Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles/YMMV

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  • Accidental Innuendo:
    • When Steve Burnside spots a couple of swinging cranes that they can use to escape Nosferatu:

Steve: Claire, you like to swing?
Claire: Excuse me?

    • Another one:

Alfred (to Steve and Claire): The girl and boy, destined to be one, will reveal the way!
Claire: "Girl and Boy"...? What!?

  • Badass Decay: Hearing Jack Krauser's internal monologue makes him sound whinier and more cowardly than he normally seems. Considering he's suffering a mental breakdown at the same time his raging inferiority complex decided to flare up, it was to be expected. To his credit, from Leon's perspective he never actually loses his composure.
  • Complete Monster: Alexia Ashford is much more evil in this game. Of course, she was pretty nasty in the original to begin with. Alfred is also far, far more evil here as well, a stark contrast to his pathetically harmless status in Code Veronica.
  • Creator's Pet: Jack Krauser evidentially gained a lot of popularity in Resident Evil 4. Turns out, Krauser was also a favorite in the Resident Evil development team, and it partly this reason that this game was dedicated to his fall to darkness.
  • Crowning Moment of Awesome: The moment where Manuela Hidalgo decides to use her T-Veronica powers.
  • Crowning Music of Awesome:
  • Ensemble Darkhorse:
    • Krauser, of course. He was so popular back in Resident Evil 4 that one of the main storylines in this game focuses on his descent into darkness.
      • The fact that he was one of the games creator's favorite character was also a big contributing factor to the decision as well.
    • Manuela has built up a growing fanbase of her own. Though sadly, she may never appear in another game despite the game's canon ending saying she survives and is taken into U.S. government custody. However her return is not completely out of the question. She has a wonderful singing voice which fans are very fond of. To top it off, she managed to accomplish what Alexia could not in her life-long mission: become one with the T-Veronica virus.
  • Even Better Sequel: Darkside Chronicles certainly seems to be the better of the two Chronicle games in the eyes of fans. Whilst the first game was good on its own merits and added more depth for Albert Wesker, Darkside Chronicles had improved graphics, widened the range of headshots (except on Hard and Very Hard difficulty to add to the experience), remastered and remixed some of the most beloved music pieces in the series, had a well developed, original story with a more complex villian in Javier Hidalgo, a good supporting character in Manuela Hidalgo, and the settings revolved around Resident Evil 2 and Resident Evil Code: Veronica; the former arguably being the most beloved game in the series and the latter being cult favorite amongst fans.
  • Follow the Leader: The Titles are imitations of Xbox 360's achievements/PlayStation 3's trophies.
  • Game Breaker: Having a second person playing turns the game into a joke as the enemies increase in neither volume nor toughness to compensate for the fact that they are being shredded by twice as much lead. Note that this only applies to Normal mode and lower difficulties.
    • If the player don't have anyone to play with, they can always go Guns Akimbo. It just takes a while to get good at aiming with their other hand.
  • Goddamned Bats:
    • Crows, spiders, G-embryos and roaches in Memory of a Lost City.
    • Bats and ants in Game of Oblivion.
    • Piranha, bats and ants in Operation Javier.
  • Narm: During Ada Wong's "death" some of her lines come across as forced. This clashes greatly with her portayal in The Umbrella Chronicles.

Ada: It's strange. I barely know you, but somehow I knew you'd say that.

    • Tch, still beats the line she used in Resident Evil 2

Ada (Resident Evil 2): I'm just a woman.....who fell in love with you."

    • All the dialogue in the final cutscene, like the "virus in your soul" line.
    • The Hunter's death animation when taken down with the shotgun. They almost always lift their head up, and slam it back down with a WHUMP sound.
  • Rescued from the Scrappy Heap: Not completely rescued, but some fans who dislike Steve in Code: Veronica found him more tolerable in this game due to his better voice actor and for acting far less of a Jerkass towards Claire.
  • That One Boss: Most of the late chapter bosses will have the player swearing at the screen, as they tend to be Iron Lightning Bruisers whose weak spot is small and hard to hit. The fact they often come sequentially is alleviated only by the fact that the game usually throws you a checkpoint in between each boss. Props definitely have to go to Alexia who is just as jaw-grittingly frustrating as she was in the original game. Worse then that, she comes right after the battle with Mutant Steve, himself a painful boss.
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