The Art of Survival: A Speedrunner's Take on Resident Evil 7

As I navigated through the eerie and atmospheric world of Resident Evil 7, I couldn't help but feel a sense of excitement and trepidation. The game, developed by Capcom, was a departure from the traditional Resident Evil formula, with a greater emphasis on combat and exploration. My goal was to speedrun the game, completing it as quickly as possible while also analyzing every aspect of the experience.

At one point during my playthrough, I found myself pondering the question of why someone would choose Zoe over Mia in a hypothetical scenario. It's a curious thought, really - would anyone truly opt for the unknown dangers and uncertainties that come with choosing Zoe? My own reasoning is that, in a rational mindset, the logic dictates that you should choose the one who has proven themselves to be less threatening. After all, if your wife is trying to kill you, it's likely because she doesn't know you well enough yet.

As I continued through the game, I couldn't help but feel a sense of nostalgia for the classic Resident Evil formula. The combat, while improved in many ways, still felt somewhat restrictive at times. I often found myself reloading and retrying sections, only to discover that my previous attempts had been misguided due to poor positioning or misjudging enemy patterns. These frustrations were balanced by moments of intense excitement and tension, as I navigated through the treacherous environments and avoided deadly traps.

One particularly memorable moment came when I encountered a certain character who was, shall we say, not exactly welcoming. The exchange that ensued was quite...eventful, to say the least. My reactions ranged from shock to anger, with a healthy dose of sarcasm thrown in for good measure. It's moments like these that reminded me why I love Resident Evil - it's not just about survival; it's also about the emotional investment you make in your characters.

Of course, no discussion of Resident Evil 7 would be complete without mentioning its finale. The ending was both surprising and thought-provoking, leaving me with more questions than answers. The choice between Zoe and Mia seemed almost arbitrary at first - why would anyone choose one over the other? - but as I reflected on it further, I began to see the logic behind each option. It's a fascinating commentary on human nature, really: we often make decisions based on incomplete information or intuition, rather than weighing all the facts.

As I concluded my playthrough and moved on to the next title in the series, I couldn't help but feel a sense of excitement for what Capcom had in store for us. Resident Evil 7 was a bold experiment that paid off in many ways, while also leaving some questions unanswered. Whether or not it marked a new direction for the franchise remains to be seen, but one thing is certain: it will be remembered as a standout entry in the series.

In the end, my speedrun came to an abrupt halt when I had the opportunity to skip through a particularly slow section of the game. It was a welcome respite, to say the least. With that, I bid farewell to Resident Evil 7 and its inhabitants, already looking forward to the next installment in the series.

As for those who are interested in learning more about my experience with Resident Evil 7, I encourage you to check out my speedrun videos or analysis posts on social media. The discussion has been lively, with many fans weighing in on their own theories and opinions about the game's ending. It's a testament to the power of community engagement and shared passion for gaming.

And so, as I take my leave of Resident Evil 7, I do so with gratitude for the experience and anticipation for what lies ahead. The next chapter in the series can't come soon enough.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhello everybody my name is markiplier and welcome back to resident evil now I don't know what's beyond that door but I want to be prepared for it and I know I've got a lot of flamer fuel I've got tons of it but I know it's not fundamentally effective and I would feel like a major douche bag if I didn't at least use this Magnum so what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna put it in my inventory I'm gonna put the six bullets that I got and I don't even know how many bullets this thing can hold but I'm gonna try so I'm going to get this out I'm gonna load it up it holds exactly seven bullets maybe in the entirety of the game there's only seven bullets to this guns name but I got them so I'm going to save that for a rainy day and then rely on my pistol and SMG combo for the rest of it now I don't know if that's a good idea it's probably a very bad idea but you know I don't know so what's that being said I still don't know if I'm going to need corrosive but I just kind of want to hold it on me because I've got three open spots and maybe I'm gonna do this so I've got everything I need there's a chair which is reminiscing the grandma which I'm pretty sure is Evelyn's at this point so let's go huh I'm a brave boy Oh wrong decor oh I made to go on this horse ah I'm a brave boy oh no wait wrong door again sorry I'm wrong on both accounts this brave boy is not a smart boy I've said that many - oh I came over the hop tee gap alright so this has been calcified so this stuff here has already been dead at least it's already been killed like something going on I mean this is all salt this is a salt mine I don't know what that means for a whole lot of stuff but it means maybe it's not gonna do so good for fungal growth yeah I mean this this salt mine is from like way way way back when I should probably keep I'll probably get an herb you know I'll probably get an herb maybe I don't know if I will but I'm gonna try I'm afraid by oh I'm not as brave as I once thought I was I hear that grandma Mamaw oh boy ah it's one of those bad decisions I made a lot of those in my past but I'm gonna readily identify this one it's a very bad decision I'll be and even worse this hidden to go over there into the deep water yeah I think I'm smarter than I know that's Magnum ammo hell yeah good thing I got the Magnum gun I don't just want to fire spastically into the grandma but you know I will if I feel threatened which is at all times okay let's go I'm just trying to look make sure I got everything grandma grandma is that grandma oh that doesn't sound like grandma that sounds like young Evelyn maybe right I don't want a fire oh hey well I'm not gonna fire you try to make me waste my ammo die oh oh I got a run okay I get it Oh any goodies any goodies are ya on my way yeah yeah yeah yeah herb what I wanted what about whoa hey what the with that what ah go Bam Bam pokey hey now what surprisingly a pill okay everything yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah well that was dumb of me to do whatever the hell I just did Oh son of a staff that with your group Oh dude handled yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah hey no no no no no no no no no no no one stop it's a head shot is this open I don't have a jacket ow damn it god damn where am I I reload cool boy there we go got him down the loop-de-loop anything else in here that I need am i still worried about the imminent collapse goddamn like shoulda brought the shotgun now that guy's crawling back from me okay we gotta keep moving up whoa whee whoa holy Go Go Go Go that guy still crawling hey you know what I'm gonna put you out of your misery poink oh whoops there we go got you okay you're bad you don't drop items cause extra cursor use that all right what we got what we got huh well bring it on uh I gotta use more Bam's oh here we go there's a game you never know booby traps and all that machine gun a mother that's good too on full up oh I can make I can make it help dude yeah okay