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Old 01-27-2009, 12:24 PM   #6 (permalink)
vivafruit
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Default Re: Resident Evil: Degeneration

I liked the review. Some random things I noticed:

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Originally Posted by sothis View Post
Whether Capcom decided to release it at such a convenient time or not, those currently charged up by the gory zombies-in-space action on their console will eat up Resident Evil Degeneration with fervor.
The first clause doesn't make sense. It should probably be something like "whether capcom's excellent timing is a coincidence or not."

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has risen from the ashes.
cliche

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There's zombies, conspiracies and plenty of themes that Resident Evil fans will be familiar with, and newbies to the franchise will appreciate.
Your double use of "and" here makes this sentence awkward.

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For example, near the beginning there's a scene where you're seeing a bank of windows behind Claire in the airport, and suddenly a plane comes closer and closer to them... ultimately crashing into the airport, crushing bodies as it slides closer to the camera.
This sentence is way too long. Either delete some stuff or chop it up into multiple sentences.

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These shots,
You've only described one shot, so this should be "shots like this one."

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transitions scenes
Should be "transition scenes" or just "transitions."

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Resident Evil Degeneration oozes a cinematic air, and it shows.
The last part of the sentence is unnecessary. This should probably be "Resident Evil Degeneration oozes cinematic air." If you want to make the sentence longer to reduce choppiness, try adding some random clause at the beginning - "When all is said and done," "Throughout the anime," etc.

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However, that being said,
You don't need both transitions. One will do.

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Resident Evil does also have a few shortcomings: its villains are far too textbook and uninteresting to be appealing, and its horribly-outdated CG character designs jar your attention from what's happening. Had the creators spent a bit more budget on making its humans look real, the story would have been all the more compelling.
Agreed with Valondar that you might want to put this in overall.

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excessively-horrible
You don't need a hyphen here. Also I don't really like your word choice in "excessively." Usually "excessive" implies too much of a good thing (i.e excessively sweet), so "excessively horrible" doesn't make much sense.

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Furthermore, is it really necessary to make every female character - save for a few - look like Angelina Jolie clones? Seriously, it gets hard to tell people apart when that's the case.
I don't think the second sentence gives any new information here. If they're clones then of course they'll be hard to tell apart.

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The soundtrack is - excuse the repeated word - cinematic and succeeds at pulling you into the action.
Don't apologize. Just use a different word. :P Grandiose? Dramatic? Intense? etc.

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My one quip is with the voice actress of Rani
"quip" is definitely the wrong word here. A quip is a witty remark.

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Since when does a five-year-old child yell "Aunt!" across the room instead of something more age-appropriate like ‘Auntie?"
This sounds more like a problem with the script than the voice acting. It would probably fit better in either story or characters.

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Leon and Claire exist solely as fanboy elements, offering little character development.
I don't think characters can "offer" character development.
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