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During yesterday’s Next showcase, Capcom shared the first gameplay trailer forDead Rising Deluxe Remaster, giving us a glimpse at the revamped controls, improved survivor AI, and several of the psychopaths in all their current-gen gory glory.
They’re incredibly faithful, nearly 1:1 renditions of the 2006 classics, except for Larry Chiang. AKA the cannibal Butcher who takes Carlito hostage.
The original Larry Chiang was an incredibly racist depiction of a Chinese man, even bearing the hanzi for ‘meat’ on the back of his neck. He’s undergone a drastic redesign that strips back a lot of these stereotypes. While some fans are upset at the change, others agree that “the original model aged terribly” and that “it was a huge ‘yellow menace’ style caricature.”
Some believe Capcom has even made him white, as you can see in the Reddit post embedded below, but others believe that he’s simply a less offensive depiction.
“Larry’s design was pretty terrible,” wrote one fan onthe Steam forums. “Wouldn’t it make more sense if Carlito’s death was almost at the hands of a butcher that is a stereotypical representation of the American consumerism that Carlito’s motivations revolve around? Rather than some randomly really racist looking depiction of a Chinese dude.”
While it’s called a remaster, everything we saw last night seems more in line with a remake. It runs on Capcom’s new RE Engine (which stands for Reach for the Moon, not Resident Evil), there are a bunch of added quality-of-life features such asautosaving, fast-forwarding time, and even stairs to help move survivors, and gameplay is a lot slicker.
Its own developers admitted during the stream that it’s closer to a remake than a remaster, and that’s abundantly clear in some of the big changes like Larry’s overhaul. “Well, actually it wouldn’t be an exaggeration to call this game a remake considering the amount of work that we put into it,” director Ryosuku Mirai said.
We won’t have to wait long to try the remake for ourselves, asDead Rising Deluxe Remaster launches in just two monthson September 19.
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