My favorite thing about Ethan healing his hand back on is that he even healed his coat.

@andrewwestfall65

2 жыл бұрын

Also, where is Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles?

@legendswarble2845

2 жыл бұрын

Right? I loved how, at the end, when his hand starts crumbling like poorly baked clay you can see the sever line reappear on his coat.

@ShiryouOni

2 жыл бұрын

Makes sense to me. Without major spoilers, I don't think his clothes are real.

@rayobrown

2 жыл бұрын

@@ShiryouOni no wonder lady D wanted to catch Ethan. I would be annoyed to if a naked man was running around my home.

@Guruc13

2 жыл бұрын

@@ShiryouOni Okay, what if... The clothes are still clothes, but everything that gets healed is replaced with mold. So the healing is all mold. The coat tear is fixed with mold. That's why Ethan is a mold man, will all his injuries he's just flesh that's 60% mold

The existence of Resident Evil implies the existence of Resident Good

@SophiefromMars

2 жыл бұрын

It also implies the existence of unhoused evil

@seang1373

2 жыл бұрын

Resident Good is called Owl House.

@binnes117

2 жыл бұрын

@@SophiefromMars Resident Good is just Animal Crossing 😭😭😭😭

@marocat4749

2 жыл бұрын

Or the unhoued good, imagine that

@PhantamSam

2 жыл бұрын

*Resident Evil Voice* "RESIDENT NEUTRAL"

I love Village because it’s that horror trope of “we had bad experience in the city, so we moved to the country” except it’s “we had a bad experience in the bayou (because of my bio weapon dealer wife) so we moved to goddamn Transylvania”

"He's tall...I can fix him." Run, Nemesis! You're in danger!

Personally, I haven't and probably won't play these games because I don't like horror since I'm just too brave..

@captainoftheneverdie21

2 жыл бұрын

I think anyone willing to make a reality tv series of videos attempting to uncover their politics is pretty brave Mr. Hell

@charleslonon9207

2 жыл бұрын

Exactly, I'm so big boi that i'll just read the description for the horror film.

@siobhanelysia8852

2 жыл бұрын

Hey can I start calling you Sam Hell?

@starkravingmad31

2 жыл бұрын

4 is tense, but is a bit too silly to be genuinely scary. The first few village scenes are creepy, but once you hit the castle and meet the mini-napoleon, it's just grade-A dumb action movie shlock.

@Fluffkitscripts

2 жыл бұрын

A lot of them lean more on action with a spice of horror, so it’s not that bad. Definitely not as scary as something like amnesia.

Personally Leon is my favorite himbo. I love the barely thinking fountain of 1 liners attached to my murder-machine in RE4. It's good that after 4 they never touched his character again.

@ZigealFaust

Жыл бұрын

Don't try to ignore the Sam Raimi-esque masterpeice that is RE6.

The parallels between Steve not shooting his zombie dad and Leon trying to talk the zombie president into not being a zombie OK it isn't a parallel I am just stoned, great job as always Sophie 👍

@Kriseiri

2 жыл бұрын

Have you ever tried not being a zombie?

@nickroberts1217

2 жыл бұрын

@@Kriseiri “hello Mr. President, have you heard the good news?”

As a non patron might I humbly try and ask that you do a series like this for Bioshock. It's rumored to have an upcoming bit to the franchise and I just think the game is rife with amazing things that I want someone with an audience to sing the praises and even maybe touch on its failings. Anyways I love your work and your hair (we're matching)

@SophiefromMars

2 жыл бұрын

Maybe.... maybe

@travisbewley7084

2 жыл бұрын

Perhaps the weirdest political trajectory of any franchise. Start off with a scathing critique of Ryandian politics in the first game and by the third game you are actively gunning down abolitionists who are rebelling against a tyrannical system.

@benjaminjohnson6913

2 жыл бұрын

@@travisbewley7084 The politics of infinite are wild, they try to go for a "both sides are bad" thing between fascist monsters and the people they are oppressing, and have no other way to convince you the vox populi are bad except for Fitzroy to do a batshit insane face heel turn and try to kill a child for no reason. The weird part is also that I think they KNEW how weird the shift was, because in burial at sea they add that Fitzroy only did that because the Luteces (or however that's spelled) told her she needed to for the revolution to work. They wanted so desperately to have a "revolution gone wrong" narrative for the vox populi but they did it in such a haphazard way they retconned it themselves. As you can tell, I've thought of this way too hard.

