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Resident Evil Village explained: Thoughts on the ending, and Resident Evil 9 (Spoilers)

Resident Evil Village Review Source: Windows Primal

Obviously, in that location are MAJOR spoilers alee.

Resident Evil Hamlet is here, and it'south rather awesome. Resident Evil Village concludes Ethan Winters' story, which kicked off in Resident Evil 7, in a fictional Eastern European mountain town total of monsters.

Ethan has been through quite a lot. Subsequently rescuing his girlfriend from a mold zombie-infested swamp in Louisana, the couple moves to Europe under a new identity to start a new life, aided by the BSAA (Bioterrorism Security Assessment Alliance). Unfortunately, as y'all might guess, things don't exactly become to program.

In this commodity, I'll share some thoughts about the game's final chapters and plot twists, and some tin-foil lid conspiracy theories about what the revelations could mean for any prospective Resident Evil 9.

Once once again, I emphasize, this commodity has many huge plot spoilers.

Resident Evil Village: Full plot synopsis

Resident Evil Village Lycan Close Up Source: Capcom

Resident Evil Village kicks off with Ethan and his wife, Mia, in a new business firm in an unknown location somewhere in Europe. Set a few years after Resident Evil vii, the couple has had a child, Rose, and seem to be living a somewhat idyllic life, until they aren't. Serial staple Chris Redfield storms the house with his Hound Wolf Team, and guns downwardly Mia in a hailstorm of bullets. Enraged, frightened, and confused in equal mensurate, Ethan and his girl are forcefully taken away past the tactics team.

Ethan wakes up somewhere in the woods afterward some sort of attack caused their truck to veer off the road. The squad with Ethan has been killed, leaving few clues as to what really went down. Ethan stumbles into the cold of the night, and eventually reaches a deserted village in the mountains nestled in the shadow of a gothic castle. It's not long afterwards arriving that Ethan discovers something is very wrong. Blood coats the walls and flooring, and signs of carnage and decease are everywhere. Before long, Ethan is attacked past a horde of werewolf-similar humans with murderous intent.

Ethan resolves to observe what happened to his girl while hunting down Chris Redfield'due south team in the process. Contesting through scores of werewolf "Lycans," Ethan eventually reaches the outskirts of the castle, only to exist attacked by a grouping of shadowy lords that seem to hold dominion over the expanse. Heisenburg has the ability to manipulate magnetic fields, making iron objects hover through the air, transforming them into all sorts of weapons and projectiles. Donna Beneviento and her puppet, Angie, manipulate the pollen of a hallucinogenic mountain plant to induce dark visions. Lady Dimitrescu stands tall over the others, with superhuman strength and razor-sharp claws, while Moreau stalks the shadows, mutated and fish-similar. They're led by Mother Miranda, a godlike figure with six black feathered wings who presides over the others with otherworldly say-so.

Resident Evil Village Dimirescu Daughters Source: Capcom

They attack Ethan, subjecting him to all sorts of torments and horror throughout the game. Ultimately, each of them underestimates him along the way. Ethan escapes their clutches and discovers that it'south maybe them who took Rose from Chris Redfield and is ultimately belongings her captive. Subsequently dispatching a mutated Lady Dimitrescu atop the highest belfry in her castle, Ethan discovers that Rose has been literally torn apart, separated into four flasks for some grotesque ritual. Wracked with despair, a mysterious merchant known every bit the Duke claims Ethan can restore Rose past gathering her parts and completing the ritual himself.

Each of the iv lords of the village has a slice of Rose, and Ethan travels beyond the valley to kill each of them in turn. He battles the fish-similar monstrosity Moreau in his aquatic domain at the dam and Bienviento in her hallucination-inducing cliffside mansion. He and so takes the fight to Heisenburg in his factory, whom Ethan discovers has his own agenda. Heisenburg reveals that Female parent Miranda created each lord through a series of failed experiments, trying to create the perfect "vessel" to resurrect her deceased daughter with the mold introduced in Resident Evil vii, called the mutamycete. Heisenburg created an ground forces of half-man, half-machine cyborg zombies from dozens of villager victims to facilitate his goal to impale Mother Miranda, and take vengeance. He asks Ethan to join. As yous might await, Ethan declines with extreme prejudice.

Ethan battles through the manufacturing plant and meets Chris Redfield, who explains that Mia is mayhap alive. The "Mia" they gunned down was in fact, Mother Miranda, who is about entirely comprised of the mold. This gives her the ability to manipulate her form, mimicking all sorts of shapes, and thus, people. Miranda mimicked the grade of a corpse in the van and attacked the Hound Wolf team, kidnapping Rose in the process. She plans to use Rose as her vessel to resurrect her daughter's consciousness. Rose's composition is somewhat unique too, being the daughter of Mia, who was infected with the mold prior to getting cured, and Ethan... who is really dead.

