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The games difficulty and tension have been stript away completely, the zombie AI is SUBSTANTIALLY less aggressive and and will simply stand around doing nothing waiting for you to slaughter them, there are less zombies on the screen at once as well. Where the original felt like a tense survival horror game where zombies were always a factor that you had to overcome, here they simply feel like a non issue, most zombies will simply ignore you, most of the time they'll never lunge and thus you'll never get hit. Zombies are a non threat, leaving the game to feel like a lame hack and slash game where you are an invincible omnipotent journalist that can toy around with the "danger" as much as he wants, which was NEVER the design of Dead rising 1, 2 and 3 yes, but never 1. This alone makes the game a 0/10 because a survival horror game where the zombies are a non threat fails at what it's clearly not capable of understanding that it's supposed to deliver. But there is more. The psychopaths are a non issue. They're on the same tier as the "maniacs" from DR4 now, because now that you can move and shoot, and move faster and the dodge roll is OP and they DIDN'T improve the psychopath AI to compensate now there is no challenge. You have to be a vegetable to die in this game. The voice acting is much worse than the original, the graphics are higher resolution but the art style and environment design is also much worse, choosing clutter over simplicity (because clutter = detail right?) Frank west doesn't look nor sound like frank west, it's another dead rising 4 situation. He looks like a weird cartoon character, his voice actor is awful and doesn't have a 5th of the range that TJ Rotolo had, and regarding TJ Rotolo Capcom didn't even try to contact him, he said so himself which is very cute because he was in the re2 remake (2019) as G Birkin. So it's obviously just a malicious and spiteful attack on the fans because they know the fans love TJ, once again showing just how much Capcom hates their fans. The colors and graphics are washed out, the environments are full of unnecessary clutter that takes away from the beautiful simplicity of the environments in the original, giving them a unique "saudade"and. "listless" vibe which wasn't replicated in any Dead rising game since. An unassuming leisurely mall consumed by a zombie catastrophe was the vibe the original gave, this feels like it missed that mark, trying to look spooky, but in a scooby door kind've way. I say" scooby doo" because the game isn't scary at all anymore due to the decrease in game difficulty and survival horror aspects and franks weird design so it just ends up looking oxymoronic and unnecessary. The "leisure" park isn't very leisurely and looks more like a jungle - swamp. It's overgrown with grass and trees to the point that it looks like it's been abandoned for decades and is not a real park that is inside of a mall. Dead rising 1 takes place IN COLORADO yet the grass and and trees are a deep dark green color, like a swamp. The developers obviously had no idea what they were doing here, Colorado fauna doesn't look like that, nor would a park in a mall look like that. Very jarring how nobody is pointing that out, it looks hideous. Ambient zombie sounds have also been removed, leaving the mall feeling empty, lifeless and even awkward, it feels like you're walking through an empty abandoned mall most of the time and not one infested with the undead. Glass has no reflections, the grass breaking animation from the "remaster" are worse than the original, the water looks worse and the peoples skin kind've look like burnt plastic (?) I don't know how they messed these basic things up, DR1 OG came out in 2006 and had all of these things. Riddle me that. Overall the "deluxe remaster" feels like an easier, lazier mod of the original game that does not respect the original work nor it's survival horror roots and instead opts for a weird goofy hack and slash version of the OG despite advertising the opposite. The game gives you autosaves, but you'll never need them becausethe game is so pathetically easy that you'll never die anyway, anything that benefits the player In the original now does so ten fold to the point of trivializing everything in the game to it's own detriment and enjoyment. I felt like I couldn't get the game to stop holding my hand and I felt my intelligence was insulted because of it. The audio design is huge step back, the character design is jarring and weird, the environments of the game are either too cluttered or flat out make no sense (leisure park) compared to the original. And did I mention the game is too easy for a survival horror game? Just play the original, it's this but looks better, plays better, sounds better and the difficulty treats you like an adult capable of solving basic problems. #notmyfrankwest 0/10