Resident Evil 101 - Interview with Alex Aniel

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🗓️ 4 June 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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As part of our new Waypoint 101 initiative, Patrick has invited Alex Aniel, Author of “Itchy, Tasty: An Unofficial History of Resident Evil,” on to talk all things Resident Evil. They chat about where they started with the franchise, how RE has influenced the gaming landscape, and discuss Alex’s intensive interviews with many of the creative minds behind the early Resident Evil games.

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0:00.0	Chris Redfield
0:08.0	Jill Valentine
0:14.0	Mary Burton
0:23.0	Rebecca Chambers
0:29.0	Robert Wesker
0:36.0	Resident Evil
0:38.0	Hey everyone, welcome to a Waypoint Plus podcast where this is a little special treat.
0:43.9	We are as you know, hopefully you know, if you don't, you should be going to twitch.tv
0:48.3	slash Waypoint or youtube.com slash Waypoint Vice.
0:51.4	This is me remembering all the URLs and spooling out of my brain at once.
0:56.0	This Rob Zachini and I have been well for him the first time for me, who knows how
1:02.1	many times depending on which version of Resident Evil you're counting, playing through the
1:06.7	original Resident Evil, which I guess for semantic purposes, no, it is not the original
1:11.2	PlayStation one.
1:12.2	It is the remake that was released subsequently.
1:16.5	Resident Evil fans have been up in my mentions mentioning that no, that is not the original.
1:20.1	I get it, I get it, I get it, I get it, I get it.
1:23.0	So we're replaying through that and has been a joy to watch Rob play for the first time.
1:27.2	And as part of what we're doing with these Waypoint 101s, we're replaying some older
1:33.0	games revisiting some older games.
1:35.9	We wanted to do a little bit more and part of that is bringing in outsiders from outside
1:41.6	the waypoint community.
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