@The_Jovian

2 жыл бұрын

@@benjaminjohnson6913 sidenote, burial at Sea is just fucking terrible and should not be considered canon.

@qwellen7521

2 жыл бұрын

@@SophiefromMars if you do, consider including system shock 2 - not only is it the mechanical progenitor for the series; it’s actually shared several thematic through lines with bio shock including how systems of power fail and how women are more disproportionately harmed by them.

Steve’s voice really does sound like the world’s worst take on Sonic The Hedgehog.

Sophie's changed her KZreadr name!! I am confident she'll still tell us the information!!!

What is most mind baffling to me about RE 6 is the sheer amount of assets created for it. Each character has a unique UI and pause screen that reflects their design, there are sub menus for options and achievements that have there own 3d environments and animations. There is a Journey-like Online-Coop integrated into the single player system that no one talks about too.

@devilmikey00

2 жыл бұрын

It was a mega production. I could be wrong but I believe it was one of the most expensive games ever made at the time. Capcom went all out and it was for...THAT.

@rory1336

2 жыл бұрын

@@devilmikey00 loved the multiplayer tho

@glupik1234

Жыл бұрын

Re6 is kinda trash but it was one the best, most hilarious co op experiences I ever had

Molly really knocked it out of the park and into a city invested with zombies with this one, the soundtrack slaps so hard

@CSGraves

2 жыл бұрын

I hope the tune used in the closing crawl is on her bandcamp... anyone know the title?

@mollynoise

2 жыл бұрын

@@CSGraves ahhh tyyy, it will be part of a soundtrack compilation sooooon (title is Outro - Rocket Launcher)

@CSGraves

2 жыл бұрын

@@mollynoise Thank you kindly!!

@Furore2323

2 жыл бұрын

@@mollynoise I always notice how good your music is but I always forget to mention, I'm so sorry! Your biz KICKS SO BUTTOMS and I hope you are proud.

@mollynoise

2 жыл бұрын

@@Furore2323 🖤 tyy

"NOOOOOOOO! FATHEEEEEER!" still lives rent free in my headspace 20 years later, and it warms my heart to see the franchise reach more people. It's also refreshing to see a take on the series that isn't just rapturous, overwhelming praise.

So unbelievably excited to watch this series as I recover from top surgery

@cepsep4929

2 жыл бұрын

congratz on yr surgery! heres 2 a good and speedy recovery 🎉

@AmandaDavis6130

2 жыл бұрын

Hell yeah, congrats on the surgery! Hope healing goes well!

@123n704123

2 жыл бұрын

congratz!!

I have a theory: when Ethan sticks his hand back on, the jacket also sticks together which implies it is infected with mould too, and his daughter ends up with the jacket at the end of the film. I think that the mould infected both Ethan and his clothes as one and they could bring him back in the next game!

@lessevilnyarlathotep1595

2 жыл бұрын

the meta narrative of a main characters outfit being so tied to their identity that it registers as part of their body. though it would be really gross, cause it would have to be tissue, not cloth, to get glued back together like ethans hand. are his clothes just,,.skin of texture and color that _resembles_ fabric? horrific implications

I'm actually baffled by how many people are strongly reacting to Ethan reattaching his hand in RE8 when they already openly showed this working in RE7. When Jack hunts you for the first time and you time it a certain way so he gets you just before you reach the crawlspace, he aputates your leg with a shovel and splashes the fluid over it and says something like "Crazy how it works, right?!" and just puts it back on you. So Ethan reattaching his Hand like its nothing in RE8 isn't actually that big of a deal.

@themrrightleft417

2 жыл бұрын

Also, at the start of 7, Mia cuts his hand, and they attach it, fully functional, with staples

@Someguy-cg1wj

2 жыл бұрын

@weird internet person Coats mold too. This conspiracy goes all the way to the top.

