Recent reviews by Emilk

remove the ai upscale

DRDR is not where you should start the franchise at, play the original, its way cheaper and an overall way better than this rushed, buggy mess of a remaster with neat changes that dont make up for what it breaks or changes along the way. i write this as someone who's played DR1 for hundreds of hours, consider it my favorite game of all time and is a fan of the series hoping we get more quality instead ANOTHER rushed game which capcom should have learnt their lesson after DR4

let me just start with the actual great or decent additions/changes
-fast forward time: this is honestly a great feature for people like myself who are good enough do everything on time, so theres no waiting between cases when you have nothing to do
-infinity mode is actually good now, with it not being a boring slog of a survival mode essentially fixing the biggest missed potential of the original
-blend everything book, great way to use some weapons early for NG+ and overall a pretty fun and funny feature
-survivor mood feature is a real fun feature that would be great to be expanded upon
-overtime has less queens to collect which was pretty repetitive in the original

but thats really about it

DRDR isnt a good remaster for many reasons, starting with how its atmosphere is straight up missing. big part of the eerieness of dead rising was how almost clean the mall was and normal everything looked during the outbreak but the remaster just kind of gets rid of that feeling by placing trash everywhere, putting yellow paint in the foodcourt and ruining the title screen by exaggerating it to hell by putting tons of fog and flipped over cars, shopping carts flipped over when the normalcy mixed with the undead is what MADE that title screen iconic. then the removal of the news themed UI which not only made the outbreak feel like this big newsworthy event it actually fit frank pretty well, he's here for the the story and with its loading screens having the pictures you taken with the newspaper loading screens clearly talking about the outbreak you could theorize DR1 is frank recounting his events in the mall but that is entirely replaced with this minimalist UI that just looks boring. with more like the games bright color just looking washed now etc etc

the game itself is also clearly rushed, very clearly due to the fact we needed to wait nearly 2 months for a patch that added back the hardhat zombie type, something that was in the original game at launch, the bugs, theres ai upscaling, kents photo if you fail is clearly unfinished, its completely missing the zombie horde ambience which is just crazy for a zombie video game, the convicts ai "fix" was just made to immediately turn around when you arent looking even for just a second, the zombie collision is really bad and lots more. its baffling capcom let this release like this for the second time when one of the biggest criticism of 4 was how buggy and clearly rushed the game was

the game itself is essentially DR1 but with many changes, its floatier, less snappy with the combat attack animations lasting longer which prevents you moving for a longer amount of time than the original and ofcourse it being ported to RE engine changes its physics and more for the worse, as it clearly cannot handle as many zombies as the original due to the RE engine not being really made with dead rising in mind compared to MT framework which WAS made with dead rising in mind, which is just unbelievable this didnt get as much flak when the massive zombie horde is part of dead risings identity. especially when you consider they are the difficulty in the way of the games most important features, the timer and escorting which wouldnt matter all that much anyways as the games difficulty was watered down for a more casual audience with the additions of autosaves, frank is now faster, incredibly broken leveling system that makes early game not even feel like your barely surviving the first day, the unbalanced skateboards that make the timer pretty big joke alot of the time, casual mode etc. while same time TRYING to balance around the less zombie hordes which just makes things worse, battles have been given damage caps which just makes using weaker weapons less viable and fun, they removed franks iframes when attacking from the front that protected him from zombie grabs to avoid the games grabs feeling more fair and less repetitive which again makes less viable weapons even more less viable, the iframes by the way IS IN CASUAL MODE, they LITERALLY made the normal game feel worse to play cause they couldnt fine tune the difficulty enough

now just for lot of details just straight up missing, biggest example is franks reaction to his surroundings, depending on the amount of zombies around him frank switches his run to a wary state, standing still with a weapon makes him move around like he's ready to fight off the dead, when frank is tired after being grabbed twice he will stumble around and look tired (tired state is to warn the player that if frank gets grabbed twice the third time he will get tackled to the ground by a zombie, which is not only a neat detail but a great invisible tutorial) is all straight up gone, frank does not react to his surroundings at all, change his running or stance or even stumble which means new players are just going to think frank getting pushed over by a zombie is just random. the blood and gore is way worse lot of the gore. blood doesnt fall the floor, its just a generic splat with it barely ever getting on frank himself, the gore sometimes is just clearly unfinished as hedge clippers will sometimes just cuts a zombie in half the wrong side. as i said earlier zombie ambiance is just gone and more

ive rambled enough, but this is not the definitive version of dead rising, its a very clear watered down, rushed remaster that isnt really made to appeal to fans of dead rising 1 but rather to bring in newcomers, buy the original.

this is literally dead rising's version of half life source.

god i need to ♥♥♥♥ the duke so bad

i love money

This mr beast video went too far imo!

This DLC is just Chris Redfield vs ImJaystation

this game FEELS like sex

hell yeah i love Punch-Out!!

WARNING: SCARIEST GAME IN YEARS

who up playin with they worm?!