{"id":3349,"date":"2021-05-31T22:00:28","date_gmt":"2021-05-31T13:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/biggestinjapan.com\/?p=3349"},"modified":"2021-05-26T16:02:57","modified_gmt":"2021-05-26T07:02:57","slug":"how-resident-evil-village-hides-its-big-twist-in-plain-sight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biggestinjapan.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/31\/how-resident-evil-village-hides-its-big-twist-in-plain-sight\/","title":{"rendered":"How Resident Evil Village<\/i> Hides Its Big Twist in Plain Sight"},"content":{"rendered":"

Resident Evil 7: Biohazard<\/em> follows Ethan Winters, a normal systems engineer who gets caught up in the crazy monster-filled world of Resident Evil<\/em> after he gets an email from his three-years-missing wife, Mia, telling him to come to rural Louisiana. Resident Evil Village<\/em>, picks up several years later when Ethan\u2019s newborn daughter, Rosemary, is kidnapped by a strange cult and taken to their village in rural Spain.<\/p>\n

*This article contains major spoilers for both Resident Evil 7: Biohazard<\/em> and Resident Evil Village<\/em>. <\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"Image source: Resident Evil<\/a> on Twitter<\/em><\/p>\n

Ethan\u2019s journey through both of these games is hardly an easy one. Be it from the unkillable Baker family or the werewolves, zombies, and vampires of Mother Miranda\u2019s village, Ethan takes a lot of damage. Luckily, scattered around are a large supply of herbs and chemical fluid, which when combined, can cure all but the most grievous of wounds.<\/p>\n

From a gameplay perspective, this makes sense. Ever since classic FPS games like Wolfenstein 3D<\/em> and DOOM<\/em>, health-restoring items have been a staple of the genre. It goes without saying that, in the real world, simply walking over a medkit can\u2019t heal a beaten and bloody person. But with the suspension of disbelief we have built up from years of playing such games, it seems perfectly reasonable\u2014if not downright normal\u2014in a video game. We simply ignore miraculous healing items as a quality-of-life game mechanic somewhat removed from the actual story and world portrayed in the game.<\/p>\n

\"\"Image source: Resident Evil<\/a> on Twitter<\/em><\/p>\n

The latest two Resident Evil<\/em> games play on our familiarity and acceptance of the supernatural effectiveness of in-game healing items to hide their big twist. Over the course of those games, Ethan experiences some serious body horror. In Resident Evil 7<\/em>, he is stabbed, stung, and has his left hand chopped off by a chainsaw\u2014only for it to be stapled back on later. Resident Evil Village<\/em> kicks it up a notch. Not only is he bitten, slashed, smashed, and shot with flaming arrows, he is also clawed, impaled, strung up on metal hooks, covered in acid, and has his other hand chopped off (and later reattached with healing fluid). It\u2019s only when Ethan recovers from having his heart literally ripped out of his body that the truth is revealed. It isn\u2019t magical healing fluid that\u2019s been keeping Ethan alive. It\u2019s that Ethan isn\u2019t human\u2014and hasn\u2019t been since the end of Resident Evil 7<\/em>\u2019s prologue.<\/p>\n

Like the rest of Eveline\u2019s \u201cfamily,\u201d Ethan\u2019s body is made up entirely of the strange mold responsible for the monsters of both games. While the mold can make itself appear to be human down to the DNA level it\u2019s not. Ethan is no different from the members of the Baker family. He is basically as unkillable as Jack. And while Mia and Zoe, the other former Baker family survivors, have gotten the antidote to the mold, Ethan never has. Honestly, with all the damage he has taken, we should be surprised Ethan didn\u2019t become a rage-filled mold monster in his final fight against Mother Miranda.<\/p>\n