the pieces together and realized that when I gave my password, I also gave up my computer.  Fear started to settle in.  I'm thankful for my quick-finding, video-game rolodex in my head.  I dabbled with the idea of playing the rest of Silent Hill 4, but it was just too light outside for it.  I wanted something "horror"-themed though due to viewing the "Silent Hill" movie the day before.

Resident Evil for the DS.

I got that game off a deal from Toys-R-Us and Amazon.  I decided to run through the mansion in the Arkley mountains outside of Raccoon City... for what was possibly my 12th, 36th or 100th time.  Seriously, I have lost count on the amount of times I have played Resident Evil 1.  Its a lot.  While the remake on the Cube is my favorite version... the chance to have a complete portable version of the game was too great to pass up... or so I thought.

I started a new game (with a cheat that gives me double the amount of ammo... it isn't cheating, people, when you have beaten the game many times before.  Honestly, the only reason to play it this many times is to blow up some zombies... for that... you need ammo.) and decided to play the "Rebirth" mode.  Same old game, but new puzzles, touch screen additions and creatures put where they weren't before.  Here is what I love about Rebirth mode: Reloading your gun on the fly.  It is amazing what this does to speed the game up.  I also love having your knife always at the ready like RE4.  I don't use the knife that often, but that was because it took up a precious spot in my inventory... not anymore!  The original games needed these features.

No matter how much they add though, this is still the same old mansion, still the same research lab and still the same zombies.  As much as I love Resident Evil, I'm done with the mansion.  After I beat this game and mess around with the extras... I think it may be time to finally retire the mansion from Chilly's re-play list.  I still have two more play-throughs to go with the Remake, but after that... I done with that story.  Here is what I would really like to see.  Episodic RE.  Since it is now possible to do RE on the Nintendo DS, Lets make like 6 mini-episodes to play through and release them on the DS.  Something new, something that Capcom wouldn't have to spend as much time working on.  That would make me happy.

Oh.. and what the hell does Deadly Silence mean?!?!  Resident Evil: Deadly Silence.  I know they needed a DS-themed name... but I swear they put a bunch of DS names into a bowl and just picked the first one.  There is nothing silent about this game with the way I'm hurling grenades.  The Zombies sure aren't silent... deadly yes, but not silent. If you can't make your DS name fit the theme of your game... just call it... Resident Evil: DS.