It's really not that racist. Unless I'm playing.

Danny and I beat Resident Evil 5 the other day.

It's ok. Not as good as 4, but solid. There's some really annoying shit in it, though. QTEs that just happen, no warning. Bullshit bosses. Lame bosses. Bullshit AND lame bosses. Weird inventory restrictions.

But on the plus side, you shoot A LOT of black people. I mean zombies. I mean black zombies.

The biggest kerfuffle about this game was due to one of it's first trailers which kinda painted the game as a white supremacist's wet dream. "Wait. Hold on. There's *insert racial epithet* all over the place and I'm encouraged to kill them? Sign me the hell up!" And that kinda made people feel icky about the game. And so, they changed it. Or not. I don't fucking know.

OK, there's obviously some changes to the game that probably weren't in the original design doc. Like I'm pretty sure Sheva was originally a non-black lady who was quickly give a dusky coloring before her reveal to the world. Do I have any proof? Nah. Just a hunch.

And other things, like red glowy eyes, random white people in the crowd and the removal of Chris's 3rd alternate costume, a sheet and hood with special lynchin' rope attachment.

But, as you play the game, you do get the feeling that it's not so much racist as just plain ignorant. Like whoever made it didn't "get" why some people would find, oh, I don't know, natives dressed in grass skirts, covered in war paint, throwing spears at you kinda offensive. Yep.

Still, when it all boils down, it's RE4, in Africa, with co-op. And, as we all know, co-op makes EVERYTHING better. Shooting down wave after wave of zombies while yelling for more ammo and trying to not get your head cut off by Chainsaw Man was very fun and I'm glad I bought the game.

I hear rumors that Capcom is restarting the series for 6. I think that's a good idea. Make it zombies again, not these 28 Days Later infected humans. Or vampires. Or werewolves. Shit, werewolves would be cool. Werewolf zombies...anyway. But whatever they do, they need to lose the co-op and let you walk while shooting or hell, just with your gun out. Because we've moved on as gamers and standing still to shoot ain't cuttin' it anymore.