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00:12welcome to mojo plays and today we're continuing our hidden facts lists with more resident evil
00:18we've done re village we've done re7 we've successfully skipped re6 time for re5 these
00:23are 20 things you didn't know about re5 before we continue we publish content all week long so be
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00:41welcome to africa
00:45let's start off with a fun little insight into one of our protagonists designs and no i'm not talking
00:50about old mate chris's tree trunk arms if you are fluent in swahili you may already know this but
00:55for everyone else take a look at the tattoo on newcomer cheva's arm just in case it wasn't
01:00obvious from her main role she was also branded and the tattoo says hero in swahili either the
01:05game was being funny for bilingual fans or cheva is unbelievably up herself either way what a hero
01:17tiger uppercut
01:27in resident evil 5's mercenaries mode albert wesker can casually break the laws of survival horror
01:32by throwing out a full-on tiger uppercut which is not something they teach at bsaa turns out this isn't
01:37random nonsense it's a deliberate nod to the iconic special move from street fighter another capcom
01:42series meaning capcom essentially looked at their trench coat wearing super villain and said
01:47yeah he absolutely knows fighting game inputs and probably a handful of cheat codes as well scumbag
02:03we actually saw the merchant
02:08resident evil 5 was originally going to feature a proper merchant system similar to the fan favorite
02:14weapons dealer from resident evil 4 beloved by many quoted by all the plan got so far along in
02:19development that he is still present in the game the merchant is actually the same guy who quietly
02:25hands chris and cheva their gear at the start of the game implying there was a whole unseen economy
02:30where this dude just shuffles around africa armed to the teeth but the idea was ultimately scrapped
02:35likely because having a trench coat arms dealer calmly setting up shop during a global outbreak
02:39might have been even more silly than our old friend from re4 grab your weapons the operations already
02:50fiona belly a few years ago the bsaa received intel as to the whereabouts of umbrellas founder oswell e spencer
03:00jill and i were ordered by the bsaa's european headquarters to apprehend him
03:04we accepted that mission in the hopes of uncovering some info that would lead us to wesker
03:09jill's appearance throughout this franchise might be the most inconsistent mainly because she doesn't
03:14look the same in a single entry for resident evil 5 her likeness was heavily based on fiona belly
03:20from haunting ground which is fine because they're both capcom titles once you notice it you can't
03:25unsee it because the facial structure overall look and vibe are so similar it feels like capcom actually
03:30got a little lazy i would never ever steal words i've already used for a mojo video that would be
03:36unethical i directly quoted my own thesis on sexualization in media in my last video that would be
03:41immoral firsts for dialogue
03:53turns out that resident evil 5 had a lot of firsts and a few specific to the game's spoken lines
03:58it was the first entry to drop a full-on f-bomb in english which is funny considering earlier games
04:04were already packed with biological horrors corporate conspiracies and people screaming their
04:08lungs out but don't you dare curse you savage on top of that it was also the first time the
04:12series
04:13fully committed to proper subtitles during cut scenes marking the moment when players no longer
04:17had to guess what was being said over explosions accents and melodrama because of the lack of
04:22subtitles my brother and this is not a lie for comedy this is 100 true debated with me years before
04:29the internet was available to us that barry burton in the first resident evil didn't say you were almost
04:34a jill sandwich but you were almost a jibble sandwich an idiot that was too close you were
04:40almost a jill sandwich desert and evil
04:43i should have seen it coming resident evil 5 was originally planned to include a desert stage built
04:55around a massive wrecked ship but the level was ultimately scrapped after developers realized that
05:00trudging across empty dunes was more tedious than terrifying which is a shame because the area was
05:05supposed to include sand based enemies that literally rose out of the ground like undead beach
05:09umbrellas meaning we were one design meeting away from chris redfield suplexing zombies after sand
05:14jumpscare spread governments of the world turned to the global pharmaceutical consortium
05:19which formed the anti-terrorism unit bsaa reunited and it feels so good
05:28oh damn more firsts resident evil 5 marked the first time a mainline entry managed to get the
05:35entire original crew back together in one place with chris jill albert barry and rebecca chambers
05:41all making appearances turning the game into a full-on reunion tour it feels less like survival horror
