![]() Continuity Nod: While Sweet Home and Resident Evil are NOT related to each other in any way, the fact that Resident Evil winds up a Spiritual Successor means that a number of situations presented in this game can be seen in the first of that series.But Yamamura's death is particularly gruesome, as his flesh melts off his body while he's still conscious, leaving a bloody skeleton. Cruel and Unusual Death: The mansion has no shortage of potential deaths, with fire traps, spiked pits, falling statues, and the numerous monsters.Given how many of these zombies the crew fights during the game, one has to wonder: Did someone lead an entire army in there? Clown-Car Grave: The zombies you fight are supposedly the remains of people who died during their own trip into the mansion.Mamiya's banter is actually vital to winning the battle. Boss Banter: The heroes and Lady Mamiya trade quips between hitting each other and using items to send her back to the netherworld.It is also where you later get the Low Key. Book Ends: If you saw the film first, you would know that the memorial tower erected by the sole survivor-yes, it is possible to finish the final boss battle with only one character alive at the end of it-is just like the one that Taguchi knocks over in the film, which kickstarts all of the horror in the process.Bittersweet Ending: This is what you get if you complete the game with at least one party member having died.Big Bad: The apparition of Lady Mamiya is the main antagonistic force attempting to make sure the group doesn't leave the mansion alive.Big Boo's Haunt: The mansion, home to unspeakable horrors and a tragic past.All five characters can fight together in battle if you use the Call command, though. Arbitrary Headcount Limit: There are five main characters, but you can only have a maximum of three in a single party.There are also the notes left behind by a previous group that never made it out of the mansion. Anyone Can Die: Any of your party members can die.And Then John Was a Zombie: This happens to someone in the ending where Everybody Lives.The movie explains that the house has been abandoned and Kazuo's employer assigned him to do a report on the Mamiya estate and handed him the key. The key that Emi has belongs to the house.This may seem odd to people only familiar with the game, but the film shows that she is a professional art restorer and the vacuum is a precision item for cleaning neglected works of art (which makes it all the more strange that the player can use any old broom to do the same task). All There in the Manual: Asuka brings a vacuum cleaner to a haunted house.Adaptation Distillation: The film fleshes out the background for the actual characters, but the game does a better job of conveying a horror atmosphere (what with the constant tension of not letting your characters die and the emphasis on teamwork).While some combinations have a logic (e.g., a camera flash on bats or ghosts, a mallet that shatters evil mirrors), others are pretty obscure (e.g., using a small lighter on hordes of bloodthirsty worms). ![]()
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