The Resident Evil Game That Can't Be Remade
(It's time to rewrite, not remake.)
BY MATT PURSLOW MAR 13, 2024 9:13 PM
https://www.ign.com/articles/the-resident-evil-game-that-cant-be-remade
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Remakes can, of course, completely redefine the structure of their source
material. Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, for example, is recognisably an updated
version of the classic RPG, but its world design and gameplay mechanics are a
world apart from the 1997 original. And so you could argue that Resident Evil
5 is actually the Resident Evil most in need of a remake. A whole new
environmental structure and scenario design that reigns in the action and
dials up the horror would bring it in-line with Capcom’s other remakes. But
all of this doesn’t account for Resident Evil 5’s most notorious problem:
racism.
当然,重制可以完全重新定义其原始资料的设定。例如,《最终幻想 7:重生》显然是经
典RPG的更新版本,但其世界设计和游戏机制与1997年的原版截然不同。所以你可能会说
《生化危机 5》其实是最需要重制的《生化危机》。全新的环境结构和场景设计主导了动
作并加剧了恐怖感,这将使其与Capcom的其他重制版保持一致。但这一切都无法解决
《生化危机 5》中最臭名昭著的问题:种族主义。
Set in a fictional West African country, Resident Evil 5’s primary
antagonists are Black people. Yes, technically it’s the Uroboros virus that
protagonist Chris Redfield is fighting, but the parasite’s host is mdepicted
as a nation of mobs and primitives who are violent even before their
infection. Intentionally or not, Resident Evil 5 positions Africa as the
Dark Continent’, an uncivilised world harbouring a diseased population that
needs gunning down via Western intervention in the name of global security.
《生化危机 5》以一个虚构的西非国家为背景,其主要敌人为黑人。是的,从故事上讲,
主角Chris Redfield正在对抗的是《Uroboros》病毒,但寄生虫的宿主被描绘成一个由
暴民和原始人组成的国家,他们在感染之前就充满了暴力。无论有意或无意,《生化
危机 5》将非洲定位为“黑暗大陆”,这是一个不文明的世界,孕育著一群患病人口,需
要西方以全球安全的名义进行干预,将其枪杀。
This insensitive treatment of people of colour was hotly debated even as
early as Resident Evil 5’s debut trailer, with writers such as N’Gai Croal
and Stephen Totilo pointing out the game’s uncomfortable, post-colonial
imagery. The arguments and think-pieces continued well into the game’s
release window, with IGN’s own former editor-in-chief Hilary Goldstein
having also wrestled with the subject. But that was 2009 – a time when race
was apparently a debate rather than a reality. In the 2020s, in a post-Black
Lives Matter world, there is only one acceptable response to a white man
shooting waves of Africans for an entire video game: no.
早在《生化危机 5》首次发布预告片时,这种对有色人种的麻木不仁的对待就引起了激烈
的争论,N'Gai Croal和Stephen Totilo等作家指出了游戏中令人不安的后殖民意象。这
些争论和思考一直持续到游戏发布窗口,IGN 的前主编希拉里·戈德斯坦 (Hilary
Goldstein)也对这个主题进行了争论。但那是 2009 年,当时种族问题显然是一场争论,
而不是现实。在 2020 年代,在“后黑人生命也是命”的世界中,对于一名白人在整个电
子游戏中向非洲人射击一波又一波的行为,只有一种可以接受的回应:不。
后面专栏作者建议Capcom直接重写时间线
让《生化危机 5》整个重写而非重制