X was standing right in front of you with fist raised when you paused, he’ll still be waiting and ready when you unpause. Sure, you are safe in the pause menu to arrange your items all you want, but if Mr. Puzzles and inventory management must also be done quickly. X is running you down through one of those, yous can choose between going slow and being pummelled by Mr X or running and being clawed by a Licker. The worst areas are the halls with Lickers in them, who are aggroed by the sound of the character running. If he’s not coming up on you at the moment, he could be always be entering the room at any second. No longer can you slowly inch down a possible dangerous hallway and you have less time to decide whether to shoot a zombie down or wait for the right moment to juke pass them. office or a safe room, where he can’t follow you, when being chased down. You can take a quick side path around him when he’s spotted down a hall or dip into the S.T.A.R.S. Knowing where you are safe from him is invaluable knowledge.

Even though you can hear him stomping around, it’s never completely clear when he is, and it’s very startling to open a door only to find him on the other side, ready to deck Leon or Claire in the face. You can hear his heavy boot steps thumping on the floors and the crash when he throws open doors. If he doesn’t know where the player is, he will search throughout the station for them. If he gets line of sight on the player, he will chase after you until you outrun him, which isn’t easy to do since he walks about as fast as the characters run. X appears in the station at some point during a playthrough and stalks the player in select sections of the game. X” and which I will be referring to as such because it’s shorter to type than the tyrant. But there’s one mechanic in the game that fascinates me more than any other and that’s the character that fans affectionately refer to as “Mr. Lately, I’ve become enamored with the classic Resident Evil formula and the Resident Evil 2 was a perfect update to it, adding more RE 4 shooting mechanics to the level design of the PS1 style games. It’s now on record that the Resident Evil 2 remake was one of my favorite games of 2019.

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