Sheva Alomar

And that's where the BSA kicked in.

And we have Chris Redfield, you know, working alongside Sheva Alomar and fighting against bioterrorism with the BSA.

And it continued into 6 and such, right? And so on and so forth.

But one of the biggest things that people really couldn't wrap their head around was just...

And this week, it is episode 389, and we are talking about one of my favorite franchises in all of gaming, Resident Evil with Resident Evil number 5 this one was pretty controversial back in the day if you remember for a couple of reasons there was the whole is this game racist issue which we talked about a little bit in this episode and then on top of that it really got away from the traditional Resident Evil formula and I know Resident Evil 4 did a little bit but 5 really leaned into it You do play as Resident Evil legend Chris Redfield, and that's good.

But you have a partner in a new character named Sheva, and she's cool, but you have her for the entire game, and it really, really pushes the concept of co-op, which is a very long walk from classic solo puzzle-solving survival horror Resident Evil of the past.

Now, when I played Resident Evil 5 for the first time back when it came out in 2009, I loved it.

I really, really liked it.

But I was pretty tough on Resident Evil 5.

So I am going to warn you right now.

If you have some kind of a sentimental attachment to Chris and Sheva and the rest of this game...

We're going to massacre your boy here momentarily.

And...

I don't know why isn't Sheva in anything I'm obsessed with Sheva she's such a great character and they just never used her again question mark she's in one other thing Sarah

I think you mentioned I think, I don't think so.

Maybe she's in like the online game that they scrapped.

I think of other games like this where you play as two people at the same time.

Like Resident Evil 5, where you play as Chris and Sheva.

When you're not playing as Sheva, she is not very bright.

So you need Lucia to be on par with you when you're playing as Jason and vice versa.

yeah and there are a lot of people just in the world yeah so them moving around and interacting with them uh needs to be more advanced than it was in grand theft auto 5. yeah or else you know what's the point

It was fun.

It was, of course, he had me be Sheva, which, you know what? The opposite camera angle, not camera angle, the opposite POV, I guess, was disorienting, but once you unlock the bow and arrow, I just became surgical with that shit.

There's nothing wrong with

Sheva.

She's great.

I was actually technically referencing Training Day by the Washington Post.

Yeah, I mean, it's going to be interesting.

Maybe they just

them, but still.

Yeah, that was a time in the Resident Evil franchise, and I think especially when we saw the pivot back, and you started playing Resident Evil 7, Resident Evil Village, Resident Evil 9, and it's like, man, what was 5 doing, you know? But, oh yeah, Sheva Alomar, she's like, apparently in the game, they wrote her as 5'4", 115 pounds.

She ain't 115 pounds

either.

Soaking wet, too.

Yeah, right? Mm-hmm.

But, yeah, so we need more Sheva in the series.

I...

Yeah.

Does this make you want to do, this is such a leading question, you know that later, spoilers later for Resident Evil 5, when Sheva and Wesker are getting sucked out of the airplane, right? And Chris is like putting out his hand, right? And you have to do the QTE.

Does it make you want to cut that sequence with So Far Away by Stained?

And now that we're here so far away.

Yeah, that was a lot of media.

So it's kind of tracking with geopolitics and media at the time.

But yeah, he meets, he pulls up and you meet Sheva pretty quick.

So Sheva's going to be your partner character throughout the game.

Chris, Chris, the controlling was off.

We saw her in the chopper with Sheva and everybody else with that Jurassic Park ending.

She was

happy.

Oh.

And so constantly they keep dying in stupid ass ways, and I was playing Sheva, so I'm like, "Chris, if you fucking die one more time, man, I'm gonna fucking lose it." I was...

There's one mission, it's like chapter four, uh, episode two or something like that, something like that, or episode three.

It's like the, the capstone for that chapter.