05:46and more like capcom checking off a very important fan service bingo card and while not everyone shows up
05:51in the main story mercenaries steps in to complete the roll call which i know technically feels like
05:56cheating but it also feels so wonderful for the soul
06:02the gold ring
06:10the uroboros test subject is designed to be an absolute ammo tax the kind of enemy that exists
06:15solely to teach you to use your surroundings to get a tactical advantage the game very much wants you
06:21to push the big red burn it button on the nearby incinerator instead of emptying your entire arsenal
06:26like a panicked action hero but if you ignore capcom's very reasonable suggestion and somehow
06:32manage to kill this nightmare without using the incinerator the game quietly hands you a golden ring
06:36as a reward which could be sold for a cool 5 000 meaning you're technically being paid for stubbornness
06:41although once you factor in the mountain of ammo you probably spent achieving this feat you'll have to
06:45decide whether the real prize was the money or just the satisfaction of proving you ain't no bitch
07:04left-handed
07:12split-screen co-op in resident evil 5 isn't just randomly slapping players onto opposite halves of the tv
07:18cheva is always locked to the right side while chris lives permanently on the left and the reason for
07:23this is a surprisingly nerdy detail cheva is left-handed and chris right so capcom position them
07:29so their dominant hands naturally face the center of the screen meaning even while dodging parasites
07:35and yelling at each other over voice chat the game is quietly optimizing sight lines and visually
07:40it looked kind of nice too
07:47inventory madness
07:57and you thought the inventory management in re 4 was stressful resident evil 5 quietly changed the rules of the
08:05series by becoming the first entry where you actually see characters
08:08physically swap weapons instead of politely freezing time and rummaging through a magical inventory suitcase
08:13and a double down on the panic by making the inventory run in real time meaning the world absolutely does
08:19not stop while you debate which weapon is the prettiest
08:22if you open your item menu you'd better be quick decisive and prepared because the enemies are still moving and
08:28don't really care that your backpack is open on the floor
08:30this ain't the forest
08:32relance
08:34relance
08:37relance
08:38relance
08:38Shinji mikami didn't like it
08:49Resident Evil 5 marked a quiet turning point for the series because it was the first mainline entry developed without
08:54Shinji mikami's direct input
08:56this wouldn't matter to the average gamer who was just there to play a game and didn't really care about
09:00the behind the scenes faff
09:01but let me get you some hot goss then we'll see if you don't care
09:05before the game even launched mikami openly admitted he probably wouldn't like it simply because it wasn't something he had
09:11worked on
09:11what a nasty bitch he was
09:13after actually playing it and he went on to praise capcom for the effort and craftsmanship on display while still
09:19making it clear that the direction didn't align with his personal vision of what resident
09:23evil should be backhanded if you ask me i know you didn't but i'm here for the tea and i
09:28want to keep it hot years after it goes cold
09:36old friends
09:40are you all right
09:49this might not be an entry that you didn't know but it's definitely an entry you haven't thought about
09:54if you didn't break it down mentally re5 wasn't the first time jill valentine found herself on the same side
10:00as albert wesker
10:01in re1 they technically begin the game as comrades re5 has her powered by a progenitor based chemical
10:06meaning jill isn't suddenly evil so much as chemically hijacked turning one of the series most dependable heroes
10:12into an unwilling henchwoman and giving capcom an excuse to explore extremely uncomfortable ideas like loyalty loss of agency
10:18and what happens when your former teammate installs evil dlc directly into your chest
10:33early on in chapter 1-2 the environment features posters for an album by paula hopkins titled mother
10:40a background detail that seems like nothing rather than a fun connection between two of capcom's most
10:45beloved classics this exact same poster also shows up in dead rising confirming once again that capcom treats
10:52its games like a shared toy box where props and character models just wander between franchises
10:57meaning resident evil 5 isn't just about bioterrorism and punches it's also quietly reminding you that
11:02somewhere in this universe paula hopkins is performing her worldwide comeback tour
11:11single player again
11:17long before co-op became the defining hook everyone associates with resident evil 5
11:21the plan was for chris redfield to actually handle the entire mess alone grimly stomping
11:26through bioterror hotspots with only occasional help from npcs popping in like very unreliable co-workers