that's good and I've got this burdensome corrosive well we knew you don't let us keep their gold your head you two ah read you like a book whoa I'm gonna use this uh uh home keeping that under me for some reason Wow okay all right I get the picture I get the picture I get the picture alright you know what oh oh Strang ammo with muscles built into the bullet and I'm gonna dump this juice on me that wasn't enough goop tell me but it's enough to keep me going maybe if I find an herb I can eat it raw if that dank Christian mic system somehow all right what do we got here there was probably other items that I left but I didn't have time cuz I was dying I can't jump I forgot about that I'm incapable of jumping I'm capable of getting stabbed in my limbs cut off but jumping out of the question what do we got here alrighty then just gonna test that one okay that's clean you you're clean okay hello first statement hi whoa big guy Oh multiple big guys okay I can deal with this I just gotta set up my bar I don't see awful oh I don't want these crawl over your bed good we're doing your big goof another wall way don't ask on yell oh oh god you're bigger call that's not bigger hello hell whoa putting down for the hello God put it down put it up bad whatever I get up I'm trying to put a goddamn band down back and I never give juice in the world for this put it down oh boy kind of famine I got I got oh god damn it what the was that all about the I couldn't do anything he kept freaking out about the acid whatever it was all right let's try again be intelligent about in the Sun without their file what that their crime that their fam they can't hurt that's the thing it can really can hurt bam bam whoa whoa he blew whoa no no stop I get you oh Oh drive in pain all you want you i yeah alright fine then that's your last hurrah least you're dead not alive that's a good sign God spend all my bands oh no if I wanted to do that but definitely was Bama licious okay I'm gonna use that a little oh alright feeling a hundred percent little good ammo left in there I've still got my Magnum I'm saving that for Evelyn if I have to shoot Evelyn which I imagine I will cuz I don't think this is gonna work perfectly but I'm officially out of BAM so it's back to survival now I don't see any more boxes but they may have blown up and then the items fell on the floor but I don't have any other psychostimulants to be able to see it so I'm just going to assume that I did good and move on that's what I usually do anyway I just find myself on the back and get myself a good day yeah thereby ignoring the fact I said that continuing on are we going deeper into the mines are we actually getting out of here please who put the lab down here anyway they must have found something in the mines like that's my guess the reason that the mines are here maybe this is the origination of the mold but that would be too much of a coincidence that I wouldn't appreciate that one wouldn't be as fulfilling for the scary little anybody through here okay no man I'm surprised if they haven't pulled a fast one on me during one of those hoop use and I'm assuming these are not bombs I feel good Lee alright what do we got here mind map I think they always give me the map after I'm done with the brick in mine like what good does that do anybody hmm alright anyway oops sorry scratch down for a little bit need to exercise my knees all right so we've got bullets we got Magnum running low on pistol ammo but I'm only on the super heavy stuff so that's going to be good for killing the little guys I suppose so I bet use that first and then spray the machine gun ammo leader all right I don't see anything else that I could pass the bleeding but maybe baby please hello I've known who that is grandma's chair oh I think I'm right about this well I think he thought oh wait oh wait we're back in the house I'm the did that get there oh oh that's the Evelyn dolly I guess it looks like Evelyn anyway does that have anything to do with like the little bobbleheads that I've been breaking this whole time oh I don't know I don't know hi hell man where am i I'm gone too apparently hello okay why'd you look at me why do you always look at me I don't like the way you look at me is there anything else in here man it feels so long ago I may not I know I've been playing this game a lot but you know it feels so long ago since I've been down here 0 1 e oo 1 e series oh oh one it was obvious from the beginning it was there from the beginning a oh oh one the e series the only successful perfected a series it was there since the beginning and we just never noticed that what the what were we supposed to think of random numbers we didn't know that meant oh that's really good in the way that it's all this stairway well this stairway is the birth of the big brave boy yeah alright now I am the monster now I have become Jeff anybody wanna Bob out of me hello phone gonna ring huh alright I'm back in the guest house I didn't think I'd be back here but here I is yeah Ethan don't do it yeesh all right then me oh hey you want a shot to the face I got plenty you just gonna stand there like a goof mm-hmm hello hi you want to talk Sibley okay you're gone then why then my macrinus I'm becoming infected aren't I oh yes indeedy-do I am oh boy hello hello hello I don't remember there being anything here before so I don't think there's gonna be anything here now but yeah it's been ages since I came here we've been on one hell of a journey hmm hi I'll give you in a second hello anybody in here anybody at all well these things do have changed Oh No they blocked off my secret escape oh well fine then I pick a fuse no not there anymore can I borrow on the piano okay not there anymore all right I'll play your game hello oh hi go chop off my arm again don't stab me please oh I've done that it's hard doesn't want to be my daddy can guy I'd rather not so no not again oh not again I have to face off with Mia oh no what I want to do that but oh oh no I don't want to face off with me again this time it'd probably kill her or me I don't know oh no oh no oh now before I go that way I'm just trying to explore absolutely everything because there was a drawer down here that needs to be locked picked that's right and the only place that you could have gotten the lockpick oh now to memory ah so there must've been a lockpick somewhere hidden I just didn't like hi what are you doing were you laughing at you giggling at I don't know that I'm not playing whoa hi whoa whoa oh you're not real oh whoa okay all right you're all real oh no you're not real that didn't hurt at all oh hi hey oh hey oh okay I see how they fit whoo all right then a little weird weird Evelyn doll here don't know what that was all about but does this go anywhere can I actually get out through here or do I need to go upstairs I'm willing to bet yeah I need to go upstairs oh off ah the cheerful relaxing music is juxtaposed though the dreariness of it I mean it is weird because I am seeing this during the day but I haven't had a chance to do that yet I guess the only place to go is upstairs where I stop yes Wow jeezum I know very scary so what I was seeing there before was actually Mia's glimpses into all of this she was being whispered to by Evelyn the whole time are you floating I don't like floating I appreciate it can I go through this store and surprise you Oh burski oh come on now all right then fine let's play it this way both kits not scary but you know no I don't want it I'd rather not okay all right Ben if you did so I wanna how that kind of hurts actually if you cannot do that I'm gonna put a guard oh I get it all right I'm gonna get it hang on I got a lot of goop juice for this I've been saving up not often no no come on hey you think I don't have an ample supply of this stuff super days four days in bed I'm a