Resident Evil: Village has a spooky old castle full of vampires. Castlevania has a spooky old castle full of vampires. You can see where this is going.
Residentvania is a small tribute game made by OcO that is very good. The result of two monthsā work, with every asset in the game being custom made, it plays and looks a lot like Castlevania, only youāre controlling Ethan Winters, not Simon Belmont.
Even the level design is a crossover, with Castlevaniaās opening stage given a Castle Dimitrescu makeover. Itās available now on itch.io, controls with the keyboard, and you can see a trailer below:
Via PC Gamer, hereās OcOās official description:
The development time was a total of 2 months. Every asset is custom made, but the game itself is completely free and cannot be sold due to it being a fan game.
The first thing I thought while playing āResident Evil: Villageā was how much it reminded me of āCastlevaniaā, so I thought Iād make a mash up of the two. I chose the first level of the original āCastlevaniaā for NES, mixed in with the Castle Dimitrescu section of āRE: Villageā.
RESIDENT EVIL VILLAGE: THE KOTAKU REVIEW
Just a few years ago, Resident Evil 7 marked a return to the seriesā survival horror roots, setting a high bar for its eventual follow-up. While Resident Evil Village still falls prey to the seriesā most pernicious problems, notably the inevitable swerve from horror to action and bosses that donāt quite match the strong moment-to-moment gameplay, those shortcomings donāt overshadow the frequency with which the game hits on all cylinders. Village may not live up to the potential of its immediate predecessor, but itās a safe new entry in the series that induces the same entertaining anxiety as my favorite Resident Evil games and provides a few interesting wrinkles for where the franchise might go next.
