IGN Reviews Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles

[TheBatMan]

The video shows the main menu (or part of it) with two very interesting options: Archives and Chronicles.

DO WANT

Its the main menu alright. Chronicles is the level select screen and Archives is for collectibles. The Umbrella symbols in this game are not all files this time, some are rare old items and others are the bottle cap model things.

[BahamutRetsu]

OMG!!
I only heard one thing about the ending and got me excited
Dnt click the tag if you dnt want to read the one thing about the ending!!


Spoiler:

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It seems Wesker IS involved with Operation Javier...He is in the ending but not to sure!!

Well that makes sense. After all Krauser ends up working with him, and if they want to explain how that happened, Wesker will have to appear in one way or another. I have a feeling he is the one who supplied Javier with that "new" virus. He is the mysterious Umbrella researcher who contacted Javier. Could be not, but that's my gut feeling. Damn! And I have to wait till 27th to get my copy(It's the PAL release date). And just why Wii games are not region free?

[Sephiroth]

So it's 12 hours long that really impressive for a rail shotter game and let's face it when was the last time Resident Evil did not have ridiculous final bosses apart from 0 and 2.

[BahamutRetsu]

So it's 12 hours long that really impressive for a rail shotter game and let's face it when was the last time Resident Evil did not have ridiculous final bosses apart from 0 and 2.

RE1, REmake, RE3 (Never thought that boss fight was ridiculous).

[Branden_Lucero]

only .2 higher than Umbrella Chronicles, and IGN gave Extraction a 8.5. looks like even Dead Space is becoming more favorable than Resident Evil lately (from most reviews it seems). i'd figure this game would score higher, at least a lot higher than Umbrella Chronicles (.2 is not much a difference) because of the favored and RE2 and CV scenarios.

[News Bot]

That is by the RE Archives, which is full of plot holes and terrible grammatic mistakes. I never trusted it by a smallest bit. This plant DNA is never mentioned in any of CV files. It's just Progenitor and Queen Ant virus. I trust this more. But anything's possible within RE universe, so we'll see.

The BSAA website also mentions it.

Archives isn't a bad source. Poorly written/translated in some parts (due to BradyGames being lackluster) but all of the information in it is completely true. Not to mention, ALL of it is taken from the Japanese guides, which have 70% of information on the games. Minor errors from bad publication do not devalue its credibility.

[Sephiroth]

RE1, REmake, RE3 (Never thought that boss fight was ridiculous).

I was really pointing the finger to Dead Aim, UC,4 and 5

[BahamutRetsu]

The BSAA website also mentions it.

Archives isn't a bad source. Poorly written/translated in some parts (due to BradyGames being lackluster) but all of the information in it is completely true. Not to mention, ALL of it is taken from the Japanese guides, which have 70% of information on the games. Minor errors from bad publication do not devalue its credibility.

As far as I remember the RE timeline on the old official RE site was crap and had big mistakes. I tend not to trust official RE websites. I also have Japanese RE Archives and my friend knows Japanese a little. He says it has no word "plant' in that part. Only Mother virus and Ant virus. He can be wrong, his Japanese is really amateur at best.

And NOT every information in RE Archives is true. Take the Lurker bio for example. It was made by T-vurus... Yeah, right. A file in RE Zero clearly says it's Mother/Progenitor virus. In Japanese RE Zero it says Mother virus too. I'd rather trust that. This is only 1 of about 9-12 serious mistakes they made. Btw in Japanese RE Archives it says in Lurer bio that it was made by Mother virus too. I have my reasons not to trust Archives.

[Det. Beauregard]

As far as I remember the RE timeline on the old official RE site was crap and had big mistakes. I tend not to trust official RE websites. I also have Japanese RE Archives and my friend knows Japanese a little. He says it has no word "plant' in that part. Only Mother virus and Ant virus. He can be wrong, his Japanese is really amateur at best.

And NOT every information in RE Archives is true. Take the Lurker bio for example. It was made by T-vurus... Yeah, right. A file in RE Zero clearly says it's Mother/Progenitor virus. In Japanese RE Zero it says Mother virus too. I'd rather trust that. This is only 1 of about 9-12 serious mistakes they made. Btw in Japanese RE Archives it says in Lurer bio that it was made by Mother virus too. I have my reasons not to trust Archives.

I also seem to remember that on one of the flow charts in Archives, they listed Rebecca as "dead." Not to mention the typos every other sentence, and poorly-written sentences at that.

[BahamutRetsu]

I also seem to remember that on one of the flow charts in Archives, they listed Rebecca as "dead." Not to mention the typos every other sentence, and poorly-written sentences at that.

I still fill that terrible feeling of pure terror, when I remember the article about Hunk in the Archives. I mean it's SO bad. Were they translating with Google translator?

[xfactor]

only .2 higher than Umbrella Chronicles, and IGN gave Extraction a 8.5. looks like even Dead Space is becoming more favorable than Resident Evil lately (from most reviews it seems). i'd figure this game would score higher, at least a lot higher than Umbrella Chronicles (.2 is not much a difference) because of the favored and RE2 and CV scenarios.