brave boy grandma oh good boy I'm gonna sue you ma'am war ma'am ma'am ma'am oh get back get back grandma a few year in your eyeball you oh god you're weird I'm going out to bars laughing oh boy all right we're giving pal now whoa hey come on now I got powerful gun oh look up in there oh dude then I win somehow the no I didn't win I did not win - holy dude wanna hug our kisses on the cheek huh you smell like bengay Wow well to the guard it is that I suppose guarded against the Jack building-sized Boucherie oh out well it hurts a lot what do i do oh boy don't I I'm trying to real ah dude how do you win against it I don't think there is any way through how could you Phaneuf Oh can I just put them goop this on me oh that's a little bit of dude well I want my grandma on please quick call your candies are harmless that didn't kill me that didn't kill me Oh lovely I don't know if your kids got to be able to I know you did ooh I like a gun is it's like the Magnum it better be all right I won't miss the time to play times over baby I got a where yes area I see you there Oh may I see you home laughs you poo watching Cudahy whoa where you going I'll track you attract you huh you thinking your runaway huh oh that ain't good I'm standing in the way of that oh okay bye grandma death so dramatic she died in slow motion honey then sit here bleeding and dying from my multiple contusions I'll just fill my whole body with goop juice I'll become the antithesis of the fungus with just goop you're on adulterated goop ha Oh friends yay it's the birthday party way better than grandma's birthday party that party sucked hello Hidy Hidy Hidy ho how they on their friend good thing you're not shooting me right away so you're gonna kill me someday do you happen to work for a company that's related to rain paraphernalia oh my god so Hanford view oh let me found you the took you guys talk Chris that Chris before the steroids oh my gosh it's so funky that's so weird super oh hi Oh Mia you're not dead Oh I am glad yeah you did oh this is so happy how does it go wrong all right ear and in one door closes another opens well a door closed tonight and what a long night it was but not just for me me and I weren't the only victims here so were the Baker's it was that thing everyone who made them that way aah aah and you guys are here to clean up in that yeah what a bunch of noble dudes ah now she's back and once I start over for all this behind it oh boy maybe this is where the next door open oh yeah I bet that's a fun door that opens there oh that's going to be a good one so that is very important to realize there and I think I think I'm on the right track here it's very important because this is now officially before the zombie apocalypse and what is this oh it's the music but I don't know what this is we'll be looking at here oh it's a really creative credit sequence oh that's awesome this game was fantastic but I've got a lot to talk about before I finish this basically this happens before I'm pretty sure this happens before the zombie apocalypse and I'm pretty sure that that's Chris Redfield before everything went to because that's what umbrella corporation was he was part of a team when in Resident Evil 1 and I haven't played the remake of it yet but I want to play it but what this is and why this is important to realize now is now this game is a launching point for the rest of the timeline when they made Resident Evil 6 they kind of knew they it a little bit they they knew they convoluted the story just a little bit too much but now that they've got a new launching point with Resident Evil 7 in a new way with first-person shooter and just pure terror it gives it a great platform to be able to move forward and expand the Resident Evil story in a greatly different way than we've ever seen before because it was always third-person and there's something to that I'm not trying to discredit that the evil within was in third person and it was really cool to play that game it got really weird but this one was weird but also grounded and it was really like interesting to see this because I can see now how if umbrella corporation was using this as a test project and like then they would realize that the fungus was too unpredictable and couldn't be controlled and like depending on that without having three program things would leave them to go to different alternatives or maybe they're just trying to hold give bunch of different things either way it was so cool I love it I love that every bit of that was so cool so also that meant the other little bound up bodies those were letters A through D of the experimentation on this project that did not succeed they were the ones that died before they were able to develop and then Evelyn the e-series is the one that succeeded but she grew old very rapidly so her true body was the old lady everybody is dead baby everybody's dead so she was aging rapidly so who knew how long she would last anyway so for all that regenerative ability it didn't do her very much good if she was just spending her entire body thin on spreading this fungus around but who knows if you would have died of old age anyway this it's just so fascinating to see all right it looks like there's an unskipable so I'm going to do what I usually do on to let this run and then I've got even more two more to cover very soon if the injections are skipped product will age rapidly 25 times faster than normal ah that explains it hello hi hello it's oh okay like I almost got all the coins holy I got all the files oh oh where the files I almost got all the mr. Everywhere's whoa I did a lot of good holy weapon Albert oh one R oh nice okay the secrets of defense oh great okay can I get the C whoo Wow I don't know what that means that Chris doesn't look this you know baby is Chris used to maybe this is younger less able brother Derek Derek Redfield but anyway so that is the end of the game but I have to check I have to check to see what happens if you pick Zoe I literally cannot not check that I need to check that I have to so what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna load up a game and hopefully I've got the old one special decree Kashiram create the serum create the serum creates a serum create the serum and blah blah blah blah where am i oh I'm right here oh okay one of that guns in there woo yay I've got goodies ooh was that reduces damage when guarding effects and maximized when pairs with the essence of defense okay cool I guess Albert woo well what kind of bullets does the Albert take stop that no no no no no no no oh it does take the normal pistol ammo oh good I've got better gun now well that's handy that's handy-dandy alright so I'm gonna need to explore of it there's one other thing that I wanted to get before I continue on uh something that I missed a while back and I totally forgot about but I'm gonna go back and get a nice ass blast this I forgot about this I said I was going to come and get that and I totally forgot about it because I'm a big dumb goofy goober and I got this I guess which is good I suppose hi what are you you come from hello oh okay alright so someone told me that there was something underneath the porch ah a gun repair kit so I can use that either on the handgun or this broken shotgun that's what it was oh it all makes sense I was running down a checklist of things that I've forgotten and things that you guys have told me oh that makes so much sense oh how about try that well holy old-fashioned shotgun doesn't hold much ammo but packs quite a punch we're good well hot damn hot damn I've got a more efficient shotgun uh whatever fun that doesn't matter what matters is I've got this tape and I have not looked at this I don't know if this contains like another gameplay sequence because ever oh my god it would why wouldn't it happy birthday experiment