games | Resident Evil '02

Both Catrena & I are reading Itchy, Tasty, the defacto book on the history of the Resident Evil franchise, written and researched by Alex Aniel. It’s good so far, though it does, for whatever reason, spoil the ever loving shit out of CODE: Veronica. And since we’ve maintained a healthy fixation on RE I’ve decided that it was time for us to play the Remake of RE1. I don’t think that I’ve played the first Resident Evil game. My sister had a boyfriend who had a bad home life and my parents let him set up in the (very unfinished) basement of our house. I remember watching him play through that game on the PS1, from behind pillows, while some terrible blueberry candle burned away in the background. For 12 year old me, this was one of the scariest games I’ve ever seen. And that’s been my experience with the game, I’ve been around it, I’ve watched people play it, I’ve been scared by it in the moment but I’ve never sat down with it, to make it my own. And I’m not really doing that now,…