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Yoko Suzuki is a former Umbrella Corporation employee and a survivor of the Raccoon City Destruction Incident. As the result of her studies, Yoko is extremely knowledgeable about computers. She has a quiet, reserved personality, but the strength of her inquisitive mind emerges with a surprising toughness.
Biography
Yoko Suzuki
Born in the United States, Yoko learned to speak Japanese through her mother.[citation needed] At some point, Yoko joined Umbrella as an employee of Dr. William Birkin, working in his Laboratory eight miles outside of Raccoon City.[2]
In 1996, Yoko took part in an experiment to test the effects of the t-Virus,[citation needed] and, after a "little incident",[3] she fled. The memories of what occurred were so traumatic that her mind hid them from her to protect her.[4]
Raccoon City Destruction Incident
In September 1998, Yoko entered J's Bar, a local restaurant, and began to cut her hair in the women's washroom, where she was attacked by a zombie grabbing at her from a vent.[5] Once she entered the main room of the bar, the intensity of the situation forced her to cooperate with other survivors and make her escape.
Yoko is the canon protagonist of the scenario "Freezing Point", where the survivors find themselves entering Umbrella's underground lab where the events leading to the Outbreak began. She's confronted by Monica, one of her former coworkers and is forced to give up her employee key card at gun point. Monica mocks her before running off. Yoko and the other survivors navigate the lab, finding most of it to be frozen over due to the action of a researcher trying to stop the Hunters that were loose. They raise the temperature, only to thaw out the Hunters in the process as they make their way to the freight elevator that will take them to the Marshalling Yard. Monica meanwhile encounters G (their old boss William Birkin after injecting himself with the G-Virus) and is infected with a G Embryo. As they board the elevator Monica approaches, the Embryo bursts from her chest and pursues, quickly mutating into a hideous creature. Yoko and the others defeat it and press on.
In "Decisions, Decisions", Yoko and two other survivors follow George Hamilton as he follows a lead given to him by one of his friends Peter Jenkins. They go to Raccoon University, where they find Peter dead. Another Umbrella researcher named Greg Mueller, who has developed a t-Virus vaccine called Daylight, activates a Tyrant known as Thanatos, which the survivors witness engaging a U.B.C.S. team before it encounters them. They eventually run into Greg, who recognizes Yoko and like Monica, brings up her lost memories. Before he can tell her anything else, a U.B.C.S. operative shoots him in the head and activates a timer set to explosives planted throughout the building. After retrieving samples of Daylight, they escape and a rescue helicopter hails them, telling them they have to touch down somewhere else. Thantos, now mutated into a stronger form, emerges from the rubble and pursues them. They're forced to engage the Tyrant and Yoko and the others eventually kill it before boarding the helicopter.
After escaping Raccoon City, Yoko suddenly regained her memory as she watched its destruction, and went on to testify against Umbrella in court with Linda.[6]
Relationships and Personality
Yoko calls herself a university student and she is very knowledgeable about computers. Outwardly she appears to have a quiet and reserved personality, but the strength of her inquisitive mind emerges with a toughness that surprises others. Once she gets hung up on something, she's a bit slow on the uptake with other things
It is implied however that she uses this personality as a facade, quietly avoiding other people's problems. Monica is quick to point this out in Below Freezing Point as she holds Yoko at gunpoint. Yoko claims she doesn't know what she's talking about and her testimony is backed up by Greg in Decisions, Decisions, who is aware of her altered memory. Yoko finally admits it to herself in her ending to Desperate Times; that that was all she could really do after her, the other survivors, and Rita leave Marvin Branagh behind. While working with the other survivors to escape Raccoon City she is definitely aloof about any trouble her allies get into. She will often refuse to help if one of her partners is bleeding, requires a healing item/ammuntion or crawling on the ground. In many of her endings she's also very pessimistic about escaping the city, often saying that she's thankful to be alive (Hellfire, Desperate Times) but that she would rather not put up with the situation any longer.
Yoko seems to have a sisterly relationship with Alyssa Ashcroft. In the ending of Decisions, Decisions, Yoko and Alyssa pair up and expose Umbrella. A similar ending occurs after End of the Road, where Yoko and Linda testify against Umbrella in court. It is implied by later games in the series that this was what began Umbrella's steady decline following the outbreak.
Appearance
During the Outbreak, Yoko wears a black singlet with a green long sleeved over-shirt, denim blue jeans and brown shoes, and a small black backpack.
