I’ve never played a single Resident Evil game in my life. I just never cared for horror games, but I bought one of the remakes a few months ago because they were on sale on Steam so I could finally get into the series. But of course, I never tried it. Then when Requiem came out earlier this year, I saw a lot of people talking about the series, and it piqued my interest again.
Then a few days ago, I saw the Generation Pack on Amazon and I was surprised that it was in stock. I decided to grab it because it looked like a good deal. I do plan on playing and reviewing each game individually, but for now I just want to talk about the Generation Pack by itself. Is it as good of a collection as people say?
The Generation Pack includes the Switch 2 versions of Resident Evil Requiem, Resident Evil Village, and Resident Evil 7 Biohazard for $90. This is the first time that 7 and Village have natively made their way to a Nintendo console, and Requiem is still a very new title. Other versions of Requiem still retail for $70, so you’re effectively paying an extra $20 for dedicated Switch 2 ports of the other two games.
But you’re not just getting the original games for 7 and Village, you’re getting the Gold Edition of each. Resident Evil 7 Biohazard Gold Edition includes the base game and Not A Hero, End of Zoe, and additional DLC. Resident Evil Village Gold Edition includes the Winter’s Expansion and Trauma Pack DLC and more. Buying other versions of both Gold Editions would cost you around $50 on top of the cost of Requiem.
You’re getting a lot of content for the bundled $90. Just doing the main content of all three games will run you between 30 and 40 hours. All the additional content could set you back more than 100 hours. You also get one Switch 2 case for each game and a special outer case to store them in.
It’s honestly an amazing value, but the only downside is that all three games are game key cards. You’re getting three physical cartridges, but you still need to download the game data to the console in order to use the cartridge and play the game. In order to download all three games, you’re looking at nearly 90GB of storage that you’ll need ready. This will definitely be a hindrance to those who prefer complete physical games and those who haven’t bought additional storage.
But in general, it’s a solid collection.