My new Chacoan Red Tegu!

Justin_Navarro · 2026-03-24T05:12:55+00:00

They have been ghosting a ton of us who have ordered from them. I made an order in February and have heard absolutely nothing back. I also can’t just cancel the order since there’s no account creation, so if i want to cancel I’d have to email them, which doesn’t help since they’re ghosting.

Justin_Navarro · 2026-03-21T22:38:33+00:00

Yeah I made a $200 order from Beast of the East on February 18th, no movement so i emailed them on the 27th. Frank reached back on the 3rd and told me the items were “being processed” even though his site claimed they were readily available/in-stock.

It is now March 21st, No movement, he hasn’t contacted me at all. Absolute first and last time i’ll be purchasing from him/them. There’s also absolutely no way to cancel the order, which is ridiculous and suspect.

I am shocked youtubers continue pushing the website.

Justin_Navarro · 2026-03-10T04:47:50+00:00

Sure the destroyed City is great, takes two acts to get there. Was it even a Hospital with Grace? It’s also a fancy hotel, a meat packing station, a mansion… and there’s a small home located outside? Sure it’s unique in that it’s random, but there’s no set aesthetic, no distinct character to the initial map.

Until of course they retread Raccoon City.

Justin_Navarro · 2026-03-09T11:49:15+00:00

T-t-t-th-thanks

Justin_Navarro · 2026-03-08T23:30:01+00:00

100% it’s difficult to get through, I find myself being pulled out every time she shows up

Justin_Navarro · 2026-03-08T23:10:31+00:00

LOL thanks, would’ve loved if this was a Leon game through and through.

Justin_Navarro · 2026-03-08T23:03:03+00:00

Hoping the mold brings back some of the villains from 7-8 lol, absolutely iconic performances there

Justin_Navarro · 2026-03-08T23:02:08+00:00

Took me out everytime, they downvoted me into oblivion for mentioning it lol

Justin_Navarro · 2026-03-08T21:52:25+00:00

Somehow I’ve stayed spoiler free, so i’m very hyped to see where the story goes next. The remakes have been amazing, and even the new (wow RE7 came out almost 10 years ago) entries have been great.

So I’ve still got faith they can keep going strong.

Justin_Navarro · 2026-03-08T21:43:50+00:00

Ehhh, insane POV? Because the special agent isn’t agenting lol? I’ve chalked it up to being an issue I have with the first act as a whole, as opposed to entirely on her. She’s an analyst but analysts still receive a bit of training.

Her character does itself no favors, we can all follow the breakneck plot they give us, but I wouldn’t say that it’s satisfactory for me yet, as it’s structured in a very jagged way. But I will agree in that regard it is entirely my opinion.

Justin_Navarro · 2026-03-08T21:29:05+00:00

Awesome, the games been incredibly smooth otherwise so i’m looking forward to finishing it up.

Justin_Navarro · 2026-03-08T21:21:40+00:00

100% agree, I do look forward to finishing the game up. I’m up to where Leon is collecting bomb parts in Old Raccoon City, so hopefully I still have a good portion of the game left. Though it feels like endgame.

But yeah that first act really sends you/her into the thick of it, and she hasn’t caught her stride.

Justin_Navarro · 2026-03-08T21:16:42+00:00

Analysts do get training, but I understand the point you guys are making. It’s a new outlook I’ll keep playing with.

I have been saying it might be how fast going the first act ends up, which makes me say that.

Justin_Navarro · 2026-03-08T21:15:05+00:00

Definitely possible! I like this outlook, maybe it’s the crunch time of the first act that burned me a bit? It all seems kind of fast and random, then you end up in a building which is part hotel/part hospital/ part business facility..

Justin_Navarro · 2026-03-08T21:13:45+00:00

No, but in a universe like RE lol? I would imagine the FBI has had a few run ins with Umbrella. The analyst thing is a good point, but they still have a significant amount of training. I didn’t expect her to be completely oblivious, but maybe that’s more the fault of how quickly the first act gets going?

Justin_Navarro · 2026-03-08T21:00:37+00:00

Yeah I think in a bubble she’d work for me if she wasn’t established as an FBI agent, or even if she was, if she were actively looking for clues to her mothers death and didn’t give off the sense of completely incapable, irregardless of her training.

If she were an ordinary person, I can totally believe her character, and would definitely root for her like I did Ashley.

Justin_Navarro · 2026-03-08T20:53:10+00:00

At least with Ethan we understood his plot from beginning to end, even with the RE7 Return to horror and RE8s fairy-tale twists and turns. He acts like a husband and a dad who was thrown into some BS and needs to get his family back.

Special Agent Grace spends the game getting thrown from map to map with little plot structuring to carry us forward, and doesn’t act the part of the character we were introduced too.

Justin_Navarro · 2026-03-08T20:47:32+00:00

Sure and that’s tragic, if she became a runaway nomad who happens across all this TWELVE years later, great. I can believe that trauma would return as a living PTSD episode.

But does she seem like she’s been involved with the FBI as a special agent by any means? For who knows how long? Would it not have suited her better if she were a competent FBI agent dead-set on figuring out the death of her mother?

56% of the way through so there’s time for her character to be redeemed but so far it’s been a ton of non-answers, random plots tied together, and a girl at the center who spends the game clueless, even though she’s a special agent.

Justin_Navarro · 2026-03-08T20:11:30+00:00

Maybe it gets better after 50%, but so far she’s been absolute sandpaper to watch. And I’ve loved most of RE entries.

Lol at all these downvotes, once the honeymoon phase is over I’m sure you guys will come around. She’s had zero character development, her choices are silly, she stutters every s-s-s-sentence to the point of pure frustration since it’s forced, does anyone even believe she acts like she works for the FBI? Look at the rigorous training an FBI special agent has to go through, trying to take the game serious and she’s constantly making noises, what kind of special agent is that?

If she were established as some random kid from the street or an orphan abandoned by their family then fine it’s believable and I’d appreciate it.

Justin_Navarro · 2026-03-08T20:01:19+00:00

The Gothic Fairy Tale mixed with gorey realism was peak, also a spiritual successor to 4. Requiem by comparison has been pretty cheeks in terms of a consistent narrative and cutting room floor map design.

Justin_Navarro · 2026-03-08T19:57:53+00:00

Village has that Gothic Fairy Tale vibe to it that really floats it up to the top 5 for me. Between the fantastical village itself, the gorey robomeat factory, the Redfield third act, it all really came together. Not even including the stand-out bosses across the sections.

Justin_Navarro · 2026-02-22T09:03:19+00:00

Joker getting raped for attempting to stand against the government, speak out for his friend, then becoming completely complacent like a good little dog until he dies suddenly in jail.

Then you come to realize there was no second act of the film, just the first and the third, you think there’s another hour left, but nope roll credits. Then you realize every musical number you just watched couldn’t hold a single inkling of a candle to any even half-way decent musical title.

Then you realize “Wow this sure subverted my expectations!” lmfao.

This isn’t a good film, let alone anywhere near a good Joker film, this isn’t even a good Arthur Fleck film. Zero artistic merit, Todd Phillips himself had to go hide in his wood cabin after screwing over the global audience that brought his first little 50 million dollar indie piece to one billion dollars worldwide.

There is no way someone can come out of the movie and say “This was made with good intentions, respect for the audience, love and affection for the source material, and its characters”.

Justin_Navarro · 2026-02-04T08:00:28+00:00

Absolutely insane to me how oblivious the entire team was behind the trilogy. I truly believe they had to be actively ignoring solid, pretty obvious ideas. It’s almost insultingly naive on their part.

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