There’s a little corridor in
Resident
Evil 2 which has stuck in my mind for what must be going on for
fifteen years. The last time I saw it was probably a decade ago but I can
still (and will) list off its most minute features. It is somewhere
under the police station and makes up part of - I’m assuming but can’t
remember any details - the needlessly sinuous route from Raccoon City’s
claustrophobic streets to its even more claustrophobic subterranean realm. It’s
a bit out of the way really, located as it is at the foot of a ladder down
the end of a recessed, open-air space which snakes around the back of the
municipal building's basement. Upon first approaching it you’re
set upon by dogs; enemies so fierce that I can still remember their
throaty, digitally processed barks and the relentlessness of their
enthusiastically murderous, seemingly nonsensical galloping. Perhaps
running this gauntlet is one of the reasons I so vividly remember what comes
after it.
