Editing Resident Evil (section)

==Resident Evil 8: Village==
Formally titled ''Resident Evil: Village'', this game released in May 2021.

The game sees the return of Ethan Winters, protagonist of RE7, now having to make his way through a creepy remote European village in what is all but stated to be Transylvania in order to rescue his daughter, Rose, who was kidnapped after his wife Mia was assassinated, both seemingly by Chris Redfield. Enemies and the setting are mostly based on [[Gothic Horror]], with the occasional splash of [[Lovecraft]] (a theory is that Capcom chose a different theme from "zombie virus" due to knowing people understandably didn't want to think about virus given the global COVID-19 pandemic).  

The region into which Ethan goes is divided between four noble families; ''House Dimitrescu'' (not![[vampire]]s), ''House Beneviento'' (led by Donna, a woman in thick mourning veil and her creepy-ass wedding dress-clad puppet made from human bones, Angie), ''House Moreau'' (led by Salvatore, who is basically a fucking [[Deep One]]) and ''House Heisenberg'' (led by Karl, who looks like a [[Witch Hunter]] carrying a greathammer made out of an engine and is building an army of [[servitor|cyborg-zombies]]), all of whom will have to be fought over the course of the game.

Lady Alcina Dimitrescu, the evil matriarch of the not!vampires, became an instant [[meme]] because she's a 9-and-a-half-foot-tall big titty [[musclegirl]] [[vampire]] dommy milf. No, we're ''not'' making this shit up. Also funnily enough, she says [[Skaven|manthing]].

In terms of unique mechanics, RE8 combines RE7's crafting and blocking mechanics with RE4's merchant system, but throws in a few new tweaks as well. When Ethan blocks, he can also counterattack with a melee strike to shove the enemy back. As well as selling you weapons, ammo (the first to do so!) and upgrades, the Duke will also cook Ethan recipes if Ethan brings him the requisite ingredients, which usually entails hunting down the uninfected animals scattered around the map. Each recipe consumed gives Ethan a permanent boost of some kind, like upping how much damage is removed with a block. Even crafting has undergone a tweak; rather than needing to manually select components to build stuff, selecting a single component presents the player with a list of all available crafting recipes based on what components are in the player's inventory, making it a lot quicker to make stuff on the fly.

As for the story... well, '''spoilers'''!

Almost 4 years after the events of RE7, Ethan and Mia are trying to move on from their lives and raising their infant daughter, Rosemary Winters. Suddenly, Chris Redfield and a team of agents burst into the Winters' home, where they kill Mia and take Ethan and his daughter captive. Ethan comes to and finds himself stranded in a remote village somewhere in Romania, and sets out to find his daughter. The village is under attack by strange, lupine-looking humans that the surviving locals call "lycans"... well, before they all get wiped out. Escaping from the village, Ethan finds himself captured by the four aristocratic families of the region, who obey and worship somebody called "Mother Miranda" and are all freaks with a connection to the lycans, having been infected with the same mutagenic parasite, which they call "Cadou". They are going to execute Ethan, but he escapes and resumes his mission.

He first goes to Castle Dimitrescu, where he must evade both Lady Alcina Dimitrescu and her three "daughters"; [[Worm That Walks|sapient swarms of botflies able to assume human form]]. Although he has to partake in a lethal game of hide and seek for much of his explorations, he discovers that the daughters are vulnerable to the cold and manages to kill them. He then discovers his daughter's head in a jar after throwing down with Lady Dimitrescu herself, who (after being shanked with a [[Athame|uber-lethal poisoned dagger]]) transforms into a [[dragon]]-thing to try and kill him. After the fight, the local obese merchant reveals the other families have the other portions of Rose's body, and heavily implies she can be made to live again if all of them are assembled.

So Ethan goes hunting. In Donna Beneviento's place, the gameplay switches to an [[Amnesia]] clone as he has to explore her creepy ass mansion in what may partially be an extended hallucination before he finally gets his gear back and kills her. Then it's off to Salvatore Moreau's reservoir, where he drains the lake and kills the Lord after he turns into a giant mutant fish-frog-thing. Finally, he goes after Karl Heisenberg, who is building an army of [[cyborg]]-[[zombie]]s and uses his magnetism powers to turn into what is basically a ''giant robot'' (and a gloriously hammy one, at that) to kill Ethan, with Ethan defeating him by commandeering a ''homemade tank'' and shooting him in the face until he dies.

Out of fucking nowhere, Miranda shows up and plays mind games with Ethan (changing between the forms of Mia and a previously-met villager) for few moments, before essentially launching into Exposition Mode and pseudo-explaining her motivations, why Rosemary is so important, and [[Meme|the secrets of life, the universe and everything]] before [[Rip and Tear|casually ripping Ethan's heart out]]. Ethan enters a weird coma-dream where Eveline (possibly a hallucination, possibly her actual consciousness) appears and taunts him for a bit before revealing the truth: Ethan actually ''died'' when he first ran into Jack back into Dulvey, and has in fact been basically a Molded in human form without realizing it these past three years.

This means his daughter Rosemary is also infested with the mutamycete, symbiotically merged with it in a way that makes her Eveline 2.0. Mother Miranda is a centuries old psycho who discovered some kind of parasitic fungus (the Cadou, or "megamycete") deep below the earth in this part of the world, and used it to become immortal. After finding it could essentially preserve the memories of those assimilated by the fungus, and desperate to utilize it to revive her dead daughter, Mother Miranda founded the local cult and began experimenting with the Cadou. She wants Rosemary because Rosemary's unique qualities mean she may be the perfect avatar with which to revive her own daughter's consciousness. Oh, and also Mother Miranda is basically the one truly responsible for founding Umbrella - she met Oswell Spencer before his trip to Africa and he learned that mutagenic agents that can give people immortality and superpowers were a thing because of that encounter; this compelled him to go to Africa and seek out the Progenitor Virus, ultimately giving rise to Umbrella and everything that went horribly wrong from that point.

By this point, Ethan's body is basically falling apart; he's pushed the regenerative properties of his own mutamycete infection beyond its limits and is going to decay no matter what. So if he decides that if he's going to go out, he's going to go out like a badass; he goes in to Mother Miranda's lair, kills her in an epic boss fight, rescues Rose and hands her off to Chris Redfield (long story short: Chris has actually been the good guy all long, fighting against Miranda from the shadows) before telling him to GTFO, and sets off a massive explosion to wipe out the Cadou once and for all. 

(Oh, and Mia's not dead. Mother Miranda kidnapped her and took her place before the start of the game, which is why Chris attacked Ethan's household, only for her to be rescued when Chris and company raided Miranda's personal lair. Rosemary also grows up to be a fungus-powered superhuman anti-bioterror agent in memory of her father, though a lot of her "comrades" are still suspicious of her.)

Rose is getting a DLC campaign, set sixteen years after the events of the main game, that will see her reentering the megamycete in an effort to get rid of her fungus powers because she just wants to be normal. This campaign is part of an expansion that also contains a third-person mode for the main game, indicating that Capcom's been listening to the people who wanted a return to the series' traditional viewpoint.