Resident Evil’s Greatest Strength is Also Its Greatest Weakness

It’s easy to be swept up in the character-driven action of Resident Evil games with such prominent and legendary characters at its helm. Knowing that its protagonists will be fine when entering into scripted cutscenes is amusing when players can sustain several zombie bites and licker lacerations before then, and regardless it is never questioned how heroic and triumphant they’ll be in the end. Ethan Winters helped to skew that trope somewhat, but even then that is thankfully not where the franchise truthfully finds its success.