@CharonsNightmare

2 жыл бұрын

@weird internet person Baudrillard Moment: EVERYTHING IS ALREADY MOLD

@MrIsaac95

2 жыл бұрын

That re7 moment is missable

@GamerBurgerz

2 жыл бұрын

@weird internet person if it wasn't mold then it sure as hell is now

Having started with 6, every game since has felt incredible by comparison lol I think my order was 6, revelations 1&2, 7, Remakes 1-3, 5. It really feels like the series is at its best when you're running from safe room to safe room, studying your map, making tough decisions with your inventory, and then rushing back out into an environment where you don't seem reasonably capable of clearing all of the threats. So you take the calculated risk to always dodge past certain enemies, or you hope you won't have to go back that way again. And whenever you do try fighting something you're never sure how much ammo it will take, so you're maybe pausing a bit between shots hoping not to waste ammo on an already dying enemy, but that caution just lets them get closer and closer, threatening to eat into your similarly limited health resources. You never feel safe because no strategy seems entirely reliable. Obviously people memorize all the variables, over-expose themselves to the games, and then speed-run them, but that's not really a point I ever want to get to. The scary thing about this long video is it still doesn't feature Outbreak, Zero, or Revelations 1&2. I guess there's also like half a dozen other spinoff games but those are the most mainline games outside of the obvious numbered sequence.

@kellyloganme

2 жыл бұрын

Right? And when are we going to talk about the arcade shooter House of the Dead 2, which has the same concept, all kinds of weird, whacky creatures with no explanation until the finale, where you find out it's all genetic experimentation and is beat for beat RE1 where the villian presents the ultimate life form in his tube and this big boy immediately breaks out and kills his creator, drives you out on to a rooftop for the final battle, and the only reason HoD2 doesn't give you a rocket launcher is because they want draw that moment out as long as possible to make you spend more quarters to see the ending.

@KeithBallardA

2 жыл бұрын

​@@alsorew Revelations actually came out nearly a year BEFORE 6, funnily enough. Both were pretty rough. The first game was a bit limited as a 3DS port and was filled with boring action sections as a second character that should have been cut entirely. And the second game was more of a RE5 linear action game rather than a place you explore and open up over time. Between that and the bullet sponge bosses that made me and my co-op partner repeatedly ask "are we doing something wrong?" I struggle to call it a return to form. It was very much just more of the 5/6 era.

@qwellen7521

2 жыл бұрын

Revelations 2 is criminally underrated. I think it’s one of the freshest in design and how told a story through mechanics. I love how well they pull off single player co-op. It’s also the rare RE game where characters actually have arcs.

This was a really great video, but I’m still not sure I’ll ever forgive you for making me suffer through the ‘Steve’ clip that many times.

Awesome new channel name, Sophie! Curio was great too, but this is far more distinctive and memorable x

@SophiefromMars

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you im glad you like it :)

The Himbo protag political compass was amazing. We need more of this type of analysis. 👏

Ethan being canonically headless is hot in its own way

I do like the idea of playing RE2make and RE3make before the originals because it fits into my headcanon. The remakes are propaganda put out by Blue Umbrella (Chris' version of it from 7/8) to give "the final word" on the Raccoon City Incident, putting more focus on the hero cops who fought to save the city and the evil bad guys who tried to thwart them. The antagonists are given clearer motive to do what they did, which in turn posthumously absolves the original Umbrella of being "all that bad." It was just a few bad apples ruining everything. Don't worry, we're the "good" Umbrella now. We fight the bad people from the old, bad Umbrella. Everything's much more cut-and-dry. That makes RE2 and RE3:N the "real story" behind the events, and includes everything they would rather you forgot.

@fightingmedialounge519

Жыл бұрын

That doesn’t quite make since considering what's changed in the remakees.

Steve’s lines are just hilarious to me. If I played through the game I’d probably get fed up with him, but from the vantage point of seeing the highlights I can’t help but laugh

The part with Donna was explained that the plants in the cemetery in front of her house makes people hallucinate. So Donna is the one who took your weapons in the dark while Ethan was high. Donna herself isn’t that much more powerful than a normal human.

