"Listen, Resident Evil is clearly an influential series. It helped mold the enduring vision of survival-horror video games, and over the course of its nearly 30-year history, it has reinvented itself and the genre more times than one can count. There's even an coming out right around the series' 30th anniversary, which feels like an appropriate thing to promote and throw some weight behind. So explain to me why, instead, there's a Resident Evil knockoff called Ebola Village taking up time and space on PlayStation's YouTube page right now?"
"The trailer's description reads, "A classic horror inspired by the original survival games of the 90s, Ebola Village is a modern take on a first-person adventure where the main character, Maria, investigates a series of mysterious events." Let me just say, "inspired" is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that sentence. It's been sitting on the official PlayStation YouTube page for over 20 hours, has amassed over 70,000 views, and roughly 7,400 downvotes. It was spotted online by social media gaming news accounts like Knoebel. " What are we doing here man," reads one of the top comments."
"Ebola Village already released on PC last year. Part of an entire series developed by "indie_games_studio" (yes, that's the studio's name), it costs $17 dollars and the top Steam reviews say things like, "This game is so bad it gave me Ebola irl." Usually, it's Unreal Engine asset-flip knockoffs of hit Steam games that are wasting space on the PlayStation Store. This time around, it's actual junk from Steam that appears to be flowing downstream. How it ended up with a spot on the PlayStation YouTube channel remains unclear."
Resident Evil shaped the survival-horror genre over nearly 30 years. A game titled Ebola Village is showcased on PlayStation's official YouTube channel despite originating as a PC indie release. The trailer markets the title as a classic, 90s-inspired survival experience, but the community response has been overwhelmingly negative with tens of thousands of views and thousands of downvotes. The developer name is indie_games_studio and the game sells for $17 on Steam, where reviews mock its quality. The title resembles asset-flip or derivative content more than a polished homage. The reason for its placement on PlayStation's channel remains unexplained.
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