The Reaper

[T-103]

Was anyone else pleasantly surprised by the Reapers? I remember getting killed by them quite often the first time I played. I had no idea how to kill them at first, everytime one hatched I was thinking "Oh no, run! Sheva hurry the f**K up!!" And after I killed it, my heart was pounding pretty fast, it was satisfying to hit that weak point.

I don't know what it is, they just give of a classic B.O.W feel. The noise they make and the way they run/walk pretty fast. In my opinion, they are the best B.O.W seen in the past 2 Resident Evil games and are up there with the Licker and Hunter. They wouldn't have looked out of place in a classic Resident Evil, of course, the similarities between the Reaper and the Chimera are quite obvious, though apparently unrelated, sadly. It would have been good if the Reaper was an updated version of the Chimera, with Tricell using Umbrella's data to improve it as a Bio-Weapon. (Which would have probably been called a success if it wasn't for the Reapers weak spots) However, weak spots or not, The Reaper is far superior to the Chimera, in my opinion.



I'd like to see them used again, I think they have potential.

Edit: After discussing this elsewhere, someone has said The Reaper is more similar to the "Drain Deimos" and I have to agree. I completely forgot about them :/


Anyway, anyone else like these creatures?

[GuardhouseMusic]

The novistador from RE4 is also a similar idea. Just a different insect basis.

[T-103]

The novistador from RE4 is also a similar idea. Just a different insect basis.

Yeah, good point.

[Neoblast]

Reapers owns them all, I didnt like chimera or deimos.

[Mesker]

Reapers are the best! And i also love the music that plays when they hatch. Increases the tension.

[Dark_Chris]

Reapers are great and yeah 'Haze of Horror' song is also great

[REmaster]

Yea they really remind me of the drain demos/brainsuckers when they stand up and run at you lol.

[Yzak]

Reapers STILL make me go "FFFFFFFFFF" when I run into one and curse like a bitch if they wind up killing me. So all in all yes, I love them for doing that.

[BadWolfX]

The first time I saw one I was just screaming "WHY WON'T YOU DIE?!".

I still get nervous fighting them because of that damn one hit kill.

[Stars1356]

They really suck on professional but if you have the right shotgun then they are not to bad.

[Spera01]

When I first faced one, and I started shooting at it and its limbs came flying off after a few shots.... But then they grew back, so I was like "Oh god, is this RE5's version of a Regenerator?" Then the thing got close to me, and naturally performed it's one hit kill... Made me fear em all the much more.

[Kaneco]

I could kill them off easily after I got my Magnum upgraded all the way with double piercing.
It goes through its flesh and hits the weak spots (I'm guessing the back) with ultimate damage.
In professional it takes more pumping led into them, though.

[LVL100 Merchant]

Reapers are amazing. But I don't know if I like them more than the Brain Suckers from RE3; they're among my favorite RE monsters.

[Enigma_632]

As Cartman would probably say 'Those Reapers really p*** me off.'

I think last time I checked on my RE5 save, they had over 25% of all kills on me, nothing was close to them.

[Guest]

I really liked them, as some had sed, they reminded me of the old RE B.O.W.s, they where well done. I also loved how well done the gas-invicibility thing was made and used, it was one of the best effects I've seen on a game; it also reminded me of the novistaors in RE4, since they could become invicibles (maybe the novistadors used some type of gas too ?). What I felt a bit... strange was the fact that they were infected with uroboros, they didn't have the black-tentacle-cells or any other characteristic from uroboros, except the yellow weakpoints, maybe they were "compatible" with the virus (?)