The more time goes, the more horror seems likes a privileged place for remaking video games. Upon the release of Dead Space and Resident Evil 4 last year (see my full retrospective) I have decided to dive deep into the four Resident Evil games that have already been remade, and figure out how Capcom has used their remakes to reinvent and reimagine survival-horror over the past twenty years. And as you will see, they did it brilliantly from day 1.

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Here’s the table of content if you want to jump directly to one game:

0:00 – Introduction

0:56 – Survival-Horror in the original Resident Evil trilogy (1996-1999)

2:46 – Resident Evil 1 Remake (2002)

5:20 – Resident Evil 2 Remake (2019)

9:09 – Resident Evil 3 Remake (2020)

13:44 – Resident Evil 4 Remake (2023)

16:43 – The next Resident Evil Remakes? (TBC)