Resident Evil Village Heisenberg Source: Capcom

It'southward revealed that Ethan died at the start of Resident Evil vii. In fact, if yous get dorsum and play it, y'all can hear quite clearly that Jack Baker stomps Ethan'southward skull with a sickening crisis at the finish. Ethan's ability to withstand various types of damage is not merely gameplay armor, but in fact, is due to that he'due south literally made nearly completely made of mold — the mutamycete.

Underneath the village is the origin of the mutamycete, some grotesque parasitic fauna dubbed the megamycete, that spreads and grows like a gigantic sentient fungus. Information technology infects and replaces the cells of its victims, creating the enemies from Resident Evil 7, the molded, and occasionally more advanced molded creatures, like Ethan and Mother Miranda.

Ethan defeats a gigantic, mutated Heisenburg using a polymer-alloy tank, and resolves to relieve Rose, and end Mother Miranda in the process. Throughout the game, the mutamycete growth has spread, while condign more and more powerful. It eventually erupts out of the ground similar a gigantic forest made of nighttime mold tentacles. Left unchecked, it could envelop the valley, perhaps across the unabridged world. It's at this point you take control of Chris to bring the fight to the mutamycete and remaining Lycans.

During the fight, Chris realizes that his former colleagues at the BSAA take besides gotten involved, sending in a small army of their own to take on the Lycans, the Urias Strajer, and the mutamycete. Chris tracks the mutamycete growth underground, with the aim of placing a large explosive at its very heart. In Mother Miranda'southward clandestine labs, Chris finds the real Mia, who has been interred for some time.

Additionally, they notice that Oswell E. Spencer, the founder of Umbrella, met Female parent Miranda decades ago correct in this hamlet. The pair studied the metamycete together, aslope other viruses and strange phenomena. Spencer left a letter of the alphabet for Miranda, noting his goals of world domination and his intention to use a virus to do information technology. It would appear that Mother Miranda is the source of Spencer's knowledge and inspiration, ultimately responsible for the carnage in the first few Resident Evil games.

Resident Evil Village Review Source: Windows Central

After his boxing with Heisenburg, Ethan is attacked by Mother Miranda, who rips out his heart. Beingness molded, Ethan survives, albeit barely. Ethan uses what petty strength he has left (and all the accumulated ammo from playing) to take the fight to Miranda herself, who mutates into diverse forms throughout the fight. Interrupting her terminal ritual to steal Rose'due south trunk, Rose is ultimately restored, and Miranda is defeated, shattering into a grand dusty pieces.

The megamycete continues to grow unchecked, although Chris manages to place a big explosive underground at its very heart. Ethan takes the detonator from Chris, and urges Chris to accept care of the restored Rose for him. In the stop, Ethan is killed in the ensuing smash, taking out the megamycete for adept.

As Chris, Mia, Rose, and the remaining Hound Wolf squad members escape in a helicopter, the soldiers reveal that the BSAA are using bioweapon soldiers, rather than human soldiers. The soldiers wait stake white and gaunt, like the Tyrant T-Virus models from Resident Evil 1 and 2. Chris notes that his team may have to pay a visit to BSAA Europe.

In the epilogue, we see a teenage Rose, who seems to be doing well. She visits Ethan's grave, and a secret agent appears in a car to take Rose away. He jokingly calls her Eveline, in reference to the bioweapon daughter from Resident Evil 7. Rose doesn't capeesh the comment, reacting angrily. She notes she has "abilities" that "Chris doesn't even know about," implying that her unique birth has given her some supernatural powers. We encounter the car drive abroad, but information technology is and then stopped by a shadowy figure at the finish of the route, whose identity remains a mystery but could possibly be Ethan himself.

Thoughts on Resident Evil Village's ending and major twists

Resident Evil Village Goat Man Source: Capcom

I wrote in my review that I idea some aspects of Resident Evil'southward story were a fleck clunky or under-explained. For example. it's not really explained why Rose needs to be separated into four parts in order to exist transformed into Female parent Miranda's girl, Eva. Information technology'southward barely touched upon why Chris doesn't simply explicate what's going on to Ethan from the outset. His teammates remark upon this as y'all're traversing the cave systems as Chris, saying "you should have told Ethan," and Chris even agrees, "I know," as if this was injected at the final minute to stave off criticism.

