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.

[KENJI]

probably missing dlc, like someone said above.
hopefully they will deliver this for free, but i agree, old krauser in re4 was better and the fight was better too.

[ElfPrince1937]

Krauser's character, like pretty much anything from the OG, was completely watered down and sterilizeed.

OG Krauser was actually intimidating; first time he appears to Leon is literally a QTE which, even if Leon survives, shows how Krauser's knife-aim is literally so surgical that he still manages to scar Leon.

Remake Krauser throws a knife in Luis' back like a common thug.

Not to mention that the original Operation Javier from Darkside Chronicles added a sympathetic backstory to Krauser, along with context to Leon's "examine" line of how Krauser "used to be a good guy."

Remake Krauser is just burnt at the U.S. Government for leaving him and his men to die during Remake Operation Javier (which we don't even know the full details of). "Government has all the power, so why can't I take some for myself?"

Another great character who loses all his nuance to HD graphics.

[Alyx]

Publicado originalmente por 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.

The wii game resident evil darkside chronicles is based around the whole Operation Javier thing.

This is where you see it all of where Krauser got this ideal that the bioweapons stuff was such a grand POWER he could take on and control.

Just gotta get through the flashbacks to re2 and code veronica throughout the game.

Ofc that was for og re4 krauser, re4remake krauser is kinda his own thing now.

[Dollmaker]

Well kinda hard to make a "rivalry" type of character when its his first introduction as well, thats why his relationship with Leon felt kinda out of nowhere in the original.

I think they did a considerable improvement in the Remake, by having Krauser be the one that trained Leon instead, rather than just being comrades, plus hes introduced way earlier, appearing first on the Castle rather than the Island, and they put more depth on his motives, about the whole Operation Javier, how he grew disillusioned with the government, and how he became obsessed with power.

[MajinSoul]

Was any of the backstory stuff (e. g. Krauser's unit being abandoned by the US) in the original game? Cause I cannot remember that being there, I might have simply missed it of course. It definitely adds to the character to me but then he went the generic "I want the ultimate power" villain trope in the end anyway ...

[soso]

Nope his inclusion in the entire franchise is a joke. The first time (Og 4) I was like, am I suppose to know this dude? Then it's even worse in the remake, so much so that I had to google him cuz I feel like the game was gaslighting me into thinking he was an important character in the RE Universe.

He is my favorite boss fight in the game but his inclusion is poorly written. Should have just been some hired gun to take out Ada and Luis instead. His connection to Leon is nonsense.

[Dollmaker]

Publicado originalmente por Darkgamester301:

Krauser's character, like pretty much anything from the OG, was completely watered down and sterilizeed.

OG Krauser was actually intimidating; first time he appears to Leon is literally a QTE which, even if Leon survives, shows how Krauser's knife-aim is literally so surgical that he still manages to scar Leon.

Remake Krauser throws a knife in Luis' back like a common thug.

Not to mention that the original Operation Javier from Darkside Chronicles added a sympathetic backstory to Krauser, along with context to Leon's "examine" line of how Krauser "used to be a good guy."

Remake Krauser is just burnt at the U.S. Government for leaving him and his men to die during Remake Operation Javier (which we don't even know the full details of). "Government has all the power, so why can't I take some for myself?"

Another great character who loses all his nuance to HD graphics.

Mate, Krauser throwing a knife at such force to Luis is actually impressive, the man was wearing a leather jacket as well.

And during the fight Krauser manages to slash Leon's leg, before kicking him to the arena.

Plus, the remake does heavily hint at the arm injury as well, with one of the scenes focusing on his arm and showing the scar, and during the boss fight Leon mentions the injury as well, and while he seems to act like he doesnt care much about what happened to his squad, it clearly weights on him as seen on his camp, keeping all the dog tags, as well as the documents of the incident and how it was covered up by the government.

At the end of the day he reached the same conclusion, power is all that matters.

[poonercide]

The hell are you talking about with this "generic evil dude that wants power" nonsense? That's most antagonists, I don't know what you like about RE but if it's for the deep complex storytelling you're in the wrong franchise. This is a very shallow and cheesy series with stupid plots that get by on their likeable cast and lore so dumb that it becomes fun.