can trespassing idiots solve puzzles Clancy javis testing area friend thank you I want sake some a no I axes you what you don't believe me this joy well you can't fake this and it's all for you oh come now don't be like that just go much fun just you wait I get it oh these videos have always been a teaching tool oh my god that's so cool I mean unnecessary I went into the same way because I just died and then relearned everything but there's gonna be Oh yes that's awful but I've already gone through that yeah suck it up so ah oh hi that's a sturdy camera happy birthday huh how that camera survived how's he holding that camera was it a head camera the GoPro on your forehead okay so I didn't miss much by missing that right so those are just the accessory things that I was going to do now comes the main business here which is a matter of going and fighting paw paw seeing what happens if you don't use the serum on them and then using the serum on Zoey I don't imagine I'm gonna be able to get out of using it on the dad but maybe I can get away I don't know who knows well geez here come the arms here come the zoms whoa holy well you then my life is good Oh baby oh baby oh baby real Oh be found popovich be really really Whomper oh hey fantastic oh boy I like of this gun I like it a lot I'm in the warning shot be mad at me ah it okay that's interesting I sure wish I had more reload speed what are those man you got it I know how this works oh hi I gotta kick your ass again and I'll go down there come on now be a friendly friendly own its back feet time to go back to Old Faithful old shiny bun oh hey how's it going Ethan I'm drumming whoa whoa no and I'm gonna see what happens it probably you'll just kill me buy it again I don't know about that I'm getting good look at him like an ugly piece of maybe I don't wanna maybe I wanna know how that's my body wait a minute something's wrong here let me do that from the start okay so that that decides it well you are you can't not indict them that's a definite all here we go hello I can this one this is beyond okay I don't know probably I feel bad now there's only one left they can't just be one left the hell are we gonna do now I don't know you do you tell me I don't know what I'm even doing here oh okay all right sorry Mia I'm sorry I really am but Zoey will be able to guide the choice to safety and then I can come back for you go I don't want to hear it both of you just call okay all right I've been oh I'm going going my face is here it's hard okay cool ridiculous don't be ridiculous I saw the job to do I don't know what that job is and I don't know what you're talking about I don't know anything about what's going on and no tanker that exploded that you worked on for the Umbrella Corporation I don't know nothing about that bye-bye my smooches love you bye i doing not nice lovely night for a ride I guess huh so does it just continue that oh man it does unless those cataclysmically ends I don't think it would do that though oh that's so weird like it seems so weird to be taking Zoey like who would choose that automatically thank you I can't either he is no good to anyone right now but we must make it out of here in one piece I want to know what all this is about starting with me me it came here with Evelyn that's how it started oh you mean hmm now it's going to be weird is that if you go into this section there's the boat that Mia came with everyone came out back go take a look I'm not going back there I got to know what Mia was up to what the hell is this it's her everyone doesn't want us to leave no no Vinnie wait Danny Joey Joey whoa okay so the Cure didn't work what the That's not me is that me is going on here but how did I get here what well that doesn't make any sense how does Mia get here oh yeah how yeah how in the world yeah so what the that's so bizarre how does that change things how did Mia get here I mean I understand they're just trying to move the plot forward anyway but if there's Ethan he's almost dead hey wake up so it's the same way so it must just change the actual ending and not the events leading up to it I guess Mia wouldn't choose Ethan but holy oh oh oh oh okay so I got to the first save point after this what I'm going to do now is the speediest of speedruns I've ever sped run and I'm going to try my best to get through this eh okay but I don't know where I'm gonna go I don't know what I'm gonna do I'm gonna try my best here to not die but yes it's all I really know so let's get to it so I'm gonna be right back I'm not gonna be very completionist about this but I'm gonna be fast all right I'm back this is the point where you do a cutscene with EZ and Ethan so let's see what the difference is here what what is it Oh kill Ethan I don't know I don't know if I wants him Ethan Ethan Oh Shh I know I know I know not gonna hurt you so that's the same that is exactly the same word for word so that has not changed okay hello hi sorry for abandoning you back there hope you can find it in your heart to forgive me oh no oh no flashbacks ah thought of a kids dog no oh no no no poor person how oh come on haha you Elijah oh man I'm horrible horrible good that's horrible and I don't know how Mia got pulled into this oh why does it all have to be so connected it's all your fault I know I know it's my fault at least now it has some meaning to it at least now that declaration understand something oh Jesus now I've got left to do is get down at the end of the game and see how that changes it's not too far so long as I don't get too interested in the items but uh I mean I know it's not the ending that I got but still to know that that exists why would you pick Zoe why would anyone pick Zoe I mean I'm sure Zoe is a lovely person and all and any Zoe's out there you're also lovely people it's just that I don't know it's the choice of your wife versus someone you barely have met one day prior oh yeah yay I'm on push button faster all right you know goodbye oh I forgot that hi well whatever done there bye MA have fun in an crews busy play what's on the can yeah yeah he's right behind me oh hey okay Retton frenemy hurry well sorry Mia I think your dad so that bode well yeah I do yeah I do sorry see I'm kind of curious what this thing actually did because if anything it kind of made her much more powerful like I think it was supposed to kill her outright but oh my god man it man is so dead space by the way that I'm ever mention I don't even think I thought it I don't think I ever said it incredibly death back now we can I show you please Wow oh gosh now we are all ow ow ouch gibble Wow Wow let me reload there gah brother fine yeah where's your face ah this is where it's gonna change the boss fight was pretty much the same it's still day right now so I don't know if that was actually a difference or that was it's all in my head you shall see hello oh what a birthday party I had a terrible time at Grandma's mr. Redfield show me your handsome face you gonna shoot me just shoot me right off the bat that's what I thought you were gonna do last time maybe I got you're gonna shoot me Oh slightly different no that's the same a Redfield I'm glad we found you oh he's not killing me took you guys so long I cannot job I gotta get back to work I love you so much I'm sending tons of kisses hi baby but oh it feels bad uh but in what world would you pick Zoe this is totally unrealistic but in what world would you pick Zoe and stay on one door closes oh so hopeful all right I'd do a close tonight but I'm feeling good right now and what a long that it was but not just for me huh me and I weren't the only victims here ah me right there no we're acres said it was that thing Evelyn who made them that way yeah see that logo is completely different lose dead and these guys are here to clean up the mess what a bunch of heroes I know I