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21 is a minigame for Resident Evil 7: Biohazard. It was released as part of the "Banned Footage Vol. 2" DLC on 14 February 2017 on the PlayStation 4, and on PC and Xbox One release on 21 February 2017.

Plot[]

After the events of Bedroom, Clancy awakens to find his hand strapped down to a makeshift finger guillotine. Sitting across from him is another captured victim; a man named Hoffman, whose head is covered by a burlap sack. Lucas appears on the television behind Hoffman and forces the men to play blackjack; the winner will live, and the loser will have the fingers on their hand chopped off. During the game, Hoffman apologizes to Clancy, stating that he has to win the game so he can go back to his wife and daughter.

After Clancy wins, Hoffman faints from the pain and shock of having all five fingers chopped off. Just as Lucas is about to let Clancy go, Hoffman recovers and demands to play another round. Joyfully accepting the "challenge" on Clancy's behalf, Lucas straps his "contestants" into a new torture device, which administers various amounts of electricity to them. After giving both men a Level 4 shock as a test, he starts the next round, warning them that a Level 10 shock will be fatal.

Despite a renewed effort from Hoffman, Clancy wins once again, seemingly killing his opponent with a Level 10 shock. Clancy demands to be let go, but Lucas uses wires to manipulate Hoffman like a puppet, requesting one more game on Hoffman's behalf. This time, a spinning saw is positioned between the players; the goal is to make the saw move towards the opponent by winning rounds. Lucas continues mimicking Hoffman to mock Clancy, but his growing desperation shows through his increasingly blatant cheating; nevertheless, Clancy emerges triumphant by turning Lucas's final gambit against him.

After Lucas loses, it's revealed that Hoffman was unconscious, not dead - however, he regains consciousness just in time to see the saw as it kills him. Having won Lucas's twisted game, Clancy begs to be let go. However, Lucas, impressed with Clancy, decides to play another "game" with him instead, much to Clancy's despair.

Gameplay[]

Unlike the rest of the game, 21 is a turn-based card game. There is no moving, shooting, guarding, crouching, etc.; instead, the player selects cards and executes commands for Clancy Jarvis. The player does not have a time-limit to their turn; before making decisions on their move, they can move the camera around and check the files menu.

The game plays similar to blackjack: Clancy and Hoffman take turns choosing to either "hit" (draw another card) or "stay" (retain their current cards and pass their turn to the opponent). They both have a face-down card, which only they can see the value of, but all other cards are face-up and can be seen by the other character. When both players "stay" in succession, the face-down cards are revealed. The winner is whoever has the cards with a total value closest to 21 without going over (however, if both players do go over 21, the player with the lower "bust" score wins). The loser of each round either has their fingers chopped off or receives an electric shock, depending on the game mode; the game is decided by the first to lose all the fingers on their hand or receive an electric shock after the current reaches Level 10.

Unlike normal blackjack, the cards are numbered 1 through 11, with no doubles within the deck, and both players share the same deck. There are also Trump Cards, which apply special effects to the table; drawing certain cards, increasing the opponent's bet, changing the target value, and more. Clancy and Hoffman will both receive a Trump Card at the beginning of a new round or randomly upon drawing a card.

Story Mode[]

Round 1: For this round, when Clancy of Hoffman win, the loser has one of the guillotines over their fingers activate, slicing off the fingers below according to the character's accumulated "bet" - both players' bets rise by 1 after every round. To win, Clancy must keep winning rounds until Hoffman loses all his fingers. If there is a draw, Lucas tortures both men.

Round 2: Lucas now introduces Trump Cards, giving two to both Clancy and Hoffman at the beginning. For the second game, there is a torture device with tasers above both players' hands. When a player loses, Lucas will raise the electric current of that character's taser and shock them, depending on the loser's bet. To win, Clancy must keep winning rounds until Hoffman gets a Level 10 shock.

Final Round: There is now a makeshift buzzsaw in the middle of the table, with 15 units of space between Clancy and Hoffman - the buzzsaw starts in the middle. Whenever a character loses, the buzzsaw moves towards them by a number of units equivalent to their bet. Clancy must keep winning rounds until the buzzsaw reaches Hoffman, which will complete the scenario.

However, Lucas, who is puppeteering an unconscious Hoffman, will cheat to try and ensure you lose. At the beginning, Clancy gets the seemingly useless "Love Your Enemy" Trump Card, which gives Hoffman the best card possible from the deck. Towards the end, when the buzzsaw reaches Hoffman if he loses again, Lucas will choose to play two powerful Trump Cards: "Perfect Draw", giving himself the best possible card from the deck, and "Desperation", which raises his and Clancy's bets to 100 and prevents Clancy from drawing cards, even if he uses a Trump Card that lets him do so. To win here, Clancy must play "Love Your Enemy" - this forces Hoffman over 21 and causes him to bust, allowing Clancy to win. Alternatively, in the second to last round (e.g. when the saw is 5 away from Hoffman with the bet at 4), Clancy can use a Trump Card to raise Hoffman's bet high enough so that Hoffman dies earlier - if this happens, Lucas will not perform his cheat.

Survival[]

Survival plays identically to the first round of Story Mode, but with dialogue limited to requesting cards, denying cards, and declaring the results. Trump Cards are used here, and the bets do not go up - every time Clancy beats Hoffman, the scenario resets as Clancy wins. The player must beat Hoffman five times to win; during the final round, Clancy goes up against a Molded Hoffman, who plays a special Trump Card at the beginning ("Curse: Discard one of your trump cards at random, and force the other player to draw the highest number card from the deck").

Survival+[]

Survival+ plays identically to both the second round of Story Mode and Survival, but Clancy must beat Hoffman ten times to win - Hoffman's AI is also much tougher to beat. On the final round, Clancy fights against "Undead Hoffman".

Rewards[]

Name	Reward
Defeat a total of 5 opponents.	Go For 24
Defeat a total of 15 opponents.	Two-Up+
Defeat 2 opponents in a row without being tortured once.	Shield+
Reach 21 a total of 3 times.	Starting Trump Card +1
Reach 21 at least of 3 times in a row.	Go For 27
Use a total of 10 trump cards.	Exchange
Win a round having used at least 15 trump cards.	Trump Switch+
Remove a total of 10 trump cards from the opponents' side.	Destroy+
Remove a total of 20 trump cards from the opponents' side.	Destroy++
Defeat an opponent despite being bust.	Starting Trump Card +1
Complete "Survival."	Perfect Draw+
Complete "Survival" without being tortured once.	Ultimate Draw
Complete "Survival+" without being tortured once.	Grand Reward
Defeat the elusive Mr. Big Head.	Starting Trump Card +1
Defeat the elusive Mr. Big Head 2 times.	Harvest

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Further notes[]

In the Japanese releases, the mode has been censored to be less violent:
- Instead of being sliced off with a guillotine blade, the characters' fingers are bent backwards until they are broken. Clancy will die from shock if all his fingers are broken, rather than from blood loss.
- During the final round, the buzzsaw is replaced with a bomb that explodes in the losers' face - the screen will cut to black as it explodes in Hoffman's face, and this does not show any visible gore.

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