Resident Evil 5 Josh and Excella Gameplay
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Behind the scenes or otherwise, she really didn't do that much.
Sure she contributed money and was infatuated with Wesker, but beyond that, she was just along for the ride. Irving contributed money as well, "research like this doesn't fund itself...yet everyone looks down on me", yet he had a larger role I think, with being seen more, as well as him pretty much being the reason Chris & Sheva progress, as they are trying to catch Irving...
Excella was cool and all, but her role was insignificant, and I feel that she could have survived and had a role in a future game, as she is introduced and killed off pretty quickly. They could have used Wesker to introduce her, then with Wesker being dead, she could still have shown up, now she & Wesker(and Irving for that matter) are dead, leaving no one to take up the antagonistic role, except maybe Nicholai....
Sure she contributed money and was infatuated with Wesker, but beyond that, she was just along for the ride. Irving contributed money as well, "research like this doesn't fund itself...yet everyone looks down on me", yet he had a larger role I think, with being seen more, as well as him pretty much being the reason Chris & Sheva progress, as they are trying to catch Irving...
Excella was cool and all, but her role was insignificant, and I feel that she could have survived and had a role in a future game, as she is introduced and killed off pretty quickly. They could have used Wesker to introduce her, then with Wesker being dead, she could still have shown up, now she & Wesker(and Irving for that matter) are dead, leaving no one to take up the antagonistic role, except maybe Nicholai....
Godzilla90s;63917 said:
They already have Battlesuit Jill and Midnight Wesker though. I hope CAPCOM's smart enough to know that such a minor change in a costume isn't even worth adding in.
Seriously if it were simply just Wesker, with his leather coat, and Jill, with the little mindcontrol device, then I think we would have heard about them long before we heard about Excella and Josh. They must be saving the best added character(s) for last.
Spike991;63919 said:
Behind the scenes or not I think it makes her important. It keeps the flow of the story going and it kind of makes the whole Excella boss/death more emotional.
Also I think it has been stated, by the creators, that Resident Evil 5 is the "final" chapter to the series. The only thing the creators are talking about now is rebooting Resident Evil- not making Resident Evil 6.
Don't get me wrong, I think they should have left an opening for a RE6 game(by either keeping Wesker alive or Excella), but apparently it was the creators' intensions to make this the final chapter with the Chris, Jill and Wesker characters.
No matter which way you put it, Excella was an expendable character, not only in Wesker's plan(which he stole from Spencer apparently), but in the game itself. I for one found her boss fight unnecessary anyway, I personally found that part to be tedious and not fun.
As for her mutation, I also found it to be lame. I love a good and emotional scene where a character mutates, but hers just didn't do it for me. Irving on the other hand I think had an epic mutation, not just in size, but the way it played out in the scene...
If it is the final game in the series, then I suppose it might not have mattered, but considering that Excella has a relatively small role in RE5, I expect we could have seen her again anyway. I mean Outbreak was a side story game, and much of it wasn't even canon, if any at all(but I personally like to think some of it is), and alot of RE's minor characters have made appearances in the Outbreak series.
Basically, if a new era of RE was going to start, Excella is a character that could have worked as an antagonist.
As for her mutation, I also found it to be lame. I love a good and emotional scene where a character mutates, but hers just didn't do it for me. Irving on the other hand I think had an epic mutation, not just in size, but the way it played out in the scene...
If it is the final game in the series, then I suppose it might not have mattered, but considering that Excella has a relatively small role in RE5, I expect we could have seen her again anyway. I mean Outbreak was a side story game, and much of it wasn't even canon, if any at all(but I personally like to think some of it is), and alot of RE's minor characters have made appearances in the Outbreak series.
Basically, if a new era of RE was going to start, Excella is a character that could have worked as an antagonist.