I also retrieve the inclusion of Chris felt a little forced in general towards the end. I remember the section where you boxing the Urias Strajer would accept been better if you were just Ethan, using his new-found mold powers instead. Instead of using a convenient polymer-alloy tank that's allowed to Heisenburg's powers, wouldn't it have been libation to have turned into a molded bioweapon Ethan instead? Information technology would have fabricated far more sense in context and would have seemed a little less contrived. The polymer-alloy tank had me rolling my optics. Why would Heisenburg make a tank, specifically, that could kill him?

The game is, frankly, filled with an array of barely-sensical motivations from various characters, which y'all could explain abroad with insanity, I guess. Why does Mother Miranda steal Mia'due south body and play happy housewife when she could've just turned into some kinda creature and murdered them both to steal Rose? Why non only do the anniversary to supervene upon Rose with her girl outright to begin with? Why doesn't Mother Miranda know that Heisenburg is plotting confronting her, considering she tin can literally transform into crows and spy on everything?

Resident Evil Village Review Source: Windows Cardinal

These weird problems with the writing is ultimately why I deducted points from our review. Some of the haphazard explanations come in the form of text files, but they simply heap on confusion. Mother Miranda has some motivation to "recruit" powerful molded entities from her experiments, but why?

Indeed, Resident Evil Hamlet leaves us with an array of unanswered questions.

Spencer notes in his letter that their goals diverge: Spencer wants to take over the globe, while Miranda only wants to resurrect her deceased daughter. Why would Mother Miranda want to recruit males at all, to that end? Information technology makes for cool gameplay since it would suck without the various bosses, but I feel like there must take been a ameliorate way to narratively tie all of this together.

I actually enjoyed the plot twist that Ethan was molded, however. It elevates Resident Evil 7'southward story a great deal as a result, explaining abroad why Ethan has his hands severed multiple times and is able to reattach them with relative ease. The hivemind-like qualities of the mutamycete as well make for an interesting concept. I also liked that Resident Evil Village tied itself quite neatly into the events of the previous games via the connectedness between Miranda and Spencer. The iconography in the ruins surrounding the village, bearing the symbol Umbrella would somewhen go onto use, carries some mystery of its ain. Also, at that place's the whole angle with the shadowy bioterrorist group The Connections — what exactly is their endgame?

Indeed, Resident Evil Village leaves us with an assortment of unanswered questions. What exactly is the megamycete, and where did information technology come from? What's going on with the BSAA and their bioweapon-soldier usage? What the heck is going on with Rose? Where are the franchise'due south other characters?

What this could all hateful for Resident Evil ix (or DLC)

Resident Evil Village Scenery Source: Windows Central

In Resident Evil vii and Hamlet, nosotros learn that The Connections were backside much of the recent mutamycete outbreaks. Working with Miranda, The Connections created Eveline from Eva's Dna. The Connections built Eveline with the program of creating a bioweapon that could infect soldiers in the field, and plough them into allies through mold-induced pheramonic heed control. Unfortunately, Eveline was psychotic, and used her bioweapon powers to spread the mold, creating "family members" from the corpses of the expressionless. Miranda bailed on The Connections at that betoken, resolving to observe another way to revive Eva. Eveline would somewhen end up in the swamplands from Resident Evil 7, infecting the Baker family and the surrounding wildlife.

Since we know the megamycete seems to agree the cognitive essence of the people it infected with the mold strain, in that location'south certainly a chance that that "hive listen" of consciousness still exists within Rose. Rose remarks during the epilogue that "she knows" she'south like her father, despite having never met him. This could explain why Ethan has visions of other infected characters, like Eveline, Jack Baker, and Mia. Is Rose currently aware of Ethan's consciousness? Does the metamycete hivemind still exist within her? Could she get malevolent in the time to come? The fact the underground amanuensis types had a sniper rifle pointing at Rose during the epilogue certainly suggests they are afraid of her, at the very least.

There are a lot of means Resident Evil 9 could take advantage of Rose'southward unique condition. Given that Resident Evil vii appears to hint at Female parent Miranda in its original promotional art, I'd say that the overarching plot has already been planned out for Resident Evil 9 to some degree.

Resident Evil 7 Source: Capcom Ethan'south visions of Jack Baker hint at the hivemind-like backdrop of the metamycete.

Given that the BSAA seems to have resorted to using bioweapons in its ground forces now, there's a chance it could also be somehow compromised. The goal of various pharma companies throughout the Resident Evil canon was to ultimately create supersoldiers that could withstand irregular amounts of harm, and accept some sort of ultimate authorization. If the BSAA has truly achieved this goal, they would be the start to do so without any major consequences, besides the potential legal and ethical problems. On the flip side, they could also have become evil too. Blue Umbrella, comprised of former Umbrella scientists who desire to make amends for the disasters from Resident Evil 0-3, are at present working with Chris' strike team, Hound Wolf. Could the onetime central antagonists of the franchise now become good? With the BSAA and The Connections condign the primal villains? Time will tell.

