The first mission! (はじめてのミッション！ Hajimete no misshon!) is a promotional manga released for BIOHAZARD OPERATION RACCOON CITY intended as to explain to Japanese readers what kind of game it will be.
Plot[]
In the first panel, LUPO immediately breaks the fourth wall, establishing that they are now online in Raccoon City,[excerpt 1] with VECTOR adding that cooperative play isn't being performed.[excerpt 2]
LUPO introduces the reader to Delta Team as the Umbrella Special Forces protagonists, [excerpt 3] though are playable from the perspective of the "bad guys" (themselves, as antagonists in the overall events).[excerpt 4] VECTOR brings up that they, therefore, could Leon S. Kennedy, [excerpt 5] which LUPO refers to as a "parallel scenario".[excerpt 6] Their true mission, as said by LUPO, is the recovery of data for Umbrella, or otherwise the deletion of "inconvenient truths".[excerpt 7]
LUPO begins to describe Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City, first describing it as a new "Survival Shooter",[excerpt 8] which only confuses VECTOR.[excerpt 9] LUPO goes on to explain that it is a Biohazard-based "TPS", which makes it a "Survival Shooter" (revealing it as a portmonteau of "Survival Horror" and "Third Person Shooter),[excerpt 10] shooting at a pair of zombies as part of the explanation. VECTOR, himself does not know what TPS stands for, simply asking "TPS?"; she goes into even more detail,[excerpt 11] as well as bringing to attention the prospect of there being a three-way battle between the USS; the various creatures and government spec ops.[excerpt 12]
After going through a number of zombies, VECTOR becomes anxious - he has run out of ammo.[excerpt 13] He is advised to pick up a new gun or ammo from around the map, or otherwise switch to the "sub-weapon".[excerpt 14] LUPO interjects, raising the valid point that knives can also be used in close-proximity attacks.[excerpt 15]
As they are constantly going on tangents during the battle, VECTOR is shot by an unseen assailant and starts bleeding.[excerpt 16] Out of physical strength, VECTOR brings up that herbs and first aid sprays will help recover a player's health.[excerpt 17] VECTOR then screams out, "kiyatsu!", as a zombie cop bites him, then declaring exactly what the reader sees.[excerpt 18] LUPO shoots it off of him with her assault rifle.
VECTOR realises that he has been infected with the t-Virus, and goes into a brief monologue, showing some deterioration in his speech (despite already being written in informal Japanese).[excerpt 19] He starts to accept that he cannot possibly prevent his impending transformation,[excerpt 20] now barely seeing LUPO with his blurred vision, which he questions.[excerpt 21] LUPO sprays him with the Anti-Viral Spray, but becomes concerned that it is too late.[excerpt 22] When it doesn't look like it's working, she refuses to let him transform and kills him.[excerpt 23][excerpt 24] In flow with her character, she laments at this loss,[excerpt 25] before approaching his corpse to resuscitate him.[excerpt 26] Again pointing out exactly what we can see, VECTOR declares that he has been saved.[excerpt 27]
At the end of the comic, LUPO looks right at the reader, and declares that team work is important in Survival Shooters.[excerpt 28]
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Sources[]
- excerpts
- ↑ We are now online in Raccoon City (われわれは今オンライン上のラクーンシティにいる Wareware wa ima onrain-jō no rakūnshiti ni iru)
- ↑ Kyōryoku purei o koko de okonau wakedesu ne (協力プレイをココで行うわけですね)
- ↑ Anburera tokushu kōsaku butai no wareware ga shujinkōna noda (アンブレラ特殊工作部隊の我々が主人公なのだ)
- ↑ Warumono no shiten de asoberu ndesu ne (悪者の視点で遊べるんですね)
- ↑ Jā Reon ga taosete shimau no ka na. Sono tōri! (じゃあレオンが倒せてしまうのかな。そのとおり！)
- ↑ Tadashi pararerushinariodaga na (ただしパラレルシナリオだがな)
- ↑ Hoka ni mo dēta no kaishū ya masshō ninmu mo aru zo! Anburera ni totte futsugōna jijitsu o kesu wakedesu ne ichi (他にもデータの回収や抹消任務もあるぞ！アンブレラにとって不都合な事実を消すわけですね一)
- ↑ Soshite konkai wa shin shisutemu sabaibarushūtāda! (そして今回は新システムサバイバルシューターだ！)
- ↑ Sabaibarushūtā? (サバイバルシューター？)
- ↑ Sabaibarushūta to wa baio + TPS no kotoda! (サバイバルシュータとはバイオ＋TPSのことだ！)
- ↑ TPS to wa Third pāson shūtingu Game no ryaku de, 3 ninshō shiten no shūtingugēmu no kotoda! (TPSとはThird Person Shooting Gameの略で、３人称視点のシューティングゲームのことだ！)
- ↑ Seifu no tokushu butai supekku opusu ya kurīchā to no mitsudomoenotatakai ga tenkai suru zo! (政府の特殊部隊SPEC OPSやクリーチャーとの三つ巴の戦いが展開するぞ！)
- ↑ Ta, dangan gire…? (た、弾丸ぎれ…？)
- ↑ Sabū~epon ni mochi kaeru ka mappu-jō de jū ya dan'yaku o hirou nda! (サブウェポンに持ち替えるかマップ上で銃や弾薬を拾うんだ！)
- ↑ Naifu de kinsetsu kōgeki o okonau koto mo dekiru zo! (ナイフで近接攻撃を行う事もできるぞ！)
- ↑ Utareta! Chi ga de teru! (撃たれた！血が出てる！)
- ↑ Tairyoku ga mō nai yo 〜! Hābu yo kyūkyū supurē o tsukau to kaifuku dekiru zo! (体力がもう無いよ〜！ハーブよ救急スプレーを使うと回復できるぞ！)
- ↑ Kiyatsu! Zonbi ni kama reta! (キヤツ！ ゾンビに噛まれた！)
- ↑ t-u~irusu ni kansen shite shimatta ka…… do…… dō na~tsu chau no? (t-ウィルスに感染してしまったか……ど……どうなっちゃうの？)
- ↑ Sonomamada to zonbi ni natte shimau zo (そのままだとゾンビになってしまうぞ)
- ↑ Shikai ga boyakete kita yo dōsureba i~i no o~o! ? (視界がぼやけてきたよどうすればイィのオォ！？)
- ↑ Are? Kikanai teokure ka… (あれ？効かない手遅れか…)
- ↑ Shikata arumai (仕方あるまい)
- ↑ Zonbi-ka shite shimatta nakama wa wareware no te de taosu shika nai! (ゾンビ化してしまった仲間は我々の手で倒すしかない！)
- ↑ Shikashi daijina senryoku o ushinau no wa oshī… (しかし大事な戦力を失うのは惜しい…)
- ↑ Sokode nakama no shitai no mae ni chikadzuki…” / sokode nakama no shitai no mae ni chikadzuki… akushon botan nagaoshi” de nakama o sosei suru koto ga dekiru zo! (そこで仲間の死体の前に近づき…” / そこで仲間の死体の前に近づき…アクションボタン長押し”で仲間を蘇生することができるぞ！)
- ↑ A~a! Tasukatta! (あぁ！助かった！)
- ↑ Sabaibarushūtā wa chīmuwāku mo jūyōssu ne! (サバイバルシューターはチームワークも重要っすね！)
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