just come to terms of losing me in the first time but now I've lost her again and the only other door I can see is closed oh not quite so hopeful not quite so hopeful there you have it oh man if there's another ending I don't have time to find it because I spent a long time getting to this one the speedrun was still slow so what I'm going to do is I'm gonna skip this I'm gonna skip this and bada-bing bada-boom got a Bing bong Bing bong boom oh I didn't even have to wait through that for that okay cool well that's cool either way that is the end of Resident Evil 7 there's been quite a trip I've already said everything that was on my mind about this and there's all sorts of theories that I could spit out forever and ever but I'm very tired and I've just played through the ending twice now to get to both of them just to see what could happen I don't know who in the world would ever pick Zoe over Mia just in a rational mindset your wife is there even if like she tried to kill you I guess you know hey go with the go a say evil you know versus the evil you don't know you know that kind of that kind of choice between it but this was a fantastic game and a welcome welcome change to the Resident Evil series it's super interesting how they blended combat in it very well made combat very strenuous reloading getting trapped it was very very tight it was well tuned I liked it a lot I might be playing it on hard mode on my own just because I like this game a lot but I can't wait to see what they do in the future but I do think I do think this is going to be a slightly different universe than the one that we've seen before so with that being said thank you everybody so much for watching let me know what you thought of it down in the comments below I hope you enjoyed this series I want to do more long plays like this in the future this was a ton of fun so thanks again and as always I will see you in the next video bye-byehello everybody my name is markiplier and welcome back to resident evil now I don't know what's beyond that door but I want to be prepared for it and I know I've got a lot of flamer fuel I've got tons of it but I know it's not fundamentally effective and I would feel like a major douche bag if I didn't at least use this Magnum so what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna put it in my inventory I'm gonna put the six bullets that I got and I don't even know how many bullets this thing can hold but I'm gonna try so I'm going to get this out I'm gonna load it up it holds exactly seven bullets maybe in the entirety of the game there's only seven bullets to this guns name but I got them so I'm going to save that for a rainy day and then rely on my pistol and SMG combo for the rest of it now I don't know if that's a good idea it's probably a very bad idea but you know I don't know so what's that being said I still don't know if I'm going to need corrosive but I just kind of want to hold it on me because I've got three open spots and maybe I'm gonna do this so I've got everything I need there's a chair which is reminiscing the grandma which I'm pretty sure is Evelyn's at this point so let's go huh I'm a brave boy Oh wrong decor oh I made to go on this horse ah I'm a brave boy oh no wait wrong door again sorry I'm wrong on both accounts this brave boy is not a smart boy I've said that many - oh I came over the hop tee gap alright so this has been calcified so this stuff here has already been dead at least it's already been killed like something going on I mean this is all salt this is a salt mine I don't know what that means for a whole lot of stuff but it means maybe it's not gonna do so good for fungal growth yeah I mean this this salt mine is from like way way way back when I should probably keep I'll probably get an herb you know I'll probably get an herb maybe I don't know if I will but I'm gonna try I'm afraid by oh I'm not as brave as I once thought I was I hear that grandma Mamaw oh boy ah it's one of those bad decisions I made a lot of those in my past but I'm gonna readily identify this one it's a very bad decision I'll be and even worse this hidden to go over there into the deep water yeah I think I'm smarter than I know that's Magnum ammo hell yeah good thing I got the Magnum gun I don't just want to fire spastically into the grandma but you know I will if I feel threatened which is at all times okay let's go I'm just trying to look make sure I got everything grandma grandma is that grandma oh that doesn't sound like grandma that sounds like young Evelyn maybe right I don't want a fire oh hey well I'm not gonna fire you try to make me waste my ammo die oh oh I got a run okay I get it Oh any goodies any goodies are ya on my way yeah yeah yeah yeah herb what I wanted what about whoa hey what the with that what ah go Bam Bam pokey hey now what surprisingly a pill okay everything yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah well that was dumb of me to do whatever the hell I just did Oh son of a staff that with your group Oh dude handled yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah hey no no no no no no no no no no no one stop it's a head shot is this open I don't have a jacket ow damn it god damn where am I I reload cool boy there we go got him down the loop-de-loop anything else in here that I need am i still worried about the imminent collapse goddamn like shoulda brought the shotgun now that guy's crawling back from me okay we gotta keep moving up whoa whee whoa holy Go Go Go Go that guy still crawling hey you know what I'm gonna put you out of your misery poink oh whoops there we go got you okay you're bad you don't drop items cause extra cursor use that all right what we got what we got huh well bring it on uh I gotta use more Bam's oh here we go there's a game you never know booby traps and all that machine gun a mother that's good too on full up oh I can make I can make it help dude yeah okay that's good and I've got this burdensome corrosive well we knew you don't let us keep their gold your head you two ah read you like a book whoa I'm gonna use this uh uh home keeping that under me for some reason Wow okay all right I get the picture I get the picture I get the picture alright you know what oh oh Strang ammo with muscles built into the bullet and I'm gonna dump this juice on me that wasn't enough goop tell me but it's enough to keep me going maybe if I find an herb I can eat it raw if that dank Christian mic system somehow all right what do we got here there was probably other items that I left but I didn't have time cuz I was dying I can't jump I forgot about that I'm incapable of jumping I'm capable of getting stabbed in my limbs cut off but jumping out of the question what do we got here alrighty then just gonna test that one okay that's clean you you're clean okay hello first statement hi whoa big guy Oh multiple big guys okay I can deal with this I just gotta set up my bar I don't see awful oh I don't want these crawl over your bed good we're doing your big goof another wall way don't ask on yell oh oh god you're bigger call that's not bigger hello hell whoa putting down for the hello God put it down put it up bad whatever I get up I'm trying to put a goddamn band down back and I never give juice in the world for this put it down oh boy kind of famine I got I got oh god damn it what the was that all about the I couldn't do anything he kept freaking out about the acid whatever it was all right let's try again be intelligent about in the Sun without their file what that their crime that their fam they can't hurt that's the thing it can really can hurt bam bam whoa whoa he blew whoa no no stop I get you oh Oh drive in pain all you want you i yeah alright fine then that's your last hurrah least you're dead not alive that's a good sign God spend all my bands oh no if I wanted to do that but