OK, so this is kinda pointless, but as someone who invested quite a bit of time and caring into this game, I'm going to unleash my girl rant of why RE:7 completely screwed up.
SPOILER ALERT! AND GIRL RANT AHEADThough the game itself was great, the story suffered horrendously, in a turn quite out of character for Resident Evil games. Why? The choice!
I chose Zoe, the entire mess was Mia's fault! I would've forgiven her and saved them both, of course, but our marriage would be immediately ended and ethical capacity dictates that Zoe deserved that antidote without any form of question. Mia could very easily get one from her black box supervillian organization once she escaped. She didn't need any damn help at that point. Why is it Ethan's and Zoe's job to clean up her mess, and they try to paint everything as peachy with what Mia did?
And why couldnt they both come in the boat anyways? I mean, wth?
Mia was playing Ethan and everyone else all along, and she is clearly a sinister person undeserving of any kind of pass.
The way she acts as well if you don't choose her shows her two-faced nature she'd been hiding I'm guessing 99% of the marriage, along with everything else she was keeping secret. The woman is vile! She may have loved Ethan to some extent, but it was a false and tained lie of love that suited Mia's wants and convenience far more than it did any sense of real romance.
I kinda hate capcom right now for trying to make Mia seem like the 'right' choice based on endings, when she was clearly the wrong one, especially after putting us in that position to begin with when it was unecessary given how they played it. This little rabbit has sneaking suspicions some corporate douchebag in the company had a hand in this story path. It would explain, at least, the terrible premise of the choice and endings, given RE is typically quite a bit better than that. (Bad guys don't often survive, and you're definitely not rewarded for liking them)
So Mia makes a couple decent choices to show she isn't ALL bad at some points and take justa tiny bit of responsibility. That doesn't mean she deserves to be treated with preference over her victims. Way to drop the ball, Capcom.
It's like they were trying to justify what happened and send a message like 'oh, evil and sadistic people who perform illegal and inhuman experiments on children are far morre worthy of life and repsect than some poor family from the boondocks who's lives and souls were torn apart because of their greedy and power hungry militant bs.' Really??? Thankfully, I never had to write capcom because the hate mail they've received is probably a pile to rival Trump's.
And then, with all the negative backlash they recieved they made the End of Zoe campaign, that, despite it being somewhat decent, tried to further 'justify' their original premise. Wth? What is wrong with these people? Are they all just horny cis guys now who give way to any girl so long as they're 'cute'
? Whatever their reasons, they are beyond pathetic in ethical flaws.
Again, the RE universe has many shades of people with some really neat character depth, yet I don't ever remember being expected to like them.
How would you react? What did you think?
I'm kinda riot girl, but after a betrayal like that, (let's face it, she wasn't a secret hero, she was a secret villain serving mad scientists and the rich) if it were me, once we were safe, I would have casually thrown my wedding ring at Mia and told her that from now on, I would join forces with Blue Umbrella and never stop until I burned her friends' entire dark science project and everything involved into a pile of smoldering ashes, to be scattered by the four winds and never be even thought about again. And if I ever see her or anyone even remotely associated with her show their head near me or Zoe again, that they will be leaving without it. But, ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ that's me. I don't validate malevolence.
