Posted July 27, 2024
To get the obvious ones out of the way,
Jill: 8 item slots, has lockpick, gets bazooka and related ammo, Barry as sidekick (early access to shotgun, can save from mistakes and provide more shortcuts around the house)
Chris: 6 item slots, has to use small keys (and sword key), gets flamethrower, Rebecca as sidekick (free heals at one point in the game I guess?), considerably more enemies (many rooms that have 2 enemies as Jill have 3 as Chris).
I hadn't played the original in 20 years and was surprised how good the flamethrower is, it gives you a power fantasy moment in the caves, which normally is a pretty stressful area. But aside from these, people say Chris supposedly has more HP, and I found some saying he is faster? The differences in the Remastered version are well documented, but I couldn't find concrete information on the original 1996 RE. Anyone have some real numbers on these differences?
Also something I noticed in my playthroughs just now, is that Chris seems to ready his handgun / magnum a lot faster than Jill. This is actually very useful in boss fights and against some of the faster and mobile enemies.
P.S. I intentionally left out the no ink ribbons needed as Jill out, because that was only done on this PC version. I used the Hex editor hack from these forums to remove the "easy" mode from Jill.
Jill: 8 item slots, has lockpick, gets bazooka and related ammo, Barry as sidekick (early access to shotgun, can save from mistakes and provide more shortcuts around the house)
Chris: 6 item slots, has to use small keys (and sword key), gets flamethrower, Rebecca as sidekick (free heals at one point in the game I guess?), considerably more enemies (many rooms that have 2 enemies as Jill have 3 as Chris).
I hadn't played the original in 20 years and was surprised how good the flamethrower is, it gives you a power fantasy moment in the caves, which normally is a pretty stressful area. But aside from these, people say Chris supposedly has more HP, and I found some saying he is faster? The differences in the Remastered version are well documented, but I couldn't find concrete information on the original 1996 RE. Anyone have some real numbers on these differences?
Also something I noticed in my playthroughs just now, is that Chris seems to ready his handgun / magnum a lot faster than Jill. This is actually very useful in boss fights and against some of the faster and mobile enemies.
P.S. I intentionally left out the no ink ribbons needed as Jill out, because that was only done on this PC version. I used the Hex editor hack from these forums to remove the "easy" mode from Jill.