definitely was Bama licious okay I'm gonna use that a little oh alright feeling a hundred percent little good ammo left in there I've still got my Magnum I'm saving that for Evelyn if I have to shoot Evelyn which I imagine I will cuz I don't think this is gonna work perfectly but I'm officially out of BAM so it's back to survival now I don't see any more boxes but they may have blown up and then the items fell on the floor but I don't have any other psychostimulants to be able to see it so I'm just going to assume that I did good and move on that's what I usually do anyway I just find myself on the back and get myself a good day yeah thereby ignoring the fact I said that continuing on are we going deeper into the mines are we actually getting out of here please who put the lab down here anyway they must have found something in the mines like that's my guess the reason that the mines are here maybe this is the origination of the mold but that would be too much of a coincidence that I wouldn't appreciate that one wouldn't be as fulfilling for the scary little anybody through here okay no man I'm surprised if they haven't pulled a fast one on me during one of those hoop use and I'm assuming these are not bombs I feel good Lee alright what do we got here mind map I think they always give me the map after I'm done with the brick in mine like what good does that do anybody hmm alright anyway oops sorry scratch down for a little bit need to exercise my knees all right so we've got bullets we got Magnum running low on pistol ammo but I'm only on the super heavy stuff so that's going to be good for killing the little guys I suppose so I bet use that first and then spray the machine gun ammo leader all right I don't see anything else that I could pass the bleeding but maybe baby please hello I've known who that is grandma's chair oh I think I'm right about this well I think he thought oh wait oh wait we're back in the house I'm the did that get there oh oh that's the Evelyn dolly I guess it looks like Evelyn anyway does that have anything to do with like the little bobbleheads that I've been breaking this whole time oh I don't know I don't know hi hell man where am i I'm gone too apparently hello okay why'd you look at me why do you always look at me I don't like the way you look at me is there anything else in here man it feels so long ago I may not I know I've been playing this game a lot but you know it feels so long ago since I've been down here 0 1 e oo 1 e series oh oh one it was obvious from the beginning it was there from the beginning a oh oh one the e series the only successful perfected a series it was there since the beginning and we just never noticed that what the what were we supposed to think of random numbers we didn't know that meant oh that's really good in the way that it's all this stairway well this stairway is the birth of the big brave boy yeah alright now I am the monster now I have become Jeff anybody wanna Bob out of me hello phone gonna ring huh alright I'm back in the guest house I didn't think I'd be back here but here I is yeah Ethan don't do it yeesh all right then me oh hey you want a shot to the face I got plenty you just gonna stand there like a goof mm-hmm hello hi you want to talk Sibley okay you're gone then why then my macrinus I'm becoming infected aren't I oh yes indeedy-do I am oh boy hello hello hello I don't remember there being anything here before so I don't think there's gonna be anything here now but yeah it's been ages since I came here we've been on one hell of a journey hmm hi I'll give you in a second hello anybody in here anybody at all well these things do have changed Oh No they blocked off my secret escape oh well fine then I pick a fuse no not there anymore can I borrow on the piano okay not there anymore all right I'll play your game hello oh hi go chop off my arm again don't stab me please oh I've done that it's hard doesn't want to be my daddy can guy I'd rather not so no not again oh not again I have to face off with Mia oh no what I want to do that but oh oh no I don't want to face off with me again this time it'd probably kill her or me I don't know oh no oh no oh now before I go that way I'm just trying to explore absolutely everything because there was a drawer down here that needs to be locked picked that's right and the only place that you could have gotten the lockpick oh now to memory ah so there must've been a lockpick somewhere hidden I just didn't like hi what are you doing were you laughing at you giggling at I don't know that I'm not playing whoa hi whoa whoa oh you're not real oh whoa okay all right you're all real oh no you're not real that didn't hurt at all oh hi hey oh hey oh okay I see how they fit whoo all right then a little weird weird Evelyn doll here don't know what that was all about but does this go anywhere can I actually get out through here or do I need to go upstairs I'm willing to bet yeah I need to go upstairs oh off ah the cheerful relaxing music is juxtaposed though the dreariness of it I mean it is weird because I am seeing this during the day but I haven't had a chance to do that yet I guess the only place to go is upstairs where I stop yes Wow jeezum I know very scary so what I was seeing there before was actually Mia's glimpses into all of this she was being whispered to by Evelyn the whole time are you floating I don't like floating I appreciate it can I go through this store and surprise you Oh burski oh come on now all right then fine let's play it this way both kits not scary but you know no I don't want it I'd rather not okay all right Ben if you did so I wanna how that kind of hurts actually if you cannot do that I'm gonna put a guard oh I get it all right I'm gonna get it hang on I got a lot of goop juice for this I've been saving up not often no no come on hey you think I don't have an ample supply of this stuff super days four days in bed I'm a brave boy grandma oh good boy I'm gonna sue you ma'am war ma'am ma'am ma'am oh get back get back grandma a few year in your eyeball you oh god you're weird I'm going out to bars laughing oh boy all right we're giving pal now whoa hey come on now I got powerful gun oh look up in there oh dude then I win somehow the no I didn't win I did not win - holy dude wanna hug our kisses on the cheek huh you smell like bengay Wow well to the guard it is that I suppose guarded against the Jack building-sized Boucherie oh out well it hurts a lot what do i do oh boy don't I I'm trying to real ah dude how do you win against it I don't think there is any way through how could you Phaneuf Oh can I just put them goop this on me oh that's a little bit of dude well I want my grandma on please quick call your candies are harmless that didn't kill me that didn't kill me Oh lovely I don't know if your kids got to be able to I know you did ooh I like a gun is it's like the Magnum it better be all right I won't miss the time to play times over baby I got a where yes area I see you there Oh may I see you home laughs you poo watching Cudahy whoa where you going I'll track you attract you huh you thinking your runaway huh oh that ain't good I'm standing in the way of that oh okay bye grandma death so dramatic she died in slow motion honey then sit here bleeding and dying from my multiple contusions I'll just fill my whole body with goop juice I'll become the antithesis of the fungus with just goop you're on adulterated goop ha Oh friends yay it's the birthday party way better than grandma's birthday party that party sucked hello Hidy Hidy Hidy ho how they on their friend good thing you're not shooting me right away so you're gonna kill me someday do you happen to work for a company that's related to rain paraphernalia oh my god so Hanford view oh let me found you the took you guys talk Chris that Chris before the steroids oh my gosh it's