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hiya! i'm arry/autumn (he/fae). this blog is basically for me to liveblog while playing games
spoilers beware! i don't tag posts using the main tags. generally i use the tag "arry plays x" in which x is a game. this is so i don't clog up the game tags with my playthroughs.
main blog: @autumnoakes
kind of obsessed with leon's weak point attack v simmons is just beating the shit out of him. bro has an assault rifle and decided to throw hands with the guy who framed him for treason and murder. king shit.
also what is with those weird futuristic phones? this is a 2012 game set in 2013.
what's even funnier about the Weird Futuristic Cell Phones is that ethan has a normal smartphone literally 4 years later
what's even funnier than THAT is that leon has a normal ass 2020s smartphone 13 years later. dso got a downgrade or they invested too much into requiem (the gun) production budget
god now the twilight princess enjoyers are going to be even more annoying about wanting twilight princess on the switch
i dont caaaaaare about twilight princess i really don't. i've been trying to beat that game for 5 years and every time i just want to go play a better game. its not even a bad game its just that people who think its The Epitome of Zelda Games are really fucking annoying sometimes and it makes me want to start screaming
god now the twilight princess enjoyers are going to be even more annoying about wanting twilight princess on the switch
i fucking forgot how much i hate whiteward
sherry: leon it has been literal hours WHERE have you been
leon: victor's insane, i found an fbi agent that no one knew was missing, and we may be insanely fucked
sherry:
sherry:
sherry: do you treat ingrid like this too or am i like. special
capcom has the opportunity to do the funniest thing with this ship war going on right now. "leon's married to ada" "no he's married to claire" WRONG he's clearly married to chris which is how the hws knew where to find him and grace (because sherry called chris when she lost contact with leon)
it's so funny to me that the married chreon evidence is strongest out of all of the possible leon ships. ada has one reference (the bear charm in the same spot where she and leon met) and so does claire (trusted companion charm). meanwhile chris is out here working in the background, saving leon's (and grace's) ass, having his own side mission relevant to the plot of the game. and none of that is mentioning leon's fucking expression when sherry asks about chris
insanity hunk kicked my ASS holy shit
hang on
the jack that leon finds in the rpd library
that's the same one he and claire found and used in 1998 isn't it 😭😭😭
replaying re4r (once again wow get a load of this guy playing resident evil 4 (2023) for the 20th time) and thinking of that little shot of leon looking so devastated right after luis takes his last breath
i like to think that that moment was leon realizing he'd misjudged luis. he'd lumped luis in with the likes of william birkin the moment he heard that luis used to work for umbrella, and he never made an effort to hide the fact that he did not like luis. he was always snapping at him and his flirty little statements, and even tried to interrogate luis a little bit during the section with luis as your companion ('you sure you're just a researcher?")
luis' last words were asking leon if he thought people could change. something leon kinda struggles with throughout the game is that he has an idea of who certain people are in his mind. saddler is predictably unpredictable - he's the villain, so he does villainous things. ashley i would say is also fairly predictable - she wants to go home, so she sticks close to the person who promised to get her there. when it comes to ada, luis, and krauser, leon thinks he knows these people and who they are. he asks ada if she's trying to use him again because it's what he knows her to do. he expects krauser to have a similar mindset to his own and makes comments on krauser not acting like himself because that's probably what he was used to when he was under his command. when it comes to luis, leon thinks he knows that type of person. he's met that type of person before, and he's seen what happens when that type of person loses control. his view of others is very limited to what he knows and it throws him off when what he knows doesn't line up with reality
ada isn't really trying to use leon. she's using the distractions he provides to her advantage, but she's not doing what she did in raccoon city. she responds to his question with a non-answer ("what do you think?"), and if you've played separate ways, then you'd know that she's not really using him. their paths cross, and they help each other, and like i said, she does use the distraction he provides to her advantage at times (and often follows in his wake to let him do all the hard stuff. work smarter, not harder), but it's not the same as what she did in re2. she's willing to let him believe what he wants to, though.
