This is a good reimagining of the original, but it's overall inferior in many key aspects. The soundtrack and art direction first and foremost. The OST is nonexistent, and the game is overall extremely dark, taking away a lot of the original's rural area charm, and sometimes even making the game frustrating to play in some scenes of all 3 main locations.

What I found most impressive was the way the village areas were all redesigned to make it seem like a real, compact and ensembled place, whereas some areas in the original were always very out of place. Some iconic areas, like the cable cars, had to be cut down due to this, which is a shame, but I guess at the very least it's understandable.

The story is largely the same. Some characters are done a tad better (Luis and Krauser), some are done just about right (a completely different Saddler, Ashley) but some are very disappointing (Salazar...). It feels like it takes itself way more seriously than the original, which was never really about the horror elements and more about the adventure and the action. I've always thought categorizing RE as horror games was a mistake. These games are very arcade, the macabre and twistedness never takes priority over the fun factor.

The postgame is really cool, expands well on what the original had. Unlocking the cat ears and upgrading all of the weapons makes for some very good power fantasy playthroughs, in usual RE fashion.