Is Krauser “well written” in this game?

[Shampoo]

If this is the first resident evil game that you ever played, and had never seen this dude from anywhere else, would you consider him “well written” in this game?

I would say no.

I didn’t feel much of a impact when it was revealed that he was the one who captured Ashley. I mean, someone had to had done it, right?

I read some notes about operation Javier which might add to his character but nope, apparently his character’s motivations is just power, which is fine, but that just makes him a generic evil dude.

But even if his motivation was about operation Javier, that wouldn’t had made him into a much more well written character anyways without more support and screen time.

I don’t understand the character development that they tried to build on this dude, I get that they tried to make it a “teacher and student” relationship with him and Leon, but again, without enough screen time, and flashbacks, his words where he acknowledges Leon being better than him in the end… I didn’t feel anything and his words meant nothing.

Leon acts like Krauser is some important character in his life when he first sees him, but I don’t know who this dude even is, he only showed up for a few seconds in the beginning of the game and there was no flashbacks of this dude with Leon for the entire game.

This game is great and I am currently playing this again at a higher difficulty but Krauser is just a generic evil dude with very little to no story development at all.

[Scorpix]

We might learn more in seperate ways.

Also he might think that power is so important, because if he had it during Javier operation no one would die.

In OG he is also not showing much before their fight in ruins.

[ice]

no

[Faded]

Yes.

[Plank]

I think so. He's got that disenfranchised, traumatised vet desperate to gain some sense of control thing going. While not original, it's a trope that works for me and, at a stretch, is merely alluded to in the original.

I saw someone say that Krauser wants to fight Leon because whether he wins or loses he gets some sort of liberation. Again, not mind blowing but this is Resident Evil we are talking about and it works for me.

[Scorpix]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKOgkdB-yVk

There is no confirmation if this is canon, but looks like it is from now.

[Plank]

Originally posted by Scorpix:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKOgkdB-yVk

There is no confirmation if this is canon, but looks like it is from now.

That was canon but the Operation Javier Jack describes in RE4R is different.

[Shampoo]

I think he needs more flashbacks put in several points in the game, to really build him up.

Right now, his character arc starts in his boss fight, and then ends after his boss fight. That’s not enough time to build a character story in my opinion.

At least Lord Saddler shows up from time to time reminding you that he’s important.

[Scorpix]

As I mentioned we might have to wait for Seperate Ways DLC for more insight.

My version is that Krauser blames himself that due lack of power his soldiers lost their lifes. In search for help he decided to look for Wesker, who asked him to infiltriate Los Imulinatos from inside. After abducting president's daughter Saddler gave him more power as a reward, but in truth his mission was to help Ada getting Amber with primordial Plaga.

Maybe this entire speech about power is just a facade, so Leon wont suspect that someone else is involved in the abduction.

[Æɴɪsᴏ]

I actually liked Krauser in this game. Gave him a bit more character and tighter connection to Leon in a way.

[Zergem]

Krauser feels slightly more developed in the remake, thanks to the conversation between him and Leon.
And I liked that he references Operation Javier, even if he makes it sound completely different to its events in Darkside Chronicles. He still ended up getting the same lesson from it either way.

[Moogal™]

No, i hate him in this game. He sounds like he's on drugs and looks worse than in OG.

[JackieTheDemon]

He's just Vergil.

[Martin]

I didnt play any other Resident Evil game with Krauser and I got most of the backstory from this game alone

[Senki]

I don't consider anything in RE games ''well written''.

The entire story is goofy in all of them. Pretty much only there to be entertaining not to be an actually good story.

I mean Leon is spamming cheesy one liners the whole game, what did you expect?

[JackieTheDemon]

Originally posted by RealValpispower:

I didnt play any other Resident Evil game with Krauser and I got most of the backstory from this game alone

There is no other resident evil game with Krauser.. he's exclusive to RE4.