YMMV / Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles

• Demonic Spiders:
  • Lickers and Eliminators. They're small, agile, fast, and fond of leaping attacks.
  • Hunters are big, agile, fast, and fond of leaping attacks.
• Ensemble Dark Horse:
  • Fan favorite HUNK is back and gets his own chapter in the game which is like an updated version of The 4th Survivor. He also gets some very memorable lines in the game as well.
  • Richard Aiken is featured in a chapter as a NPC partner for one of Rebecca Chambers' segments and receives a little bit of a tragic background reasoning for joining S.T.A.R.S.
• Goddamned Bats: The leeches in Train Derailment, small spiders in Mansion Incident and the roaches in Raccoon's Destruction have the potential to be like this. However, only a small number of them actually attack, in which they cause no damage unless you leave them on, and can be removed with a simple swipe of the knife. It's mainly if you're overwhelmed by other enemies at the same time that they become annoying. Played straight with the crows.
• Narm: Right here.
• Older Than They Think: The Umbrella Chronicles was actually the first game with D.C. Douglas voicing Albert Wesker.
• One-Scene Wonder: Ada and HUNK, two Ensemble Darkhorses from the fan favorite Resident Evil 2, are only playable for one chapter each.
• Scrappy Mechanic: The player must replay certain levels and score an A rank in order to unlock the final level, adding an unnecessary layer of padding in the eyes of many. This was removed in The Darkside Chronicles.
• Spiritual Successor: To the Gun Survivor spinoffs.
• That One Boss:
  • The Leech Queen is infuriating because the player has to snipe its moving, minuscule weakspot to either stagger it (first phase) or make it vulnerable (second phase). Fail and it lunges at you, causing damage and reverting any progress that had been made. The battle can be trivialized with the Grenade Launcher, but ammo is so scarce you will probably have to stick with machine gun or handgun rounds for most of it.
  • The Ivan boss has the potential to be a real pain, and it gets worse in Dark Legacy where you have to fight two of them simultaneously.
  • T.A.L.O.S., particularly with its second form's abundance of Press X to Not Die attacks, has major irritation potential.
• That One Level: Umbrella's End Chapter 2. The once-per-level First Aid Spray is not in an immediately obvious location, and herbs are not positioned very intelligently.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: Nemesis was the highlight of Resident Evil 3: Nemesis, right down to the game's title. Here, he only shows up for a single chapter and doesn't even get to go One-Winged Angel before being unceremoniously killed by Jill and Carlos in a rather underwhelming boss fight.

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