This game is definitely no masterpiece. That said, it's about as good as it could be for a home lightgun shooter. Its representation of different memorable moments from the core games is aesthetically faithful; this is particularly impressive since it is mostly translating lovingly crafted 2d backgrounds into fully 3d environments. Gameplay-wise, it has some consistency problems when it comes to difficulty. Some enemies are just way, way too spongey. Most of the boss fights, however, are a treat, though it'd be nice if more of them felt more puzzley and less like rote endurance tests.

Last note - The reused score pieces from the original games are obviously top-notch, but almost all of the new music is awful. There is this one funky track in particular that just feels wildly out of place -- I get that it's a fun co-op shooter but even Carn-Evil felt spookier than this does most of the time.

I don’t have a ton to say about this game. It’s a relatively fun light gun shooter with Resident Evil theming. Game contains 4 different scenarios: abridged versions of RE1 (2002) and RE0, a very strange faux retelling of RE3 and an original story “Umbrella’s End” that involves Chris Redfield and Jill Valentine giving the killing blow to Umbrella by leading a raid on one of their last facilities. These scenarios are narratively linked in a fun way. They’re all set up as Albert Wesker studying and recounting reports that Umbrella compiled on all of these events. The game also contains bonus missions related to these scenarios that show events not featured in the original games like how Wesker escaped the Arklay facility, what Rebecca was doing in the Arklay mansion before everyone else arrived, how Ada Wong escaped Raccoon City after the events of RE2. None of these added scenarios contribute a ton of new information (probably a good thing) but they’re generally fun levels to play through and can feature some nice character moments like with Rebecca’s added RE1 scenarios.

Don’t have any big complaints about the light gun gameplay. It can be a fun challenge and was entertaining throughout my play through. I even enjoyed going back through a few of the levels to get better scores.

My favorite thing about this game as a fan of the RE series was definitely getting to revisit the nicely recreated locations from RE1 and RE0 from a first person perspective. I would add RE3 to this but this game’s RE3 scenario doesn’t feature any iconic locations from that game except the police station and doesn’t follow the plot of RE3 like the other games do with RE1 and RE0. Unsure why this happened but feels like this scenario got rushed for whatever reason and is definitely kind of disappointing given how much I like RE3.

The retelling of the stories of the games featured is also a little bit disappointing due to how little time gets spent on each game. There are only 3 main levels per game featured so there’s just not enough time to go through all the memorable moments and plot points from those games. For comparison the Darkside Chronicles - the other RE light gun game for the Wii features retellings of RE2 and Code Veronica and dedicates 8 surprisingly long levels to each of them which allows for the space to have a condensed but complete retelling of these stories.

Despite its flaws and the things I wish it did differently this is still a fun light gun game, which is all it really needs to be, and I overall enjoyed my time with it.