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Tonight I finished watching a longplay of Resident Evil Requiem, which brings me up to date with the main games in that series, at least until the DLC for Requiem comes out sometime in future. I know there are also many other games in the series outside of the main ones and I'm not ruling out that I might watch through those as well at some point, but for the time being I'm happy enough to tick this one off my list and move onto something else.

It feels good to have finally caught up with a series that I enjoyed watching my cousins play on the PS1 back when I was a kid. Certainly there were a few parts of the series that I was less invested in, but for the most part I've really enjoyed the vibes and how much you can tell the people involved in the series really care about it. My friend once told me that the secret sauce to a successful series is that even if you as the audience might think it's silly, the source material takes itself completely seriously and honestly, I think Resident Evil gets that right. Though obviously it's more than prepared to poke fun at itself sometimes, but it doesn't cross that line into irony poisoning that a lot of modern takes on long-running series like this one sometimes do.

( I should probably talk about Requiem specifically before moving on )