resident evil 2 remake update 1.02 patch notes

The pad itself uses the unusual scheme of using a shoulder button to jog and left stick click to run, which proved unreliable to pull off at inopportune moments and resulted in a number of annoying deaths. The mouse and keyboard worked best for exploring, but I struggled to tackle the bosses so switched to the pad for these. Playing with a mixture of gamepad and mouse and keyboard, neither felt optimal. This time last year, I would have been far more excited by the traditional approach taken here, but it is more difficult to forgive the genre’s old issues when you have played newer iterations.įirst among the complaints is the clunkiness of the controls. Playing through this shows the evolution of survival horror across the two RE2 games, an evolution that Daymare doesn’t always benefit from. Without the knowledge of the years of hard work the team put into their RE2 remake, it would be easy to dismiss Daymare: 1998 as a simple clone.Ĭonsidering the shared lineage of the two projects, however, what we have is a fascinating bridge between old and new from an indie team that doesn’t have the resources of a giant like Capcom. There’s even a similar multiple character structure, as you control three different people through the game, albeit with a more linear approach as the characters only meet up at the game’s conclusion. The whole setup with mutated viruses, shadowy companies, reanimated corpses, and a Special Forces team going by a tenuous acronym – HADES – is spookily familiar. There has been a laudable attempt to construct a new and original lore and narrative, but it is clearly Resident Evil 2 by another name. The origins of Daymare are pretty easy to see.

Resident evil 2 remake update 1.02 patch notes