Episodic games are huge right now. Thanks to the stream of hits coming from Telltale Games (hits like both seasons of "The Walking Dead," "The Wolf Among Us," Game of Thrones" and "Tales from the Borderlands"), games that release on an episode-by-episode basis are the newest gaming trend.
And the latest game to follow suit is "Resident Evil Revelations 2." And yet, plenty of gamers and "Resident Evil" fans are confused by the presence of "Resident Evil Revelations 2." Metro wonders why the original game was released on the 3DS, and yet the sequel's being released on nearly every platform except the 3DS, why the game's being released on an episode-by-episode basis when the full game will also be released in a similar time window, and why Capcom is even going with a smaller format when the "Resident Evil" series is known for big-budget, AAA titles.
Well, according to Playstation Lifestyle, the developers of "Resident Evil Revelations 2" realizes that they'd been drifing away from what "Resident Evil" was like in its original state, and are trying to return to those roots.
Matt Walker, Production Manager on the game, explained more:
"Again, we've been focusing on Revelations here, but Revelations itself... talking about this thing that kind of came up out of nowhere, it's like, 'Well, we get all this feedback' and we'd been hearing things like, 'We want a return to survival horror. We want this return to roots'. And so Revelations was built on that concept of, 'Let's listen to that fan feedback and do that."
As well, producer Mitchiteru Okabe explained that Capcom chose to go with the episodic format because of the popularity of television shows like "Game of Thrones" and "Breaking Bad," and they wanted the latest "Resident Evil" to have the same kind of television "water cooler moments." And if the game's as solid as previous "Resident Evil" titles (say, "Resident Evil 4," for example), there'll be plenty of them.
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