Video Game Review: Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles and Darkside Chronicles Wii (2007 & 2009)

Both games are light gun games that you can play with a friend. They are supposed to flesh out the story from Resident Evil games that came before resident evil 4 I believe. If I wanted a history lesson I would consult my former uninterested high school history teacher about the historical context of Marcus Aurelius's Meditations. But I don't want a history lesson and these games are ass.

The thing I love about a light gun game is being able to shoot a lot of targets in a short amount of time with a good degree of intensity. The zombies do not die quick enough. Sure you can kill them in one shot with a head shot sometimes, but not all of the time. I want it to work every time so I can go racing through your levels. I think the action in these games would excite only my aforementioned history teacher who probably works as a security guard on the weekend. I'm saying that because he was fat and boring. That's pretty much it. That also summarizes what I think of security guards.

You can enjoy anything that you do with a friend. That's about it for these games. You could probably have a good time trying to build your own coffee machine with a friend. You might even enjoy building your own meth lab with a friend, but that doesn't mean that you should do either or play these games.

Jack Krauser is in Darkside Chronicles, so that's a big plus. Krauser in these games is like going to a friend's house where all they have is cabbage soup and a spectacular dessert. The desert was great, but it wasn't really worth dealing with the smell and flavor of the cabbage soup. Krauser is that desert.

These games could give you a good degree of nostalgia if you love Resident Evil, or if you loved these games when they came out. But they just move too slowly for me. They might convey the frantic action tone they were going for if I had french fries seasoned with Carolina Reaper dust right before playing them. 

I've always pretty much hated these games, because back in the day Capcom, the folks who made these games hinted that they might make a Wii exclusive game that would play like Resident Evil 4. Re4 is my favorite game of all time and was back then too. So I had my hopes way up high for that game and then they gave us two average light gun games instead. I'm still salty about it and that will probably never change.

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