Different reviewers.

[GEORGE TREVOR]

I dont think the actual translation was incorrect for Hunk, it's just that the personal data icon has been printed over some words, so the sentence reads poorly! Archives also makes reference to the non-canon game Gaiden, but there are some great images of the Trevor Family tradegy from Wesker's Report II

[News Bot]

As far as I remember the RE timeline on the old official RE site was crap and had big mistakes. I tend not to trust official RE websites. I also have Japanese RE Archives and my friend knows Japanese a little. He says it has no word "plant' in that part. Only Mother virus and Ant virus. He can be wrong, his Japanese is really amateur at best.

And NOT every information in RE Archives is true. Take the Lurker bio for example. It was made by T-vurus... Yeah, right. A file in RE Zero clearly says it's Mother/Progenitor virus. In Japanese RE Zero it says Mother virus too. I'd rather trust that. This is only 1 of about 9-12 serious mistakes they made. Btw in Japanese RE Archives it says in Lurer bio that it was made by Mother virus too. I have my reasons not to trust Archives.

The Lurker was made by the T-virus (every single source available on the game, including the Japanese strategy guides, state this). The files in Zero are just piss-poor. The Progenitor mention is a complete mistake, because Progenitor cannot even make monsters to begin with. Which is the entire reason they decided to "weaponize" it with the T-virus. Marcus mentions human beings being the only suitable host for Progenitor, but the virus kills human beings outright making it completely pointless. Also, the Plague Crawler is most definitely not Progenitor, as genetic engineering wasn't introduced by Umbrella until the early 1980s, and the first results out of that were the Hunter and Chimera. And sorry but the official BIOHAZARD websites contain more accurate info than most other sources. Your reliance on the English ones is what is at fault. They are created by PR and web designers, whilst the Japanese ones have the developers involved.

Most of the mistakes in Archives are small and the result of a poor localization, the actual Biohazard Archives doesn't have any of those mistakes. And I'm sorry but your friend must be exceedingly wrong or looking for some other Japanese symbol, as they don't just put in "plant DNA" as part of a translation job. You can't translate what isn't there.

Yeah, pretty shitty localization. But is it 100% discountable? No. It is a very valuable source of information in some cases, though the Japanese Kaitashinsho guides still take precedence.

We'll be translating the CVX Kaitashinsho guide soon, hopefully that will confirm if plant DNA was involved.

[BahamutRetsu]

The Lurker was made by the T-virus (every single source available on the game, including the Japanese strategy guides, state this). The files in Zero are just piss-poor. The Progenitor mention is a complete mistake, because Progenitor cannot even make monsters to begin with. Which is the entire reason they decided to "weaponize" it with the T-virus. Marcus mentions human beings being the only suitable host for Progenitor, but the virus kills human beings outright making it completely pointless. Also, the Plague Crawler is most definitely not Progenitor, as genetic engineering wasn't introduced by Umbrella until the early 1980s, and the first results out of that were the Hunter and Chimera. And sorry but the official BIOHAZARD websites contain more accurate info than most other sources. Your reliance on the English ones is what is at fault. They are created by PR and web designers, whilst the Japanese ones have the developers involved.

Most of the mistakes in Archives are small and the result of a poor localization, the actual Biohazard Archives doesn't have any of those mistakes. And I'm sorry but your friend must be exceedingly wrong or looking for some other Japanese symbol, as they don't just put in "plant DNA" as part of a translation job. You can't translate what isn't there.

Yeah, pretty shitty localization. But is it 100% discountable? No. It is a very valuable source of information in some cases, though the Japanese Kaitashinsho guides still take precedence.

We'll be translating the CVX Kaitashinsho guide soon, hopefully that will confirm if plant DNA was involved.

Translating those guides would be cool. But I think DSC will put an end to this debate much earlier. With its Archives section it should feature all info on all viruses.

As for Progenitor virus not muating hosts... Wrong. It does cause mutation but on a more primitive side, mainly size changes. P crawlers were just created with Progenitor virus, no need for genetic engineering, just a needle and a virus. As for Zero file been wrong... Excuse me but Zero is a CANON game and all files in it are canon too. You say it's piss poor. Then I can say RECV file on T-Veronica is poor, and T-Veronica is actually made from T-Virus and Ant virus, no Progenitor virus involved. This is wrong. Both Zero and RECV are equally canon, as are all files in those games. You don't trust Zero files, and trust Archives? That's your choice. I trust Zero files and don't give a shit about Archives. It's good only for cool artworks to me. And don't try to change my mind, cuz that's impossible. I trust all canon RE games and files in them ONLY, and not websites or some poorly translated books.

RE Zero screwed RE plot big time, but it's canon nevertheless. So by that file in RE Zero I say "Progenitor can mutate animals. Lurker been one of those mutants". This is official canon info from a main-line RE game.

[TheBatMan]

Zero did not screw the canon at all. Give me one example to prove me otherwise.