so funky that's so weird super oh hi Oh Mia you're not dead Oh I am glad yeah you did oh this is so happy how does it go wrong all right ear and in one door closes another opens well a door closed tonight and what a long night it was but not just for me me and I weren't the only victims here so were the Baker's it was that thing everyone who made them that way aah aah and you guys are here to clean up in that yeah what a bunch of noble dudes ah now she's back and once I start over for all this behind it oh boy maybe this is where the next door open oh yeah I bet that's a fun door that opens there oh that's going to be a good one so that is very important to realize there and I think I think I'm on the right track here it's very important because this is now officially before the zombie apocalypse and what is this oh it's the music but I don't know what this is we'll be looking at here oh it's a really creative credit sequence oh that's awesome this game was fantastic but I've got a lot to talk about before I finish this basically this happens before I'm pretty sure this happens before the zombie apocalypse and I'm pretty sure that that's Chris Redfield before everything went to because that's what umbrella corporation was he was part of a team when in Resident Evil 1 and I haven't played the remake of it yet but I want to play it but what this is and why this is important to realize now is now this game is a launching point for the rest of the timeline when they made Resident Evil 6 they kind of knew they it a little bit they they knew they convoluted the story just a little bit too much but now that they've got a new launching point with Resident Evil 7 in a new way with first-person shooter and just pure terror it gives it a great platform to be able to move forward and expand the Resident Evil story in a greatly different way than we've ever seen before because it was always third-person and there's something to that I'm not trying to discredit that the evil within was in third person and it was really cool to play that game it got really weird but this one was weird but also grounded and it was really like interesting to see this because I can see now how if umbrella corporation was using this as a test project and like then they would realize that the fungus was too unpredictable and couldn't be controlled and like depending on that without having three program things would leave them to go to different alternatives or maybe they're just trying to hold give bunch of different things either way it was so cool I love it I love that every bit of that was so cool so also that meant the other little bound up bodies those were letters A through D of the experimentation on this project that did not succeed they were the ones that died before they were able to develop and then Evelyn the e-series is the one that succeeded but she grew old very rapidly so her true body was the old lady everybody is dead baby everybody's dead so she was aging rapidly so who knew how long she would last anyway so for all that regenerative ability it didn't do her very much good if she was just spending her entire body thin on spreading this fungus around but who knows if you would have died of old age anyway this it's just so fascinating to see all right it looks like there's an unskipable so I'm going to do what I usually do on to let this run and then I've got even more two more to cover very soon if the injections are skipped product will age rapidly 25 times faster than normal ah that explains it hello hi hello it's oh okay like I almost got all the coins holy I got all the files oh oh where the files I almost got all the mr. Everywhere's whoa I did a lot of good holy weapon Albert oh one R oh nice okay the secrets of defense oh great okay can I get the C whoo Wow I don't know what that means that Chris doesn't look this you know baby is Chris used to maybe this is younger less able brother Derek Derek Redfield but anyway so that is the end of the game but I have to check I have to check to see what happens if you pick Zoe I literally cannot not check that I need to check that I have to so what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna load up a game and hopefully I've got the old one special decree Kashiram create the serum create the serum creates a serum create the serum and blah blah blah blah where am i oh I'm right here oh okay one of that guns in there woo yay I've got goodies ooh was that reduces damage when guarding effects and maximized when pairs with the essence of defense okay cool I guess Albert woo well what kind of bullets does the Albert take stop that no no no no no no no oh it does take the normal pistol ammo oh good I've got better gun now well that's handy that's handy-dandy alright so I'm gonna need to explore of it there's one other thing that I wanted to get before I continue on uh something that I missed a while back and I totally forgot about but I'm gonna go back and get a nice ass blast this I forgot about this I said I was going to come and get that and I totally forgot about it because I'm a big dumb goofy goober and I got this I guess which is good I suppose hi what are you you come from hello oh okay alright so someone told me that there was something underneath the porch ah a gun repair kit so I can use that either on the handgun or this broken shotgun that's what it was oh it all makes sense I was running down a checklist of things that I've forgotten and things that you guys have told me oh that makes so much sense oh how about try that well holy old-fashioned shotgun doesn't hold much ammo but packs quite a punch we're good well hot damn hot damn I've got a more efficient shotgun uh whatever fun that doesn't matter what matters is I've got this tape and I have not looked at this I don't know if this contains like another gameplay sequence because ever oh my god it would why wouldn't it happy birthday experiment can trespassing idiots solve puzzles Clancy javis testing area friend thank you I want sake some a no I axes you what you don't believe me this joy well you can't fake this and it's all for you oh come now don't be like that just go much fun just you wait I get it oh these videos have always been a teaching tool oh my god that's so cool I mean unnecessary I went into the same way because I just died and then relearned everything but there's gonna be Oh yes that's awful but I've already gone through that yeah suck it up so ah oh hi that's a sturdy camera happy birthday huh how that camera survived how's he holding that camera was it a head camera the GoPro on your forehead okay so I didn't miss much by missing that right so those are just the accessory things that I was going to do now comes the main business here which is a matter of going and fighting paw paw seeing what happens if you don't use the serum on them and then using the serum on Zoey I don't imagine I'm gonna be able to get out of using it on the dad but maybe I can get away I don't know who knows well geez here come the arms here come the zoms whoa holy well you then my life is good Oh baby oh baby oh baby real Oh be found popovich be really really Whomper oh hey fantastic oh boy I like of this gun I like it a lot I'm in the warning shot be mad at me ah it okay that's interesting I sure wish I had more reload speed what are those man you got it I know how this works oh hi I gotta kick your ass again and I'll go down there come on now be a friendly friendly own its back feet time to go back to Old Faithful old shiny bun oh hey how's it going Ethan I'm drumming whoa whoa no and I'm gonna see what happens it probably you'll just kill me buy it again I don't know about that I'm getting good look at him like an ugly piece of maybe I don't wanna maybe I wanna know how that's my body wait a minute something's wrong here let me do that from the start