Ultimately, there's no better way to sample that original survival horror formula in 2019, provided you’ve got the stomach - and the space on your system memory - for it. Both are available separately on the eShop, and if you buy physical you'll still have to download REmake via a code regardless.
Both games look great on Switch and the ability to play on-the-go helps alleviate some of the frustrations inherent to their old-fashioned systems, giving them the best possible opportunity to win you over in a modern context. The same applies to Resident Evil 0, and while the original game is the obvious draw here, the prequel deserves another look, especially for fans who skipped it. Series veterans will know what to expect, but new players should prepare themselves for a schooling in game mechanics which have largely fallen out of fashion. Even when tuned and honed and buffed to perfection, it has its own idiosyncratic personality and ways change them and you change the game. In many ways it is – and can only ever be – a product of its time, though.
The first Resident Evil remains a classic of the genre.
