Lost in the Nightmare Review
RE5: Lost in the Nightmare
The first piece of Resident Evil 5 DLC brought a lot of controversy over the fact it should have been a part of the original game disk, will this be worth buying or should you just let this one slide.
Lost in the Nightmare takes place during the time Chris and Jill infiltrated the Spencer Mansion, seen many times during flashback cutscenes in the actual Resident Evil 5 game. For those who have played the original Resident Evil title (remake or not) you are hit hard in the face with nostalgia, almost everything looks the same and feels the same. With staircases that feel you have walked on before, cranks and levers being Spencer’s favorite way to stop you in your tracks, piano’s and long forgotten notes bringing back old memories, and windows that scare you in ways that only a resident evil game could this DLC is quite the little déjà vu.
The DLC is only about half an hour to an hour long depending if you’re the kind of person who likes to look around every nook and cranny, which is a little short for what most would be expecting, but with this having no actual saves anywhere, for it to be much longer might have been a problem for some. There are plenty of checkpoints throughout the game but it will have to be a beaten in a single sit in order for it to count. Because this takes place long before the events of the RE5 all of your costumes and infinite ammo won’t be usable which may suck, but works in the scope of the timeline.
While it does feel nice to see what exactly happened during all of those flashbacks and being taken on the nostalgia train, the DLC only takes a short time to complete, with few enemies and notes to read there truly isn’t much to please everybody, but along with the game you get 2 new costumes for Chris and Sheva, and a whole new survival bloodbath called Mercenaries Reunion where you can play such characters as Excella, and Barry Burton. While this a good deal for 5 dollars, some might be put off with this being kind of a small remake of the original game, none the less this DLC will keep your nerves and trigger fingers on the edge.
I give it a 7.5/10