Ethan at the start of the game and on other interactions you can see that mentally he has been stuck on the baker house, just like a player replaying that game over and over again on his head of how traumatized and affected he is. Even learning various stuff to protect himself and having frictions in his relationship with mia. in a way is as if he died on the baker house and his soul was stuck there even though his body keeps living on and he knows it shouldnt have, he is living in borrowed time basically. the cutscene where he looses his hand and retatches it is made to exemplify exactly that he shouldnt be able to regrow his limbs and stuff like that, which was a mechanic on RE 7 actually where some enemies could cut off your limbs and you had to retatch them on the same way. Once miranda kills him and he comes back confirming his suspicions on what he became and why his daughter is special as well as the fear of her being like evelyn, his desire and love for his daughter lets him live on once more thanks to the power of the mold and so on. yet by his slow walk at the start of this and that well. he lost his heart... it feels as if once more he is living in borrowed time. The end of the game, seeing how Ethans regenerative powers and mold starts to fail him, how his body cannot go on and how he leaves his daughter and wife behind for the sake of protecting them, i think its life and the world catching up to him, indeed, he died on the mansion, he has been tormented by the shadow of the whole event who catched up to him and finally took his life... but at least those he cares and love will be safe and fine... and he can be happy with that. Sorry if the redaction is a mess, just felt i had to take this out my chest since this is one of the parts of the game that most got to me, and i kinda needed to defend it before i forget what i was going to say. Also i think its not that Ethans kid is working with chris exactly, rather chris trying to pay off for his mistakes and for the death of ethan, he decided to take care of her kind of like a father figure, and that she is kinda forced on to serving, idk whatever group thats keeping track on her since well. she is a dangerous Bio weapon who is useful for them and dangerous as well. Hope the next game deals with this stuff and the miss use of her for the sake of her powers and also how even though Ethan saved his daughter, she was not entirely saved in the end making the ending of RE 8 more depressing which i dont mind.

The only thing I'm sad you didn't touch on is the series' weird and silly merchants and the very odd implications some of them have on the universe. Maybe they'll get a stronger focus in the follow up videos? :3

omg that mothcub musical interlude is everything!!!

I thought I was confused about the plot from not playing the games. But now I know that I would have been confused regardless. This was a real good time to watch, especially after watching some of your playthrough vods

Love this, as a sex joke lover and narrative pick-apart enjoyer, im reaply looking forward to this whole mini series. I have to admit, as an enjoyer of the ace attourney games (another set of big, melodramatic, subtle as a punch to the face capcom games) it just really fun and refreshing to see someone stake a flag and defend big unsubtle melodramas. Subtlety is for cowards.

3:47 Jumping into 7 is also a good way to get a freaking heart attack :P By god the first few hours of that game were among the creepiest and stressful things I have EVER experienced... And I got chased through an abandon military base buy a guy with an axe ...

‘President Evil’ is the hardest laugh I’ve had in a hot minute, thanks for that. V excited for this series!

Real sad to see you're missing out on the game that was the first in the series to have first-person view, has the 2nd best (worst) voice acting, and the absolute undisputed worst controls: RESI: Survivor. A game that is lightgun-only that has tank controls and you use the trigger of the lightgun to walk. A me and a friend played it all night at when we were teenagers and it took us until the final tyrant to work out that you can walk backwards by pulling the trigger twice.

@devilmikey00

2 жыл бұрын

Don't forget that they charged full price for that game and even if you sucked you could clear the campaign in under 2 hours or closer to an hour if you didn't.

ol nemmy is passionate, persistent, and despite his failure, still punctual. the perfect m a n first time watching your channel. it came up thru recommendations. i enjoyed listening

The old channel name was excellent, and the new one is too! I'm excited to watch you nerd out about a video game again :)

31 hours until awesomeness. your videos are something I get exited for, it's like a big release of a movie for me.

As someone who has often gotten lost in the RE wiki, this is a very helpful analysis of the series

Sophie, this is the most robust and critical analysis that exists on ResiTube. Never have I ever dreamed someone would take such an approach to these games. Often essays over the franchise are insights into historical and technical aspects of the games, which are fine; I suppose. Thank you for applying the same care of pop-culture, Americana, Class, and intersectional issues to this first part of this series. Well done!

