Thread:Godzillafan93/@comment-6052796-20141004121045/@comment-397235-20150129035121

Wow.

To wildly change subjects, I thought of another one from Resident Evil. Revelations came out between Re5 and Re6 but is more a prequel for Re5 (and manages to be considerably better than that game in all respects). Basically the game revolves around a terrorist group releasing a water-soluble plague into the Mediterranean Sea and the BSAA's efforts to combat this.

The current viral vector, the T-Abyss virus, causes horrific mutations in whatever it infects, but some people react more violently than others.

The first boss in the game is Rachel Foley, a rookie member of the American Federal Biohazard Commission, who Jill encounters just in time to see get violently murdered by another BOW. Death doesn't really slow Rachel down, though, since she gets back up and begins to stalk Jill and her partner Parker through the abandoned cruise ship they're investigating.

What's unique about T-Abyss is it leaves the host's faculties more or less intact; Rachel, for example, likes to slither out of ventilation shafts while chuckling evilly and exclaiming "Found you!" What makes Rachel sympathetic, though, is that while half her dialogue is irritating, the other half is genuinely heart wrenching. Rachel was begging for help before she died, and she's not quite gotten the memo that she's dead, so for significant portions of the several times you encounter her, she'll yell things like "Someone help me!" "Oh God, it hurts!" and "Please, somebody save me" while clearly sobbing. She's very much a victim, and Capcom wants to drive home just how hopelessly tragic her situation is. It's not until later, when you learn her partner had caused most of this and left her for dead, that you feel even worse. The characters themselves seem to feel the same way; when Parker finally kills her, he says something along the lines of "I think you've had enough" before finishing her off.

Another boss involves the ship's comms officer, who has been leaving you helpful notes guiding you to supplies for most of the game. You finally find him locked in a supply closet, muttering the same distress call which lured you to the ship in the first place "May...day, may...day...This is the Queen...Zenobia..." Of course, upon opening the door, he attacks Jill and Parker while summoning more monsters to do the same; however, during his fight he'll occasionally, when not repeating the distress signal, shout things like "Please don't!" "Please stop!" and "I'm still human!"

Capcom's also pretty good at this.