In the intro movie to the Outbreak scenario, Yoko is seen heading to the bathroom wearing glasses, an Umbrella uniform and has long hair. In her intro, she is attacked by a Zombie while cutting her hair (most likely to change her appearance).
Her alternate costumes consist of a long green dress, a Japanese gym uniform, a swimsuit, and a green kung fu uniform.
Gameplay
Yoko is the slowest character in the game and is also the character with the lowest amount of health. To compensate for this both of her special abilities are defensive in nature. Her first special ability is "Escape", which is a sudden dodge that allows her to crawl away from danger as well if the button is held down. The move also has the interesting property of doing damage to enemies at extremely close range. In File #2 AL-controlled Yoko will often employ this tactic if she has no weapon to use but also gains her second ability under the same circumstances, which is called "Push Away". It allows her to push back weaker enemies (such as zombies) but only does negligible damage to more dangerous foes such as Hunters and Tyrants. Yoko is also able to hold more items than any character in the game due to her backpack.
Inventory
Personal Item: Backpack
Yoko's Backpack lets her carry four extra items in her Inventory than everyone else. This can be extremely helpful during scenarios like Hellfire and Decisions, Decisions, where the player can carry a lot of things like Charlie's and Len's Tags or the Daylight samples respectively.
Extra Item (Outbreak File 2 Only): Lucky Charm
Yoko's Lucky Charm boosts her stats, and will prevent instant death from attacks that would do so normally while it is in her Inventory.
Resident Evil: The Deck Building Game
Yoko Promo Card
Yoko is a character card in the Resident Evil DBG, featured as a promo alongside Cindy and Alyssa for the fourth set, Nightmare. Yoko's effects reflect her abilities in the Outbreak games, particularly her backpack and Escape skills. Yoko's Level 1 effect allows the player to attach a card from their hand to her face-down. If the effect is used a second time, the card already attached can be placed in the player's hand. Her Level 2 effect makes her similar to the most recent Ada Wong card; the player can avoid her death by lowering her maximum Health by 20 (which would happen if she died anyway) so she doesn't have to skip her next two turns. Yoko has 70 Health.
Trivia
- If the player does not play as Yoko in the scenario Below Freezing Point, she will be found dead, and subsequently reanimates as a zombie.
- Yoko seems to create more paradoxes then any other character the game (perhaps the series), but is a big part of George Hamilton's Scenario: Decisions, Decisions.
- At one point of Decisions, Decisions, and sometimes in Hellfire, Yoko will repeat AICP characters lines, rather than her own.
- In Below Freezing Point, Yoko is the only character to get a Magnum Handgun.
- She's the only AI character that would actually push on crates if commanded with just a simple "GO".
- During the Wild Things and Desperate Times scenarios, a player could try to push the hotdog wheel stand or the broken patrol car and can ask her to help. However she'll get on a push pose but eventually will run away from there, since AI's aren't programmed to move them and the only character who will move them is Mark.
- As stated before, she was a big part on Decisions, Decision. However her Outbreak #2 epilogue shows her being in court with Linda. This could be because since both of them were researchers for Umbrella, they had to testify against umbrella for their crimes. Although it's unknown since Capcom never said anything about the endings other than the 8 survivors escaping the city on time.
- Yoko will stay close to the player, following him/her staying several feet away. She would rather defend the player (Cindy, David, Kevin and Alyssa players) than herself.
- She has the lowest health in the outbreak series by just having 1300HP.
- Yoko is the slowest character.
- Yoko can be played in-game with her Umbrella researcher outfit (Yoko:Z). She will spawn a health of 3000HP (unlike her 1300HP) and a faster speed, however her virus infection rate will be higher.
- If not done in a good timing, her escape move can still get her killed by the Thanatos, Hunter R, Feral/Stalker and Tyrant R instant death attacks.
- Yoko is the only Outbreak character to have a more traditional Resident Evil Inventory; i.e. she can hold up to eight items like characters from past Resident Evils.
- Yoko might be named after John Lennon's wife Yoko Ono. This assumption is based on the names David, Mark, and Jim's last name (Chapman) actually spell out the name of the murderer of Beatles band member, John Lennon, who was named David Mark Chapman. However, it could be coincidence.
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Sources
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Resident Evil Outbreak character option screen
- ↑ Yoko's lab coat
- ↑ Monica mentions the event in passing to Yoko
- ↑ Greg and Yoko
- ↑ "Outbreak" YOKO: OPENING
- ↑ Resident Evil Outbreak File #2, Yoko's epilogue
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