okay so that that decides it well you are you can't not indict them that's a definite all here we go hello I can this one this is beyond okay I don't know probably I feel bad now there's only one left they can't just be one left the hell are we gonna do now I don't know you do you tell me I don't know what I'm even doing here oh okay all right sorry Mia I'm sorry I really am but Zoey will be able to guide the choice to safety and then I can come back for you go I don't want to hear it both of you just call okay all right I've been oh I'm going going my face is here it's hard okay cool ridiculous don't be ridiculous I saw the job to do I don't know what that job is and I don't know what you're talking about I don't know anything about what's going on and no tanker that exploded that you worked on for the Umbrella Corporation I don't know nothing about that bye-bye my smooches love you bye i doing not nice lovely night for a ride I guess huh so does it just continue that oh man it does unless those cataclysmically ends I don't think it would do that though oh that's so weird like it seems so weird to be taking Zoey like who would choose that automatically thank you I can't either he is no good to anyone right now but we must make it out of here in one piece I want to know what all this is about starting with me me it came here with Evelyn that's how it started oh you mean hmm now it's going to be weird is that if you go into this section there's the boat that Mia came with everyone came out back go take a look I'm not going back there I got to know what Mia was up to what the hell is this it's her everyone doesn't want us to leave no no Vinnie wait Danny Joey Joey whoa okay so the Cure didn't work what the That's not me is that me is going on here but how did I get here what well that doesn't make any sense how does Mia get here oh yeah how yeah how in the world yeah so what the that's so bizarre how does that change things how did Mia get here I mean I understand they're just trying to move the plot forward anyway but if there's Ethan he's almost dead hey wake up so it's the same way so it must just change the actual ending and not the events leading up to it I guess Mia wouldn't choose Ethan but holy oh oh oh oh okay so I got to the first save point after this what I'm going to do now is the speediest of speedruns I've ever sped run and I'm going to try my best to get through this eh okay but I don't know where I'm gonna go I don't know what I'm gonna do I'm gonna try my best here to not die but yes it's all I really know so let's get to it so I'm gonna be right back I'm not gonna be very completionist about this but I'm gonna be fast all right I'm back this is the point where you do a cutscene with EZ and Ethan so let's see what the difference is here what what is it Oh kill Ethan I don't know I don't know if I wants him Ethan Ethan Oh Shh I know I know I know not gonna hurt you so that's the same that is exactly the same word for word so that has not changed okay hello hi sorry for abandoning you back there hope you can find it in your heart to forgive me oh no oh no flashbacks ah thought of a kids dog no oh no no no poor person how oh come on haha you Elijah oh man I'm horrible horrible good that's horrible and I don't know how Mia got pulled into this oh why does it all have to be so connected it's all your fault I know I know it's my fault at least now it has some meaning to it at least now that declaration understand something oh Jesus now I've got left to do is get down at the end of the game and see how that changes it's not too far so long as I don't get too interested in the items but uh I mean I know it's not the ending that I got but still to know that that exists why would you pick Zoe why would anyone pick Zoe I mean I'm sure Zoe is a lovely person and all and any Zoe's out there you're also lovely people it's just that I don't know it's the choice of your wife versus someone you barely have met one day prior oh yeah yay I'm on push button faster all right you know goodbye oh I forgot that hi well whatever done there bye MA have fun in an crews busy play what's on the can yeah yeah he's right behind me oh hey okay Retton frenemy hurry well sorry Mia I think your dad so that bode well yeah I do yeah I do sorry see I'm kind of curious what this thing actually did because if anything it kind of made her much more powerful like I think it was supposed to kill her outright but oh my god man it man is so dead space by the way that I'm ever mention I don't even think I thought it I don't think I ever said it incredibly death back now we can I show you please Wow oh gosh now we are all ow ow ouch gibble Wow Wow let me reload there gah brother fine yeah where's your face ah this is where it's gonna change the boss fight was pretty much the same it's still day right now so I don't know if that was actually a difference or that was it's all in my head you shall see hello oh what a birthday party I had a terrible time at Grandma's mr. Redfield show me your handsome face you gonna shoot me just shoot me right off the bat that's what I thought you were gonna do last time maybe I got you're gonna shoot me Oh slightly different no that's the same a Redfield I'm glad we found you oh he's not killing me took you guys so long I cannot job I gotta get back to work I love you so much I'm sending tons of kisses hi baby but oh it feels bad uh but in what world would you pick Zoe this is totally unrealistic but in what world would you pick Zoe and stay on one door closes oh so hopeful all right I'd do a close tonight but I'm feeling good right now and what a long that it was but not just for me huh me and I weren't the only victims here ah me right there no we're acres said it was that thing Evelyn who made them that way yeah see that logo is completely different lose dead and these guys are here to clean up the mess what a bunch of heroes I know I just come to terms of losing me in the first time but now I've lost her again and the only other door I can see is closed oh not quite so hopeful not quite so hopeful there you have it oh man if there's another ending I don't have time to find it because I spent a long time getting to this one the speedrun was still slow so what I'm going to do is I'm gonna skip this I'm gonna skip this and bada-bing bada-boom got a Bing bong Bing bong boom oh I didn't even have to wait through that for that okay cool well that's cool either way that is the end of Resident Evil 7 there's been quite a trip I've already said everything that was on my mind about this and there's all sorts of theories that I could spit out forever and ever but I'm very tired and I've just played through the ending twice now to get to both of them just to see what could happen I don't know who in the world would ever pick Zoe over Mia just in a rational mindset your wife is there even if like she tried to kill you I guess you know hey go with the go a say evil you know versus the evil you don't know you know that kind of that kind of choice between it but this was a fantastic game and a welcome welcome change to the Resident Evil series it's super interesting how they blended combat in it very well made combat very strenuous reloading getting trapped it was very very tight it was well tuned I liked it a lot I might be playing it on hard mode on my own just because I like this game a lot but I can't wait to see what they do in the future but I do think I do think this is going to be a slightly different universe than the one that we've seen before so with that being said thank you everybody so much for watching let me know what you thought of it down in the comments below I hope you enjoyed this series I want to do more long plays like this in the future this was a ton of fun so thanks again and as always I will see you in the next video bye-bye\n"