One of my favorite scares come from the 2nd game, in the interrogation rooms. You kill all the enemies in the one way dead end hallway with two doors on your first trip there. You can only go into one door the first time you go there, which is the side where you can't see through the two way mirror. You come back later to open the other door, the hallway is still empty of zombies and safe. You open up the second door to finally see what's hiding behind it and it's nothing. A totally boring room with nothing in it besides the ability to unlock an item you need but you need to go back to the other room to collect it. You go to grab the item in the other room and BAM a licker smashes through the two way mirror and scares the shit out of you. The best part is the moment you see that two way mirror you know it's going to be used for a scare. Even though you know, the game waits so long to pull the trigger and it lets you go into the other side just before the scare that you let your guard down completely. It's well done stuff.

@SoftBoiledArt

2 жыл бұрын

They're seriously too good for their public, how masterfully directed is stuff like that flies over gamers heads.

This comment is dedicated to praise the musical break at 24:12 the way the vocals are done traditionally but then processed a ton and set up against that super tasty, dissonant harmony that's also rhythmically way off beat along with the lyrics makes it true nightmare fuel of uneasiness and I am absolutely *here* for it 1000%

As someone who started with 7 but had a vague understanding of the series as a whole as someone who lives on line, I have to say the Blue Umbrella reveal at the end had me perhaps MORE confused than people who had been following the series the whole time. Real "Wait, shit, did I miss something in another game???" moment.

I need this. I want to look into Resident Evil and I'm sure I'll love it. But as a former Silent Hill fan, it just... it hurts. It hurts so much that RE gets to live while SH is dead in the gutter.

I can't wait to watch this vid for a third time.

fun vid! Thanks for catching me up on the last five Resi games. That end credits track by Molly Noise is absolute fire. Fucking love it. Take my money!!

Resi 7 really came up with a good virus. Since it's a mold, it has a mycelium network eerily similar to a human nerve system so it makes sense that it stores human memories yet corrupts them

Oooooooh, if only we can also get you to do fatal frame. That game is legit too scary, but I still love me some good ghost stories and even if it gives me anxiety, I still love a franchise that makes terrifying ghosts and makes it where the only way to stop them is to look them full in the face as closely as you can

What the fuck is with these feature-length Curio deep dives. I love it. I can't imagine how much work this must be! Never really played Resident Evil and now it's all I want to do. Edit: Apparently the channel is now called Sophie from Mars. Whoops!

Random fun fact: The whole "nuke" part of Raccoon City getting nuked was... never actually intended. It was *supposed* to be a high-yield thermobaric weapon, but this was... not actually communicated effectively in the original trilogy, so people just kinda... *guessed.* It doesn't help that the book that actually clarified this was never released in English.

Claire Pinkfield Couldn’t help myself

I can’t wait 45 hours 😭 Edit: nevermind I could and it was worth it!

Sophie, you should play the Revelation series, specially Revelation 2! They add some interesting things to the story(plus older Claire and Barry), and they have some fun assymetric multi-player Gameplay! It's totally worth it!

Carlos is literally an ex communist guerilla from Brazil so he should be even far left It makes sense in the timeline for him to be an Brazilian communist with ties to the guerillas we had to go to the UBCS

It’s so damn fun having someone like you jump on board the RE train and get hype cuz essays like yours are some of my favorite content! Excited for more, thx

I played RE5 couch co-op over two or three different sessions while on LSD, and it was... an experience. Both of us were expecting something more like RE4, and we kept breaking into giggles at how absurdly racist it was, augmented by tripping pretty hard the whole time. Was it a good time? I actually don't know. And we couldn't get past the final battle cos we ran out of ammo. And yet, it's still better than Code: Veronica.

@koast2114

Жыл бұрын

How is it racist though? When the game is in an African location it's pretty obvious what colour the majority of enemies will be. There are Asian and European (white) enemies in re5 which people seem to forget about. You even play as a black woman also. It's like people want re5 to be racist. Sad.

