


Give Barry his gun back or let Lisa kill him.

Resident Evil games have had choice before, but not ones that lead to such blatantly mismatched endings. It’s like making everyone take a pop quiz during lunch break - I refuse to believe it’s my fault for not being prepared for this. If you do, it’s not difficult or challenging it’s just baffling. Choice in video games is not something you can throw in at the final hour. Mechanically it doesn’t make any more sense, as there are no other choices anywhere else in the game - not choices of this import, anyway.
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How is the player supposed to glean that not saving her here will save her later? And that’s not even taking into account that End of Zoe came out almost a full year after the main Resident Evil 7, meaning if you did save Mia, Zoe was MIA that whole time. You make your choice, and then boom, she’s dead minutes later. Like I said, I’m an old romantic, but suppose you really wanted to save your friend, who’s been helping you out and who was dealt the mother of all bad hands when Eveline showed up and enslaved her entire family. Mia was my first choice, so I can only imagine what it was like playing Resident Evil 7 for the first time, choosing Zoe, and then getting such a disappointing finale. Having a choice that late in the game does signal that it’ll affect the ending, but not how. When a player is handed a choice like that, obviously they don’t know what the outcome will be.

It begs the query: Why even have the option in the first place? Is there a point to having a choice when one is a “better” or canonical one? Spoiled for Choice In End of Zoe, in spite of what the name suggests, Zoe lives and is saved by her heretofore-unmentioned Uncle Joe. If you choose Mia, not only does she live and escape, but Zoe’s story is set up for the End of Zoe DLC. Call me an old romantic, but I felt as though there were no way Ethan would abandon his wife to her death after having just gone through moldy hell and back to save her, no matter how much he might like Zoe.īut the question of who’s more deserving - your wife or your friend - turns out to be moot. I’ve seen mixed reactions to this choice in Resident Evil 7, and admittedly I was a bit baffled when I saw my options. The final boss is the same in both endings. If you choose Zoe, Eveline kills Zoe and Ethan is forced to kill Mia later, and he alone is rescued by Chris. If you choose Mia, she rescues Ethan when he’s captured by Eveline and they’re both later rescued by Chris Redfield. You must decide which one to save, and this will lead you to two endings. The choices are Mia, who is Ethan’s wife and the person whose rescue is his motivation for the entire game, and Zoe, his helper throughout this nightmare. Towards the end of the game, protagonist Ethan is given the option of administering one person a curative serum. So what was the point of giving us a choice at all? Spoiling Resident Evil 7 But the options - and subsequent DLC - were heavily skewed in favor of one ending over another. Resident Evil 7 introduced a choice in its final hours that drastically alters the outcome of the story.