Mother Miranda's mold-induced powers gave her the power to shapeshift into whatsoever form and stave off aging. Her lab suggests she'd been there for over one hundred years, applying her research skills to a diversity of projects. She created the "cadou" parasites from the megamycete, using them to infect humans and experiment on unlike mutagenic properties. Spencer preferred a virus as the method of infection since it self-propagates much more rapidly than a parasite can. However, the huge fourth dimension period of Mother Miranda's activities suggests she could have been responsible for other strange happenings throughout the franchise — perhaps, even further back.

Ultimately, nosotros have no idea on her exact age, knowing but that her daughter was killed past the Spanish Influenza in around 1918, and became mortal sometimes after that from discovering the megamycete fungal growth.

Resident Evil Village Megamycete Source: Windows Central The megamycete growth, discovered in the caves beneath the village.

Resident Evil ix ultimately could explore two separate tracks, or perhaps both. The ending says "The Begetter's Story is Over," heavily implying the next game will be about The Daughter, i.e. Rose. Teenaged Rose seems to be interred with Blue Umbrella and Chris' group, merely we have no idea how much time has passed since Resident Evil Village. I don't know if Chris would wait 15+ years to find out what's going on at the BSAA, which is now using Tyrant-similar bioweapon soldiers. Eveline all the same, exhibited rapid aging. Could the time period be less than we expect?

Resident Evil 9 ultimately could explore two separate tracks.

I think Resident Evil ix may potentially follow Chris heading to the BSAA to discover out what the hell is going on there. Subsequently Jill Valentine was infected in Resident Evil 5, she spent some time in quarantine with the BSAA as they tried to figure out what effects Wesker's experiments had on her. Could Jill exist in trouble, or perhaps even responsible?

If Resident Evil nine does a time skip alee with Rose as the protagonist, that potentially leaves the BSAA plot to exist explored either via a Chris-focused DLC as we saw in Resident Evil 7, or every bit role of a separate game entirely. Resident Evil has washed spin-offs earlier, with Revelations 1 and 2, which explore subplots. Revelations 2 followed Barry Burton and his daughter Moira, for example.

Resident Evil Revelations 2 Source: Windows Central There are tons of characters in the Resident Evil universe that could re-appear in Resident Evil nine.

Historically, the Revelations games have been of a lower caliber and upkeep than the mainline Resident Evil games, but peradventure the mod Capcom has other plans. I wouldn't say no to a bigger-upkeep Revelations three that followed Chris to BSAA Europe, fifty-fifty if it was perhaps a bit more action-oriented.

The mainline Resident Evil sequel will hopefully remain true to the survival-horror formula we've come to know and love. The Connections are still out there, working their dark machinations. We have no idea what sort of powers Rose harbors, nor do we know if Blueish Umbrella is a true ally or not. Resident Evil has many loose ends across the lath and tons of potential exploration opportunities for future installments. I didn't even write about the game's mysterious vendor, the Duke, who seems to exist molded too. What's his deal?!

Resident Evil remains crazy, merely I honey information technology

Resident Evil Village Review Source: Windows Primal

Resident Evil has never had the most sensical plot, with enemies that seem incapable of learning from their mistakes and narratives that contradict gameplay. Simply, frankly my dear, I don't requite a damn. Could Resident Evil be something more? Sure, and I would similar that, just I also love fighting zombie werewolves, cyborg monstrosities, giant fish monsters, and flying psychic dolls. Resident Evil is a bit light-headed, but I every dimension of its wacky and wild plots, strewn through a lens of tense survival horror activity.

I think Resident Evil honestly reminds me of the X-Files in some ways. The games seem to work better when they focus on smaller, more intimate localized stories, rather than the bigger plot hole-filled main story arc. Marrying believable scientific information with the fantastical beasts of the franchise would probably require mountains of boosted dialogue. Resident Evil does a expert job of explaining its universe generally if you're willing to read the text files that is. I'grand still unclear on a lot of the different character's motivations, but hey, being infected with a mutagenic virus probably does a number on your cognitive reasoning skills. And maybe Chris just isn't that smart.

In any case, I love this bloody franchise. Later the relative disappointments of Resident Evil five and 6, 7 and 8 feel like a big return to course, and I hope the Capcom of the modern era continues the trend.

What do you think of Resident Evil Village'south catastrophe? Hit the comments, and permit'due south chat.

Resident Evil Village is available at present for $60 on Xbox, PlayStation, and PC. It'south quite hands one of the best Xbox games of the year so far, and well-worth a look. Exist sure to read our full Resident Evil Village review for more than details!

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