Started playing it in the evening yesterday, I'm still stuck on the first level. (The mansion)

Started playing it in the evening yesterday, I'm still stuck on the first level. (The mansion)

Lol, I got into the Resident Evil series because RE4 looks very cool. Before playing it I wanted to play the first few titles. But am I just a double digit IQ brainlet if I can't get past the first level, is this series too puzzly for me

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The puzzles are not that bad. Try to go into rooms you have not been to yet and explore them. Most of the time the issue is thatyou missed something. The game is pretty straight foward. You can do it.

Without a guide and without being familiar with RE games don’t feel bad if it takes you some time to figure things out, the 1st game is definitely the most puzzle heavy game compared to the later titles. Once you understand what the games wants from you it becomes easier, just have fun with it, REmake is a classic.

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t. played re4 as my first re and loved it and love REmake gcn a ton too

Honestly, I got stuck because I found it so spooky. Doubly so once I found out if you don't dome your zombie once you down it, it'll come back as a crimson head.
Nearly gave me a heart attack.

thanks, the solution to my problem in the mansion was literally the ONE thing I was too lazy to try because I thought it wouldn't work, I'll try to continue, the atmosphere looks sick, no way I could drop it over puzzles

>I'm still stuck on the first level. (The mansion)
It's not a "level". It's THE game world.
Yes, classic RE games, and survival horror titles in general, are more like Metroidvania-lite adventure games. You will be mapping out the same areas and slowly unraveling its mysteries, all while fighting againts monsters and limited supplies alike. And yes, puzzle-solving is like THE thing in classic survival horror; even combat can be seen as a sort-of 3D puzzle.

It was not before RE4 that the series turned into more shooter-y direction it never recovered from.

Now, I would HIGHLY recommend playing the 1996 RE1 before the REmake. The latter was made with veteran players in mind, and does change quite a lot of things to keep the old fans on the edge of their seat. Skip the OG, and you won't be able to witness these cunning edits and expansions.

Either way, do start with JILL VALENTINE.
Her route's better written, and literally more newbie-friendly. More inventory space, lock-pick that lets you open more routes earlier on, and some academic skills that let you solve certain puzzles instantly.
Chris is literally the OG game's "hard mode"; a tank with tighter pockets and more detours to take.

Finally, if you did not choose the "Mountain climbing" difficulty, you are literally playing the EASY mode. The original GC version of REmake only got two difficulty options, but the HD re-release added third one, which is literally VERY EASY.
This has made lots of newbs fall into the trap of thinking that the early choices would correspond with easy-normal-hard, when in reality it's very easy - easy - normal. Hard mode is an unlockable bonus.

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RE1 has a pretty rough intro though compared to any other RE. In the sense that if you don't go to locations in a very specific order and are trying to loot everything you see, you will get stuck with a full inventory so that you cannot pickup the key item you need to progress, but you also can't dump items in a chest because you do not have access to a chest yet without progressing. I'm not sure if I should consider that bad design or not. This problem only occurs in the very beginning though, but RE1 is the most difficult in the series IMO.

All that only applies to the REmake version, not the PS1 original. In fact, this is one of the REmake's biggest design flaws, as instead of allowing you to explore a lot of E. and W. side of the mansion right off the bat, fairly quickly gaining access to both Save Rooms, you instead need to go some very specific hoops on a pre-determined path first.

Other than that, I do agree. RE1 in all its variants is arguably the most challenging, and not the least because of its delightfully oldschool adventure-game design philosophy. The REmake is in many ways however much easier game than the 96 original and its variants.

jill is alright on a first playthrough as you said but on a replay with real survival shes horrible, she sucks ass at using guns so bad that its even more of an impact on that mode