@d_alistair-years

Жыл бұрын

@@koast2114You don’t think a group of English-speaking marines shooting at infected, angry-looking dark skinned people screaming another language in a slum isn’t racist imagery? No one’s saying Capcom’s racist; their carelessness in visuals are

1:17:44 the best part of that is that his sleeve heals too, kills me every time

I actually really love this conclusion because I am usually incredibly pretencious about media and I have realized the reason RE has become my favorite series of all-time is not because of its deep complexities but because of how it makes me feel. I am a five-foot nothing disabled woman who weighs about 130 pounds. I have had a bone marrow biopsy so very little scares me. In RE, I am ruthless. I am rarely shaken and I feel powerful in settings that are designed to strip me to the bone. "Dumb media" has a place next to Mozart and whatever indie film is on its way to Oscar glory. Who is really going to tell me what this series means to me?

@elizabethgarcia6651

9 ай бұрын

i have played all of them so that would be correct lol@chandllerburse737

great editing, music, and analysis! i’ve never played any of the games myself before but i was really invested in your take on it and i can’t wait to watch more. awesome work!

While there is some gothic inspiration to House Beneviento and the puzzle boss fight of Donna/Angie in RE8, the clear inspiration for this sequence seems to be a love letter to Kojima Productions' "P.T." demo and how the insanity of quality of horror that possible Silent Hills game would have been. I saw it as Capcom tipping its hat and bowing in reverence to a fallen brother of a franchise.

Finally got around to watching this. Fantastic vid. That scene where Leon is begging the President Evil to stay back is high art.

big Resident Evil/Survival Horror fan, and recent fan of yours. love this vid. always nice to see people enjoying this franchise, so many years after it's inception

Loving this so much! The idea of appreciating 'easy' horror is one I find very compelling, especially in light of the Call of Cthulhu game I run with close friends where there is an appreciation of cosmic horror and some of the larger themes that builds tension and fear, but what often lands are the soundtrack and jumpscare elements I use. Also the idea throwing out a bunch of seemingly unconnected elements focused on the horror of their existence and how that itself can create a that disconnection with a predictable world, that feeling that the worst thing you can imagine might happen because *anything* could happen! I'm definitely going to play with that! B^D (If any of the OG are reading this, I'm totally talking about another CoC game I run with other friends. . .you don't know them.)

Your lack of RE0 acknowledgment makes Billy Coen cry and he never cries

I’m not a huge Resident Evil fan but as a horror fan, I freaking loved watching a play through of 7 because the atmosphere and horror elements were amazingggg. Can’t wait to watch your take on everything!

I rather liked this video, its a good and fresh look at a franchise I've come to love and always find myself enjoying any form of discussion online about it. This was a great video and I am anticipating the release of the next part!

Oh my! Sophie talking about RE for an hour and a half, it's definitely my birthday!

Oh, man, Code Veronica being the first one I actually *played* (rather than watching someone else play while they promised I'd totes get a turn too, for sure), does a *lot* to explain my early impression of the franchise. (Incidentally, my story is similar to yours. Made it to the Tyrant boss fight at the end of the first section... with virtually no ammo, because even by pre-RE4 standards, ammo was *absurdly* thin on the ground in CVX, and the game offers you no recourse in that situation but to start over. There is no last-second ammo cache, no special trick you can use, and it's *entirely* unworkable with the knife unless you're the best RE player ever.)

I love to see a person who can see besides the mechanics and bonkers plot of the franchise, that I think its the two sides folks tend to overanalyze the games, and see them as whole. I was wandering about the name change, really like them vibes. Thanks for sharing!

I love this weird Resident Evil torrent that has been gushing out of the internet lately. edit: RE7 is the Yakuza 0 of Resident Evil.

I just watched a 2+ hr video explaining the plot of the whole resident evil franchise earlier this week. Great timing!

