I Wish I Could Experience Dead Rising For The First Time Again

Summary

Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster has finally brought the series back from the dead by improving on the original in every way.
While I love the changes that have been made, it also reminds me how special that first challenging playthrough was.
If there's one game in the world I wish I could re-experience, it's Dead Rising, and Deluxe Remaster does offer than in some ways.

It’s impossible unless you’re Joel Barish, but everyone has that one video game they want to erase from their memory and experience for the first t🐲ime all over again. Up until now, I thought that simply meant picking one of your favourite games, so I always chose or .

Those two seemed like fine picks considering how much they mean to me and how they both made me fall in love with the medium, but I’ve realised now that I hadn’t understood the assignment. There’s really only one choice for which game I w🦋ish I could play for the first time again, and that’s the original .

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Over the past few weeks, I’ve been playing for my review, which acts as a startingly faiꦆthful remake of the 2006 clas♛sic that gives it a brand-new look and makes countless tweaks to its creaky and infamously brutal game design.

Deluxe Remaster Made Me Nostalgic For Tougher Times

Frank West with his thumbs up in Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster.

All of the changes that Deluxe Remaster makes to Dead Rising, such as reconfiguring skill moves, giving survivors an honest-to-god brain, and addin🧸g an auto-s🐼ave feature, are largely positive ones that 🌜go towards making ღit the smoothest in the series, but they also have a noticeable effect on the difficulty.

Frank West’s remade three-day trip to hell is far easier than the original game in every way, from Psychopath battles to 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Infinity Mode. Some of this is simply because you can access the original game’s tools more reliably, but a lot of🐎 it is more purposeful than that. PP is far easier to gain, meaning Frank levels up faster and weapons last a lot longer than they did before, for example.

None of these changes bothered me all that much considering Deluxe Remaster is attempti🌃ng to bring the series b💜ack for a whole new audience, but for a Dead Rising veteran who knows the game inside and out, it feels much more like a wal🌊k through Leisure Park than a constant baဣttle to escape the living dead.

Learning Dead Rising In And Out

Frank holding the Small Chainsaw in Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster.

Which brings me to wanting to re-experience Dead Rising for the first time. After 18 years of playing the original game, Deluxe Remaster was a total cakewalk for me thanks to all of the knowledge, tricks, and secrets I couldn’t erase from my brain. I kn🍸ow that the Mannequin Torso kills zombies in one hit. I know the Small Chainsaw is busted and can be upgraded to a game-breakin🎐g degree. I know that Colombian R๊oastmasters has unlimited Orange Juice and trivialises needing to find food. The list goes on and on — my brain is like a permanent strategy guide for everything Dead Rising.

I’m proud of being able to retain so much knowledge that is completely useless outside of one game (technically two now), but it started to feel like a curse in Dꦐeluxe Remaster. An already toned-down version of the game that’s meant to welcome players back or bring newcomers in turns into a much chiller time when you know what you’re doing and then ♏some every step of the way.

Deluxe Remaster isn't an easy experience by 🌸any means, but all of the changes are noticeable for returning players.

That wasn’t the case nearly two decades ago. When I first played Dead Rising, its hardcore difficulty and unwillingness to give the player an inch almost seemed cruel, but it also forced me to learn everything I’ve mentioned to have a chance of survival. They weren’t cool tricks that could be utilised in 2006, they were nearly essential to make it through a game that gives y𝔍ou no quarter.

Growing Up In Willamette

I still remember my first time coming face-to-jeep with♋ the Prisoners, having no idea what I was supposed to do, and hightailing it to hide in Paradise Park until they went away (which they never do until you defeat them). My run-in with Adam the Clown was very similar, with seven-year-old George being terrified of such a powerful enemy that couldn’t easily be taken down with the single baseball bat and apple I was carrying at the time.

Those encounters were rough and likely caused many a tantrum, but they also led to triumphs the likes of which I’d never seen from my time with Crash Bandicoot, Rayman, and Sly Cooper. Defeating Cletus, one of the game’s toughest Psychopaths, for the first time is a formative memory for me, as was getting through Overtime Mode and finally seeing the game’s true ending after months of struggle and♈ experimenting with every book, Mixed Juice, and machete I could get my hands on.

Learning the in’s and out’s of Willamette Mall and bꦍecoming its zombie-slaying king is to this day one of my fondest memories of a video game and something that elevated Dead Rising to being one of my all-time favourites. It’s the same sort of relationship that many had with games like Dark Souls and Bloodborne, and taught me that games could be hardꩲ, but so, so rewarding.

You Never Forget Your First

Dead Rising Screenshot Of Frank West in the Mall

I’m sure ꦯthat in the magical alternate world where I could play Dead Rising for the first time again as a somewhat smarಞter 25-year-old, things would be nowhere near as difficult. Even so, that same sense of discovery, learning, and growth would remain, and that’s incredibly rare in the age of modern gaming.

The only other game that has given me that feeling is Spelunky, another notoriouꦚsly challenging game that requires mastery like no other.

It’s impossible for me to ever experience Dead Rising like I did when it first released, but Deluxe Remaster does at least come close to capturing some of those feelings. When I booted up 72 Hour Mode🎶, I spent most of my time wandering around Willamette and gawking at how it’𒆙s been changed as if it wasn’t overrun by flesh-hungry zombies following my every movement.

And for everything that the remake does tweak, it keeps all of the little details that made me fall in love with Dead Rising in the first place, from heating up frying pans to running on the treadmills✱ for PP in Al Fresca Plaza. Deluxe Remaster can never give me that first playthrough of Dead Rising again, but it can at least remind me why it was so important in the first place.