krauser isn't the same man leon knew. he makes that abundantly and explicitly clear. even without the plagas, krauser is filled with hatred and grief for what happened on that mission, and rightfully so. not only did the government abandon his entire team and got them all killed, they then covered up the mission entirely. krauser's actions aren't about getting revenge, like leon thinks. it's about demonstrating his power to those who failed him and his men. he doesn't care about right or wrong, or loyalty, or patriotism, or anything to do with his country. he felt like if he had more power - of any kind - then maybe something could have been different. maybe they could have been rescued, or maybe krauser could have gotten them out himself. los illuminados gave him the power he wanted, and now he wants to show the country that failed him what they created.
luis, from the start, was never the person leon wanted so badly to think he was. if he was, he wouldn't have stayed and fought alongside leon in the cabin. if he was, he wouldn't have tossed the key to leon so he could free himself. if he was, he wouldn't have bothered with making sure leon and ashley (and ada) get rid of the parasites growing inside of them. luis wants to help them because he feels some level of responsibility for them being infected. we know he worked on the research team refining las plagas, and then he betrayed his team and cured himself. the only reason he hasn't cured anyone else is because it wouldn't work. as he dies, luis asks leon if he can be forgiven, if people can change. leon doesn't answer him, but i think in that moment he realized that he was wrong about luis, and i think that sticks with him a lot through the third act of the game.
i love how leon's opening line during the plant 43 fight is "just so you know, i've killed every plant i've met"
like a) brown thumb leon confirmed and b) that's not the sick burn you think it is, leon
turns out that if you don't pick up the blood collector in the care centre, it magically shows up in ARK
i love how leon's opening line during the plant 43 fight is "just so you know, i've killed every plant i've met"
like a) brown thumb leon confirmed and b) that's not the sick burn you think it is, leon
capcom has the opportunity to do the funniest thing with this ship war going on right now. "leon's married to ada" "no he's married to claire" WRONG he's clearly married to chris which is how the hws knew where to find him and grace (because sherry called chris when she lost contact with leon)
okay so re original trilogy on steam right now this is not a drill
claire has a lockpick that just looks like a safety pin that she bent into shape i love her so much
its kinda funny how grace is kinda like a bug under a microscope to victor. like he wants to put her in a jar and examine her
meanwhile victor probably has a leon kennedy body pillow
HIDDEN LEON DIALOGUE GOT
man.... got to rpd again in re9 and thinking too hard about leon. like marvin is constantly on his mind during this segment and we know leon is mad at himself for not being able to save marvin even though marvin was already dying by the time leon got to raccoon city.
it kind of all loops back around. leon is (still!) mad at himself for initially following commands and staying away for as long as he did because he thinks he could have made a difference and saved people. he probably couldn't have made more of a difference than he already did, but that's ptsd for you. your perception and memory of events gets skewed and out of order. to leon, he genuinely thinks he could have made a difference if only he was there earlier or fought harder.
(it's kind of ironic then that he followed zeno all the way to raccoon city just to save grace. it's kind of ironic then how in the bad ending, leon dies to make sure grace is safe)
actually wait. that was kind of leon's whole Thing in re2 remake wasn't it? that he thought he had more power than he really did as police. as one of the remaining members of the rpd. he thought it gave him authority and power, but the reality is that the average person in raccoon city has long since been disillusioned if they thought that the police were there to help them at all. i mean even chris and jill view the rpd rather negatively, and chris at least is highly critical of the us government. leon thought that the badge gave him something that it didn't. anyone who saw his uniform didn't view him as a protector, but as someone who would betray them at a moment's notice. someone who may have had a hand in what was happening.
even almost 30 years later, i don't know if leon ever really understood the depth of the corruption that took place within the raccoon city police department and the municipal goverment.
i need to replay re2r.