I would like so much to hear you talk about RE: Revelations 2. I weirdly love this game (mostly the coop)

finally revisiting these and I can't believe I forgot it was Sophie's outro that introduced me to KSR's mars trilogy lmao i fell so deep down that rabbit hole last year and completely forgot why

I’m so excited for this! 🥳💕

Amazing job Sophie❤I’ve been a fan of the series since the beginning and think you did an awesome covering RE

This was lovely. Plenty of laugh out loud moments compared with great analysis. I’m looking forward to the next one 😃

INCREDIBLE video. loved every moments and I look forward to the next one

Ah- Resident evil!! Yay!! I’m very happy you’re doing RE videos! I love your videos and resident evil so I’m super excited to see this. (Also your Claire costume is awesome!)

Yeahhhh baby this is what I've been waiting for!

Excellent video! Can't wait for the next installment!

@SophiefromMars

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

there have been a lot of resident evil retrospects and I thought I've had enough. But you delivered a refreshing take on all the games you covered!

My favorite part about resident evil is just how it takes suspension of disbelief and just plays ping pong with it. The basic setting is pretty simple: big pharma corp run by eugenicsists makes bioweapons, gets caught, does a terrorism and this repeats throughout the games. But the presentation goes from "oh this is a haunted house in the wood, sike it's actually an underground lab", to "terrorist attack in a major city" to "remote umbrella scientist starts a cult". It takes established horror tropes and goes "what if vampires existed but they are actually bioengineered by some scientist hiding in an old castle trying to sell them as bioweapons". Also the world is full of bored super locksmiths who make Myst-esque puzzles to unlock common doors that are akin to magic.

as someone who has a very hard time handling horror, i appreciate you making this accessible! might still need to watch some dumb videos to be able to sleep soundly, but your jokes and commentary were very grounding and comforting. also thank you for mentioning Mad Max: Fury Road! i think it might have to do with having ADHD, but the simplicity and vibrance of that movie makes it one of my favorites!! reminds me of the quote about how knowledge is knowing facts, wisdom (and teaching/accessibility) is knowing how to simplify them final compliments: the music in this was absolutely bangin' and i think your eyebrows are mad cute!

I love love LOVE your sense of humor! Subscribed! 💕

Great video. I’ve been in love with this series since I was 5 years old, watching my older cousin play through the original RE2.

Dammit you got me. I watched the video because it's from you and I like your essays. I dont like zombies, I dont like horror. And now im hooked. Designing fear? Let's goooo! I cant wait for the next part of the series! Also sidenote - love your new username! It's so pretty and powerful at the same time

I just started play RE 1 last night and now I see one of my favs makes a video about it? gosh, i love you Sophie

I appreciate that you also adore Claire a lot. She's absolutely my favourite RE character, with Leon close behind. That's partly why I have a (possibly nostalgic) fondness for Code Veronica X, since it was the only other mainline Resident Evil game she was in. (Sure she's a protag in RE: Revelations 2, but I haven't gotten around to playing that one, and from Noah's video, it doesn't sound good.

"Boy howdy do I ever have a depressing podcast episode for you" is that a direct quote from Robert Evans' intro, or just an excellent mimic of his style?

Love the new character. Really great to see a diversity of ideas in these essays.

...I have no idea why I'm here. I just realized that. I think I just like Sophie's vibe.

Oh man. I always love and really look forward to these videos

I don’t even play video games but I am going to watch every second of this and love it because that is Sophie’s power 🙌 x

Love tuning in for Sophie’s annual special interest marathon

Beautiful. Simply Beautiful! These videos have been so much fun!

Great video! I love how it dropped within hours of a new Noah Caldwell-Gervais video, too.

I think when you changed your youtube name I stopped getting updates and missed your last three videos. Finally came back to see you've made a video about one of my favorite game series's(?). I'm excited.

I’ve just started watching your channel and I love it!

Another amazing video, Sophie! ♥️

I've seen noah's RE video so many times. It's my comfort video on KZread.

I am super excited for this. I love the stories of RE but my anxiety won't allow me to enjoy playing horror games. So a long form essay on RE (like the one NC-G did) are super fun. But you always add such a wonderful perspective to your videos that I am excited for more! Thank you for all the amazing work you do :)

really excited for the rest of this series

I'm only about halfway through the video but I'm absolutely loving it so far, I've been meaning to get into resident evil but felt pretty intimidated by how many games there were 😅 I really love the way you explain things and how much effort goes into all of your videos!