11:32this may have taken away the one thing that kept this entry warm in players hearts in those early
11:37concepts cheva alamo wasn't even a bsaa partner but a member of a local militia who drifted in and out
11:43of
11:43the story you can still see the dna of this abandoned single player vision in the 2007 and 2008 trailers
11:49where chris is clearly flying solo with no partner glued to his hip
11:53what would this game be without them annoyingly screaming come on at each other
12:03fixed cam throwback
12:13veterans of the series will remember a time when survival horror meant wrestling with tank controls
12:18that felt like piloting a forklift in a haunted house a design choice that defined the early
12:22entries and these tank controls took place in the beloved fixed camera perspective resident evil 5
12:28still sneaks in a nostalgic wink during the lost in nightmares dlc if you repeatedly try to leave
12:34through the front door a little question mark appears and the camera suddenly snaps into classic
12:38fixed camera perspective briefly transforming the game into a ps1 era memory where you're fighting the
12:44controls as much as the enemies uh to be back god damn it why won't you run in a straight
12:48line chris i hate you
12:57zombies were back
13:10resident evil 4 famously ditched the classic flesh-eating undead for the now even more famous
13:16los plagas but in resident evil 5 they toyed with the idea of taking us back to our roots early
13:22versions
13:22of resident evil 5 quietly brought them back in the form of t-virus zombies that were faster more aggressive
13:27and apparently allergic to the idea of shambling politely with early test screenshots even showing
13:32chris redfield unloading rounds into full-on traditional undead capcom ultimately pulled the
13:37plug on this direction and swapped them out for the margini instead reasoning that zombies wouldn't be
13:42capable of coordinated tactical attacks they wanted in the game that being said the co-op ai could barely
13:48do that either
13:55slim redfield
14:02that first 2007 trailer revealed turned heads for one hilarious reason chris redfield suddenly looked like
14:08he'd spent every minute since 1996 benching buses the dudes arms look like absurdly thick rocket launches
14:15and his design had gone from bsaa operative bad boy to bodybuilders dream journal but interestingly
14:20this ultra jacked look wasn't always the plan since early concept art in the original 2005 trailer
14:26show a far more reasonably proportioned chris who's clearly older and more withered than before
14:32but still recognizably human-sized proving that somewhere along development capcom made the conscious
14:37decision to stop asking can chris survive this and start asking can this survive chris
14:53where's barry
15:02long before barry burton finally stole the spotlight in resident evil revelations 2
15:08capcom had apparently been flirting with the idea of bringing back everyone's favorite magnum loving
15:13dad much earlier early drafts of resident evil 5 suggest barry was once lined up to assist chris during the
15:20campaign at a point when the identity of chris's partner was still up in the air but not that
15:24partner barry wasn't going to replace shiver but instead jill in the end jill won out and barry was
15:29quietly benched likely because the story needed fewer nostalgic one-liners that all being said a mind-controlled
15:35barry sounds terrifying
15:45original roles
15:57continuing on this train of thought early story drafts took a very different route with the cast
16:01outside the barry is brainwashed version another potential story direction had jill valentine
16:06physically imprisoned in a tricell capsule and later rescued by chris redfield like a high-budget lab
16:10experiment gone wrong in this version shiver was relegated to npc status and barry burton was
16:16positioned as the supporting ally but as development shifted capcom decided that brainwashing jill was far
16:22more dramatic than locking her in a sci-fi tupperware promoting shiver into chris's full-time co-op
16:27partner and quietly rewriting barry's importance towards a future starring role in resident evil
16:32revelations 2. not a bad change for old barry jill sandwich burton
16:43mr x goes to africa
16:52for a series famous for trench coated nightmares and walking meat slabs it felt oddly wrong that classic
16:59umbrella super soldiers were nowhere to be found in resident evil 4 or resident evil 5 especially since
17:04capcom briefly considered fixing that by dropping a full tyrant into the ladder where it was
17:08apparently slated to brutally remove excella from the game and not by deleting her code more like
17:14deleting her head from her body while no footage of this absolute unit exists early concept art shows
17:20the familiar claw and towering refrigerator with legs silhouette that screams classic resident evil
17:25imagine mr x strolling around in that heat looking for a cool shadow to sit in or probably more likely
17:31ripping faces off of heads yeah probably that
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