There’s an area you cross after completing each boss fight, on your way to the next Lord’s domain, and in the middle of it is a stone altar. Resident Evil Village, actually the tenth entry in the main Resident Evil series, is the latest offender. But in-universe it makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. No, it’s for us, the players, either a tired reference to the older games or a clumsy attempt to make us think Chris Redfield is secretly evil. Whom is this for? I doubt the people whose relatives were turned into shambling, flesh-eating corpses are going to welcome Blue Umbrella with open arms. It’s an act of supreme optimism, or colossal stupidity, to both call your organization Blue Umbrella and use virtually the same logo as the original company. Resident Evil 3: Nemesis set the death toll at over 100,000 people, though that seems like a conservative estimate. Really? Umbrella was responsible for the annihilation of a major (albeit fictional) American city. The game’s reasoning was that they’d taken the name to atone for the Umbrella Corporation’s crimes. Take Resident Evil 7, which saw the return of Chris Redfield at the head of his own anti-bioterrorism group, Blue Umbrella.

Wesker, in fact, was more instrumental in setting up future Resident Evil games than Umbrella itself.Īnd yet Capcom keeps bringing up the Umbrella Corporation, believing that there’s some value in referencing it in nearly every game. He wasn’t about to hang around a workplace where you need to 3D print a narwhal just to get into the break room. Villain Albert Wesker, while guilty of wearing sunglasses indoors (even before he became a lizard-eyed superhuman), at least had the good sense to abandon a sinking ship. Shareholder return notwithstanding, when your “product” has led to a horrifying viral outbreak, you should at least take a breath before continuing the same line of research. The Umbrella Corporation is, to be blunt, rubbish. It’s not as if the Umbrella Corporation is worthy of elevation, that name checking it somehow strengthens its position as the linchpin of this survival horror series, because it’s not. I love the Resident Evil series, for the most part, but its insistence on tying everything into gaming’s stupidest company is puzzling at best and infuriating at worst. My apologies to anyone whose daily life resembles the above, but when it comes to referencing the Umbrella Corporation, Resident Evil feels like the digital equivalent of a Red Bull-fueled five-year-old. Hey, you remember the Umbrella Corporation, right? Weren’t they cool? Wasn’t the Umbrella Corporation cool? With all their zombies? And their monsters? Wasn’t Umbrella cool? Can we go for ice cream? Can I get an ice cream with the Umbrella logo on it? I’m bored. The following article contains spoilers for the Resident Evil series and Umbrella Corporation.

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