AQWBlaZer91's First Impressions: Resident Evil Revelations Eshop Demo
Game Title: Resident Evil Revelations
Platform: Nintendo 3DS
Genre: Survival Horror
Developer: Capcom, Tose
Publisher: Capcom, Nintendo (Europe)
Demo Released: 19th January 2012 (Europe)
Date of Full Game Release: January 26th 2012 (Japan), January 27th 2012 (Europe), February 2nd 2012 (Australia), February 7th 2012 (North America)
Age Rating: ACB: MA15+, BBFC: 15, CERO: D, ESRB: M, PEGI: 16, USK: 16
Since Resident Evil 4 became the biggest success in the franchise it took itself a little but lightly when it all came to the Survival Horror aspects of the series. For a while it almost began to feel that it was going for the run and gun style of play with RE5, Mercenaries 3D and Umbrella spinoff series. Resident Evil Revelations for the 3DS takes the series back to the old school roots of Survival Horror where you have only Limited resources to combat the inflicted.
In the Demo you have only 30 Uses before you can't play any more.
The Storyline is set to follow at least between Resident Evil 4 and 5 where Jill Valentine and her new partner Parker Luciani are sent to search for Chris Redfield and his partner Jessica Sherawat, who were reported to be last seen on the SS Queen Zenobia after they lost contact with HQ.
The demo will take you back in time to the series original roots when it originally focused on while using the control scheme of Resident Evil 5. It shows about 15 minutes of understanding a few basic mechanics alongside the combat. You'll explore the area in search for clues and tools which allow you access the next part of the game. Most of these are easy to find by the shining that you'll see which informs you that you can grab an item.
Along the way you'll also have to deal with some monsters that are quite huge and some of them have either claws and ones which can explode. You can play the game with the standard control set up or you can it with the Circle Pad Pro which has an added analog stick at the side. I haven't got the device so I have no idea how it's supposed to work for me. What I personally find easier is using the Gyro Controls for using which works quite well for combat. You have to think about your confrontations carefully cause you only have limited resources to help you out so you'll need to run away at some points in the game which adds plenty of tension.
You'll also find a scanner called the Genesis which is a useful Item for finding items through the environments incase you can't find them but don't worry, when you walk over an item you'll get an onscreen message to tell you to pick it up. You can handle weapon selections on the Touch Screen with the Stylus or by pressing buttons on the D-Pad.
There are puzzles which are handled on the Touch Screen where you got to unscrew the box and rewire the circuity for the door using the Stylus. These puzzles are very cleaver to handle.
On the 3DS the graphics are well done in 3D. Using the enhanced power of the MT Framework graphics engine. With the 3D turned off the graphics use the anti-aliasing details which are absolute incredible. The soundtrack sounds impressive along side the top notch voice acting.
Revelations looks like an incredible product for the 3DS. Maybe sometime I'll grab myself a copy of this game for Christmas and maybe I'll find out for myself if this game is really a big change for the series.
Although it's pointless for me to post my first impressions playing the demo due to the games already out but I'm doing this to show off my opinions on playing through the Demo.
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Anthony Hayball (AQWBlaZer91)