Another talking post. 🙂 It's almost weird for me to make them but I like saying my thoughts and opinions. Even if not many see these. THIS HAS RESIDENT EVIL 9: REQUIEM SPOILERS.
Okay, since I've finished my first play through of RE9, I finished a couple weeks ago, the Tuesday after it came out. I loved it. It was a terrific game. I had so much fun. I love Grace, I was a bit iffy at first before the game came out but she's a favorite character now. Leon was amazing as always, lmao. I got the canon ending. I liked Victor Gideon's character a LOT. Grace's sections had me on edge and genuinely jumping. I cried when Grace's flashback scene played, when Emily died and at the end when I'd finished and the credits rolled. One of the best games I've ever played and I can't wait to see what the DLCs are gonna have, and what the next game is gonna hold.
On another note, I wanted to mention things I've seen and say what I think. I mentioned in a prior post my things on shipping and such. Not my thing, not my favorite area, blah blah, BUT, I think it's genuinely gorged itself to the point that it's an almost entitled spot. Leon's married, we get confirmation in game with him wearing a ring (he's married to ME 😤, jk, a girl can wish), but his spouse is never mentioned. I liked that. Correction, I LOVED that. I loved the fact it's not confirmed to be anyone exact! No one has to deal with it being someone they don't like, people can believe whoever they want is the answer, and people who don't really want it to matter get covered too. If they address who it is, I feel like they'd be fucking up. I personally like the idea he married a civilian, someone not dragged into the mess.
I've seen so many people genuinely shit on each other for who they ship him with, and yeah, it's not like I can change anything, I wouldn't want to do that anyway. I don't want that stress, lmao. You shouldn't ever let a fandom ruin your enjoyment of a media, but I can totally see how someone might find it hard to enjoy wanting to get deep into the fandom side of it, because they're always fucking arguing! It's normal. Not everyone gets along, but it's so repetitive to try to enjoy something then OH!- A ship, fighting about a ship, incorrect information put out to adjust a character to their liking that becomes popular and blurries the truth, blatant mischaracterization, oh my! Nobody should be forced to stop what they like, unless it is harmful. Though I can see how annoying it is.
Another thing. I'm sick of people saying that if you don't like Ada, that you're jealous, just a "leon gooner", a "larp" (whatever the hell that is), or such. It's not like I hate every female RE character, I'd be a liar if I said I did because I know so many people just...do, personally, my favorite RE girl is Grace, by far. I just don't like Ada. That's not because I "don't understand her", I just don't like..her..? Like how people just hate Leon. Yeah, people hate characters just because they're really popular, or other reasons, but people really can just not like something and I'm ALLOWED to say that, and not throw every reason around, I'm allowed to say it multiple times. I think she's a great concept, I think her style is good but that's about it. Bite me. Or how people will say, "oh, you hate Ada but like Albert Wesker" or "you hate Ada but like Luis", AND? Luis changed and never got his forgiveness because he died before he got his answer, but he WANTED redemption, he TRIED for it. I loved that about him. I like Wesker, because yeah, he's fucking evil, but he's *cool*. I like Wesker's style, his voice, the way he played, but I can acknowledge that he was totally a bitch. Like Victor Gideon. Dude is insanely evil, but I love him as a character, as an antagonist. Doesn't hurt that they're good looking. (Don't hurt me about Gideon. Please, I suffer enough.) Anyway. I was honest happy to not see her included, in fact, I liked that Claire wasn't either. I liked how it was really just Leon, Grace, and Sherry, and our antagonists. That's all. Thank you. Play Requiem, AGAIN, if you have already.